Sentence examples for wise tone from inspiring English sources

It ended on a wise tone of understatement: there was no acknowledgment that this was the Beeb's last ever.

Some of her stories and poems involve people, and many more involve animals, but all of them have the sly, wise tone of fable.

In person, he reminded me of many eras of himself: the homespun earnestness of Richie Cunningham; the wise tone of his narration on "Arrested Development"; some small hint of Winthrop, in "The Music Man".

" says Di, with a wise tone to her words.

Just hearing his wise tones, as his presumably brave (or is the BBC just threatening him with loss of pension?) cameraman dives in glacial waters to film the flippers of a… flipper-thing – well, it gives you hope for humanity and the continuance of nature documentaries, and Frozen Planet has been one of the best.

Then Mr. Berlusconi stepped in to suggest, ever so gently, that Mr. Bush would be wise to tone down his threats about dumping the Antiballistic Missile Treaty if Mr. Putin does not reach an accord soon enough.

It comes nowhere near capturing the wise, subtle tone of the book it's based on, but "Speak," the story of a teenage girl trying to cope with having been date-raped, is still an effective treatment of a difficult subject, thanks almost entirely to the performance of Kristen Stewart as the young victim.

Being witty is one thing, but if you're constantly sarcastic, it may be wise to tone it down, or people won't ever be able to take you seriously.

RICKIE LEE JONES Taking a break from songwriting, Rickie Lee Jones applies her wise-child tone and jazzy slurring to other people's songs on "The Devil You Know".

We try to balance everything out, tone wise, so we don't get too serious or too fun".

I had eaten a special dinner that Fergus had prepared with the New York chef Peter Hoffman at Savoy restaurant this spring, and I was knocked out by the sheer deliciousness of it — this despite my own previous squeamishness about pigs' feet and the like — and even more by the wise and funny tone that Henderson used in his running commentary on the food.