Sentences with phrase «to shift the tone»

That moment shifted the tone of our conversation and our relationship.

Then it completely shifts tone and goes on for another 20 or 30 minutes.

But there's arguably something good, something admirable, about attempting to shift the tone among high - end CEOs this way.

There are some good scares, to be sure, but when the movie shifts tones, it does so definitively.

These include the fact that OLED displays tend to shift tone when you view them from an angle.

I attempted to shift the tone of the conversation multiple times, but she seemed dead set on preaching down to me.

It's not until an hour in that we meet DeSalvo, when the film shifts its tone from being a broad manhunt, to things closing in around him.

Facebook is normally tight - lipped about its inner workings, but company officials have sharply shifted their tone in the past few weeks.

When Susan Sarandon prances onto the scene, with cigarette dangling from painted lips and sporting a bee - hived «do, the film shifts tone so uncomfortably you swear they've spliced in a screwball moment from a Sandra Bullock romance.

But by shifting the tone away from secular environmental language to «God's creation,» Laudato Si grants the family an indispensable role in building a better world.

OTTAWA, Oct 19 (Reuters)- The Bank of Canada cut its growth forecast on Wednesday and said it actively discussed adding more monetary stimulus to speed up the nation's economic recovery, surprising financial markets by shifting tone dramatically after its initial rate decision.

Facebook is normally tight - lipped about its inner workings, but company officials have sharply shifted their tone in the past few weeks.

Unfortunately the book then shifts tone and while still describing the potential for developing new materials, or improving healthcare, the authors, especially in sections seemed to be written by Chur

Although the constantly shifting tone between quirky comedy and grim family drama could have easily proven disastrous, Crano handles it remarkably well, especially after the movie enters some pretty dark territory midway through the story and never looks back.

It seems that in Spectre, Logan's dramatic gravitas is wholly at odds with Wade and Purvis» more kitschy take on the character, and that mishmash creates a weird shifting tone that manages to smother any real gravitas or impact from blossoming - leaving us to simply observe events that happen onscreen, with little feeling about said actions.

But as it continues, he jarringly shifts the tone from slacker drama to black comedy to...

Director Araki, who also wrote the screenplay, adapts Laura Kasische's novel with wildly shifting tones, anchoring the film with the solid portrayal of a sensitive young woman while surrounding her with surreal dreamscapes and over-hyped dramatics.

Instead, Wyatt continuously shifts the tone from light to dark, gangster drama to psychological study, to family relationship study.

Rodriguez shifted the tone from fantasy to a little more sci - fi, but his subversive humor, inventive gadgets and nearly everything else is intact for this fun sequel.

Just in the way he can instantaneously shift his tone of voice from gruff whispers to charming low - speak on the CB radio to his female dispatcher (voiced by real - life wife Kyra Sedgwick), Bacon inhabits the Sheriff as a duplicitous character that fits right at home in a serpentine thriller such as this.

Everyone, no matter how good, is ultimately undone by a chaotic screenplay that erratically shifts tones and cribs from other films.

Wondering why Dead Space 3 has shifted tone somewhat to chuck in a co-op mode?

As the world shifts tone and texture so too does protagonist Giana, who transforms between a cutesy «pink» form and a dark «punk» persona depending on the current mood of the world around her.

Up close, the subtly shifting tones reveal themselves to have been created by thousands of tiny marks that are, in turn, based on Arabic letters — one word per composition.

This sculptural aspect shifts the tone of the work in a more abstract direction, where figurative associations recede and the interplay of material, form, and gesture assumes primacy.

In the 1980s, Ringgold shifted her tone, moving away from the explicit works of the previous few decades.

It is easier to answer with more objective measures, such as success in having recommendations adopted by the government, than with measures such as contributing to or even shifting the tone of the debate around a particular legal or legal / social issue.

Cuomo over the years has shifted his tone on the tax rates and in 2011 indicated keeping the rates as they were was an increase.

Unfortunately the book then shifts tone and while still describing the potential for developing new materials, or improving healthcare, the authors, especially in sections seemed to be written by Church, become more self - aggrandizing and start dwelling on the umpteenth startup company that they started to capitalize on this potential.

Forster doesn't get a lot of help with the plot, which constantly shifts tones and lacks cohesion due in no small part to the film's massive rewrites — four screenwriters (including Damon Lindelof, who botched last year's underwhelming Prometheus) are credited and you get a sense of the confusion.

«Radical Dreamers» completely shifts the tone to one of awe and beauty.

Figuring out what's being said in this body - microbe exchange, and how to shift the tone in a way that improves mental health, won't be easy.

The plot feels and plays a bit like the story of Saving Private Ryan, but once they find the boy Alecto and his irritable father Marius, the film shifts tones to feel derivative of others.

Xenomorphs have seen the most improvements, with fixes to their behaviour and core mechanics to make them truly terrifying foes, dramatically shifting the tone of the entire campaign.

The film drips with sentimental goo and shifts its tone from funny, to uncomfortable, to flat out depressing ever so quickly.

In 2013, the blogger released her first book, Man Repeller: Seeking Love, Finding Overalls and in recent months, Medine has gone on record as saying that she aims to shift the tone of her output, telling Vanity Fair, «I've been trying to do more of the think - essay thing... I think my readership has evolved with me, maybe in the way Miley Cyrus's fans are growing up with her.»

This is an angry film as well as a hugely entertaining one, and Lee has complete control over its shifting tone, minute by minute.

The Troma style perhaps predates the anything - gross - for - a-laugh approach of the Farrelly Brothers (who also made a film called Stuck on You), but real seaminess between good - natured gags makes for a shifting tone that too often gets beyond the boundaries of good bad taste into merely tiresome unpleasantness.

He manages to simultaneously convey the individualism of his characters and the shifting tones of group dynamic in a way that is both realistic and dramatically impactful.

As a result, the shifting tones of the campaign mode make it a bit of a cringefest.

Like James Bond, wilfully anonymous driver Frank Martin is reborn as a new actor without any fuss, shifting the tone of the franchise from Jason Statham's knowing wink to Ed Skrein's stone - faced glower.

Cliff Martinez, who composed for films by Steven Soderbergh and Nicolas Winding Refn, doles out the pulsing music that captures the shifting tone, from grievous to comically intensified.

His presence proved a challenge to director Summer L. Williams who otherwise manages the shifting tones, time frames, plot contrivances, points of view, and layers of reality with ease.

It's fun to wade through the tributes and visual gags that riff on those horror classics in a blithe way to shift the tone.

The filmmakers skilfully manage the shifting tones and the often outrageous details in Tonya Harding's story; oscillating between dark uncomfortable humour and moments where the tragic human face behind the sensationalism is revealed.

Sadly, what attempts there are at actual humor without vulgarity lay mostly dormant, and a few prolonged action scenes are so disgustingly full of blood and gore that they shift the tone further into the tasteless realm than even the barrage of sex and poop jokes can do.

Go into the movie cold, and you'll be genuinely surprised at how it shifts tone as it goes on.