Jules Dassin's direction attempted to evoke a sense of period and place by having the actors portraying the Indian principals speak in a strange, unidentifiable accent.

He had an unidentifiable accent, though his English was crisp and clear.

Another voice did: this one aged, male, arrogant tinged with an unidentifiable continental accent and far colder than the frigid air that surrounded them: "I suppose we ought to.

He was small, dark, feline with a black mustache and trace of unidentifiable accent.

During the question-and-answer period, a young black woman with an unidentifiable foreign accent asked why the audiences at the Beacon were almost entirely white.

"I do not . . . I don't wish to touch hearts," Nabokov says in his unidentifiable accent.

A voice came from behind their backs instead: a soft voice, with an unidentifiable accent to it.

Even her friends said she spoke as with an unidentifiable foreign accent.

At one point Odysseus, who otherwise speaks in the unidentifiable accents of the conventional theater, adopts a black street accent.

The third man spoke then; his accent was wharfside London with a touch of something else, some unidentifiable accent.