Sentences with phrase «accusatory tone»

In the simulation game Football Manager, if your club's squad is too large and you have too many players out on loan then the simulated journalists ask you questions in accusatory tones.

Where it went wrong: Moms accusatory tone started the fight, says Jennifer Jeanne Patterson, author of 52 Fights: A Newlyweds Confession — not to mention that nothing good will ever come from comparing one daughter to another.

The unrelenting mood of grief - stricken portentousness is suffocating after a while, and even the consciously lighter moments — Eckhart and Sandra Oh getting stoned before a group therapy session, Kidman's accusatory tone over Eckhart's music taste — are often ground down, leaving the film often feeling like an airless exercise.

«Express your concerns about the things you've noticed, and ask them outright if they are thinking about leaving -; but not in an accusatory tone which might only cause them to shut down.

I found the accusatory tone of these books troublesome and tiresome.

Not in an accusatory tone, but just to confirm facts first without jumping to conclusions.

he said, in an accusatory tone.

Instead of using an accusatory tone, ask him nicely to do something and then thank him.

In an early scene at a church, the congregants discuss the role of reformed Catholicism in modern life in clipped, accusatory tones, while the taunting, dissonant sounds of an organ being cleaned adds to the cacophony.

You don't have enough patience to read the directions carefully,» is an example of a message that actually works against the development of a resilient mindset since it contains an accusatory tone.

at everyone in an accusatory tone.

The images that recur are often comical, and occasionally take jabs at the present state of humankind, though lacking an accusatory tone.

In the pack is a terse young woman with an accusatory tone.

In a press briefing with India just a few days ago, several different members of civil society (from environmental groups or the press) asked the same question in an accusatory tone: why won't India comply with the EU's «legally - binding treaty»?

Don't do it in an accusatory tone.

This has an almost instant effect on the fight, and don't be surprised if there's a magical change in your partner within seconds of you focusing on the real issue in a vulnerable way instead of a defensive, accusatory tone.

To eliminate the problem completely both partners need to make efforts to share their honest feeling in a gentle manner rather than using an accusatory tone.

She rang me demanding — in an indignant and accusatory tone — «Where ARE you?»