inflections

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There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. Annie Dillard

I've got my own style on the guitar, sure, and I play rhythm in a certain way, and I use certain inflections. People have said that to me, and I understand it. Noel Gallagher

It's very hard to come across as a passionate human being in print. People can't hear the inflections in your voice. Steve Vai

An 8th century inscription in Tywyn shows the language already dropping inflections in the declension of nouns. Source: Internet

An example is Scarlatti's use of the Phrygian mode and other tonal inflections more or less alien to European art music. Source: Internet

Chromatic notes are traditionally understood as harmonically inessential embellishments, shadings, or inflections of diatonic notes. Source: Internet