Rush Limbaugh, taking a break from the legal deliberations of his drug rap and third divorce, set the hysterical tone.

Even through the din in his ears, he heard the high hysterical tone of his own voice.

Her voice had taken on a slightly hysterical tone.

Her hysterical tone of voice caught Joao's ear and it took a second for her words to filter through.

But with time his slightly hysterical tone has been shaped into a style.

"Is it my imagination, or do I detect a certain hysterical tone?"

The other voice belonged to a stranger: a thick French accent and a shrill, almost hysterical tone.

His voice had been rising with each sentence, until it took on an almost hysterical tone.

The next Stauner report was in the same hysterical tone as the first round but this time we were ready for her.

Politics began to take on a hysterical tone.