Sex and the City actress Sarah Jessica Parker frequently wore his dresses on the red carpet, while her fictional alter-ego Carrie Bradshaw spoke the designer's name in hushed tones.
They all talked with awed tones, as if they have been through an extreme experience.
But on the third listen, it suddenly made sense: the dark arpeggiating tones and sweet falsetto melodies.
Confronted with this recent outpouring of anti-Thatcher sentiments, I am struck by the strident tones from "wronged" miners and other working people, and a marked absence of any mea culpa.
According to Steingarten, one November Thompson provided his readers with a turkey recipe so elaborate it passed into mythology, cooks speaking of it in such reverent tones it was as if they'd joined a cult.
During the lunch, chatting away, picking at the salmon he has ordered from the still giggling waitress, his voice takes on the tones of some of those he has admired or met or worked with.
In fact, if memory serves, we took one listen to Nomi's deep, husky, androgynous tones, clocked the post-rap context, and described her as "Sade meets Wu-Tang Clan's RZA".
Our neighbours (parents of my best friend, Lindy) were probably my role models; they seemed to speak in hushed tones, lived by what appeared to be clockwork routine and never displayed emotion of any sort in public, unlike our volcanic household.
The Christmas story in art is a rich epic with different moods and tones that speak to different emotional needs.
You'll need to be adaptable, able to write for different audiences and aware of appropriate tones, messaging and mediums.
How To get this Kew-meets-anarchic country-hotel look, plump for one shade of green and one of blue, then use several tones from each palette in furniture and furnishings.
