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It would have been equally disastrous to play the lines straight with out inflective italics, thus pretending that they are not unutterably silly, which they are.

From Time Magazine Archive

Using his own inflective emphases, he describes her as a "protestant" and a "nation-alist."

From Time Magazine Archive

Relying on single lines of dialogue, he produced instant repartee in which talk became a blindingly fast game of inflective one-upmanship rather than a declaration of meaning or a display of passion.

From Time Magazine Archive

French and English want inflection It is in this want of inflective grace that English, and more especially French, speakers lose so much of their force.

From The Young Priest's Keepsake by Phelan, Michael

The word has, in Indian, a plural inflective in oag, which the French threw away.

From Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe