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A lawyer's going to change the whole tone of this interview, Ron.

At that point his whole tone towards Eve had changed.

He could produce sixteen clearly different sounds within a whole tone.

But the whole tone has to be moved from the past to the future.

I do think this administration has raised the whole tone of American life.

That set the whole tone for the for the second half.

The whole tone of the movie needed to be ratcheted up a note or two higher.

But then the whole tone of the opening section would have given him intense pleasure.

It was a whole different tone, and a lot of people were disappointed.

The whole tone of our meeting with management was very negative and unproductive.