Sentences with phrase «tone of austerity»
As I go back to their books to check page numbers, I'm struck by the tone of austerity and the sense of suspicion of natural parental warmth and compassion.
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Antonius engages in a detailed analysis of wit and the roles it plays in advocacy: it serves to win goodwill for the author; everyone admires acuteness which is often concentrated in a single word uttered either repelling or delivering attack; it shatters or obstructs or makes light of the opponent or alarms or repulses him; it shows the orator to be a man of finish, accomplishment and taste; and most of all it relieves dullness and tones down austerity.