Feel free to add your own inflections, accents and gestures to the following brief conversation.

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You find yourself gazing at her face for fleeting inflections of optimism, excitement and melancholy.

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We've seen some positive changes in some of the inflections in the amount of joblessness each month.

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Most of all, she made the touchstone role her own, with shadings and inflections that set her apart.

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Buster Keaton went deadpan, altering his expression with only the tiniest of inflections, and became a modernist icon of fortitude.

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Some doctors say they look for signs of lying, such as avoiding eye contact, pausing or voice inflections, and other signs of anxiety.

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Often, Dylan's inflections and asides give the thoughts resonance.

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Without ditching his arsenal of ironic inflections and his nonpareil ability to make knowingness hilarious as well as smarmy, Murray takes Phil all the way through a prolonged winter of discontent and into a pixillated serenity.

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Even when a mother is not actually singing to a baby she tends to speak in a musical way, he says, with the notes and inflections of her words going up and down, and a clear rhythm.

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