tonal

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Recent Examples of tonal Moving from romantic comedy to crime thriller and other wild tonal territories, the low-budget indie follows Ani (Madison), a New York stripper who elopes with the son of an uber rich Russian oligarch (Mark Eydelshteyn) and enters a world of trouble. J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 3 Mar. 2025 In the special, Gadsby gives a master class in the tonal shift, going from goofy to deeply serious, all while keeping their audience fully captivated. Will Digravio, TIME, 21 Feb. 2025 There are some baffling tonal shifts between goofy sci-fi and high drama and the whole thing just takes too long to get going, spending much of its runtime plodding around on Earth. Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 20 Feb. 2025 Making the tonal shift from a comedy of two sparring cousins to a concentration camp visit was the most difficult challenge, Eisenberg said. Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 10 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for tonal
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tonal
Adjective
  • They are imaginatively crafted, showing particular invention in their harmonic writing.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Nine decades later, the French astronomer and mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace suggested that the tides could be represented as harmonic oscillations.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 2 June 2024
Adjective
  • Films like Gladiator, The Lord of the Rings, and Titanic all have them: epic orchestral scores from Hans Zimmer, Howard Shore, and James Horner that soundtrack the battles and tragedies occurring onscreen.
    Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Released last November, the creative infused her brooding, futuristic sound into a full-fledged orchestral production.
    Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Soon enough, others began to join her – three dozen people dancing in a strange, feverish and rhythmic pattern.
    Kay Johnson, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Options typically include light, medium, strong, and pulsatile (rhythmic).
    Sherri Gordon, Health, 29 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Learning Greene’s chordal vocabulary on this record, living in his perfect counterpoint, is a constant inspiration for me.
    Giovanni Russonello, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2025
  • The Italian Jewish composer Salamone Rossi set Psalm 112 in Hebrew, in mainly chordal antiphony.
    Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 2 Mar. 2020
Adjective
  • Kosky, more than most directors, is sensitive to its polyphonic structure in his staging, which moves around, repeats and trims material throughout to make the show move briskly and with a light hand, allowing the subtext its slithering grace.
    Joshua Barone, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025
  • The movie’s polyphonic introduction is also not sustained.
    Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 25 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • How does this make any sense except as a very stupid, clumsy, idiotic no good way to give us a homophonic bridge to Gandalf.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
  • The content creator also used a homophonic slur at several points throughout the clip.
    Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 1 Aug. 2024
Adjective
  • There are lyrical allusions to morphine and a pretty, romantic melody.
    Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Though no matter its lyrical content, the project’s cohesive nature stems from the fact that every track is a dance anthem of sorts.
    Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2025

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“Tonal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tonal. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.

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