11.   The four-decade embargo of Cuba has similar tones.

12.   The morning service had the tone of a religous revival.

13.   The music plows slowly through a Phlegmatic section, which has the tone of a spacewalk.

14.   The presidential scandals have the tone of a sex farce, a badly written one at that.

15.   The phrase has a tone of poetic self-deprecation, an ironic shrewdness.

16.   The voice emits a twinge of guilt for a fleeting second, but the laugh has a tone of gentle admonition.

17.   This has the tone of an opening bid.

18.   Which is why the hearings that began last week in Philadelphia federal court have such a hard-fought tone.

19.   Bush-Blair retreat has somber tone, with Mideast violence and death of Queen Mother.

20.   Cantonese has nine tones, compared with just four in Mandarin, the lingua franca of China.