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Updated: May 11, 2025
For a few moments the din was so great that the crows in a neighbouring grove of willows sped away in fear. The women talked all at once, at the top of their voices and with no falling inflections.
My own mental comment was, "If anything could make me such a fool as to doubt this self-evident truth, your arguments and the inflections of your voice would certainly make me do so."
Maturin's inflections, and the relics of a high-school manner were rapidly eliminated.
Henri Matisse has science, he is responsive to all the inflections of the human form, and has at his finger-tips all the nuances of colour. He is one of those lucky men for whom the simplest elements suffice to create a living art. With a few touches a flower, a woman, grow before your eyes.
How much finer, to my idea, are Berlioz's recitatives, with their long and winding rhythms, than Wagner's declamations, which apart from the climax of a subject, where the air breaks into bold and vigorous phrases, whose influence elsewhere is often weak limit themselves to the quasi-notation of spoken inflections, and jar noisily against the fine harmonies of the orchestra.
The descendants of these dogs were found thirty years later to have lost the power of barking, and only subsequently regained it with difficulty. The fact that the dog barks is not, however, the chief point. This peculiar gift has been developed into a language, for it is by those wonderful inflections of the voice in barking that the dog has learnt to make man understand his meaning.
Wild and untutored as Nora looked, her mother knew that few girls in England could hold a candle to her, if justice were done her. There was something about the expression in Nora's eyes which even Mrs. O'Shanaghgan could scarcely resist at times, and there were tones and inflections of entreaty in Nora's voice which had a strange power of melting the hearts of those who listened to her.
They seemed to manage their horses less by the bridle than by the inflections of their bodies, so that they could spare, at need, both hands for combat the one to hold the bucklers of rhinoceros skin or crocodile hide, the other to wield spear or scimitar. Turbans surrounded their heads, and light garments their bodies; but defensive armour had they none.
In antiquity when a man read which was seldom enough he read something to himself, and in a loud voice; they were surprised when any one read silently, and sought secretly the reason of it. In a loud voice: that is to say, with all the swellings, inflections, and variations of key and changes of TEMPO, in which the ancient PUBLIC world took delight.
As it rises to sentiment, the inflections are less marked, and in the case of a strain of high, nobler feeling, the voice moves on with some approach to the monotone.
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