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Example sentences for: high-toned

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Lewis had lots of experience with snobbery from high-toned Negroes.
She has almond eyes, a luxuriant black mane made for high-toned hair commercials, and an upper lip that can flare or pout with silken ease.
This is all pure Steiner: high-toned and irritating, vibrating with barely curtailed snobbism, but also venturing hard queries and unpopular responses.
But someone forgot to tell the writer-director, Rand Ravich, that a genre movie can't survive on fancy, high-toned portent alone--especially when the audience knows what's being portended before they even buy their tickets.
Brooks, the bulwark of liberal humanism at the furthest reaches of the galaxy on the stultifying TV series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , is too comfortable dropping high-toned pronouncements such as "Your rhetoric and your propaganda aren't going to save you."