intonation

Black English is also intonation, which is a powerful rhetorical tool.

With nine tones, each sound pronounced in a different intonation changes its meaning.

Wardrobe, mannerisms, and intonation are fair game, and Chu certainly has his detractors there.

You can say it on the radio because you have the voice and the intonation, but that is totally different in print.

North Dormer took the Mountain for granted, and implied its disparagement by an intonation rather than by explicit criticism.

But in all these instances it is the intonation of the word as such, not of the sentence, which is primarily concerned.

"I haven't eaten anything for twenty-four hours," he said, with a whistling intonation.

As for Susanna's own accent, she comes from the heart of Aberdeenshire, and her intonation is beyond my power to reproduce.

Dan had given to his last words a weird, mournful intonation whose effect was startling.