That particular question is posed by Ms. Ashley, who has the requisite inflections down cold.
She shared one slow, wordless, introductory passage with Abdelaziz Aissaoui on qanun and Mr. Chekara on violin, bringing out flamenco's Arabic inflections up and down the modal scale; they then moved into the Arabic song "Mawal," followed by a flamenco with a clearly related rhythm.
Brosius said that her goal during the recording sessions was to speak "without emotion, but with some up and down inflections".
The one respite from this, of course, is Bridges, whose sly, guttural inflections and silent gestures — down to the tilt of his head beneath the outsized brim of his hat — are more eloquent and expressive, more alive, than anything he's given to say.
Listen to the exotic, perhaps now-extinct tang of the actual king's vowels, and his hint of vibrato, and compare them to Firth's dulled-down inflections.
The connection between photography and cinema is paradoxical; movies play off their inherent neutrality, the toning-down of visual inflection in order to heighten visual contrasts and the succession of images.
So you may need to work on slowing down and using more inflection in your voice.
Her obvious influence was Fairport Convention's Sandy Denny, whose vocal style, down to the British inflection, closely replicated that of Fairport's legendary lead singer.
After the inflection point the motion is slowed down, and becomes diffusive close to the barrier top.
She understands Lili as a 1950s archetype, and she summons exactly the neurotic gamines of the period, played by Julie Harris and Kim Stanley, right down to the otherworldly inflections.
