Tone list 4
“Oh, hell! What does that matter?! So we go around the sun! If we went around the moon or round and round the garden like a teddy bear, it wouldn’t make any difference!" -Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Homes
Sardonic, piqued or methodical
What is Piqued?
“you can’t make a half sandwich if it’s not half of a whole sandwich, it’s just a small sandwich” -Sheldon
Acerbic, detached or chagrined
What is Acerbic
“I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.”
-When Harry Met Sally
Idealistic, jaded, eccentric
What is idealistic
"You wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me
So all you kids can sneak into my house with all the cobwebs
I'm always drunk on my own tears, isn't that what they all said?" Taylor Swift
Cerebral, abhorrent, or fawning
What is Adhorrent?
“My dear friends, this is your hour. This is not victory of a party or of any class. It’s a victory of the great British nation as a whole." -VE day may 1945 Churchill
Exultant, defiant or callous
What is Exultant?
“Of course I'm delusional. Do you know how hard it is to stay positive all the time. when all you folks do is complain, complain, complain, Jimmy mother loving toaster strudel.” -Joy from inside out
Fervent, insular, or misanthropic
What is Insular?
"If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient. And so would Anne, if her health would have allowed her to apply. I am confident that she would have performed delightfully." - Lady Catherine de Bourgh in Pride and Prejudice
Obstinate, remorseful, or upbraiding
What is obstinate?
“What light through yonder window breaks? It is the East, and Juliet is the sun! Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief That thou her maid art far more fair than she. Be not her maid, since she is envious.” Romeo and Juilet
insolent, mirthful, or fawning
What is fawning?
No matter where; of comfort no man speak: Let’s talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes...Save our deposed bodies to the ground? (Richard II, spoken by King Richard)
Wistful, sardonic or piqued
What is Wistful?
“That's enough! Off with their heads! I warn you, child... if I lose my temper, you lose your head!” -Queen of Heart
pompous, sinister, misanthropic
What is Sinister?
"It is important to me that everybody who has been hurt know that the sorrow I feel is genuine: First and most important, my family; also my friends, my staff, my Cabinet, Monica Lewinsky and her family, and the American people. I have asked all for their forgiveness." Bill Clinton
Remorseful, upbraiding or jaded
What is remorseful?
“With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.”
Mirthful, pollyannaish, or serene
"Stop, stop, stop! You're going to take someone's eye out. Besides, you're saying it wrong. It's LeviOsa, not LeviosAR!” -Hermione
Sardonic, wistful, methodical
What is Sardonic?
“- Wanda: I can't stand people, I hate them. - Henry: Oh yeah? - Wanda: Do you hate them? - Henry: No, but I seem to feel better when they're not around.”
Misanthropic, fervent or detached
What is Misanthropic?
“So it’s not gonna be easy. It’s gonna be really hard. We’re gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, you and me, every day.” -The notebook
Obstinate, jaded, idealistic
What is Jaded?
“The consequence of this is that if vji and Vki occur in the spectrum, so might vkj where vkj = Vki - vji• By listing an array of frequencies and their differences one can assign, for a simple spectrum, a set of term values consistent with all the observed frequencies"
Despondent, cerebral, or abhorrent
What is cerebral?
“I object to intellect without discipline, I object to power without constructive purpose.” -Spock
Callous, defiant, or exultant
What is Callous?
“What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”
Fervent, insular, chagrined
What is feverent?
"I will not look for you, I will not pursue you, but if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you and I will kill you." -The movie Taken
Eccentric, idealistic, consternated
What is consternated?
“No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a
church-door; but 'tis enough,'twill serve: ask for
me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man. I
am peppered, I warrant, for this world. A plague o'
both your houses!" -Romeo and Juilet
Insolent, mirthful, pollyannish
What is Insolent?