In fact, the 112-page report had an academic and legalistic tone.

They discussed the advance of the enemy in cool, academic tones, as though this were a sandbox problem at an officers' training course.

This is markedly different from the Hemenway biography, which maintains a more academic tone.

It's impossible to know what they're discussing because every time things threaten to get blunt they elevate the academic tone.

It was a matter of setting a different academic tone in school by letting kids know where they are supposed to be.

He sat rigid and spoke with a smooth, academic tone.

"The programs try to improve the academic tone of the campus, to get students into a serious mode just as soon as possible."

The thoughtful, decidedly academic tone of her voice worried him.

Sudden lapses into the contemporary vernacular occasionally interrupt the academic tone.

This workshop broke from the conference's academic tone and instead led to a group discussion similar to what is now known as a "heart circle".