We're holding out hope that the often overserious, dramatic tone of previous CoD games is being completely thrown out in favor of a goofy game about hunting ghosts.

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The Bank of Japan kept interest rates steady at 0.5% at its last meeting and some analysts are now predicting that the next move could be a cut - a dramatic change of tone from just a few months ago.

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The dramatic contrasts of tone and scale, the sweeping lines of the ridge, the well-tracked path to the empty summit all add up to an arresting image, a strangely beautiful world where humans don't quite belong but yet intend to tread.

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It is restrained and formal, in tone more contemplative than dramatic.

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Mr. COTTER: They're movie comic books and, no, they're not (with stoic tone) serious type of--dramatic type of Oscar-worthy films.

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Susan Stroman, the woman behind such Broadway hits as "The Producers, " "The Music Man, " "Contact" and the new dramatic musical, "Thou Shalt Not, " defiantly expressed Broadway's tone.

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While there are some very dramatic and somber moments to the story, The Hobbit is not like The Lord of the Rings in tone, and is instead a much more fanciful and humorous tale.

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