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set the tone

if something someone says or does sets the tone for an event or activity, it establishes the way that event or activity will continue, especially the mood of the people involved. He was furious when she arrived late, and that set the tone for the whole evening. (often + for)

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The men who set the tone in conversation- Count Rostopchin, Prince Yuri Dolgorukov, Valuev, Count Markov, and Prince Vyazemski- did not show themselves at the Club, but met in private houses in intimate circles, and the Moscovites who took their opinions from others- Ilya Rostov among them- remained for a while without any definite opinion on the subject of the war and without leaders. War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context Mawmsey's friendly jocoseness in questioning him which had set the tone of Lydgate's reply. Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context More results

References in classic literature

The men who set the tone in conversation- Count Rostopchin, Prince Yuri Dolgorukov, Valuev, Count Markov, and Prince Vyazemski- did not show themselves at the Club, but met in private houses in intimate circles, and the Moscovites who took their opinions from others- Ilya Rostov among them- remained for a while without any definite opinion on the subject of the war and without leaders.

War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context

Mawmsey's friendly jocoseness in questioning him which had set the tone of Lydgate's reply.

Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context

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