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Inflection in sentence

32 examples of Inflection in a sentence

There are all sorts of html codes you can use to control the timing and inflection of computer voices, and I've experimented with them.
It listens to the lecture, and then it uses the amplitude of each word to move a point on the x-axis, and it uses the inflection of sentences to move a same point up and down on the y-axis.
I believe that Africa has reached an inflection point with a march of democracy and free markets across the continent.
You may have noticed that I don't have much inflection in my voice.
It's moving us towards an inflection point for gender equality.
Every language communicates with pitch to varying degrees, whether it's Mandarin Chinese, where a shift in melodic inflection gives the same phonetic syllable an entirely different meaning, to a language like English, where a raised pitch at the end of a sentence ... (Going up in pitch) implies a question?
When you're at the inflection points of life, deciding on a strategy for your business, a parenting technique for your child or a regimen for your health, how do you ensure that you don't have a story but you have evidence?
And not only was he familiar with stoicism, but he pointed out, for all of his most important decisions, his inflection points, when he stood up for his principles and ethics, how he had used stoicism and something akin to fear-setting, which blew my mind.
It's just a curve without inflection.
It's an inflection point.
And these are the inflection points that tell you what the next chapter in that technology's life is going to be, and maybe how you can do something about it.
He clearly saw that that was a moment, that was an inflection point that he could do something with.
Was he giving a bonus to the actor that spat his lines out with the most speed and least inflection or thought?
Turning first-time writer and director for this arty, obtuse drama, he works his script and characters out through the same methodical process, slowing the pacing down to a crawl (ostensibly so we can catch every nuance and inflection).
The comedy is subtle (mostly), and the camera-work mirrors every little emotional inflection of the narrative.
In the first half of the film, most lines were spoken in flat monotone--the absence of inflection made the plot harder to follow.
There are bad guy minions in this movie that look like ninjas and a fair amount of scenes in which the character's voice inflection is completely inappropriate, not to mention the fact that instead of at least attempting to fake scientific jargon, lots of questions are answered with, "I can't tell you that, it's classified," or "it's so complicated, you wouldn't understand."
Morris wins because he gives his lines all the emotional inflection of a dial tone, and when he cuddles up to cutie Marla English for one of their many painful clinches, she looks like she wants to bang down the receiver.
His "I wanna lick the sweat off your body" line delivered over oysters in his "Go Ahead, make my day" inflection set her heart and panties aflame.
Thus, we may be approaching an inflection point where consumers start demanding payment for their data.
The Fed may have just signaled that the beginning of this necessary dynamic, perhaps the key inflection point of the inequality trend, is finally here.
But we are at an inflection point.
As more people obtain access to better and cheaper digital technology, an inflection point is eventually reached, at which the benefits of providing digitally services like banking and health care clearly outweigh the costs.
The Grand Global Health ConvergenceSAN FRANCISCO – The world is at a unique historical inflection point.
The Italian Economy’s Moment of TruthMILAN – Italy and Europe are at an inflection point.
Has the eurozone, at long last, reached the inflection point?
Italy and the EU are at an inflection point.
The mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida, could prove to be a similar inflection point for gun control, with companies and investors taking up the issue of gun safety and culpability.
Could it be that Russia's culture of impunity has reached an inflection point?
Time for Debt Reduction in GreeceWASHINGTON, DC – Once again, Greece is at an inflection point.