Facebook posts can serve as early warning signs for adolescent depression or even suicide attempts, particularly when parents or friends notice a sudden departure from the writer's usual tone.
He says that, for instance, when Meryl Streep gave her anti-Trump speech at the Golden Globes and criticized people who watch football and mixed martial arts, it struck people in his writer's room as tone deaf.
Because of a transcription error, a front-page article yesterday about President Bush's televised speech on Iraq misstated the writer's characterization of Mr. Bush's tone of voice in some copies.
A writer's voice is the tone, the mood, the point of view, the consciousness, the sense of credibility.
In hand copying Martin's piece, I could see the writer's persistent diplomacy of tone -- not one histrionic or overemphasized word -- and his use of simple yet dramatic imagery ("exotic as Mars").
Hughes's tone is often hushed, lending the collection a discreet, old-fashioned quality reminiscent of a restrained writer like Mavis Gallant.
The writer's friendship with Naipaul gave his writing a comic tone; he began to see Africa through Naipaul's eyes--not as a tragedy but as farse.
But, although the two plays couldn't be less alike in subject matter or tone, they are both, ultimately, about the writer's voice.
A certain book-report tone sometimes sneaks in, albeit one blessed with a deadline writer's gift for attention-getting opening lines.
It creates a tone and mood that fit the topic and shows the writer's personality.
