Noun : noun inflection; verb inflection. From Dictionary.com.
MCEDWARDS: Different inflexion, different gestures. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 20, 2007] Reference
Didi used the familiar "tu" with insulting inflexion. From Wordnik.com. [Modesty Blaise]
No doubt each of them had an inflexion of its own, and. From Wordnik.com. [The Guermantes Way] Reference
The following masculine nouns have their equivalent feminine formed by inflexion. From Wordnik.com. [Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.)] Reference
I know exactly what she says, and every inflexion of the tone in which she says it. From Wordnik.com. [The Portrait of a Lady] Reference
The point of inflexion is when the underpivileged receives more than one job offer. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-06-01] Reference
Not just a different tone or a different inflexion, but an entirely different voice. From Wordnik.com. [Shadow Games]
"You are positively eloquent, Captain," said Marsden, still without any inflexion in his voice. From Wordnik.com. [Hornblower And The Crisis]
The inspector waited for a moment and then, with an unsual inflexion in his deep voice, he said. From Wordnik.com. [The Nursing Home Murder]
The chant was almost like saying “Go team” with an upward inflexion as if to ask a question. From Wordnik.com. [Brandon Mendelson: River Rats, Phantoms, and Amanda, Oh My!] Reference
“Give up — a —?” asked Lord Warburton, meeting her harsh inflexion with a very mellow one. From Wordnik.com. [The Portrait of a Lady] Reference
Sting's vocals are embedded in the mix rather than prominent: not much passion or inflexion gets through. From Wordnik.com. [Zenyatta Mondatta] Reference
Rebellion meant a look in the eyes, an inflexion of the voice, at the most, an occasional whispered word. From Wordnik.com. [Nineteen Eighty-four] Reference
He said the last words with a wry inflexion that hinted to Sharpe that it was a quotation that he ought to know. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Honour]
He spoke without inflexion, his voice controlled and quiet and yet Sarah was immediately aware of the power behind it. From Wordnik.com. [Desire for Revenge]
They are convinced that they stand on the hinge of history, the inflexion point where the roller coaster starts to go downhill. From Wordnik.com. [Matt Ridley: Down with Doom: How the World Keeps Defying the Predictions of Pessimists] Reference
"I am SO fond of that child," sighs Signora Evelina, with the sweetest inflexion in her voice, "but she doesn't like me at all!". From Wordnik.com. [Stories by Foreign Authors: Italian] Reference
"Well, that was good enough, wasn't it?" said Jimmy, as Docker finished his narrative with a mournful downward inflexion of voice. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 18, 1919] Reference
And as she took this to be a challenge, she leaned back in her chair and said "Isabel Irish" with very little charity of inflexion. From Wordnik.com. [Men of Affairs] Reference
NOTE No phonetics, of course, convey the exact German inflexion, but a reader who pronounces 'Kathe' to rhyme with the English word. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl In A Swing]
And she rattled the "r" with a strong rising inflexion, greatly impressing me with the high character of Ireland and of Cork in particular. From Wordnik.com. [The Life Story of an Old Rebel] Reference
He does not mean, by the phrase, the serenity of mind which prosperity produces, nor any other abstract inflexion or suggestion of the figure. From Wordnik.com. [Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States] Reference
And each time she murmured with a rising inflexion. From Wordnik.com. ['Twixt Land and Sea] Reference
This was said with a sullen inflexion in her voice. From Wordnik.com. [The Trader's Wife 1901] Reference
The girl's inflexion was droll; it made him change colour. From Wordnik.com. [The Tragic Muse] Reference
But from our perspective we're at critical inflexion point. From Wordnik.com. [SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page] Reference
Is this in a way an inflexion point for M&M as an auto company?. From Wordnik.com. [The Economic Times] Reference
He assented, but with an inflexion on the word "It's -- organised.". From Wordnik.com. [This Freedom] Reference
The inflexion of Lady Ingleton's voice at that moment made Dion think of. From Wordnik.com. [In the Wilderness] Reference
But the market for al-Qaeda's investment hit a major inflexion point in 2003. From Wordnik.com. [The Age News Headlines] Reference
This surely is an inflexion point in the life of all of us who have lived - and loved - publishing for decades. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News from Web 2.0 Journal] Reference
We are at inflexion point in the market as operators struggle with the implications of the next investment cycle. From Wordnik.com. [SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page] Reference
'But suppose the right person, as you call him, is poor?' said the young lady with a peculiar subdued inflexion of voice. From Wordnik.com. [The Gold of Chickaree] Reference
She tried to smile, but stopped short, puzzled; the names were the very same, but the inflexion of voice quite different. From Wordnik.com. [Celebrated Crimes (Complete)] Reference
I shall invert these changes, using the newer form of inflexion, and the modern spelling: with no other variation whatever. From Wordnik.com. [A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II)] Reference
In a similar manner we find in the Greek mach-eso, if the s be not the effect of inflexion, and in Latin pot-ero (Bopp pages 26 and 66). From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference
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