"I'll deal with him later," he said, and there was an odd inflection in his voice.

'The Far East,' said the diplomat with an odd inflection in his voice, as though the reply might itself be a question.

So what if the computer-synthesized speech patterns include odd inflections?

There was an odd inflection in the man's voice that startled him.

There was an odd inflection in his voice, and I knew that I'd hit a nerve.

Once again, she caught the odd inflection in his voice.

There was an odd inflection to her words.

His words had an odd inflection, a clipped accent which was new.

"Yes, little brother, he is," Snowfire replied quietly, with an odd inflection in his voice.

There was an odd inflection in his voice that brought Alia around to stare at him.