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set and tone
In the early 1950's, Smith, together with his distinguished colleague, George Trager ( so austerely academic he sometimes fights his own evident charm ), and a third man with the engaging name of Birdwhistell ( Ray ), agreed on some basic premises about the three-part process that makes communication: ( 1 ) words or language ( 2 ) paralanguage, a set of phenomena including laughing, weeping, voice breaks, and `` tone '' of voice, and ( 3 ) kinesics, the technical name for gestures, facial expressions, and body shifts -- nodding or shaking the head, `` talking '' with one's hands, et cetera.
It set the tone for public monuments, with triumphant patriotic messages.
I regret that .... I wish I had gotten up then and seized the moment to set a tone, a tone that I had set in Texas, a positive and inclusive tone.
Also known as the " Speech of hope ," it set the tone of future U. S. policy as it repudiated the Morgenthau Plan economic policies and gave the Germans hope for the future.
As the primary songwriter for the band, Neil Finn has always set the tone for the band's sound.
Mather set the moral tone in the colonies, and sounded the call for second-and third-generation Puritans, whose parents had left England for the New England colonies of North America, to return to the theological roots of Puritanism.
The change from gut to steel has also affected the instrument's playing technique over the last hundred years, because playing with steel strings allows the strings to be set up closer to the fingerboard, and, additionally, steel strings can be played in higher positions on the lower strings and still produce clear tone.
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 reference to the Jewish " boast ", and, indeed, the strident anti-Jewish tone of the whole passage, suggests another issue: some Christians thought that it was undignified for Christians to depend on Jews to set the date of a Christian festival.
The teacher must interpret essentials of the learning process, take the leadership position and set the tone of the classroom.
John Dewey, a principal figure in this movement from the 1880s to 1904, set the tone for educational philosophy as well as concrete school reforms.
In their 1972 study, The Unknown Orwell, the writers Peter Stansky and William Abrahams note that at Eton Blair displayed a " sceptical attitude " to Christian belief, and that: " Shaw's preface to his recently published Androcles and the Lion in which an account of the gospels is set forth, very different in tone from what one would be likely to hear from an Anglican clergyman " was " much more to Blair's own taste.
By setting the story in the ruined abbey, Radcliffe was able to use architecture to draw on the aesthetic theories of the time and set the tone of the story in the minds of the reader.
The neck pick-up was sent to one amp and set for a clean, bass-heavy tone, which then ran into two Ampeg V4b 215 cabs, while the bridge pick-up was sent to the other amp which was set with an exaggerated treble boost, and extra gain in the preamp and was sent into two Thiele 215 cabs.
This was to set the tone for French-Iroquois relations for the next one hundred years.
Skeptical in tone, it held that the law should be understood and determined by the actual practices of courts, law offices, and police stations, rather than as the rules and doctrines set forth in statutes or learned treatises.
The witches ' lines in the first act: " Fair is foul, and foul is fair: Hover through the fog and filthy air " are often said to set the tone for the rest of the play by establishing a sense of confusion.
For each release of official data about a set of economic indicators, the authors analyze how newspapers decide to report on them, as reflected by the tone of the related headlines.

set and richness
Languages vary in the richness of their rhyming structures ; Italian, for example, has a rich rhyming structure permitting maintenance of a limited set of rhymes throughout a lengthy poem.
According to Paul Attanasio, " he richness of Sherman's March comes from the way McElwee, in his roundabout way, completes the portrait of Sherman he originally set out to achieve "; but " he chief problem is that, at 2½ hours, it's about an hour too long.
Species richness is the number of different species represented in a set or collection of individuals.
Once the set of individuals has been defined, its species richness can be exactly quantified, provided the species-level taxonomy of the organisms of interest is well enough known.
Applying different species delimitations will lead to different species richness values for the same set of individuals.
Then applying different sampling methods will lead to different sets of individuals being observed for the same area of interest, and the species richness of each set may be different.
When a new individual is added to a set, it may introduce a species that was not yet represented in the set, and thereby increase the species richness of the set.
If individuals are drawn from different environmental conditions ( or different habitats ), the species richness of the resulting set can be expected to be higher than if all individuals are drawn from similar environments.

set and texture
When the dough is baked, the yeast dies and the air pockets " set ", giving the baked product a soft and spongy texture.
By changing the way they paint, apply colour, texture, perspective, or the way they see shapes and ideas, the artist establishes a certain set of " rules ".
The legs are short, strong, are set far to the back of the body ( more so in the more aquatic species ), and have a leathery feel with a scaly texture.
Klangfarbenmelodie ( German for sound-color-melody ) is a musical technique that involves splitting a musical line or melody between several instruments, rather than assigning it to just one instrument ( or set of instruments ), thereby adding color ( timbre ) and texture to the melodic line.
In June 1922, Allward set up a studio in London, England and toured for more almost two years to find a find a stone of the right colour, texture, and luminosity for the memorial.
Each bitmap image of the mipmap set is a version of the main texture, but at a certain reduced level of detail.
If the texture has a basic size of 256 by 256 pixels, then the associated mipmap set may contain a series of 8 images, each one-fourth the total area of the previous one: 128 × 128 pixels, 64 × 64, 32 × 32, 16 × 16, 8 × 8, 4 × 4, 2 × 2, 1 × 1 ( a single pixel ).
It is often associated with breakfast meals as the rice used for making sinangag is normally leftover rice ( recycled from the previous evening ), with the texture of the rice having set to a firmer consistency-freshly-cooked rice not being ideal for making fried rice as it results in a soggy texture.
" The vibration of the cymbal, once set in motion, is maintained throughout the number, producing a shimmering texture of sound that supports, agitates, and inspires the line men.
In music a cloud is a sound mass consisting of statistical clouds of microsounds and characterized first by the set of elements used in the texture, secondly density, including rhythmic and pitch density.
A roughened texture has been given to the sides of these small buildings to harmonise with the natural rough rock of the Fountain, and water conduits set in their eaves ( and operated by a remote switch ) project jets of water to complete a visual ensemble known as the ' theatre of the waters '.
Diabase normally has a fine, but visible texture of euhedral lath-shaped plagioclase crystals ( 62 %) set in a finer matrix of clinopyroxene, typically augite ( 20 – 29 %), with minor olivine ( 3 % up to 12 % in olivine diabase ), magnetite ( 2 %), and ilmenite ( 2 %).
Graphics were still 8-bit, but due to the additional CD storage space available, instead of using a single palette set during gameplay, each of the six four-level sets had its own 256-color set, and there were effectively six texture sets, each of which had basically the same textures but optimized them specifically for those colors and textures most used in the four-level set.
* high quality ETC2 / EAC texture compression as a standard feature, eliminating the need for a different set of textures for each platform
* an extensive set of required, explicitly sized texture and render-buffer formats, reducing implementation variability and making it much easier to write portable applications.
This tower has a texture of varicoloured flints, black, white, brown, glassy, dull, orange, not usually chipped or knapped, set in a buff-coloured mortar, and it rises with a slight taper from ground level and without obvious signs of coursing, as if built in one campaign.
The fifth, Adagio sostenuto is a respite in barcarolle form, before the finale Maestoso, which closes the set in a thick three-part texture.
The term is broadly inclusive as it encompasses marks which do not fall into the conventional set of marks ( e. g. those consisting of letters, numerals, words, logos, pictures, symbols, or combinations of one or more of these elements ), and therefore includes marks based on appearance, shape, sound, smell, taste and texture.
The full 3D representation of crystallographic texture is given by the orientation distribution function () which can be achieved through evaluation of a set of pole figures or diffraction spectra.
However, like many other 2D / 3D chips at the time, the feature set of perspective-correct texture mapping, bilinear filtering, single-pass lighting, gouraud shading, and alpha blending, was both slow and incomplete.
-blendu on | off # set horizontal texture blending ( default on )

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