When the tone figures as an element in a musical context, a new quality is added, a tendencial quality. The tone is now part of a system, or order, and demonstrates this fact dynamically through that quality.

There has only been one unassisted triple play recorded in the World Series.

He pointed the bang stick at the closest shark and braced for the impact.

Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.