tone

P7344 predicate

Indicates the characteristic attitude or emotional quality expressed in how something is communicated or presented.

Aliases (13)
  • hasTone ×90
  • narrativeTone ×25
  • tonalQuality ×8
  • typicalTone ×7
  • demeanor ×4
  • intendedTone ×4
  • editorialTone ×3
  • usesTone ×3
  • associatedWithTone ×2
  • toneOfPortrayal ×2
  • capturesToneOf ×1
  • toneAssociation ×1
  • toneOfCharacter ×1

Sample triples (showing first 500 of 571)
Subject Object
"That's All Folks!" humorous
"That's All Folks!" lighthearted
A Bird came down the Walk curious
A Bird came down the Walk reverent toward nature
A Bird came down the Walk tense
A Christmas Memory bittersweet
A Christmas Memory nostalgic
A Confession confessional
A Confession introspective
A Confession philosophical
A Dream Within a Dream contemplative
A Dream Within a Dream despairing
A Dream Within a Dream melancholic
A Fable for Critics humorous
A Fable for Critics mocking
A Good Man Is Hard to Find darkly comic
A Good Man Is Hard to Find grim
A Good Man Is Hard to Find ironic
A Psalm of Life didactic
A Psalm of Life inspirational
Act One (autobiography) inspirational
Act One (autobiography) reflective
Albert Einstein's 1935 obituary letter admiring
Albert Einstein's 1935 obituary letter personal
Albert Einstein's 1935 obituary letter reverent
All Er Nuthin' comic
All Er Nuthin' playful
Annabel Lee haunting
Annabel Lee melancholic
Anthem for Doomed Youth angry
Anthem for Doomed Youth bitter
Anthem for Doomed Youth mournful
As We Go didactic ("hasTone")
As We Go reflective ("hasTone")
As We Go satirical ("hasTone")
As We Were Saying satirical ("hasTone")
As We Were Saying witty ("hasTone")
Augustine’s Laws humorous
Augustine’s Laws satirical
Augustine’s Travels humorous ("hasTone")
Augustine’s Travels insightful ("hasTone")
Back in Town dark humor
Back in Town irreverent
Backlog Studies humorous
Backlog Studies reflective
Bad Feminist critical
Bad Feminist humorous
Bad Feminist personal
Barchester Towers comic ("hasTone")
Barchester Towers satirical ("hasTone")
Because I could not stop for Death calm
Because I could not stop for Death meditative
Because I could not stop for Death reflective
Behind a Mask dark ("narrativeTone")
Behind a Mask suspenseful ("narrativeTone")
Bicentennial Nigger politically charged ("hasTone")
Bicentennial Nigger provocative ("hasTone")
Bicentennial Nigger satirical ("hasTone")
Black Mirror: Arkangel cautionary ("hasTone")
Black Mirror: Arkangel dark ("hasTone")
Blandings Castle series light-hearted ("narrativeTone")
Boing Boing countercultural ("editorialTone")
Boing Boing irreverent ("editorialTone")
Boing Boing quirky ("editorialTone")
Book I humorous
Book I satirical
Book II (A History of New York) humorous
Book III (A History of New York) comic
Book III (A History of New York) satirical
Book V (A History of New York) humorous ("hasTone")
Book V (A History of New York) mock-heroic ("hasTone")
Bossypants humorous
Bossypants self-deprecating
Brain Droppings irreverent
Brain Droppings satirical
Breakfast-Table series humorous
Breakfast-Table series reflective
Cannery Row humorous
Cannery Row poignant
Cannery Row warm-hearted
Carry On, Jeeves humorous ("hasTone")
Carry On, Jeeves light-hearted ("hasTone")
City of Angels melancholic ("hasTone")
City of Thieves darkly comic
City of Thieves harrowing
City on a Hill gritty ("narrativeTone")
City on a Hill realistic ("narrativeTone")
Confession of Mikhail Bakunin apologetic
Confession of Mikhail Bakunin political
Confession of Mikhail Bakunin self-critical
Confessions candid
Confessions introspective
Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady satirical
Confessions of a Failed Southern Southern Lady humorous
Cravings: Recipes for All the Food You Want to Eat personal
Cravings: Recipes for All the Food You Want to Eat playful
Dad Is Fat humorous
Dad Is Fat self-deprecating
Daddy (poem) accusatory
Daddy (poem) angry
Daddy (poem) confessional
Daddy (poem) intense
Dark Diversions darkly comic ("hasTone")
Dark Diversions satirical ("hasTone")
Death Has a Shadow irreverent humor
Death Has a Shadow satire
Derek Nurse lighthearted ("toneOfPortrayal")
Description of a Struggle anxious ("hasTone")
Description of a Struggle introspective ("hasTone")
Disabled bitter
Disabled poignant
Disabled reflective
Don't Panic comic ("hasTone")
Don't Panic reassuring ("hasTone")
Dress Sexy at My Funeral darkly humorous ("hasTone")
Dress Sexy at My Funeral wry ("hasTone")
Dudley uplifting ("toneAssociation")
Dulce et Decorum Est bitter
Dulce et Decorum Est condemnatory
Dulce et Decorum Est graphic
English Traits admiring
English Traits analytical
English Traits critical
España: poema en cuatro angustias y una esperanza hopeful ending
España: poema en cuatro angustias y una esperanza tragic
Euthydemus satirical
Everybody Knows brooding ("narrativeTone")
Everybody Knows cynical ("narrativeTone")
Everybody Knows dark ("narrativeTone")
Everything That Rises Must Converge darkly comic
Everything That Rises Must Converge ironic
Exposure bitter
Exposure bleak
Exposure somber
Fighter aggressive
Futility elegiac
Futility poignant
Futility questioning
Genuine People Personalities humorous
Genuine People Personalities satirical
George Carlin: Complaints and Grievances dark humor ("hasTone")
George Carlin: Complaints and Grievances satire ("hasTone")
George Carlin: Life Is Worth Losing dark humor
George Carlin: Life Is Worth Losing satire
Gift from the Sea introspective
Gift from the Sea lyrical
Gift from the Sea meditative
Gloria joyful ("typicalTone")
Going Bananas lighthearted
Governor Moonbeam sometimes affectionate
Governor Moonbeam sometimes pejorative
Heart of Gold humorous ("hasTone")
Himno Nacional Mexicano martial
Hope is the thing with feathers optimistic
Hope is the thing with feathers reassuring
Hospital Sketches humorous ("hasTone")
Hospital Sketches realistic ("hasTone")
Hospital Sketches sentimental ("hasTone")
Hurricane (Bob Dylan song) accusatory
Hurricane (Bob Dylan song) angry
Hyde Park light ("hasTone")
Hyde Park satirical ("hasTone")
I Cain't Say No flirtatious
I Cain't Say No humorous
I Sing the Body Electric celebratory
I Sing the Body Electric reverent
I Wish I Were in Love Again cynical ("narrativeTone")
I Wish I Were in Love Again witty ("narrativeTone")
I cannot live with You meditative
I cannot live with You melancholic
I died for Beauty—but was scarce enigmatic
I died for Beauty—but was scarce meditative
I died for Beauty—but was scarce somber
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain claustrophobic
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain introspective
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain somber
I heard a Fly buzz—when I died ambiguous
I heard a Fly buzz—when I died meditative
I heard a Fly buzz—when I died solemn
I like to see it lap the Miles awe-struck
I like to see it lap the Miles playful
I taste a liquor never brewed celebratory
I taste a liquor never brewed exuberant
I'm Not Stiller ambiguous ("hasTone")
I'm Not Stiller introspective ("hasTone")
I'm Not Stiller philosophical ("hasTone")
I, Too assertive
I, Too defiant
I, Too hopeful
If Not Higher gently satirical
If Not Higher humorous
If Not Higher reverent toward genuine faith
If You’re Out There inspirational
If You’re Out There uplifting
Infamous (2006 film) dramatic ("hasTone")
Infamous (2006 film) introspective ("hasTone")
Into the Woods (2014 film) darkly comedic ("narrativeTone")
Into the Woods (2014 film) emotionally complex ("narrativeTone")
Jabberwocky darkly comic ("hasTone")
Jabberwocky surreal ("hasTone")
Jacques le fataliste et son maître ironic
Jacques le fataliste et son maître playful
Jennifer Aniston as Dr. Julia Harris comedic ("toneOfPortrayal")
Joy in the Morning comic ("hasTone")
Joy in the Morning light-hearted ("hasTone")
Kaddish elegiac
Kaddish lamenting
Kaddish visionary
Kevin Spacey as Dave Harken darkly comic ("toneOfCharacter")
Kingsman humorous and irreverent
Kingsman stylized and hyper-violent
Kol Nidre solemn
Krikkit war darkly comic
Lady Lazarus dark
Lady Lazarus ironic
Lady Lazarus theatrical
Last Chance to See humorous
Last Chance to See informative
Le Neveu de Rameau dialogic
Le Neveu de Rameau satirical
Lenore (poem) melancholic
Letter to His Father accusatory
Letter to His Father analytical
Letter to His Father confessional
Life of Constantine apologetic
Life of Constantine laudatory
Light of the Seven atmospheric
Light of the Seven haunting
Light of the Seven ominous
Linoleum melancholic ("hasTone")
Linoleum surreal ("hasTone")
Linoleum whimsical ("hasTone")
Lonely Room dark
Lonely Room introspective
Lucky Wander Boy comic
Lucky Wander Boy ironic
Lucky Wander Boy melancholic
Mad Girl’s Love Song haunting
Mad Girl’s Love Song introspective
Mad Girl’s Love Song melancholic
Mark Twain’s Autobiography candid
Mark Twain’s Autobiography humorous
Markings introspective
Markings meditative
Mason & Dixon darkly comic
Mason & Dixon satirical
Matchmakers humorous
Miami and the Siege of Chicago critical
Miami and the Siege of Chicago ironic
Miami and the Siege of Chicago subjective
Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life darkly humorous
Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life surreal
Morning Song ambivalent
Morning Song intimate
Morning Song tender
Mr Mulliner stories light-hearted
My Summer in a Garden lighthearted
My Summer in a Garden reflective
Nearly Headless Nick formal ("demeanor")
Nearly Headless Nick old-fashioned ("demeanor")
No One Writes to the Colonel melancholic ("narrativeTone")
No One Writes to the Colonel restrained ("narrativeTone")
No Way to Stop It conversational
No Way to Stop It cynical
Nobiin true ("hasTone")
O Captain! My Captain! mournful
O Captain! My Captain! reverent
Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College melancholic
Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College reflective
Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes humorous
Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes mock-heroic
Once in a Lifetime humorous
Once in a Lifetime irreverent
Once in a Lifetime satirical
Once in a Lifetime satirical
Paddy's Pub dark comedy ("associatedWithTone")
Paddy's Pub satire ("associatedWithTone")
Pal Joey cynical ("hasTone")
Pal Joey sophisticated ("hasTone")
Parliament of Fowls comic
Parliament of Fowls satirical
Paul Revere's Ride celebratory
Paul Revere's Ride dramatic
Pengi and Sommi light-hearted
Pengi and Sommi whimsical
Pepé Le Pew parody of French romantic stereotype
Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood humorous
Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood nostalgic
Picture Picture educational
Picture Picture gentle
Pie in the Sky humorous ("hasTone")
Pie in the Sky light drama ("hasTone")
Pink and White Tyranny critical
Pink and White Tyranny satirical
Polly satirical
Pore Jud Is Daid black comedy
Pore Jud Is Daid dark comedy
Queer Little People didactic
Queer Little People pious
Queer Little People sentimental
Requiem for a Heavyweight (teleplay adaptation) serious
Requiem for a Heavyweight (teleplay adaptation) tragic
Right Ho, Jeeves comic
Right Ho, Jeeves light-hearted
Roadside humorous ("narrativeTone")
Roscoe admiring
Roscoe reflective
Roughing It humorous
Roughing It satirical
Rural Funerals meditative
Rural Funerals melancholic
Rural Funerals sentimental
Second Inaugural Address conciliatory
Second Inaugural Address reflective
Second Inaugural Address somber
Setswana tonal language ("hasTone")
Seven Dirty Words humorous
Seven Dirty Words irreverent
Seven Dirty Words provocative
Shadowlands introspective
Shadowlands poignant
She Walks in Beauty contemplative
She Walks in Beauty reverent
Sherlock Holmes (2009 film) score darkly comic
Sherlock Holmes (2009 film) score energetic
Sherlock Holmes (2009 film) score mysterious
Simple Speaks His Mind humorous
Simple Speaks His Mind satirical
Simple Speaks His Mind socially incisive
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God warning
Something Fresh lighthearted
Sons of Anarchy Season 1 Episode 1 dark
Sons of Anarchy Season 1 Episode 1 gritty
Stark family theme melancholic ("tonalQuality")
Stark family theme noble ("tonalQuality")
Stark family theme somber ("tonalQuality")
Stepsisters’ Lament humorous
Stepsisters’ Lament satirical
Strange Meeting compassionate
Strange Meeting somber
Strange Meeting tragic
Strife realist
Stroop Report triumphalist
Stupid Pet Tricks segment humorous
Stupid Pet Tricks segment light-hearted
Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! humorous
Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! informal
Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! irreverent
Svaty humorous ("hasTone")
Svaty light-hearted ("hasTone")
The Adventure of the German Student dark
The Adventure of the German Student macabre
The Angler humorous ("hasTone")
The Angler reflective ("hasTone")
The Angler sentimental ("hasTone")
The Art of Book-Making ironic ("narrativeTone")
The Art of Book-Making playful ("narrativeTone")
The Art of Book-Making satirical ("narrativeTone")
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford introspective ("narrativeTone")
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin didactic
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin reflective
The Autocrat philosophical
The Autocrat reflective
The Autocrat satirical
The Autocrat witty
The Autumn of the Patriarch oppressive
The Autumn of the Patriarch surreal
The Autumn of the Patriarch tragic
The Barefoot Boy celebratory
The Barefoot Boy nostalgic
The Bells joyful in early stanzas
The Bells melancholic in final stanza
The Bells ominous in later stanzas
The Bird Revelation dark comedy
The Bird Revelation introspective
The Bird Revelation satirical
The Black Cat dark
The Black Cat macabre
The Black Cat suspenseful
The Bride of Abydos romantic ("hasTone")
The Bride of Abydos tragic ("hasTone")
The Browning Version melancholic
The Browning Version tragic
The Cask of Amontillado ironic
The Cask of Amontillado macabre
The Chambered Nautilus didactic
The Chambered Nautilus inspirational
The Chambered Nautilus meditative
The Christmas Dinner humorous ("hasTone")
The Christmas Dinner nostalgic ("hasTone")
The Christmas Dinner warm ("hasTone")
The Confessions of Felix Krull humorous
The Confessions of Felix Krull ironic
The Country Church nostalgic
The Country Church sentimental
The D.E.N.N.I.S. System dark comedy
The D.E.N.N.I.S. System satirical
The Dark Knight trilogy dark
The Dark Knight trilogy realistic
The Deep Blue Sea intense
The Deep Blue Sea melancholic
The Diary of Samuel Pepys candid
The Diary of Samuel Pepys intimate
The Dream of the Rood reverent and heroic
The Fall of the House of Usher eerie
The Fall of the House of Usher melancholic
The Fall of the House of Usher oppressive atmosphere
The Farmer and the Cowman boisterous
The Farmer and the Cowman humorous
The Farmer and the Cowman reconciliatory
The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy mock-heroic
The Future Needs Us optimistic about human potential
The Future Needs Us reflective
The Guide comic
The Guide satirical
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (stage show) comic ("narrativeTone")
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (stage show) satirical ("narrativeTone")
The Hollow Men bleak
The Hollow Men despairing
The Hollow Men resigned
The Honorable Gentleman dramatic ("narrativeTone")
The Honorable Gentleman ironic ("narrativeTone")
The Hunchback’s Tale comic
The Intouchables (US distribution) dramatic
The Intouchables (US distribution) heartwarming
The Intouchables (US distribution) humorous
The Judgment oppressive
The Judgment tragic
The King of Marvin Gardens melancholic ("hasTone")
The King’s Arrival dramatic
The King’s Arrival regal
The Knight of Maison-Rouge dramatic ("hasTone")
The Knight of Maison-Rouge romantic ("hasTone")
The Knight of Maison-Rouge suspenseful ("hasTone")
The Mare (Dos kleyne mentshele) dark humor
The Masque of the Red Death foreboding
The Masque of the Red Death macabre
The Minister’s Black Veil moralistic
The Minister’s Black Veil somber
The Mutability of Literature humorous
The Mutability of Literature meditative
The Mutability of Literature wry
The New Adventures of Old Christine comedy ("hasTone")
The New Adventures of Old Christine self-deprecating humor ("hasTone")
The Nightman Cometh dark comedy
The Orville homage ("hasTone")
The Orville parody ("hasTone")
The Pillowman (Broadway production) darkly comic ("hasTone")
The Pillowman (Broadway production) psychologically intense ("hasTone")
The Pit and the Pendulum claustrophobic
The Pit and the Pendulum macabre
The Pit and the Pendulum suspenseful
The Pride of the Village melancholic ("hasTone")
The Pride of the Village sentimental ("hasTone")
The Progress of Poesy celebratory
The Progress of Poesy exultant
The Rains of Castamere haunting
The Rains of Castamere ominous
The Raven haunting
The Raven melancholic
The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming anti-war
The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming humorous
The Shepherd's Week comic
The Shepherd's Week satirical
The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean awe-inspired
The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean contemplative
The Silence apocalyptic
The Silence bleak
The Silence meditative
The Sleepers dreamlike
The Stars, Like Dust adventurous ("hasTone")
The Stars, Like Dust dramatic ("hasTone")
The Story of an Hour ambivalent
The Story of an Hour ironic
The Surrey with the Fringe on Top lighthearted
The Tell-Tale Heart claustrophobic
The Tell-Tale Heart psychologically intense
The Tell-Tale Heart tense
The Time Regulation Institute ironic
The Time Regulation Institute satirical
The Tramp comedic ("typicalTone")
The Tramp poignant ("typicalTone")
The Travels of Benjamin the Third comic
The Travels of Benjamin the Third ironic
The Trial nightmarish ("narrativeTone")
The Trial surreal ("narrativeTone")
The Village Blacksmith moralizing ("hasTone")
The Village Blacksmith respectful ("hasTone")
The Village Blacksmith sentimental ("hasTone")
The Wanderer contemplative
The Wanderer melancholic
The Way We Live Now critical
The Way We Live Now satirical
The Widow and Her Son melancholic
The Widow and Her Son sentimental
The Wife sentimental
The Wife tender
The Wild Wood eerie
The Wild Wood menacing
The Wild Wood suspenseful

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