"tone" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It's all conveyed with an evenhanded, often affectionate tone.
- But he was getting unmistakably uncomfortable, now, notwithstanding Laura's confiding sociability and almost affectionate tone.
- But at least she said it gently, in the sort of affectionate tone one would use to address a dotty aunt in her dotage.
- Anna Maria was her father's favorite child as demonstrated by the cordial, even affectionate tone of the letters that they wrote to each other.
- Beneath the affectionate tone of Annie's response, steely signals glinted.
- It was obvious from Goldfield's affectionate tone that he greatly admired the chief medical examiner.
- "She's a diva, you know," says one top official at Lincoln Center in an affectionate and even sympathetic tone.
- Her perfidious friend's voice had assumed the most affectionate tone; she spoke as a woman, but concealed the instincts of a wolf.
- His affectionate tone and appreciative smile made her forget the whirlwind of horrors she'd en- dured over the past two days.
- His way of speaking takes on a particularly benevolent, patient, affectionate and friend-philosopher-guide tone when he speaks with his disciple.
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