The graduated series of all the tones, ascending or descending, from the keynote to its octave; -- called also the gamut.
The fundamental fact or idea; that which gives the key; as, the keynote of a policy or a sermon.
The keynote of [190] Shakespeare's treatment is indeed expressed by Henry the Fifth himself, the greatest of Shakespeare's kings.
And the new keynote speaker is the Patron Ik'Spir Pat!
There were hoots from the crowd as they recognised the feed: a live broadcast of the keynote addresses in the Centre.
The keynote of Elizabeth's foreign policy had been hostility to Spain, that Catholic stronghold, and an unwavering adherence to Protestant Europe.
Above all else desiring peace and prosperity for England, the keynote of Elizabeth's policy in Church and in State was conciliation and compromise.
The keynote of this is struck in the introduction.
He also strikes the federal keynote by saying: "The United States will become heir to an extensive quantity of vacant land"--the doctrine of national inheritance which cost him dear.
The supposed objection to Heytesbury was his known sympathy with Russia, at a moment when distrust of Russia's designs on the north-west frontier was about to become the keynote of Anglo-Indian statesmanship.
In fact the astral and physical bodies are so intimately connected that it is impossible to touch the keynote of one without immediately setting up exactly corresponding vibrations in the other.
The keynote of this law is the prevention of invalidity.
Because the keynote of the party is solidarity, which is a synonym for discipline, "We have no factions, we are one.
But the chief incident of that convention was the keynote speech of Martin H.
While Baden was striking the keynote of German unity, the other small States of Germany were preparing to take it up.
A man of nobler type than Monti expressed, perhaps still more clearly, the sense of despair which seemed likely to become the keynote of Italian feeling.
But, though that strange book had deepened his feeling for the miseries of his country, the scepticism and despair which were its keynote could not long hold him in slavery.
The first chapter serves as a keynote of soft, simple, and delightful music by way of overture.
As Widow Barry had surmised, the keynote of Tom's nature was that he was easily led, and therein rested the possibilities of great good or evil.
Moses de Leon would have left a gap, if he had not spoken of the Messianic period--the keynote of the Kabbala--and determined its date.
This ostensible romance is the keynote of Leon Medigo's philosophical system, which sounds more like a philosophical idyll than a logical system.
The keynote of the dinning has been that even a budding bird-dog will take a lot of breaking of tricks taught him when he was a puppy.
The result is hodgepodge of cross-matched correction, little of which escapes knowing condemnation, and less of which is strung to the keynote of reformative harmony.
The keynote of reformative harmony is struck in a prison regime that ministers meticulously to marketable knowledge and skill.
This sentence is the keynote of Caliban's theological speculations.
The keynote of Kew is by the wide pond, with the smooth green turf and the white stone, and the masses of pansies and heliotrope and brilliant red geraniums.
He was born only ninety years after the last pilgrim had paid his vows; he would have talked to men whose fathers had made the pilgrimage, and as he writes of it the keynote is voluntary choosing of the road.
That sound, once caught, yields the keynote to the pictorial scheme, and attunes all the latent music to its perfect end.
Here also the lily affords the symbolic keynote of the design,—the Virgin is seen bathing among the water-lilies in a stream; but the singularly fine conception of the angel’s salutation gives a special value and interest to the work.
Modern Painters” struck the keynote of the coming change.
It is not, perhaps, too much to say that they strike the keynote of Venetian devotion, at once real and devoid of pietistic rapture.
Read my sermon for to-morrow twice and feared it might not strike a keynote here.
The keynote to this was given me yesterday, by the sight of the people who thronged the popular churches, attracted, in a great measure no doubt, by the Easter decoration and music.
The last entry in the Journal for 1892 strikes the keynote of what was to prove the most absorbing interest of the coming year.
In a word, moral irresponsibility is the keynote of the volitional traits of the thymo-centric personality from childhood up.
Other men of the past and present, in every phase of activity, have demonstrated that such an utter abandonment to one's tasks is the keynote of efficiency and achievement.
In fact, enjoyment and pleasure may be said to be thekeynote of the typical fat man's personality.
This is because thekeynote of his nature is enjoyment.
There may be in his productions a wild, virile type of beauty, as in the music of Wagner and the sculpture of Rodin, but the keynote of his work is elemental force.
In the concluding words of that report he gave the keynote for all patriots by stating that the South had fought so well as to be worthy of being brought back into the Union.
The keynote of his preaching in this city is given by him in his First Epistle to the Corinthians where he says (2:2), "For I determined not to know anything among you save Jesus Christ and him crucified.
First, a greeting sometimes very brief, sometimes extending over several verses, in which he generally manages with consummate skill to strike thekeynote of the whole letter.
