For some months Savonarola obeyed, but when he saw his influence slipping he defied the pope and resumed his sermons which became more violent in tone.

In 1769 the three archbishop-electors of Cologne, Mainz and Treves ( Trier ) had drawn up in thirty articles their complaints against the Curia, and after submitting them to the emperor Joseph II, had forwarded them to the new pope, Clement XIV These articles, though Febronius was prohibited in the archdioceses, were wholly Febronian in tone ; and, indeed, Bishop von Hontheim himself took an active part in the diplomatic negotiations which were their outcome.

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.

In fact, does not merely sound wrong, it sounds like a different word — 桃 ( Pinyin táo, ) " peach ", or 套 " cover " ( distinguished by tone ).

In the field of computer graphics the concept of luminosity is different altogether, a synonym in fact for the concept of lightness, otherwise known as the value or tone component of a color.

The fact that as early as the 1880s composers such as Richard Strauss ( in his tone poems " Don Juan " and " Death and Transfiguration ") as well as Camille Saint-Saëns ( Symphony No. 3 " Organ ") asked string players to perform certain passages " without expression " or " without nuance " strongly suggests the general use of vibrato within the orchestra as a matter of course.

" However, this type of imagery was not officially endorsed by the central authorities in China at that time: in fact the kǎozhèng movement of the Qing scholars ( consisting of " Song Learning " and " Han Learning ") as supported by the government was opposed to this to the point that out of some 2, 320 resultingly suppressed works many were banned for having a perceived critical, " antibarbarian tone ".

The fact that Balliol ( in contrast to Trinity ) had admitted a number of Indian and Asiatic students also gave many of the taunts from the Trinity side a distinctly racist tone: Balliol students, for example, were sometime referred to as " Basutos ".

The fact that Balliol ( in contrast to Trinity ) had admitted a number of Indian and Asiatic students also gave many of the taunts from the Trinity side a distinctly racist tone: Balliol students, for example, were sometime referred to as " Basutos ".

There are several reasons for this, including: the association with cDc ; the tone of the initial product launch at Def Con ' 99 ( including that the first distribution of BO2k by cDc was infected by the CIH virus ); the existence of tools ( such as " Silk rope ") designed to add BO2k dropper capability to self-propagating malware ; and the fact that it has actually widely been used for malicious purposes.

In the Indian subcontinent, balaclavas are commonly referred to as monkey caps, due to their typical earth tone colours, and the fact that they blot out most human facial features.

The poet's tone of authority when addressing the Spartan warrior class, and the occasional Doric word in his vocabulary, indicate that he was in fact Laconian.

In fact the contested distinction between the seventh and eighth tones surrounds the very issue of tone sandhi ( between glottal stop (- m ) and low rising (- d ) tones ).

Other jokes around Mickey were his rapid turnover of jobs, and the fact that he sported the pork-pie hat and suit of the 2 tone / ska scene, which was popular during the early 1980s, well into the 2000s.

Much of the Leslie's unique tone is due to the fact that the system is at least partially enclosed, whereby linear louvres along the sides and front of the unit can vent the sound from within the box after the sound has bounced around inside, mellowing it ..

The fact that Euro-American observers found African work-singers so remarkable ( as can be gleaned from the tone of their descriptions ) suggests that work songs were indeed rather foreign to their culture.

" And then some wag would add, in a solemn, drawling tone, as if it were his purpose to give particular emphasis to the fact that John Brown was really, actually dead: " Yes, yes, poor old John Brown is dead ; his body lies mouldering in the grave.

" In humans, awareness of the fact that one is acting deceptively often leads to tell-tale signs of deception, such as nostrils flaring, clammy skin, quality and tone of voice, eye movement, or excessive blinking.

The soldiers unwittingly in Spanish language and in authoritative tone, to conceal the fact that they were lost, asked the local maiden the name of the place they were in.

" It is being, attained or perceived at the summit of an abstractive intellection, of an eidetic or intensive visualization which owes its purity and power of illumination only to the fact that the intellect, one day, was stirred to its depths and trans-illuminated by the impact of the act of existing apprehended in things, and because it was quickened to the point of receiving this act, or hearkening to it, within itself, in the intelligible and super-intelligible integrity of the tone particular to it.

" He also noted that, due to the fact that the album was written around the time of the September 11 attacks, its tone was affected by the tragedy.

His main criterion was the fact that Jin dialects had preserved the entering tone as a separate category, still marked with a glottal stop as in the Wu dialects, but distinct in this respect from the other Mandarin dialects.

Nonetheless, regardless of the skin tone of the Cuban players, at the very least blacks of the United States were still banned from white baseball albeit if Marsans and Almeida were in fact black but light skinned then their successful breaking of the color barrier has gone unheralded.

In fact, the segment is similar in tone to " Denz ", which makes fun of many of the absurdities of the Neverwhere premise.

The tone of the book is undoubtedly low ; The Tropic of Cancer, in fact, from the point of view both of its happenings and of the language in which they are conveyed, is the lowest book of any real literary merit that I have ever remember to have read ... there is a strange amenity of temper and style which bathes the whole composition even when it is disgusting or tiresome.

In fact, in the Western system of temperament, C-sharp and D-flat — which are functionally the same tone — are equivalent to 4. 5 commas in the Turkish system ; thus, they fall directly in the center of the line depicted above.

Lavender magenta is a name sometimes used for the web color called " violet " due to the fact that this color is not a tone of violet at all, but is actually a tone of magenta.