Yet when Mr. Springsteen got behind a microphone to sing "Jungleland," he had clearly thought through every dramatic inflection, from whisper to howl.

The vocal writing does not require bel canto tonal beauty, but it does demand steady, accurate voices, lively dramatic inflections and convincing acting.

Nikolaj Hübbe, who danced it on Thursday, is certainly such a performer, and his gift for subtle dramatic inflection made "Suite" an unalloyed pleasure.

He said the latter in a deep-voiced whisper and with a dark, dramatic inflection that made Gussie giggle.

He accords painstaking descriptive attention evenly to every action and surface; there is little dramatic inflection in the telling.

Troy wound up the story with a dramatic inflection and Nick laughed out loud, "Jesus, Jefferson, you do have a way of telling a story.

The stripped-down approach does give the film a certain timeless quality, but the measured pace and lack of dramatic inflection can also seem tedious.

She was in good voice, which meant a strong top, a weak middle (where much of the love duet lies) and alert musical and dramatic inflections.

Hinckley said that Bown "borders on self-parody" with his "dramatic inflection" describing "every move to the camera lens".

"By discovering what happened to the genuine Pilottown," said Perlmutter with a dramatic inflection.