Any artistic abilities you may possess are given a strong dramatic overtone. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
This word "overtone" is used unscientifically by many. From Wordnik.com. [Expressive Voice Culture, Including the Emerson System] Reference
Edit we can linguistically deconstruct “evolve” into “e” (out) and “volve” (roll or turn with a kind of overtone of fold). From Wordnik.com. [Special Magazine Issues on Darwin, Evolution, ID Creationism - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
No pejorative overtone here. From Wordnik.com. ['Rent A Blog' Debate Heats Brazilian Blogosphere] Reference
Misasi on overtone singing ja kuidas seda tehakse?. From Wordnik.com. [tatsutahime Diary Entry] Reference
The resounding overtone is one of mocking nihilism. From Wordnik.com. [Death Takes No Holiday] Reference
Do you think it has got a political overtone to it?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 6, 2006] Reference
"Beta?" he asked, a suspicious overtone in his voice. From Wordnik.com. [Angelmass]
It may be well to explain our use of the term "overtone.". From Wordnik.com. [Expressive Voice Culture, Including the Emerson System] Reference
So this entire racist overtone sounds completely made up. From Wordnik.com. [Election Central Saturday Roundup] Reference
So I'd expect there would be a political overtone to that. From Wordnik.com. [Press Briefing By Joe Lockhart] Reference
LIN: Well, in this case, I mean, there's a political overtone. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 24, 2006] Reference
And that's been the overtone for many and much of this pilgrimage. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 22, 2003] Reference
Her voice was perhaps half an octave lower, with a musical overtone. From Wordnik.com. [Flash] Reference
But indeed there has been a political overtone to what we're seeing now. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 22, 2003] Reference
COOPER: So Senator Kennedy did believe it had some sort of racial overtone?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 11, 2010] Reference
But this is a significant day in Iranian history, religious, political overtone. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 22, 2006] Reference
Q Isn't there some political overtone to going to New Hampshire about this time?. From Wordnik.com. [Press Briefing By Joe Lockhart] Reference
Oddly enough there was no overtone of pride here, just a request for information. From Wordnik.com. [The Beekeeper's Apprentice]
Yet there was a tittery overtone; it seemed to find something funny in the question. From Wordnik.com. [Centaur Aisle]
DOWNS: ... and the tragic overtone was that they allegedly killed a police officer. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Ann Richards Discusses Texas, Politics and Humor - January 23, 2001] Reference
The shape of his speech organs added an indescribable overtone to his Talyinan accent. From Wordnik.com. [Hokas Pokas]
Do you think it is appropriate for that type of racial overtone to be put on this race?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 4, 2009] Reference
If there was an infinitesimal overtone of satire about his gratitude, it escaped notice. From Wordnik.com. [Brother Cadfael's Penance]
DAVID GERGEN, FORMER PRESIDENTIAL ADVISER: Well, of course it's got a political overtone. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 6, 2006] Reference
"You aren't just countin 'down, captain," Max said, an almost surly overtone in his voice. From Wordnik.com. [Mercenary] Reference
But now quiet, save for an undescribable, whispering overtone that seemed to permeate the air. From Wordnik.com. [The Whispering Spheres] Reference
"Triumph of Death," with its resounding overtone of mocking nihilism, is not for the squeamish. From Wordnik.com. [Death Takes No Holiday] Reference
O'NEILL: The overtone there is all of the way, talking about little, the "L" word, the "L" word. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 8, 2001] Reference
There is the overtone that quite a number of them will be tried, that there is tangible evidence. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 11, 2006] Reference
There's one more intriguing allegorical overtone to the new "Trek," perhaps completely accidental. From Wordnik.com. [We’re All Trekkies Now] Reference
That public criticism could point to another reason for Mr. Aghazadeh's resignation, one with a less political overtone. From Wordnik.com. [Iran's Longtime Atomic Chief Says He Resigned] Reference
There was an overtone which suggested that it made little difference what impressions a captain of cavalry might have gained. From Wordnik.com. [Mercenary] Reference
I forgot when you were here to thank you for this elegant stationery and to be very meek about the overtone of reproach involved. From Wordnik.com. ['The Selected Letters of Thornton Wilder'] Reference
Almost at once they caught the overtone of human joyousness, and they turned with strange smiles to each other, and it was "Pierre?". From Wordnik.com. [Riders of the Silences] Reference
GROSS: Okay, so let's hear what you do with "Norwegian Wood," singing it and doing a little throat singing - overtone singing in there. From Wordnik.com. [Composer Theo Bleckmann Dwells In Possibility] Reference
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