All 36 Uses of

tone

in

Brave New World

"What are you giving them?" asked Mr. Foster, making his tone very professional.
p. 17..1 (definition 1)

tone = quality of voice expressing a feeling or attitude

The screaming of the babies suddenly changed its tone.
p. 21..4 (definition 1)

tone = quality of voice expressing a feeling or mood

"Oh, Ford!" he said in another tone, "I've gone and woken the children."
p. 29..9 (definition 1)

"I always think," the Director was continuing in the same rather maudlin tone, when he was interrupted by a loud boo-hooing.
p. 31..8 (definition 1)

tone = quality of the voice that expresses a general feeling, mood, or attitude

"It's all right, Director," he said in a tone of faint derision, "I won't corrupt them."
p. 35..8 (definition 1)

tone = quality of voice that expresses a feeling or attitude

Lenina blushed scarlet; but her eyes, the tone of her voice remained defiant.
p. 40..9 (definition 1) *

tone = quality of the voice expressing a general feeling, mood, or attitude

Then, with a sudden change of tone, "But seriously," she said, "I really do think you ought to be careful."
p. 41..1 (definition 1)

tone = quality of the voice that expresses a general feeling, mood, or attitude

"And after all," Fanny's tone was coaxing, "it's not as though there were anything painful or disagreeable about having one or two men besides Henry."
p. 43..1 (definition 1)

tone = quality of voice expressing a feeling or attitude

"Do you know Bernard Marx?" she asked in a tone whose excessive casualness was evidently forced.
p. 44..8 (definition 1)

tone = quality of the voice that expresses a general feeling, mood, or attitude

"You'll give me at least a week's warning, won't you," she went on in another tone.
p. 58..8 (definition 1)

Then, in another tone: "But, I say," he went on, "you do look glum!"
p. 60..6 (definition 1)

Bernard gave his orders in the sharp, rather arrogant and even offensive tone of one who does not feel himself too secure in his superiority.
p. 64..5 (definition 1)

tone = quality of voice expressing a feeling or attitude

Then, turning to his secretary, "I'll leave you to put my things away," he went on in the same official and impersonal tone; and, ignoring her lustrous smile, got up and walked briskly to the door.
p. 66..7 (definition 1)

"I'm taking Lenina Crowne to New Mexico with me," he said in a tone as casual as he could make it.
p. 68..7 (definition 1)

tone = quality of the voice that expresses a general feeling, mood, or attitude

But Henry's tone was almost, for a moment, melancholy.
p. 75..2 (definition 1)

tone = quality of voice expressing a feeling or mood

Her tone was loud, exultant.
p. 82..2 (definition 1)

tone = quality of the voice that expresses a general feeling, mood, or attitude

"Least of all," she continued in another tone "why you don't take soma when you have these dreadful ideas of yours."
p. 92..1 (definition 1)

"For the New Mexican Reservation?" he said, and his tone, the face he lifted to Bernard, expressed a kind of agitated astonishment.
p. 95..8 (definition 1)

tone = quality of voice expressing a feeling or attitude

"Yes, and civilization is sterilization," Bernard went on, concluding on a tone of irony the second hypnopaedic lesson in elementary hygiene.
p. 110..2 (definition 1)

tone = quality of the voice that expresses a general feeling, mood, or attitude

His bored tone implied that he was in the habit of talking to his fordship every day of the week.
p. 142..0 (definition 1)

"My young friend," said the Arch-Community-Songster in a tone of loud and solemn severity; there was a general silence.
p. 176..2 (definition 1)

He had managed, with a heroic effort, to hold down the mounting pressure of his hilarity; but "sweet mother" (in the Savage's tremulous tone of anguish) and the reference to Tybalt lying dead, but evidently uncremated and wasting his phosphorus on a dim monument, were too much for him.
p. 185..2 (definition 1)

tone = quality of voice expressing a feeling or mood

"Take me to her," said the Savage, making an effort to speak in an ordinary tone.
p. 199..7 (definition 1)

tone = quality of the voice that expresses a general feeling, mood, or attitude

"Now, who wants a chocolate éclair?" she asked in a loud, cheerful tone.
p. 207..2 (definition 1)

"O brave new world, O brave new world …" In his mind the singing words seemed to change their tone. They had mocked him through his misery and remorse, mocked him with how hideous a note of cynical derision!
p. 210..1 (definition 1)

tone = general feeling, mood, or attitude of something

He sighed, fell silent again, then continued in a brisker tone, "Well, duty's duty."
p. 227..7 (definition 1)

tone = quality of the voice that expresses a general feeling, mood, or attitude

"And then," he added, in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness."
p. 241..9 (definition 1)

tone = pitch (sound of voice) that expressed an attitude

After a silence, "We've come to say good-bye," he went on in another tone.
p. 242..3 (definition 1)

tone = quality of the voice that expresses a general feeling, mood, or attitude

Uses with a very common or rare meaning:

The hum of the electric motor deepened by fractions of a tone as he turned the nuts.†
p. 14..1 (definition 2) *

The explosions ceased, the bells stopped ringing, the shriek of the siren died down from tone to tone into silence.†
p. 21..6 (definition 2)

The explosions ceased, the bells stopped ringing, the shriek of the siren died down from tone to tone into silence.†
p. 21..6 (definition 2)

…against this instrumental background, a much more than human voice began to warble; now throaty, now from the head, now hollow as a flute, now charged with yearning harmonics, it effortlessly passed from Gaspard's Forster's low record on the very frontiers of musical tone to a trilled bat-note high above the highest C to which (in 1770, at the Ducal opera of Parma, and to the astonishment of Mozart) Lucrezia Ajugari, alone of all the singers in history, once piercingly gave utterance.†
p. 167..5 (definition 2)

Definitions:

(1) (tone as in: the tone of the essay)
the general feeling, mood, or attitude of something -- especially of something said or written