Example sentences for: overtones

How can you use “overtones” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • An outstanding exception is geopolitics , acknowledgedly from German Geopolitik , but even in that case there are antedating overtones from Swedish and French.

  • Some are moved by the film's themes of redemption and spirituality; Roger Ebert says it's full of "vivid characters, humor, outrage and emotional release" (the Chicago Sun-Times ). Less kind reviews note the "inadvertently racist overtones" of the relationship between Hanks and Duncan (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ) and say the movie has the "suffocating deliberateness of a river of molasses" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). (David Edelstein the movie in Slate : "not all of the movie is melodramatic, pseudo-mystical drivel--only about two hours and 15 minutes."

  • Fact: the word was already taking on prejudicial overtones a century and a half ago.

  • The Vatican's official newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano (ignoring the murder of a gentleman-in-waiting to the pope, which was given big play in all other European newspapers because of its apparent homosexual overtones), called for "a clear and decisive intervention" in Algeria to stop the massacres from sliding into "genocide."

  • There are, of course, cases where mixtures have unique properties, e.g., in the case of the intensities of harmonic overtones (integer multiples of the fundamental frequency) that distinguish a C tone produced by a guitar from that of a flute—but we can still identify the fundamental, whose perceived pitch is not altered by the overtones.


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