Sentences with phrase «measured tones not»
In measured tones not usually associated with the actor, Samuel L Jackson assumes Baldwin's vocal cadence and recites key passages from the author's decades - old work that, as with much of Peck's film, offer a clarity of voice that speaks directly to the America of today.
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However, even as he explains this, he can't help but slide away from his measured, politic tone and back toward absolutism: «And this political race is happening in every major city in the world.
If you can not write in prose that has some measure of wit, best not to try at all... read some Shakespeare... he was a master of using the written word to express a wide variety of emotion and tone.
While I am not prone to writing in the somewhat snarky and definitly sarcastic tone Wise employed in his Tuesday column, and although he seemed to mostly align himself with the group at Aspen - led by Dr. Bob Cantu - that views football as too dangerous to be played before the age of 14 (a position with which I respectfully disagree), I did find myself agreeing with what seemed to be his main point: that whatever measures are instituted to protect player safety will get us nowhere if the culture on NFL fields (and by extension, the high school, middle school, and youth gridiron) doesn't change.
«Although the deal lists possible mitigation measures, the lack of an action plan for their development and the tone of discussions at the IMO does not give much confidence that measures will be adopted soon.»
Abs and arms are surely toned, and though they look firmer, they are not bigger (I measured) My legs though... in terms of sizes, they actually have lost a couple of cm, but I don't «see» this results.
It's his measured hand with tone that's really noteworthy, never over-reaching with each twist of the plot, keeping the tension on a simmer, and even when things boil over, «10 Cloverfield Lane» gets feverishly exciting but not hysterical.
A good measuring stick would be Alexander Payne's Election (1999), which was also adapted from a novel by Tom Perotta and was a good deal tighter and more fearless; that movie sustained its biting humor, while Little Children can't quite decide on a tone.
«I don't think suspension rates are a good way to measure a school tone,» said the principal, who argued that the surveys the city currently distributes to teachers, parents, and students are a more accurate measure of school culture.
Let's not be suckered by the measured tone of his book.
Newton's piece does not, how you say, adhere to the traditional measured tones of academic discourse.
For those of you on a monastic retreat for the past few weeks, CBB recruited Shilpa Shetty, a Bollywood diva hitherto unknown in the UK; not only a hottie, she is also ladylike, does not swear, speaks in measured, well - modulated tones and tries to be helpful about the place.
«You really can't put that in words,» Wade said in a measured tone while seated at the west end of the team's practice court on the second level of AmericanAirlines Arena.