"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.
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.
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.
Oliver Sacks relates fascinating case histories and he writes fluently, but he treats his subjects with a tinge of the ringmaster's bravado — an underlying tone of, "Hey, if you think that's weird, wait until you get a load of this one!" It is possible to have clinical rigor without such voyeuristic emotional deficits.
Which brings us to the underlying tone of Glam One's announcement today.
Accordingly, we also present a strategy that incorporates molecular genetic techniques to infer the status of the underlying tone of the dopamine system across developmental groups.
Beyond these categories, the underlying tone of the Nobel Committee's awards has been activist.
