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    inflection


    1. the inflection and tone of familiarity


    2. " Kady detected an unusual inflection within her Mother's voice


    3. “Is that so,” I say without inflection


    4. ” She has a way of flattening even those phrases that should have inflection built into them


    5. ture inflection and harness


    6. “What is it, Philip? Why are you here?” Her voice was cold, without any sort of inflection


    7. inflection, to freedom of movement *In fact, we do this not only with humans


    8. Using the tone inflection of your voice


    9. These elements are your body language, your tone inflection, your touch, as well as your scent


    10. 'He has been here,' returned the other with no change of inflection

    11. accent exactly, just that way of speaking and the inflection in her


    12. ―Alright vise guy, slow down or you vill ram us right into the gate ― Carlos‘ diction was letter perfect with the possible exception of sporadic lapses in syntax and Teutonic inflection


    13. We‘ll find help—we‘ll be fine…‖ Can struggled to finish, avoiding Elise‘s querulous inflection and hiding the expression on his painracked face


    14. ‖ These words seemed like the script for a silent movie—no emotion, no inflection


    15. The type of communication that is often used is not necessarily through that of verbal communication where verbal inflection is used and emotions, no matter what stage of development, are used to express and interpret information passed between beings


    16. You are not a robot, you have the same type of interpretations and expressions that you do now in terms of feeling joy, sorrow, sadness, and others, but the way in which they are received is much different as they are not judged by your methods now such as voice inflection or physical expression of the sender or receiver


    17. career, it offers a convenient inflection point between the timid


    18. carried the inflection of circumspect wisdom garnered from years


    19. his voice, and the way he nodded his head and the inflection in his


    20. “Whatever for?” The inflection in Thomas’s voice indicated a

    21. Thomas’s eyes and the inflection in his voice


    22. His last two words were slick with a strange inflection; it made Harmony's skin crawl


    23. with a serious inflection


    24. “The old saber rattling strategy?” Del said with a slight inquisitive inflection in his voice that seemed to indicate subtle amusement with the boldness


    25. inflection point and this is also where the stock price theoretically maximizes


    26. ” Again, Seward’s face remained calm and collected, and there was no inflection in his voice


    27. “Most of the time?” Wickland caught the inflection change in her voice


    28. “A loyal communist?” Tom said with an inflection in his voice that suggested it was a question rather than a statement of fact


    29. " There was an inflection of amazement in her voice


    30. “I was once a very wealthy man,” he continued, voice empty of inflection

    31. He was referring to her ass but the use of the antiquated word and the businesslike inflection were enough to throw her off


    32. inflection selects somewhat inspired transpositional continuity and humanistic reform to


    33. may also repeat sounds, but there is something else, something unique, that only humans do: they sometimes superimpose a spontaneous inflection on their words


    34. ’ Anderson was trying – but not trying too hard – to keep the inflection out of his voice


    35. Why was a particular form of words used? What was the relevance of the unusual inflection in the voice of the speaker? Why a hesitation when the response should have been easy and instant? One great technique which good negotiators use is to ask the speaker to repeat a statement which is recognisable as being significant in the negotiation; for example a proposal or counter-proposal


    36. Listening to the original and the repeat very carefully, spotting any differences in language or inflection, and then being curious about these differences will reveal information about priorities, motives and power which can be game-changers


    37. Hispanic inflection, “Hotel Morahne


    38. “Time to charge into battle!” I clarified in case anyone hadn't heard the battle charging inflection in my initial cry


    39. twang with a Zulu inflection


    40. Sensing her sudden tension and hearing the strange inflection of fear in her voice, as she pensively whispered the last three words, Joel and the others glanced at her in perplexed concern

    41. Joel gazed at her speculatively, for he could tell, by the unusual inflection in her voice, that his answer was important to her, though he couldn’t fathom why


    42. And because he was floored by what she’d told him, he’d missed the hurt inflection in her tone and expression, when she’d replied to his abruptly spoken questions of how she knew about Lady Edwards


    43. In his mind’s eye, he could still hear the strange inflection in her tone, when she’d mumbled a monosyllabic reply to him, and then he recalled his last glimpse of her as she’d struggled alone on her crutches, while disembarking from the plane


    44. Alerted by the curious inflection in her voice, Joel stilled, and his gaze intensified on her


    45. “How?” The question came softly and without inflection


    46. “We helped each other, didn’t we,” she said without inflection


    47. “That's where I come in,” said Father McGuire with an industriously smug inflection, “should any business come to my future endeavour for a church


    48. "Keep your head screwed on, Zac," she said without any inflection


    49. “Come on, come on, off with you then!” Sashi cried with enough thespian inflection to


    50. The hard inflection in his voice made Libby grit her teeth












































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    Synonyms for "inflection"

    inflection prosody modulation flection flexion inflexion

    "inflection" definitions

    a change in the form of a word (usually by adding a suffix) to indicate a change in its grammatical function


    the patterns of stress and intonation in a language


    deviation from a straight or normal course


    a manner of speaking in which the loudness or pitch or tone of the voice is modified