Despite their name, comic books are not necessarily humorous in tone ; modern comic books tell stories in a variety of genres.

He wrote in an easy, conversational tone about books, food, friends, and current events.

When early Saint books were republished in the 1960s to the 1980s, it was not uncommon to see freshly written introductions by Charteris apologizing for the out-of-date tone ; according to a Charteris " apology " in a 1969 paperback of Featuring the Saint, he attempted to update some earlier stories when they were reprinted but gave up and let them sit as period pieces.

Towards the end of the war popular books became the source of films of higher quality and more serious tone, extoling more long-term values, including Guadalcanal Diary ( film ) ( 1943 ), Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo ( 1944 ) and They Were Expendable ( 1945 ).

The Magician's Nephew is written in a lighter tone than other Chronicles of Narnia books, in particular The Last Battle, which was published after.

The novel has a very different tone to the previous books in the series.

It is a striking departure from the earlier books in tone and subject, as well as in some parts of the style ; rather than being set in a usual exotic and action-packed environment this story is largely played out in the world of modern art.

The name Xanth is in itself an unintentional pun, which matches the playful tone of the books.

Her columns, noted for their admonishing tone and sarcasm, as well as their broad knowledge of history and customs and their applications to the problems of today, have been collected in a number of books.

The books produced by Marcel Mule focused on the points mentioned above: technique ( scales, arpeggios ), articulation and tone production.

For example, the purported author of the Nancy Drew mystery series, " Carolyn Keene ", is actually a pseudonym for a series of ghostwriters who write books in the same style using a template of basic information about the book's characters and their fictional universe ( names, dates, speech patterns ), and about the tone and style that are expected in the book.

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Her name is affixed to such a document in 1694, but given her deep natural lyricism, the tone of these supposed hand-written penitentials is in rhetorical and autocratic Church formulae ; one is signed " Yo, la peor de todas " (" I, the worst of all the women ") She is said to have sold all her books, then an extensive library of over 4, 000 volumes, and her musical and scientific instruments as well.

These works would set the tone for later artists ' books, connecting self-publishing and self-distribution with the integration of text, image and form.

This is not an unusual moral for a story in children books, but Van Allsburg's chilling characterization of the man brings a frightening tone to the narrative.

His major works include Šahbaza, Bone and meat, The Sarajevo tomb ( Sarajevski tabut ), Why is Venice sinking ( Zašto tone Venecija ), several books of poetry, and screenplays for award-winning movies from the Former Yugoslavia, such as the Oscar-nominated When Father Was Away on Business and Do You Remember Dolly Bell ?, directed by Emir Kusturica ; and Kuduz and The Perfect Circle, directed by Ademir Kenović.

With the color seasons, the show began to take on the lighthearted, whimsical tone of the Superman comic books of the 1950s.

However, if, as Hooper supposes, the text was written prior to Perelandra and That Hideous Strength, it would have had no need to maintain consistency with an as yet unwritten series, especially considering that the tone and subject-matter of the published series changes markedly between its first and last books.

Instead of having the nostalgic tone, which was typical in young adult books written by adults, it displayed a truer, darker side of adolescent life because it was written by a young adult.

Book IV can function as a separate piece or as the conclusion of the Dunciad: in many ways its structure and tone are substantially different from the first three books, and it is much more allegorical.

By the beginning of the 21st century, only the Gama ' at Islamiya leaders who were in prison after the assassination of Sadat were released after several books they wrote and interviews showed that they revised their points of view and changed the radical tone of their speeches.

The books are written in first person from Mel's point of view and have a light, informal tone.

In general, the tone of the book is darker and more critical than his previous books in terms of its outlook on politics and society.

'' Patchen is still the rebel, but he writes in a doleful, mournful tone.

The violinist, in particular, is very indulgent with swoops and slides, and his tone is pinched and edgy.

The twenty-five-year-old recording offers rather faded string tone, but the balance between the instruments is good and the transfer is very quiet.

It is obvious enough that linguists in general have been less successful in coping with tone systems than with consonants or vowels.

The great majority of present-day linguists fall into one or more of a number of overlapping types: those who are convinced that tone cannot be analysed, those who are personally scared of tone and tone languages generally, those who are convinced that tone is merely an unnecessary marginal feature in those languages where it occurs, those who have no idea how to proceed with tone analysis, those who take a simplistic view of the whole matter.

Analyses such as these four will simultaneously combat the assumptions that tone is impossible and that it is simple.

If, as I suspect, the problem is largely of the second sort, then development of a theory better able to handle tone will result automatically in better theory for all phonologic subsystems.

However, any such suggestion accounts for only some of the difficulties in hearing tone, or in developing a realistic attitude about tone, but not for the analytic difficulties that occur even when tone is meticulously recorded.

In some ( the Ewe type mentioned above ) interaction of tone and intonation is restricted to the ends of intonation spans.

A third explanation is suggested by Richardson's analysis of Sukuma tone.

In the `` typical tone language '', tonal morphophonemics is of the same order of complexity as consonantal morphophonemics.

There is a quick change from the plaintive song to a conversational tone.

There is only one sense in which it is valid to talk about Hardy's development: he did develop toward a more consistent and more effective control of that tone which we recognize as uniquely his.

The elegiac tone is Hardy's natural tone of voice, and it is not surprising that the 1912 - 13 poems are consistently and unmistakably his.

* A " Jumbo " body style is bigger again than a Grand Auditorium but similarly proportioned, and is generally designed to provide a deeper tone, similar to a dreadnought ( the body style was designed by Gibson to compete with the dreadnought ) but with maximum resonant space for greater volume and sustain.

Cylindrical bore brass instruments are generally perceived as having a brighter, more penetrating tone quality compared to conical bore brass instruments.

Conical bore instruments are generally perceived as having a more mellow tone quality than the cylindrical bore brass instruments.

Drawing is generally concerned with the marking of lines and areas of tone onto paper.

On the other hand, the desired sound varies geographically ; European players, especially British ones, generally use a faster, more constant vibrato and a more veiled tone, while Americans tend to prefer a more straightforward, open sound with slower and less frequent vibrato.

A flute's volume can generally be increased by making its resonator and tone holes larger.

Salzedo's technique generally calls for the arms to be held horizontally and emphasises the role of aesthetic hand and arm gestures after the string has been plucked: " Each of the thirty-seven tone colors and effects of the harp calls for a gesture corresponding to its sonorous meaning.

Numerous modernist poets have written in non-traditional forms or in what traditionally would have been considered prose, although their writing was generally infused with poetic diction and often with rhythm and tone established by non-metrical means.

There is generally a shift in tone and subject matter between the upper 5-7-5 phrase and the lower 7-7 phrase.

Despite their slightly lower output, " Toasters " produce a brighter, cleaner sound, and are generally seen as key to obtaining the true British Invasion guitar tone, as they were original equipment of the era.

Another Scripture text that Catholics generally understand as related to the Eucharist is the Gospel of John's account of Jesus as saying: " Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood you have no life in you … he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me and I in him " (), a statement that he did not tone down when, as a result, many of his disciples then abandoned him (), shocked at the idea.

In Europe, Norwegian, Swedish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Serbo-Croatian, some dialects of Slovene, and Limburgish have simple tone systems generally characterized as pitch accent.

White ) instruments are generally agreed among players to be the standards against which other sousaphones are judged for tone quality and playability.

In telecommunication, a standard test tone is a single-frequency signal with a standardized level generally used for level alignment of single links and of links in tandem.

" The face is what one goes by, generally ," Alice remarked in a thoughtful tone.

The tone of the song is dark and angry, in marked contrast with the generally genial tone of Iolanthe, and the lyrics make the case that bad behavior by the underclasses is caused by their unfortunate circumstances: " I might be as bad – as unlucky, rather – if I only had Fagin for a father.

Blue is generally used for both weather maps and special effects because it is complementary to human skin tone.

Because of the Articles ' harsh tone, however, they have generally not been held in high regard by most Anglo-Catholics.