His work as a whole is characterized by the elevated tone which pervades it, simple plots, and sonorous language.

His songs with Hammerstein, who almost always wrote the lyrics first, had a more elevated tone.

While largely unable to penetrate this stance, the committee members did try, their occasional success giving the proceedings a less than elevated tone of "gotcha."

Thanks to the high classical style of the "Shades," the ballet assumes an elevated tone.

A period quality - the period of the late 1950's - suffuses its elevated tone and cautious rhymes.

Sanalan's voice emerged level, with none of the elevated tones or inflections of supplication.

It is the elevated tone of the entire ballet that is impressive.

Sometimes the English is too modern - "Do me one more favor" - and sometimes it strains for an elevated tone.

Such an elevated tone was obviously not universal.

Her calm, transparent prose style echoes the clear, slightly elevated tone of her speaking and singing voices.