The British Journal of Education in 1955 carried a piece by Janice Dohn, an American children's librarian, considering Blyton's writing together with authors of formula fiction, and making negative comments about Blyton's devices and tone.

Dowland's melancholic lyrics and music have often been described as his attempts to develop an " artistic persona " though he was actually a cheerful person, but many of his own personal complaints, and the tone of bitterness in many of his comments, suggest that much of his music and his melancholy truly did come from his own personality and frustration.

He became known for his soothing tone and reassuring comments ; " We don't make mistakes, we just have happy accidents.

When Testimony was published in the West in 1979, Shostakovich's overall anti-Stalinist tone and specific comments about the anti-totalitarian content hidden in the Fifth, Seventh and Eleventh Symphonies were held suspect initially.

Schroeder demonstrates the same fondly teasing tone toward Lucy in the December 14, 1975 Sunday strip, whispering a flirtatious comments to her while she pretends to be asleep on his piano.

He merely comments on the saying of Anselm characterized by the same jesting tone: a spiritualium quaestionum disputatione sunt exsufflandi " ( P. L., 256a ), and says that to understand the windy loquacity of Raimbert of Lille one has but to breathe into his hand ( manuque ori admota exsufflans " Mon.

Fletcher subsequently apologized to Toronto City Council for her comments by letter writing: " if my tone was argumentative or if they believe I do not value their participation in the budget process.

Fleming's comments on New York were so cutting that when the book was published in the US, the American publishers asked if he could tone down the wording.

Chapter XV comments on identifying transmitters by their unique " tone " and a Navy radio operator's court-martial, resulting in conviction.

) The overall tone of the test was cautiously positive, with plaudits for the comfort, the lightness of the controls, the ( optional ) servo-assisted disc / drum brakes and the road holding, but adverse comments concerning the extent of the Victor's propensity to roll and the rather low gearing which accentuated the variability of fuel consumption according to driving style.

Many comments of the film focused on the introduction of a serious tone to a series known for its off-the wall humor.

On April 14, 2005, DeLay held a news conference and issued an apology for the tone of his comments.

She said, and her tone had softened until it was almost friendly.

Rachel's tone was dry.

but a few seconds later she was standing directly across the room from me, looking me in the eyes and saying in a scathingly condemnatory tone, `` Your father despises you ''!!

The secretary's tone indicated that an appointment at such short notice was a concession for which Madden should be duly grateful.

There was a letter to write to her mother, and she tried to make its tone cheerful.

The calmness and detachment of his tone suggested unawareness of how implicit was his own guilt in the words he had used to defend Cromwell.

We'll drop Mr. Rawlings off in Ardmore '', Julia said, and for the merest second George was reminded of her father's tone with servants.

There was something almost insulting in her tone, but I disregarded it.

However, virtually all major works of Greek and Latin prose possessed such clausulae ; and some scholars have rejected the identification of Libanius ' Marcellinus with Ammianus, since Marcellinus was a very common name and the tone suggests Libanius was addressing a man much younger than himself ( Ammianus was his contemporary ).

Andreas Capellanus ( Capellanus meaning " chaplain ") was the 12th-century author of a treatise commonly known as De amore (" About Love "), and often known in English, somewhat misleadingly, as The Art of Courtly Love, though its realistic, somewhat cynical tone suggests that it is in some measure an antidote to courtly love.

Sagan said he took this stance not because he thought astrology had any validity, but because he thought that the tone of the statement was authoritarian, and that dismissing astrology because there was no mechanism ( while " certainly a relevant point ") was not in itself convincing.

* 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.

The tone of the 17th Party Congress was different than its predecessors ; several old oppositionists became delegates, and were re-elected to the Central Committee.

It is also to be noted that by anathemizing Pope Leo because of the tone and content of his tome, as per Alexandrine Theology perception, Pope Dioscorus was found guilty of doing so without due process ; in other words, the Tome of Leo was not a subject of heresy in the first place, but it was a question of questioning the reasons behind not having it either acknowledged or read at the Second Council of Ephesus in AD 449.

DTMF, as used in push-button telephone tone dialing, was known throughout the Bell System by the trademark Touch-Tone.

Until better out-of-band signaling equipment was developed in the 1990s, fast, unacknowledged, and loud DTMF tone sequences could be heard during the commercial breaks of cable channels in the United States and elsewhere.

He was the first phonetician to produce, in his " Sechuana Reader ", a competent description of an African tone language, including the concept of downstep.

The classic 19th century Franz Simandl method does not utilize the low E string in higher positions because with older gut strings set up high over the fingerboard, the tone was not clear in these higher positions.

The electric bass was able to provide the huge, highly amplified stadium-filling bass tone that the pop and rock music of this era demanded, and the upright bass receded from the limelight of the popular music scene.

" This document exacerbated the ideological tone of the discussion in many circles, as many creationists came to see evolution as a doctrine of the " religion " of atheism.

It recurred in the press conferences: the President's remarks about his running developed a singular tone, one which we find in few statements made by public individuals on such a matter.

First I make preliminary watercolor sketches in quarter scale ( approximately Af inches ) in which I pay particular attention to the design principles of three simple values -- the lightest light, the middle tone, and the darkest dark -- by reducing the forms of my subject to these large patterns.

Although in both emotions sympathetic symptoms are present, different autonomic-somatic patterns underlie aggression and anxiety, respectively, as indicated by the rate of the excretion of the catecholamines, the state of the muscle tone, and the Mecholyl test.

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

Brooklyn College is unequivocally Jewish in tone, and efforts to detribalize the college by bringing in unimpeachably midwestern types on the faculty have been unavailing.

For while the past needs of the Church in this country may have been adequately met by collegiate institutions, which in temper and tone closely resembled junior colleges and finishing schools, it would seem that today's need is for the college which more closely resembles the university in its `` pursuit of excellence ''.

An American in Paris is a symphonic tone poem by the American composer George Gershwin, written in 1928.

In Thai, tone is determined primarily by the choice of consonant, with diacritics for disambiguation.

In the Pollard script, an abugida, vowels are indicated by diacritics, but the placement of the diacritic relative to the consonant is modified to indicate the tone.

The type of rebirth will be conditioned by the moral tone of the person's actions ( kamma or karma ).

Alder is appreciated for its claimed ( but laboratory unsubstantiated ) bright tone, and has been adopted by many electric guitar manufacturers.

He improved the model adopted by the rest of the Amatis and produced instruments capable of yielding greater power of tone.

Its advocates claim that it allows for the free alignment of all aspects of the vocal tract by consciously increasing air-flow, allowing improved vocal technique and tone.

However, music spanning several octaves could be played by repeated calls to a machine-language tone generator.

Abhinavagupta offers for the first time a technical definition of rasa which is the universal bliss of the Self or Atman colored by the emotional tone of a drama.

He knew this to be the only policy that would be supported by the Afghan nation ; and although for some time a rupture with Russia seemed imminent, while the Government of India made ready for that contingency, the Amir's reserved and circumspect tone in the consultations with him helped to turn the balance between peace and war, and substantially conduced towards a pacific solution.

This lengthens the vibrating air column thus lowering the fundamental tone and associated harmonic series produced by the instrument.

For example, some people pronounce ( meaning " fish ") as, the " r " is dropped and the vowel begins by dipping much lower in tone than standard speech and then rises, effectively doubling its length.

Many of these seem closer in tone to the pulp adventures of Indiana Jones than H. P. Lovecraft, but they are nonetheless beloved by many gamers.

This is thought to be caused by changes in the vagal tone during respiration.

Cream produced by cattle ( particularly Jersey cattle ) grazing on natural pasture often contains some natural carotenoid pigments derived from the plants they eat ; this gives the cream a slight yellow tone, hence the name of the yellowish-white color, cream.

Candide is characterised by its sarcastic tone, as well as by its erratic, fantastical and fast-moving plot.

The cornet is a brass instrument very similar to the trumpet, distinguished by its conical bore, compact shape, and mellower tone quality.