Sentence examples for underlying tone from inspiring English sources
"underlying tone" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
You can use it to refer to an unspoken or hidden feeling or mood that might be conveyed in a conversation or piece of writing. For example, "The speaker's underlying tone of frustration was clear despite their carefully chosen words."
But we keep going back there, because it is 'number one in America.'" The quiet nobility of American labour is perhaps the film's chief underlying tone.
Continually aroused but perpetually dulled, it's a post-coital kind of style in which fragmented thoughts follow narcissistic flights of fancy, with an underlying tone of desperation and despair.
But although General Shelton had agreed ahead of time to the mission, the underlying tone of the letter, according to officials, questioned the wisdom of sending American troops into a volatile situation involving hostile Serbian civilians.
"There was a tone of dismissiveness [towards Smith's accusers] and my concern is that that underlying tone of dismissiveness towards the claimants is still with us, 40 years on," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
If the universe hums a deep B flat, as cosmologists contend, then the underlying tone of all those Fridays and Saturdays on the gridiron and the uncounted hours of practice -- at least in my boys' school -- was the muffled heel-toe step of a Dinkle.
Despite the underlying tone of superiority (we weren't like those average people that went around thinking Vikings wore Hagar the Horrible style helmets), as I grew older I also made an effort to understand why accuracy was important beyond one-upmanship.
The snobby tone of the coverage, in fact, was much like the underlying spirit of the episode itself.
Creed and his team get the tone right: while the juxtaposition of styles and forms of audience address sometimes feels playful, there is an underlying note of menace, particularly in the treatment of women.
In group singing, an underlying held tone is common.
Elle, Essie manicurist adds, "It's bold enough to stand up to the strong colors and designs in the collection, yet its underlying pink tones prevent it from looking yellow on certain skin types".
Its wordplay aside, this poem is uncharacteristic of the work in "The Beforelife" in that the tone underlying most of the others is fury, strictly contained.
