inflections

These applications carry certain inflections concerning the functioning (cognitive, discursive, cultural, or political) of the notion and practice of historicity and history.

Thinking Singularity with Immanuel Kant and Paul de Man: Aesthetics, Epistemology, History and Politics 2005

There are beautiful little throwaways, for example the evergreen romance between Marvin Lundy, who speaks in Yiddish inflections, and his English war bride, who supplies on request the words he can't bring to mind, which would be enough for a freestanding work by any number of other writers.

Between Hell and History Sante, Luc 1997

It is an instance of what followed in almost every case of naturalization, that A.S. inflections were added to the French words quite as freely as to those of native origin.

Caxton's Book of Curtesye Frederick James Furnivall 1867

They speak a Mandarin accented by lilting notes, and it is their Mandarin, with its joking inflections, that is used on popular sitcoms broadcast from Beijing.

THE SECOND MARK JOY GOODWIN 2004

They speak a Mandarin accented by lilting notes, and it is their Mandarin, with its joking inflections, that is used on popular sitcoms broadcast from Beijing.

THE SECOND MARK JOY GOODWIN 2004

They speak a Mandarin accented by lilting notes, and it is their Mandarin, with its joking inflections, that is used on popular sitcoms broadcast from Beijing.

THE SECOND MARK JOY GOODWIN 2004

It was not merely as though I had been in court, and were now recalling the inflections of that deep, intimidating voice, the steadfast gaze of those dark, intimidating eyes, and were remembering just at what points the snuff-box was produced, and just how long the pause was before the pinch was taken and the bandana came into play.

Yet Again Max Beerbohm 1914

Scripture, and many other laboratory workers, show how great is the difference between individuals in the intervals covered by the upward and downward slides or "inflections" which indicate doubt or affirmation.

A Study of Poetry Bliss Perry 1907

The expressional changes of pitch, which constitute the 'melody,' or the 'inflections' of the sentences, play an important part.

Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. Various 1889

The strings double the speaker, matching the spoken inflections and building chords from the sustained tones.

An Orchestra of Distant Voices Barbara Jepson 2011