One clear way to do that is with a different tenor, the adviser said.

By the mid-nineties, Winters' work would assume an altogether different tenor.

Now the company the two men co-directed takes on a different tenor.

The shouts and screams began anew, though with a much different tenor than before.

A new Administration with a different tenor gives you a change of pace.

Was there a different tenor to her voice with these last words?

But that debate had a far different tenor than the much larger one raging now.

This was a gibe of different tenor, one that carried a positive sneer.

Yet he took his charm with him when he left, and my comments will therefore be of a somewhat different tenor.

The whispers have a different tenor these days.