Sentence examples for way of accent from inspiring English sources

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Among the several new-style works he produced is "Red Seed" (1928), a sophisticatedly saucy little carved half-oval -- almost heart-shaped -- of teak tilted on a round marble base with a single wriggly line of metal trailing over it by way of accent.

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Are you ready to do that?" Connery's Irish-by-way-of-Edinburgh accent was voted the worst in Hollywood history but the sentiment was clear enough.

"Flowers should not be pruned to perfection," Todd begins in an Australian-by-way-of-London accent that is as luxurious to the ear as 20-ply cashmere is to the skin.

Before "Despite Everything," one of his most tender and evocative older songs, he told the sparse crowd, "This is a quiet song — it would be amazing if you could actually come forward," which, in his Rome-by-way-of-London accent, sounded less like a plea and more like a seduction.

Things that more distinguish Mr. Bowes are his rhythmic suppleness and his command of subtle microtonal tuning as a way of pointing accents or otherwise inflecting the line.

(Orlandersmith imitates her mother's New-York-by-way-of-South-Carolina accent by mocking it; it's telling that, in the working script, the author writes "(does her)" when she imitates Beula, and then "(becomes self)" when she plays herself).

Indeed, Salmon points out that, since the application of every law involves a tacit extremal (or "ceteris paribus") clause, any law can be protected from refutation by discounting disconfirming evidence on the expedient of claiming that, because the clause was not satisfied, the law is still correct, which is another way to accent the source of Hempel's concern (Salmon 1989, 84 85).

The daughter — slim and soft-spoken — asked where I was from, adding, by way of explanation, "The accent".

And since the best Mr. Hatosy can muster in the way of an Irish accent is a faint approximation of a Dublin inflection, the cultural differences between Brendan and his fellow prisoners, who are English, are smoothed over.

The main design difference comes by way of four small accent lights on the side of the headlights and tail lights.

I am all for finding stylish ways to accent the curves of your body.

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