We cannot stop the inexorable sweep of time, he says, but we can inflect it with a human voice and touch.
Verbs inflect for tense only, with -r as the usual present marker (New Norwegian does not have an ending to indicate present tense in the strong verbs), while the preterites (past tenses) have stem-vowel ablaut changes in the strong verbs and a dental suffix in the weak verbs.
Unlike the "through-composed" art song, where the music is given nuances to correspond to the varying emotional colour of the content, the folk song affords little opportunity to inflect the contours of the melody.
Nevertheless, it does inflect achievement, and clearly restricts potential.
Scripted television shows are often, although not always, produced collaboratively, for a variety of pragmatic reasons — and these pragmatic reasons inflect the artistic results, just as they do in Hollywood film production.
(He shocked many of his friends by endorsing Sarkozy in the 2007 election — an endorsement that he did not exactly withdraw but did inflect after Sarkozy's less than welcoming attitude toward helpless people like the Roma became plain).
Yet if mug shots are concerned only with cold, hard facts, the circumstances under which they were made can't help but inflect them with all sorts of untoward and bottled-up emotions.
His voice is higher and smaller than you'd expect, and he tends to inflect it with question marks.
Technically, the apostrophe is not a punctuation mark anyway, they say: it doesn't tell you to pause or inflect.
Of course, reporting on the business side of movies is important, and so, for that matter, is celebrity journalism — both offer behind-the-scenes stories that converge on the process of filmmaking and inflect the act of viewing, and both offer a sort of popular and practical reflexivity that's akin to the artistic reflexivity of modernist cinema.
The exchange could be taught in a course on trial technique: it illustrates the way a good cross-examiner, like a good chess player, will inflect long-term strategy with short-term opportunism.
