Sentence examples for placing the accent from inspiring English sources

There's a risk of trivializing Lincoln by placing the accent too heavily on the disease, as Shenk often does.

Placing the accent on the environment, and on considering nature as an ally and not a resource to exploit, is today putting design practices back in the centre.

The restaurant serves modern Polish cuisine in discreetly elegant surrounds, placing the accent on locally sourced, seasonal ingredients that have real depth and breadth of flavour, from game in winter to wild mushrooms and goose in autumn and asparagus in spring.

Place the accent on American, and you imagine the seedbed of modest beginnings flowering into modest, even immodest, empires.

I am inclined to be indulgent and indeed to praise Arnold's willingness to experiment and to place the accent on the museum as a Brooklyn institution.

At Intuit, being a big company, you call the help desk, and the help desk has been outsourced to some foreign country — I can't place the accent.

Place the accent on Indian, and you imagine rigid confinement within what is considered, even today in India, a low-class occupation — a chaat walla, preparing snacks from a vendor's cart, buzzed by flies.

Tchaikovsky asks for a sforzando accent, a momentary thrust of intensity — and Bychkov really nails one, while most conductors place the accent more discreetly into the context of the genuinely soft dynamic.

Earlier this month some even chose to underscore the bird-of-paradise effect, wearing gobs of gold — stacked rings and matching bangles, festoons of chains — while others placed the accent on their shoes.

I liveblogged her second-round victory over María José Martínez Sánchez, and very decisive it was too, and since then she has very much placed the accent on success.

Later he adds genially, "I haf you vhere I vant you now!" Can't quite place the accent?