Quotes About Tone

He was probably insulting her, but the way he said the word made her feel almost tall and, if not blonde, then certainly highlighted.

Strange stared thoughtfully at her for several seconds, so that Arabella mistakenly supposed he must be considering what she had just said. But when he spoke it was only to say in a tone of gentle reproof, My love, you are standing on my papers. He took her arm and moved her gently aside.

Words ride on the energy of tone, its warmth or coldness; think of tone as the music of how words are expressed. You want this music to be soulful, whether you're giving sweet talk or tough love.

I don't like your tone," was Violet's standard answer when one of her children was winning an argument.

I wasn't in any danger," Henry said quickly. "Dunford likes to exaggerate." "He does?" Alex asked, raising his brows. "He was very anxious," she told him, then turned to Emma as if she had to explain. "He gets very anxious." "Anxious?" Emma echoed. "Dunford?" Alex asked at the very same time. "You must be joking," Emma added, in a tone that suggested there could be no other possible alternative.

Voice is the first instrument.

Marimba is much more of a wood-type experience and there is no real possibility of getting a dry sound, and getting that contrast in the same way that you can in a vibraphone.

Do you cook too?" he asked, the tone teasing. " 'Cause any woman who does a weapon striptease, handles a Benelli like she knows how to use it, and can cook, pushes all my buttons.

The wildness of the flower is all in the tone

When ye hear somebody using words agin' somebody, don't go by his words, fer they won't make no damn sense. Go by his tone, and ye'll know if he's mean and lying." Granpa was pretty much down on having

What a mind that woman must have!" he said with admiration. It was the hushed tone of a jeweller studying the largest and finest diamond he will ever see.

More friction and tensions are caused in a family by tone of voice than for any other one reason.

Público y coste. Debe delimitar el tono, el público al que se dirige y el coste aproximado, para que los compradores sepan si puede dar beneficios.

Mrs. Merryweather was one of those childless adults who find it necessary to assume a different tone of voice when speaking to children.

People could write stuff that's really offensive, but if it's written within a believable world that has a tone to it, then it can be funny. But if it's just shock-value stuff, then it's not going to work, because it's not coming from a true place.

I particularly admire are Mark Twain and Jerome K. Jerome who wrote in a certain tone of voice which was humane and understanding of humanity, but always ready to annotate its little foibles. I think I'd lay my cards down on that, and say that it's that that I'm trying to do.

Throughout his career, W.G. Sebald wrote poems that were strikingly similar to his prose. His tone, in both genres, was always understated but possessed of a mournful grandeur.

I think 'Glee' was a freshman comedy, and I think whenever it's your debut season, you get compared a lot to the other shows, regardless if there's any sort of overlap in content or tone or anything, just because you came out in the same year.

I feel like my experience on 'Community' was that I saw just how important that first year is for a series. That is where you work all the pieces out, and that means honing the characters' voices, setting that tone, finding your angle.

The Singaporean speculative tradition is different. Singapore doesn't conceive itself as the centre of the world or the one country that's going to save the world, so there's a different tone that comes out in the way speculative fiction is done. That's refreshing to read.

'King of California' was just, I thought, a really great, fresh, original kind of script. I loved the tone, the mix of tragedy, comedy, and drama, and that it was a good part.

The journalistic 'I' is an overreliable narrator, a functionary to whom crucial tasks of narration and argument and tone have been entrusted, an ad hoc creation, like the chorus of Greek tragedy. He is an emblematic figure, an embodiment of the idea of the dispassionate observer of life.

Sometimes people hide behind a kind of naturalistic milieu. But life is full of the most sharp, abrupt changes of tone, from the tragic to the absurd.

My songwriting process is based on a formula: Color, tone, words. When I hear production, I initially identify the color that resonates with me. From there, I am able to translate the color into tone or emotion, which may depend on a number of things.