Your audience sees your face before they hear what you are going to say. Thus, you have an opportunity to set the emotional tone for your message before you start speaking.
The message has an emotional tone that is authentically sad/fearful/angry and at the same time, is by marked by a rueful calm, by gentleness, and by courage.
Yes, he was taller or shorter or made more money, or wore better clothes or worse, but his emotional tone was similar to her father.
Though the film's emotional tone is blurry - toward the end it swerves away from farce and back toward anguish - its social criticism could hardly be more clear.
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