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Recent Examples of tonal
It has been described as being a tonal cross of Suspiria and Saint Maud.
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Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 24 Sep. 2025
While simplicity of form, a limited and neutral color palette, and a ban on superfluous decoration remain core characteristics of minimalism, contemporary designers have put their stamp on the style through materiality and tonal warmth.
—Sophie Flaxman, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Sep. 2025
Like his film Bacurau, The Secret Agent bends back on its own genre, indulging in tangents and side characters and tonal shifts throughout.
—Vulture Staff, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2025
The truth is that subtleties of tonal range, not least brightness and contrast, can be adjusted by the corrector-in-chief.
—Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
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Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 24 Sep. 2025
While simplicity of form, a limited and neutral color palette, and a ban on superfluous decoration remain core characteristics of minimalism, contemporary designers have put their stamp on the style through materiality and tonal warmth.
—Sophie Flaxman, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Sep. 2025
Like his film Bacurau, The Secret Agent bends back on its own genre, indulging in tangents and side characters and tonal shifts throughout.
—Vulture Staff, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2025
The truth is that subtleties of tonal range, not least brightness and contrast, can be adjusted by the corrector-in-chief.
—Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tonal
Adjective
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The effect is of a double weave of associations, a harmonic convergence.—
David L. Ulin,
The Atlantic,
6 Oct. 2025
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What matters is the cumulative buzz, the sense of harmonic slippage — the graininess in what looks, on paper, like a simple major chord.—
Justin Davidson,
Vulture,
1 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Kendrick Lamar’s 2015 Kennedy Center performance remains a blueprint, with Jeezy, Killer Mike, and Rick Ross all venturing into orchestral territory since.—
Amber Corrine,
VIBE.com,
23 Sep. 2025
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Having opened in 1988, the Greenwood Village venue also specializes in presenting live orchestral movie scores, package tours and themed throwback nights.—
John Wenzel,
Denver Post,
23 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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That song impacted across pop, country and rhythmic radio, and was placed on Spotify’s Rap Caviar and pop playlists.—
Steven J. Horowitz,
Variety,
6 Oct. 2025
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Powered by a mellow-yet rhythmic Afrobeats tune, the cheeky track finds Miko lusting over a stripper in this seductive narrative that captures an undeniable connection between the two.—
Tere Aguilera,
Billboard,
3 Oct. 2025
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Hudson buttressed Al Kooper’s original organ part into a chordal fortress, part of an incendiary performance that surges to peak after peak.—
Jon Pareles,
New York Times,
24 Jan. 2025
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The Italian Jewish composer Salamone Rossi set Psalm 112 in Hebrew, in mainly chordal antiphony.—
Scott Cantrell,
Dallas News,
2 Mar. 2020
Adjective
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Similarly, the dozens of people whom Greaves interviews in the film aren’t delivering a single and univocal history of the Harlem Renaissance but a polyphonic transmission of it.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
23 Sep. 2025
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Angela Flournoy follows her highly honored first novel, The Turner House (2016), with an illuminating polyphonic exploration of the glorious heights and darkest lows of friendships among four women.—
Jane Ciabattari
September 16,
Literary Hub,
16 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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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
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The content creator also used a homophonic slur at several points throughout the clip.—
Jessica Schladebeck,
New York Daily News,
1 Aug. 2024
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With lyrical mastery and intimate storytelling, Limón’s poetry reveals new ways of paying attention.—
Julia Hass,
Literary Hub,
30 Sep. 2025
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Herzog brings his signature style to his latest work as the quest to find photo evidence of the creatures evolves into a philosophical and lyrical reflection on the search for knowledge and certainty.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
28 Sep. 2025
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“Tonal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tonal. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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