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overtone
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overtone as in:  a menacing overtone

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    The tyrannosaur roared again, but this time it had distinct musical overtones, and a kind of echo, persisting afterward.  (source)
    overtones = a subtle or secondary quality
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    He had discerned a clear overtone of tragedy in the crier's voice, and even now he could still hear it as it grew dimmer and dimmer in the distance.†  (source)
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    In the subtleties of the Fremen tongue, the word meant "something acquired in battle" and with the added overtone that the something no longer was used for its original purpose.†  (source)
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    Then applause filled the hall again, some of it not without satiric overtones.†  (source)
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    With a delicate overtone of rotten camel!†  (source)
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    This was a dramatic shift in the meaning of an age-old expression with warlike overtones.†  (source)
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    Langdon quickly explained that the Rose's overtone of secrecy was not the only reason the Priory used it as a symbol for the Grail.†  (source)
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    Open crates, and overtones of urine.†  (source)
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    His range was astonishing and I had constantly to remind myself that I was talking to a scientist, a biologist (I kept thinking of a prodigy like Julian Huxley, whose essays I had read in college)—this man who possessed so many literary references and allusions, both classical and modern, and who within the space of an hour could, with no gratuitous strain, weave together Lytton Strachey, Alice in Wonderland, Martin Luther's early celibacy, A Midsummer Night's Dream and the mating habits of the Sumatran orangutan into a little jewel box of a beguiling lecture which facetiously but with a serious overtone explored the intertwined nature of sexual voyeurism and exhibitionism.†  (source)
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    From there it's a simple matter of entering the Mountains of Ignorance, full of perilous pitfalls and ominous overtones—a land to which many venture but few return, and whose evil demons slither slowly from peak to peak in search of prey.†  (source)
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    I even pitched my voice to a low plane, trying to rob it of any suggestion or overtone of aggressiveness.†  (source)
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    And beneath that there was a hint of lilt that brought back the overtones of a cat burglar i'd known who had grown up on Asquith, a quiet, backwater Web world settled by First Expansion immigrants from what had once been the British Isles.†  (source)
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    Abe cut in, solemn and ponderous, beating it all down with an overtone of earth-bound determination.†  (source)
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