The cold, colorless tones of The Leader sounded in the earphones.

"I guess it's all right," Bill answered in his colorless tone.

Stella asked with a tone so colorless it almost shrieked tension.

I answered in Benny's flat, colorless tones.

He made this explanation in a slow tone, searching for his words, and speaking in a colorless tone.

"Yes," she said in a colorless, conversational tone, "there is nothing there but blackness for me."

Bliss repeated the question in a resigned, colorless tone.

"Thank you," he said, in a colorless tone.

There now is a sizable audience for old music performed in unwavering, relatively colorless tones.

She barely got to the end of "Vissi d'arte," producing a weak and colorless tone.