What is the author's tone in the memoir, Waiting For God?

The tone exhibited in Weil’s prose provides the necessary glue required to maintain a sense of cohesion and coherence across her work, despite shifts in perspective and structural idiosyncrasies. The writing here exudes a unique, emotive quality that remains consistent across both the letters and the essays. For Weil, philosophy and religious reflection are the means by which one makes sense of experience, not vice versa. Moreover, the texture she gives to the ideas she examines more often than not evoke sense phenomena and embodied experience instead of relying upon the traditional conventions of austere rationality. Weil accomplishes this without sacrificing either scholarly rigor or philosophical acumen. By melding these traits with lively, evocative prose she succeeds in reaching a wider audience, while also making significant contributions to her areas of expertise.