Fantasy, of course, stimulates longing, and longing is perhaps the predominant tone in Janacek's letters.

Intangible as a promise, its surface rippled with changing colors, flesh being the predominant tone.

The predominant tone of the work is a Buddhist sympathy for all living beings and an awareness of the functions of karma.

The colors are gray, several shades of it, matching the predominant tone of Seattle skies.

In his writing he combines instinct with pathos and humour, sadness his predominant tone.

The predominant tone is one of desolation, recalling the transitory nature of love and the emptiness it leaves in its wake.

The predominant tone was one of cautious approval.

The first half of the film has the predominant tone and style of a comic farce.

The predominant tone is of a kind of delighted astonishment that mere sensuality can be so meaningful.

Yet a sense of washed-out lemonade is the predominant tone.