comment on tone

In this book, aspects of tone are closely tied in with aspects of perspective which, as noted above, has many facets. In general, the author communicates the emotional aspects of his argument with language usage that steps back from the brink of overly intense feeling. Generally, he writes of fear in a way that suggests fear to the reader rather than awakens it in him / her; for the most part he writes of joy, anger, and anxiety in much the same way, tempering what must, for him, feel like an intensely raw emotional situation with a sense of distance, almost a sense of coolness in the tone of the language.