Indeed, raised in Manhattan, where she attended the Spence School and absorbed a slight British intonation from her grandmother, Dr. Hopkins does seem to have learned late how to really scrap.
Also, the fuzzy focus of vibrato enabled players to cover up slight inaccuracies of intonation, and, from the start, the phonograph made players self-conscious about intonation in ways they had never been before.
She was having fun, inflecting a slight Southern redneck intonation and a bit of "Guys and Dolls" spirit into the music of Rodgers and Hart: the words "I never bother with people I hate" she sang as "Eye-ha never bother with people I hay-yate".
Large sections of "Threni" consist of unaccompanied atonal canons, in which the slightest error of intonation can undermine any vestige of harmony.
As with Chet Baker later in life, slight hesitancies of pitching and intonation now seem only to add deeper timbres of humanity to Wheeler's voice, which can be remote at times.
If a phrase that expresses a comment about a noun can be omitted without substantially changing the meaning, and if it would be pronounced after a slight pause and with its own intonation contour, then be sure to set it off with commas (or dashes or parentheses): "The Cambridge restaurant, which had failed to clean its grease trap, was infested with roaches".
Gucci Mane showed a generation how to emphasize intonation over enunciation, and how to deploy slight rhythmic imprecision to buck the stiff authority of the beat.
In the first movement of the Brahms the slight tensions between Mr. Thomas's and Mr. Hu's intonation afforded the sense of an emotional drama taking place, rather than of a performance skirting derailment.
Re-tuning one's strings between pieces would leave an instrument vulnerable to intonation problems, especially considering the propensity of gut strings to alter at the slightest change of climate.
For the English intonation group, the incidence of each category being chosen was relatively low (all <50%%), and there was a slight tendency for rising tones to be assimilated to a question intonation.
Out of the slightest gestures, movements, glances and intonations of the Irish actor Niall Buggy, whose ability to shift characters faster than eye or ear can detect seems to expand with each play he takes on.
