tenor

Just a scant few election cycles ago, the tenor of political debate featured losers who conceded, voters who didn't storm the Capitol and representatives who didn't try to overturn elections.

There's this tenor of conversation that's leaked into the interview that has tainted the quality of coverage, or the ability to cover him.

Such is the fierce tenor of the Trump campaign.

Vance, seeming eager to maintain the civil tenor of the interview, suddenly agreed, claiming that social media was creating that impression.

But the tenor of this hearing was much more muted.