feeling tone

Often it is the feeling tone, rather than the words, which most needs to be heard.

It must have been the feeling tones that did Fisher in.

I am a crocodile in the thick river of his feeling tone.

His feeling tone was blank, was clear.

No feeling tone.

Suzan, who had been absorbed in eating, looked up from her lunch to proclaim in feeling tones: "That bod."

Through the colors, textures and associative value of fabrics the quilts also convey the "feeling tone" of their periods.

The feeling tone of this support group will be... Now you are ready to tackle the logistics: Where will you met?

False intentions can be elusive; you will notice their existence by the feeling tone connected with them, a feeling of fear, greed, rage, hopelessness, and weakness.

His feeling tone - aweless, distant - is quite secure against the daily round in here, the stares of vigil, the smell of altered human flesh.

For example, the feeling tone and felt experience of sensations in the body are distinct from the feeling tones generated from experiencing sight or sound.

In 1928, William Moulton Marston identified four primary emotions, each with an initial feeling tone of either pleasantness or unpleasantness.

I might have been surprised by the feeling tone in which he spoke, if I had given it a thought; but I gave it none until afterwards.

More than most other pieces in the show, Helen Giddens's "Snake" suggests the "feeling tone" of traditional quilts made from scraps of printed clothing fabrics.

She speaks in a soft, slow, soothing cadence about "feeling tones," has a private coaching and counseling practice, works as a corporate trainer and runs seasonal retreats for women.

A man may have had a misfortun' and been in the Church," said Joe, lowering his voice to an argumentative and feeling tone, "but that is no reason why you should put him out at such a time.

Then he ran his hand through his hair, brushed two specks from his coat, smiled a pensive smile, and took the seat beside Miss Clark and remarked in feeling tones 'that it looked like rain.'

His feeling tone jolts into specialized attitudes and readinesses: one for Hispanics, one for Asians, one for Arabs, one for Amerindians, one for blacks, one for Jews.

A patient might report a feeling tone, or a sense of familiarity, or a full retrieval of an experience of many years previous playing back in his mind, simultaneously but in no conflict with his awareness of being in an operating room conversing with a physician.