But today s pessimism is as exaggerated as yesterday s optimism was overblown.

From his accent, I would guess that man is Scottish.

Damn you

His coalition partner, Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica, increasingly espouses hardline nationalist rhetoric that is indistinguishable from that of Nikolic and the Radicals.

The indignation of some had a clear anti capitalist and anti globalization tone.

The tone of the commentaries has, of late, become more strident and filled with war rhetoric.

And when I was dealing with my robot over here, Chris, the robot, was measuring the prosody in my voice, and so we have the robot measure prosody for four basic messages that mothers give their children pre linguistically.

The gusle is used mainly to recite epic poems in a usually dramatic tone.

The problem is that the standoff has now taken on the tone of a state to state confrontation.

We also hope in this way to improve the tone of the dialogue by reducing the politicization of the debate.

RB So it's expressing its emotion through its face and the prosody in its voice.

There is a marked difference in tone here from debates in much of the Western world.

Just because it's the literal equivalent doesn't mean it's the right word to use if you are aiming for some kind of literary effect, she says.

French babies cry on a rising note while German babies end on a falling note, imitating the melodic contours of those languages.

Like Egypt s now deposed President Hosni Mubarak, al Zawahiri s tone was patronizing and condescending.

If US policymakers adopt this approach, the tone of the Fed s next money market conference could be much more optimistic.

When John Maynard Keynes went to see President Roosevelt in the depths of the Depression, he advised toning down the administration s anti business rhetoric.

But today s pessimism is as exaggerated as yesterday s optimism was overblown. Even as the world has faced an unprecedented global economic crisis and recession, with most countries suffering negative growth rates in at least one quarter in the last four years, India remains the world s second fastest growing major economy, after China.

A lifetime of social reinforcement based on their genetically given looks may have encoded into their voice patterns a tone of confidence that could be projected over the phone.

Optimism about the Syrian people's future must be tempered by realism about the challenges facing Syria's opposition movement and the international community alike. Dramatic, rapid change could result in prolonged failure.

The true meaning of the story of Christmas he solemnly intoned, will not be revealed until Easter, or possibly much later.

And she has brought a fresh anti capitalist tone to the Front s rhetoric always a crowd pleaser in France.

As the situation deteriorated, one might have guessed that the IMF would mark its beliefs to market, as it were, and adopt a more cautious tone.

Throughout my daily blog reads, I've noticed an obvious tone between young Egyptians, many of whom are questioning whether or not they love Egypt, and whether or not Egypt loves them back.

Meanwhile, nationalism in China has grown under President Xi Jinping, as he routinely promotes his Chinese dream , which envisions a stronger China both economically and diplomatically.

Indeed, the emperor s overseas visits remain deeply political, setting the tone if not the agenda for Japan s foreign policy.

True, businessmen have tempered their criticisms of Chavez and seem eager to participate in the profit feast brought about by increased consumption.

The tone of ECB President Jean Claude Trichet s comments in the Q A section of the press conference following the October meeting was unusually hawkish.

Bush was also able to partly change the tone of the US message in the hemisphere from free trade and fighting terrorism, to combating poverty and strengthening democracy and human rights.

And that voice, without losing a beat, says, 'Because of late entry, we're delayed 30 seconds.' Just then, everybody's looking at this couple with hateful eyes and the couple's going like this, you know, shrinking.

Merkel s Panglossian campaign was much more in tune with the sentiment of the German electorate than the opposing parties tristesse about working class distress, which was rightly seen as a ploy for raising taxes.

No one, man or woman, can today aspire to setting the tone of public discourse without recognizing that politics is no longer only a man s game.

And in fact, making things using technology and I'm being serious here, even though I'm using my sarcastic voice I won't hold on. Making things, you know making things actually does give me a lot of joy.

Obviously, some cultures have their own jargon and tone, so Digital Mirror looks at the relative as well as absolute frequency of the values that it measures.

Like Egypt s now deposed President Hosni Mubarak, al Zawahiri s tone was patronizing and condescending. If anything, the lecture underscored how out of touch Al Qaeda s senior leaders are with the spirit of the time.

Rather than encourage the unions with exaggerated talk of strong European growth and inflationary excess and disrespect them with threats and interventions Trichet should speak softly and let nature take its course.

But in the 2000 s, the meaning of globalization shifted and began to take on a semi positive note, in large part because it increasingly looked as if the major winners of globalization included many rapidly growing emerging markets.

But, once again, people there told me about an ongoing real estate bubble, and my driver showed me around the seaside resort town of Cartagena, pointing out, with a tone of amazement, several homes that had recently sold for millions of dollars.

Mr. President, if I could end on a personal note and thank you not just for your leadership on this particular issue but also for having given up the possibility of getting home to Sweden for Christmas in order to make sure that this went through.

The cure, such as it was, finally came about, years behind schedule, not through fiscal bleeding, but by massive monetary stimulus. When the groggy patient eventually staggered to its feet, the champions of fiscal bleeding triumphantly proclaimed that austerity had worked.

What are the key words? And what judging by everything from words such as must or immediately to slang or profanity, to softeners such as if you don't mind and please, and text written in ALL CAPS is the tone?

In October 2007, Cherkesov (now chief of one of the most obscure and powerful services, the Federal Anti Drug Administration) published another essay in which he lamented his colleagues degradation warriors had turned into traders, he complained.