It was not a meal but an event: in a setting that resembled the sort of greenhouse Chanel might design — elegant wire chandelier, leaf wallpaper, rose accents — my tasting menu included goat cheese lollipops, edible "soil" of chocolate and bread crumbs, and crayfish soup in an eggshell, served on a nest of shredded potatoes.
"This is the first time I've been first," she said, her rising Boston accent punctuating her excitement.
The magazine article described the hairdo as a "tall wraparound crown, creating a circular silhouette with high-rise accents".
His voice rising and Boston accent thickening (think "debt-ah" and "credit-ah"), he says that bankruptcy professionals "still haven't gotten the message".
Some dialects differentiate long and short vowels or rising and falling accents, while others do not; and in some, but not all, of them stress fulfills a grammatical function.
In linguistic literature an acute accent is used for falling tones and a tilde for rising tones; the grave accent is used for short, stressed vowels.
His accent, the rising singsong of his hochdeutsch vowels - but London, which he loves, or "loffs" as he puts it, is his home now; he married not just Vivienne Westwood but also her way of seeing the world.
Ap and Aa for the N↑ and I↓ intoneme, that is, accents with rising or falling F0, respectively (see Section 2), become smaller when speed increases.
If the actor's accent of studied rising inflections and his ill-advised gesticulations have something to do with the director's ostensible accent on comedy, that's a big mistake.
Eighteen years Pitino's senior, this man with a grizzled wintry face and a New England accent became the rising coach's confidant and veritable father figure.
