Quotes About Tone

I thought you said you wre bringing a dead body in for examination. Didn't you think to check he actually was dead first?' Gwen knew he was being sarcastic, but the tone still stung. 'Be fair, Jack,' said Owen from the doorway.'Y'know the guy had done a lot to make himself look dead: lain in a bog for forty years, decayed himself, let the worms in, shrivelled up a bit, stopped breathing, no circulation, all major organs dried up and inactive. Could've fooled anyone.

I do not APPRECIATE your skeptical tone,

Hugo, she said, in a certain hurt tone that I knew well and enjoyed provoking, you can be most horribly rude when you choose. Why do you choose?

Valerie's and Diego's helpful candor and their ability to tell a story set the tone of the workshop. I blessed my luck that I would have a week or more with such wonderful students, and told them how—a traveler's blessing—I felt I now had twenty-four friends.

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

Attitude and the spirit in which we communicate are as important as the words we say.

Your essential emotional tone—at ease in your deepest purpose or fearful in the ambiguity of your intent—becomes part of your children's home.

The prophet's voice possessed of god requires no ornament, no sweetening of tone, but carries over a thousand years.

More than the threatening tone, what she found terrifying was the incoherence of his tirade, because she thought there was no greater violence than the one done to meaning.

If a man spoke to you in that tone, you'd invite him to step outside and ask someone to hold your coat." 378

Why am I the way I am?" His tone makes it clear he's proposing something I might suggest he ask, not really wondering about it. "There are no real answers, Jude. Why was I cruel to Folk? Why was I awful to you? Because I could be. Because I liked it. Because, for a moment, when I was at my worst, I felt powerful, and most of the time, I felt powerless, despite being a prince and the son of the High King of Faerie.

There was a brittleness in her tone, and Baphen was uncomfortably reminded that some prophecies are fulfilled by the very actions meant to prevent them.

The High King Balekin is a friend to my lady's Court,' Cardan says, silver-tongued in his silver fox mask. He wears an easy half smile. He's speaking the language of privilege, speaking it with his drawling tone, with the looseness of his limbs, as though he thinks he owns everything he can see.

Bonnie is so 'calm,' you see. The opposite of me. She speaks in one of those soft . . . low . . . melodious voices that make you want to punch a wall.

Christophe, with the careful tone of an adult telling a kid not to pet the nice foaming-rabid pooch.

Music is emotion set to rhythm and tone.

She let a teasing tone enter her voice. 'Is there any emergency for which you are not prepared, Mr Swift?' 'Miss Bowman, if I had enough pockets I could save the world.

He was in his mid-thirties and thin without looking fit, and he hadn't shaved for a few days. "Yes?" he said, in a querulous tone of voice that would have been just right for an eighty-year-old scholar. He cleared his throat and tried again. "What is it?

Is that what you call it now?" she said, and although her words might as well have been in Estonian, for all the sense they made, her tone was very clear, and it did not hold even the memory of anything pleasant. I

This is Dexter Morgan," I said, and I realized I had unconsciously copied his stentorian tone. I cleared my throat to show that I didn't know I'd done it, and said, "I have some very important information to give you," I said. "Um, about my case.

Authors like Martin Amis, Peter Ackroyd or Julian Barnes engage with metropolitan subject-matter, but the books that sell by the container-load are historical romances. The upper classes may have lost their political power, but they still manage to set the social tone and determine the aspirations of the ambitious.

you're just....You're everything His words are perfect, but the tone in his voice is not right. Wistful. Apologetic.

However, you could have conveyed your enthusiasm for this idea with the use of only one exclamation point. Three is overkill.

I think striking the right tone for your story is, if you like, the alchemical work of writing.