even tenor
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And pleasantly surprised, because the briefer format is better adapted to carry the even tenor of sad beauty that pervades all of Mann's writings, and is unbearably sustained in his long novels.
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Walter George enjoys his role as the most powerful member of the 84th, and he has been able to maintain the even tenor of his ways.
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Michael Bartlett, whose even tenor was a mainstay of Princeton Triangle shows 13 years back, sings with as much grace and gusto as pretty Kitty Carlisle.
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He would deny its very existence, or that of any other emotion that might upset the even tenor of his days.
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Au reste, Dumas troubles himself very little about his assailants, but pursues the even tenor of his way, careless of calumniators.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various