Sentence examples for tone straight from inspiring English sources

A slightly menacing tone, straight from one of Frank's crueller hangovers, has emerged.

Her column was cheerful and direct; its prose colloquial; its tone straight from the shoulder; its advice that of an amiable neighbor, a trusted friend.

Vaughan was bolder: "Whatever we do we have to set the tone straight away – send a message to Australia we mean business".

For iPhone owners, the process isn't nearly as easy as it is when you buy a new ring tone straight from the phone, where it downloads directly to your default ring tones.

(That language may not have come naturally to everyone: "I'm not asking him to dinner," Acres protests in Sheridan's comedy "The Rivals," trying to get the tone straight in a letter).

Bandleader Martin Cohen, formerly of Nine Black Alps, sets the tone straight away with opener Dopamine, as its big, sunny guitar jangle and reverb-heavy vocal give way to a minor paisley explosion of feedback and woozy wailing.

In a blast of sonic brilliance, the two speakers inside each of the headphones separated the high and low frequencies, delivering sharp, rich tones straight into my ear canals.

Confident authority is an appropriate tone for straight reportage, but it's become the default of columnists, essayists and bloggers, one that's so reflexive that some of them seem to forget it's a pose.

It drew plaudits from the five-times winner Bernard Hinault, who felt that Froome's willingness to go on the offensive rather than letting his adversaries set the tone was straight out of The Badger's tactics' manual.

And he did all this with language and tone lifted straight from migrant suburbia.

His lugubrious tones are straight out of Woody Allen.