even tenor

“I read it in your eye; it is not of that description which promises the maintenance of an even tenor in life.”

Baier told audiences that Fox hasn't called Georgia or Michigan or any of the states Trump claimed to have won while reacting with an even tenor that indicates they expected this move.

Years later a villager with a blind spot for the macabre would write, “While at times there was considerable need of a police force in the Stock Yards district, Englewood pursued the even tenor of its way with very little necessity for their appearance other than to ornament the landscape and see that the cows were not disturbed in their peaceful pastures.”

But the combination of success and the proliferation of literary festivals and media platforms has profoundly altered the even tenor of my mostly isolated days.

And yet, after a while, the even tenor of the days began, just slightly, to perturb.