Sentence examples for tone that captures from inspiring English sources

The capricious tone that captures the caprice of her subjects in her columns here falls flat or, worse, makes her sound, in the words of feminist critic Katha Pollitt, "a bit silly".

Reminiscent of – and, for my money, as accomplished as – Carol Ann Duffy's contemporary classics of the genre, the poem has a clipped conversational tone that captures the voice of disaffected youth right down to the collapse of its final lines: "and I yell at everyone who cares.

At the same time, he added a commercial note that captures the tone of the city's administration: "We hope you come to Tianjin to buy houses".

But no matter the cross-influences, the Cuvelier photographs stand on their own, tone poems that capture as well as any painting the 19th-century belief in the sublimity of nature.

The authors have chosen a folksy, colloquial tone that is supposed to capture the language of the 19th-century frontier.

To capture the tone that would propel the movie — a caper comedy with farcical elements that nonetheless sticks a poignant landing — Anderson directed his cast to watch the urbane comedies of filmmakers Ernst Lubitsch and Billy Wilder from the 1930s and '40s.

He said that the hardest part of starting a long project like "Anna Karenina" was "getting the voice," capturing the narrative tone that will run throughout the book.

Part of their marketing scheme was to make their neighborhood a destination, to capture a hip tone that was not yet widely heard or felt.

Lethem's new novel captures the florid horror that followed the 2016 election in a tone that is both wisecracking and stricken.

Jonathan Lethem's new novel, "The Feral Detective," captures the florid horror that followed the 2016 election in a tone that is both wisecracking and stricken.

To capture the "seedy countenance" of the character, Law was given a sallow skin tone that reflected the wear from working in a darkroom.