Tone

Children often read with a tone.

Their tone was dissatisfied, almost menacing.

c. 1714 (undated), Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, letter to Alexander Pope The strange situation I am in and the melancholy state of public affairs, […] drag the mind down […] from a philosophical tone or temper, to the drudgery of private and public business.

We make crude visual distinctions and effectively meaningless categorizations based on average skin tones, such as black or white.

This picture has tone.

But nigga don't step wrong, cuz 8ball keep a tone

M.A.C.T.D.O.G got the tone so hoe you know it's on

Got the tone to ya head yo life flashing right front your eyes

Her rousing speech gave an upbeat tone to the rest of the evening.

Mr O'Brien confirmed the warning from the council was based on the fact that the structure the mural was painted on was not a temporary one and on the claim that it changes the tone of the street and impacts on the area.

Manuel expects that once 2 St. Clair West is done it will change the tone of the neighbourhood.

"What struck me most was not necessarily what was said but ... the tone of the room, ... the fear and anxiety that people have for their family members who are currently in the grip of addiction," Green said.

"I am going to raise the tone of the business. That's wot I want you for. To raise the tone of the business."

The teaching we have had of late has lowered the tone of Christianity, as the remarks by the two gentlemen who preceded me will attest; and, instead of producing stalwart manhood, it has generated a brood of mountebanks. Give us a pure Gospel or a vacant pulpit!

But Mr Fagan said the tone of the street was brought down by the presence of people he termed "the Gatwickians" — residents of a rooming house called the Gatwick Private Hotel.

But for anyone hoping that what proved to be a brief two-way female Tory leadership race might have raised the tone of British politics—currently at an all-time low after the vicious backroom machinations of Brexit referendum—the news wasn't promising.

That story is replicated wherever there is a brightly decorated house and a neighbour who cares about the tone of the street.