Chinese is a tonal language.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Rather, they constitute an inexplicable wave of energy which the Toltecs called the tonal and the nagual.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

When you hear someone use the word tonal to describe an outfit’s color scheme, they are referring to looks like this one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Book Excerpt: ‘Life in Color’] Reference

Project of a new system of arithmetic, weight, measure, and coins, proposed to be called the tonal system, with sixteen to the base.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II)] Reference

This kind of tonal schizophrenia pervades Glitter.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Need of Recovery | PopPolitics.com] Reference

"That kind of tonal dressing feels so right right now.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

If you do it again, would you correct that kind of tonal change?.    From Wordnik.com.  [NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias] Reference

Schneider also acknowledged that the increasingly international nature of the industry can force "tonal" restrictions on games as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Escapist : Latest News] Reference

But comic-book and commercial artists allow some kind of tonal graduation so you realize it's supposed to be a mirror. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Lichtenstein On The Line] Reference

And few are able to enjoy the tonal richness of music.    From Wordnik.com.  [How To Recharge The Second Sense] Reference

The depth was already there, but the tonal quality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mike Ragogna: Praise & Blame: A Conversation With Tom Jones] Reference

The last act, set in 2092, takes an abrupt tonal shift.    From Wordnik.com.  [Santa Maria And Spaceships] Reference

Some are tonal or some just have metaphoric differences.    From Wordnik.com.  [For Ndegeocello, Bass Is 'Foundation and Groove'] Reference

They were, like his tonal exactitude that made holes in the wall.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut] Reference

And also, in a different way, it generates tonal relationships on the record.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brad Mehldau: Beyond The Boundaries Of Jazz] Reference

Mellan, this engraver made use of swelling parallel lines to create tonal gradations.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut] Reference

And I think it shows the voice off, and you can hear the tonal quality of the vocals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mike Ragogna: Praise & Blame: A Conversation With Tom Jones] Reference

So, I think this definitely benefits from experience and the tonal quality of my voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mike Ragogna: Praise & Blame: A Conversation With Tom Jones] Reference

But the tonal difference between a Joe McCarthy in 1950 and a Reagan in 1980 is enormous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Requiem for the Right] Reference

Demme discards the original's absurdist political satire and its roller-coaster tonal shifts.    From Wordnik.com.  [REVIEW, SEIZING THE THRONE] Reference

It's a rhythmic instrument, but it's also a melodic instrument or at least a tonal instrument.    From Wordnik.com.  [James Murphy: The Man Behind LCD Soundsystem] Reference

He is a living embodiment in color of various tonal characteristics of the landscape around him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference

In the site's FAQs, employees are identified, vaguely, as "underground musicians and tonal experts.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Some call i-dosing a drug substitute, while others say binaural beats fall flat] Reference

Second tonal mistake: references to "my fighting spirit" and "the passionate commitment that I have.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Behind Enemy Lines] Reference

To keep them from clashing, Mr. Chai tries to make sure that the colors are all in the same tonal family.    From Wordnik.com.  [Men in Patterns: Mixing Without Clashing] Reference

The high tonal register and the "bass" or low frequencies are emphasized by turning the tone control knob.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zenith Television Receiver Operating Manual] Reference

Love is a burglar in the house ofI. Marriage is an exchange of voices in repetition, in echoes, in tonal dependence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thick Rib of the Lamentation Animal] Reference

Audiences conditioned on the tonal simplicities of Hollywood may feel the need to ward it off with derisive laughter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Review: His Kinky Tale Rocks The Boat] Reference

So Berio takes a look at it and he says, you know, if you want to write tonal music, why don't you write tonal music?.    From Wordnik.com.  [New York Fetes Composer Steve Reich at 70] Reference

With Haydn and Mozart ranking among the married men, the next tonal master who claims attention is the great Beethoven.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman's Work in Music] Reference

"But if you give them Schoenberg's 12-tone music -- music without traditional melodies or a tonal center -- they're lost.".    From Wordnik.com.  [For this champion, life is (mostly) a memory game] Reference

As for the humour, the laughs are more bittersweet than bitter, marking a tonal shift from the days of The Office and Extras.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cemetery Junction; Four Lions; Hot Tub Time Machine] Reference

In general, the narrative is stranded in a tonal no-man's-land: not funny enough to be satire, but not ruthless enough to be noir.    From Wordnik.com.  [Book World: Review of Stona Fitch's 'Give + Take' about a jazz pianist thief] Reference

Your Zenith is equipped with a tone control which enables you to personally select tonal values of unmatched richness and fidelity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zenith Television Receiver Operating Manual] Reference

Nolan's reinvention of the vehicle -- from slick sports car to hulking Humvee -- is a striking example of the franchise's tonal makeover.    From Wordnik.com.  [EARNING HIS WINGS] Reference

Inventive harmonies, rhythmic freedom, and ingenious layerings of sound give the opera's basically tonal language a decidedly modern flair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ringing Down From the Hudson Valley] Reference