Sentence examples for tone playing from inspiring English sources
Hague struck a more measured tone, playing down the differences and insisting that the coalition was working well.
Everything was spare and still flexible; Mr. McHenry's soft, strong saxophone tone, playing soft, edited-down accompaniments to Ms. Martin's vocal lines, worked as a complement and sometimes a foil.
Hardly scandalous, but slightly awkward as Tone, playing up his oh-so-proletarian past, had recalled standing on the terraces cheering a footballer who had actually retired before he was born.
Her band, with a Hammond organ at its center, had a last-set-at-the-roadhouse tone, playing slow soul vamps, slide-guitar twangs and stately hymnlike arrangements akin to the Band.
Håkan Hardenberger is a colossus of the trumpet and he graced Tobias Broström's concerto Lucernaris with his fabulously velvet tone, playing the flugelhorn in the long opening statement and maximising the impact of the more intricate writing.
Cardinal Darío Castrillón Hoyos, then the head of the Congregation for the Clergy, set the tone, playing down sexual abuse as an unavoidable fact of life, and complaining that lawyers and the media were unfairly focused on it, according to a copy of his prepared remarks.
Ms. Bezaly, a communicative performer with a warm, round tone, played it with humor and grace.
Mr. Beilman, a passionate performer with a deep, rich tone, played the opening melody beautifully as it unfolded over the enigmatic piano motifs.
Certainly Mr. Isserlis, who has a taste of metal lurking in his tone, played with virtuosity and a wealth of expressive effects.
Caruso, famous for his sobbing tone, played up the image of tears, pointedly falling from a tender G-natural to a lachrymose G-flat at the end of his cadenza.
The movie's desperately amiable tone plays like a chastised boy's terrified plea for love; the oblivious cruelty that emerges nonetheless (as in Lewis's embarrassing parody of a Japanese chef) makes it all the sadder.
