Sentence examples for tone shifting from inspiring English sources

By the end, he talked for over half an hour, the tone shifting: at times he talked like the victim, at others like the accuser.

Every shot is perfectly lit and composed by the Austrian émigré Otto Heller, the tone shifting between nostalgic pastel colours that recall the prewar London of Noël Coward and David Lean's celebratory wartime picture This Happy Breed and the harsh noir look of Heller's London in The Ipcress File a decade later.

Then he paused, and his tone shifted.

McClellan's tone shifted at this point.

The tone shifts into a "Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" mode.

But as the situation worsened, the tone shifted.

Mr. Morsi changed little from Mr. Mubarak's playbook, though his tone shifted.

But when the conversation turned to the reason for the demonstration, the tone shifted.

The tone shifts, though, when the protagonist of "Homecoming" tries and fails to leave the house.

"Sure, I'm pissed off at him," he said, and then his tone shifted: "I know the pressures he had.

Gradually the tone shifts as Spooner seeks to reignite Hirst's creative imagination and stir his memories.