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.

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.

" This toughened the tone that the French government adopted with the new Adams Administration.

He adopted an independent tone in informing the imperial Exarch in Ravenna of his election, but wrote to Pepin the Younger that the Frankish alliance should be maintained unimpaired, being possibly forced to this course by the Lombard king Desiderius.

With Rheinsberg – ein Bilderbuch für Verliebte (" Rheinsberg – a Picture Book for Lovers ") in 1912, Tucholsky published a tale in which he adopted a fresh and playful tone ( which was unusual for that time ) and which made him known to a wider audience for the first time.

However, women composers were not part of that circle, and some have suggested that, as a critic, he pointedly ignored their works, or adopted a patronizing tone.

The contrast between his early life and the high moral tone adopted by him in his writings has frequently made him a subject of reproach, but history gives no reason why he should not have reformed.

Kierkegaard records that shortly before his death, Møller cautioned him regarding the polemical tone that he had adopted.

He demanded that before anything further was done the members should be cleared of their impeachment ; was himself leader in the impeachment of the Duke of Richmond ; and on 31 January 1642, when taking up the militia petition to the House of Lords, he adopted a very menacing tone, at the same time presenting a petition of some thousands of supposed starving artificers of London, congregated round the House.

He is first observed at a party by F. Scott Fitzgerald, who notes that Zelig related to the affluent guests in a thick, refined accent and shared their republican sympathies, but while in the kitchen with the servants adopted a ruder tone and seemed to be more of a democrat.

By August 2005, al-Sadr had adopted a more conciliatory tone, along with a much lower profile, saying " I call upon all the believers to save the blood of the Muslims and to return to their homes " after an outbreak of violence between some of his followers and those of Abdul Aziz al-Hakim.

After seeing the potentially damaging effects on the state's image and business climate, Johnson worked to tone down any racist rhetoric and adopted moderate policies, including requesting that the state comply with the newly-passed Voting Rights Act in 1965.

During Cioran's lifetime, Saint-John Perse called him “ the greatest French writer to honor our language since the death of Paul Valéry .” Cioran's tone and usage in his adopted language were seldom as harsh as in Romanian ( though his use of Romanian is said to be more original ).

Although tonal spelling has been adopted as part of the normal romanization of a number of Asian languages ( e. g. Hmong ), all such systems indicate different tones in a simple and consistent fashion by adding letters to the end of a syllable ( e. g. in Hmong ,-b indicates high tone ,-s indicates low tone ,-j indicates high-falling tone, etc .).

The following year, after further research, Crane adopted a different tone.

The tone markings from Yale romanization were adopted for pinyin.

During the British era, then known as the " Northern Frontier Province language ", Bhojpuri adopted a patriotic tone and after independence it turned to community.

His writing style had shed all satire and now adopted the stern and moralizing tone of classical Romans so adored by French revolutionaries.

In addition, the second and third season episodes adopted a darker tone with darkly colored settings, psychedelic images, and atmospheric music.

Kealey wrote on lust, and he adopted a satirical tone, claiming that young female students were a " perk " for male academics and they should " look but not touch ".

The album was deeply personal and adopted a more serious tone, with tracks exploring issues such as child abuse (" Where Are You ") and their estrangement from their fathers (" Flesh and Blood ", " All the Way From New York ").

In the International Phonetic Alphabet the macron is used to indicate mid tone ; the sign for a long vowel is a modified triangular colon ⟨⟩.

At a later time, the voicing distinction disappeared, but in the process, each of the three original tones split in two, with an originally voiced consonant ( the modern " low " consonant signs ) producing a lower-variant tone, and an originally unvoiced consonant ( the modern " mid " and " high " consonant signs ) producing a higher-variant tone.

For example, in Cantonese, the word " sugar " () is pronounced tòng ( or, with low ( falling ) tone ), whereas the derived word " candy " ( also written 糖 ) is pronounced tóng (, with mid rising tone ).

The tones are high, mid, low, mid falling, and low falling ; in at least one Taishanese dialect, the falling tones have merged into a low falling tone.

Elgin prefers an analysis of the language as having no long vowels and a single tone, the high tone ( distinguished from " neutral, baseline pitch "), but she acknowledges that linguists using other formalisms would be justified in saying that there are two tones, high and low ( or unmarked or mid ).

It is closely related to Scots Pine, differing in the longer, slenderer leaves which are mid green without the glaucous-blue tone of Scots Pine.

Fortepianos also tend to have quite different tone quality in their different registers — noble and slightly buzzing in the bass, " tinkling " in the high treble, and more rounded ( closest to the modern piano ) in the mid range.

VI tone row 1-P. mid

VI tone row 2-P. mid

He published many novels through the early to mid 1990s which take a slightly dystopian look at everyday life and have a considerably more adult tone than his other work, with characters on the margins of society finding themselves spiraling out of control, leading him to be described by Time Out as ' The missing link between Dick Emery and Brett Easton Ellis '.

The native syllabary represents vowel and consonant-vowel syllables, formed of 43 consonants and 8 vowels that can occur with any of three tones, plus two " buzzing " vowels that can only occur as mid tone.

The fourth tone ( rising ) may sometimes occur as a grammatical inflection of the mid tone, so it is written with the mid-tone glyph plus a diacritic mark ( a superscript arc ).

See:: File: Escape tone. mid

North Gyeongsang has high tone, low tone ( short vowel ), and low tone ( long vowel ), whereas South Gyeongsang has high, mid, and low tone.

The control layout consists of a one volume, one tone, a control for the mid boost, and an on / off mini toggle switch for each pickup.