But the biggest drawback of subtitling is its inability to convey the subtleties of cadence, pitch and inflection with which performers invest their delivery, let alone any accents or dialects.
His voice speaks of extreme things but they are delivered in the cadence, accent, and inflection of a master storyteller.
His Czech has the cadences and inflections of the pre-communist era.
His vocal music, like Janacek's and Britten's, aimed to preserve the cadences and inflections of speech.
Thomas's own recorded reading of the poem became the very fabric of the piece, with the voice, its cadences and inflections, electronically threaded through the music.
My guess is that from performance to performance, he doesn't vary the cadences and inflections one iota.
Choreographed by the action maestro Yuen Wo Ping, each has a different cadence, inflection and purpose and, like the numbers in a musical, drive the story or bring it to an enchanted standstill.
She says that true Southerns do not speak with dialect...it is intonation, inflection, a matter of cadence and unfinished consonants, which are touched ever so lightly.
The naturalistic performance, which recreates cadence, inflection, intonation and pauses, isn't solely focused on dialogue.
In Callahan's world, affect and inflection constitute cheating.
Tone and inflection took care of the rest.
