The steady tones of The Shadow's speech brought final impressiveness to the scene in Craybaw's study.

Unlike a man, when a woman feels challenged the tone of her speech automatically becomes increasingly mistrusting and rejecting.

Startled by the breaking tones of her aunt's speech, Courmey nearly dropped the precarious hold she had on her young brother.

Several conservatives said they were bothered by the tone of his speech.

The dominant tone of his speech is not threatening.

Even the tone of his big speech, with all its emotion, carried much less hostility than his talk at the San Francisco convention four years ago.

Farrakhan responded by publicly condemning the mocking tone of Muhammad's speech, while taking no issue with its content.

But to my sister the tones of my speech were quite familiar, and she had no difficulty understanding.

And certainly, from the tone of President Pritchart's speech, she expects that to happen.

Which may go some way towards explaining the tone of President Obama's speech this week.