Sentence examples for convey emphasis from inspiring English sources

"I'm not ashamed of using exclamation points to convey emphasis.

Or rather, that the continued vitality of the word — its unique ability to convey emphasis, relieve stress, shock grown-ups and function as adverb, noun, verb, intensifier and what linguists call "infix" — rests on its ability to mark an edge between the permissible and the profane.

One thing that we've come to recognize as a culture is the power of black vernacular to convey emphasis.

And, however effective it may be in conversation, in written prose the adjective "fucking" never quite replaces other, more exact means of conveying emphasis or emotion.

In releasing the statement, she said the committee wanted to convey an emphasis on its reform agenda, to indicate both progress and the significant work ahead.

It's not perfect, as he himself tries to convey with his emphasis on uncertainty and humility.

Not only did this approach help convey the exceptional emphasis placed on evening clothes, especially in magazines and on Web party pages, but it also allowed Mr. Jacobs to immediately challenge the conventional view.

I meant to convey Google's emphasis on real time analytics but obviously failed to properly phrase it.

Armstrong wrote the way he played, with an orthographic jazz of underlinings and punctuation conveying shades of emphasis and attitude.

Equally hokum is the NODE's concomitant argument that to (as in "Star Trek") boldly go conveys a different emphasis than to go boldly; it is true of that one phrase, but only because it has entered the language.

Last September we unveiled a magazine with an editorial and graphic format that conveyed our new emphasis on luxury lifestyle.