I also want them to consider the musical phrase as an instrumental phrase, with all the inflections you can get out of it when you are an instrumentalist or an accomplished singer, but which most choruses don't get to, I feel".
'The rest I don't know about' " -- and a lot less of Jesse's thoughts about the music he listens to: "The voice was an interesting blend of influences -- a lot of Springsteen, a little Dylan... and with certain inflections you almost thought you heard Mick Jagger.
Stilted line readings, awkward inflection, etc... you know you're in trouble when Jean Claude Vane Damme is arguably the fourth best actor in the film.
Once you hit that inflection point, you're under incredible pressure to hire people yesterday".
Before you can find an inflection point, you'll need to find derivatives of your function.
None of the Farrell company's dancers look world-class in terms of physical perfection or technical glory, but all show virtues of absorption and inflection that you often wish more ideally gifted dancers showed.
"We're at an inflection point, you better believe it, and most of the world is in denial about it," said Mark Horowitz, a Stanford University electrical engineer who spoke last week at a chip design conference in Palo Alto, Calif.
I also asked about the major inflection point you see around January 2011.
He looks in the rearview mirror, and with a slightly different inflection says, "You were at the masjid this week?
A 70-something Beatnik with a jingle-jangle inflection tells you about almost jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge on acid ("doesn't mean don't trip, just don't trip and fall"), and explains the key to longevity ("no stress, spend less than you earn, and keep company with beautiful women").
