Sentence examples for variable accent from inspiring English sources

Mailer strides about shirtless and self-important, declaiming in his weirdly variable accent.

They're not as aware of things as local citizens like Aurora (Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, who isn't bad, despite her extremely variable accent), who has a fetching crescent-moon scar around one eye.

Mr. Malkovich — who memorably played another 18th-century womanizer in the 1988 film version of de Laclos's "Liaisons Dangereuses" — contributes to the impression by speaking in a plummy, variable accent that suggests someone who, though born on the continent, attended English boarding schools.

Thackery, the buccaneering head of surgery, is played with an at-first variable American accent by our own Clive Owen.

Proto-Indo-European had a variable pitch accent that could fall on any syllable of a word, but in late Proto-Germanic, two changes occurred: first, the quality of the accent changed, such that articulatory energy was increasingly focused on the accented syllable; second, the position of the accent was regularized on the initial (root) syllable.

Jolie, equipped with a range of variable English accents, is imposing in buffalo horns, black leather and super-chiselled prosthetic cheekbones – all the better for shooting contemptuous looks at Elle Fanning's rosily insipid ingenue.

Even if the Bostonian accents are variable, there is good work from Lloyd Owen as Mike, who sees his safe world as under threat, from June Watson as Margie's vituperative landlady and Lorraine Ashbourne as her free-speaking best friend.

All variables with the hat accent are model-predicted values and are subtracted from the corresponding empirical subject-averaged statistic.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate performance on two challenging listening tasks, talker and regional accent discrimination, and to assess variables that could have affected the outcomes.

It counts only the number of stresses or accented syllables within a line and allows a variable number of unaccented syllables.

In preparing for his debates, Clinton would look to accent his strengths, but also to account for variables that included the moderator, the audience and his opponents' objectives.