Sentence examples for were tone from inspiring English sources

Mr. Boorady said UnitedHealth had not been as receptive as it should be to outside ideas, saying executives were "tone deaf to their customers and their shareholders".

"For at least 20 years now we have failed to tell the British people a story which connects rising inequality to their hopes and aspirations – either because we were too timid, or because we were tone deaf.

The HDR videos were tone mapped in four different ways: using Pat across the whole frame; using only Man across the whole of the frame and dividing the video vertically in half and applying Man to one side and Pat to the other (referred from now on as ManPat); and dividing the video vertically in half and applying Pat on one side and Man (referred from now on as PatMan) on the other.

There were tone poems, sacred works, television scores, ballet scores and an opera to two.

Democrats were tone deaf to the damage done to their support in rural America by supporting oil industry efforts to repeal or "reform" the program.

Auditory stimuli were tone triplets of 750 ms duration generated by selecting pseudorandomly and exhaustively from three 250 ms tones.

While Cheney's remarks were tone-deaf, it was Bush's response that is more troubling.

Several government ministers wrung their hands today and asserted that the politicians who had voted to shake things up were tone-deaf to the public mood.

Tim roared when I passed along the observation, and we often used that expression — "He doesn't wear socks" — as shorthand for politicians who were tone-deaf.

Your own rather bitter memory of the palmist who said you would marry before you were twenty and the medium who failed to notice you were tone-deaf and advised you to take up music.

"But to my great surprise — because their reps preceded them — they were tone-deaf and prize-hungry and more interested in self-aggrandizement than in building lasting quality at the paper".