modulations

He will tell you all that, and explain how in proper steps, in wise modulations, that is melody, as the union of sounds is harmony.

The world's great sermons, Volume 08 Talmage to Knox Little Grenville Kleiser 1910

Arabzadeh A, Troy TC, Turksen K (2008) Claudin expression modulations reflect an injury response in the murine epidermis.

PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Tammy-Claire Troy et al. 2009

In a live conversation, how one says something, with modulations and intonations, is as important as what they are saying.

Anthony Tjan: Don't Send That Email. Pick up the Phone! Anthony Tjan 2011

Using color in "patch-like juxtapositions, derived from Cezanne's color modulations," her painting "Exploding Cherry Tree" achieves an exuberance tempered by a net-like interlace of dark strokes.

John Seed: Mari Lyons: Every Object Rightly Seen John Seed 2010

Even if her voice could do with more modulations of tone, she performs with great assurance, shifting from vengeful fury to sudden vulnerability with total plausibility.

Death and the Maiden – review 2011

He was even able to give a short description of its tricky modulations and the places to watch - which didn't surprise me since he seems to be some sort of walking encyclopedia of all music that has ever existed.

250 Sing Liszt's Ave Maris Stella 2009

Mr. Frye perfected his impression by matching Nixon's vocal tones and modulations, by adopting a few of the president's catch phrases, such as "Let me make this perfectly clear," and by creating a few of his own, including "I am the president, and make no mistake about that."

David Frye, mimic who used Nixon as object of satire, dies at 76 Matt Schudel 2011

No matter where you live, the flattening of rates has nothing to do with whether lawmakers weakened your civil justice system or kept injured people from suing malpracticing doctors or anyone else, but rather to modulations in the insurance cycle everywhere.

Joanne Doroshow: Here's Really Why Your Insurance Rates Go Up - and Then Don't Joanne Doroshow 2010

Uchida gave an almost classical strictness to the sonata's opening movement, before turning the scherzo into a fleet, almost dreamlike vision, colouring the modulations of the Largo quite magically, and romping exuberantly through the rondo finale.

Mitsuko Uchida Andrew Clements 2010

No matter where you live, the flattening of rates has nothing to do with whether lawmakers weakened your civil justice system or kept injured people from suing malpracticing doctors or anyone else, but rather to modulations in the insurance cycle everywhere.

Joanne Doroshow: Here's Really Why Your Insurance Rates Go Up - and Then Don't Joanne Doroshow 2010