How To Use Expressive In A Sentence

He looked up, anger and frustration still showing plainly on his expressive face.
Adopting, the additional computative burden imposed by it notwithstanding, Schonfeld's modification of Airy's formulæ, he introduced into his equations a fifth unknown quantity expressive of a possible stellar drift in galactic longitude. Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891
Frequently covered in zits, freckles and pockmarks, his character's faces are detailed in their expressiveness without being overly polished.
What if it was expressive of the redundancy of these men's thoughts, their emptiness and circularity?
They range from reserved and courtly to warm and expressive.

If the answer is Yes, we say that L is reducible to L², or that L² is at least as expressive as L. Model Theory
His expressive face shines through the computer animation. The Sun
‘CAN you?’ he said again; and every lineament of his expressive countenance added the words ‘resist me?’ Master Humphrey's Clock
Emotionally expressive individuals are perceived as more visible, more attractive, and more likeable than unexpressive individuals.
The three works on this disc, spanning a quarter of a century, cover a huge sonic and expressive range. Times, Sunday Times
The men have these huge leaps, and the women are very expressive above the waist.
The following two case studies show how the expressive form of the home extends to different types of household.
But the soldier, who, with proper military observance, continued to have his eye and attention fixed on the Emperor, as the prince whom he was bound to answer or to serve, saw none of the hints, which Achilles at length suffered to become so broad, that Zosimus and the Protospathaire exchanged expressive glances, as calling on each other to notice the by-play of the leader of the Varangians. Count Robert of Paris
In linguistic terms, these two poles are aligned with the constative and the performative, the latter being not quite identical with the expressive, since that category assumes a certain interiority which is not requisite for the performative. Subjecticity (On Kant and the Texture of Romanticism)
He was happy to set Shakespeare, Herrick or Christina Rossetti to music that was clearly expressive of Victorian or Edwardian English taste.
Her mouth appeared relaxed now, though strangely inexpressive; as if she had read only part of a textbook on the art of smiling. THE LAST RAVEN
At the expressive level, responses are unanalyzed expressions or feelings, which, in themselves, do not constitute any kind of justification or reason for the response.
Unfortunately it was merely the not inconsiderable technical prowess of his dancers that Page showed off in his emotionally inexpressive choreography.
For his opening move — in which "Oh" would have been a feasible if less canonic alternative (fully licensed by the dictionary) — is a line that negotiates in process between the vocal base line of expressive oralilty, on the near hand, and, at expression's farthest reach, the vocative asymptote of natural communion with inanimate energy. Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
Her pleasing voice met the demands of the wide vocal range with assurance and expressive colour.
Her Connie exudes calm confidence one second and is helplessly expressive the next. Times, Sunday Times
His face is simultaneously expressionless and expressive, his eyes communicating deep emotion and intelligence.
& odq; I had noticed that she was much changed, & cdq; Mr. Wentworth declared, in a tone whose unexpressive, unimpassioned quality appeared to Felix to reveal a profundity of opposition. & odq; It may be that she is only becoming what you call a charming woman. &cdq; The Europeans
The pearly grey colour and rough texture forms an expressive contrast with the smooth white render.
There was no narrative or overt expressiveness in the movement, which consisted mainly of high-energy skips and swoops.
Edouard Collin is a tall wisp of a French teenager, all well-tanned Parisian sinew with a sharp-angled, warmly expressive face born to be placed in front of a camera.
The bas-reliefs on this low screen are groups of peacocks and lions, two face to face on each panel, rich and fantastic beyond description, though not expressive of very accurate knowledge either of leonine or pavonine forms. Stones of Venice [introductions]
The range of Orlando Gibbons can be savoured first in another expressive and touching pavan.
Dishes clang, waiters shout, children laugh and people chatter away in expressive, nine-tone, high volume Cantonese.
He is a guy whose appeal is that he's an everyman, a standard-issue schmo, and his voice is flat and unexpressive.
Cinema directors have long exploited the expressive possibilities of the wide-angled lens.
The ensemble sound was bright, with the trumpets and woodwind producing particularly expressive sounds.
You can train people to be more expressive.
The timbre of his strong, expressive voice and the poetry of his lyrics captured the imagination of a generation. Smithsonian Mag
Her vocabulary was composed of simple runs, skips, and jumps; large, expressive gestures and playful mime.
Modern artists like Kirchner explored the rough, expressive aesthetic of woodcut.
These scores required singers with a beautifully produced, expressive sound and great vocal agility.
The most important realization he came to was that ‘even the most absurd Hollywood movies’ were expressive of larger social forces and trends.
Despite the figurative grotesquerie, which is more nuisance than threat, it is a painting of nothing — no thing as such but atmosphere — a moody, indeterminate matter expressive of an interior mental state conjured through paint and paint alone. Ensor Unmasked
She was fully expressive of her feelings; I was more introverted.
The serialists / atonalists wrapped themselves in quasi-mathematical systems at the expense of the subjective, though they insisted that the works were meant to be expressive.
She has the mobile, expressive face of an intelligent, successful woman: but her limbs are helpless, twisted with painful spasms.
an inexpressive face
His principal soprano leggiero was Mlle. Pinkert, a Polish singer of good routine and fine skill; his dramatic soprano, Mlle. Russ, whose knowledge of the conventions of the stage was complete, and expressive powers excellent, though they exerted little charm. Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time
Ninety-odd photos from an archive of more than 5000 in the Akademie der Künste Berlin held me in fascination for most of the afternoon - beautifully expressive, often richly textured - but what I may remember even more vividly is the hour-long film portrait of her, made in 1992 by Antonia Lerch. 'All the new beginnings...'
It rises naturally to a suffering man's lips as expressive of agony, though not exactly framed for _his_ individual _agony_. Autobiographical Sketches
The Jew nodded an expressive approval of this mode of treatment.
His painting rose to a fresh expressiveness and revealed a shrewder insight.
Her aim at a synthetical expressiveness, so uncommon in Italian women painters of the time, was such that the most important critics immediately noticed her. Paola Levi-Montalcini.
Most of us recognize the sense of comfort we feel when we arrive at a place where we are loved, a sense of ... de-burdening - the load lightens, the stress fades away, words flow smoothly, smiles are more frequent, expressiveness is more unfettered ... Acceptance
The theme music is overused, but it is expressive, and the scene where the theme segues into and out of ‘Moonglow’ is ingenious.
The expressive notation facilitates abridgement in order to specify broader categories.
Individuals receive various kinds of benefits - material, solidary, and expressive - as they join groups.
She has often interpreted the unexpressive and disinterested look on my face to mean I don't care about her - when that is not true.
Ditko didn't draw attractive people, certainly, but his figurework is among the most expressive in the medium. Top 100 Comic Book Runs #6 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
She was eccentric and expressive and we found a strong emotional connection. The Sun
He sang poetic songs of love and regret in a warm, expressive voice laced with debonair Gallic charm. Times, Sunday Times
She raised by degrees a leaden and inexpressive eye, to the objects that were about her, without having as yet spirit and recollectedness enough to distinguish them. Imogen A Pastoral Romance
Emptiness is as full as fullness, and the whiteness of the paper is as expressive as the marks made upon it.
That they do," she answered, with an eloquent and expressive glance; and thereupon ushered me into, not the kitchen, but the dining room -- a favour, I took it, in recompense for my grand manner. JOHNNY UPRIGHT
These biological oddities help to explain the expressive power of the gaze. Times, Sunday Times
He sang poetic songs of love and regret in a warm, expressive voice laced with debonair Gallic charm. Times, Sunday Times
The exhibition will explore the world of plant and flower painting, combining exquisite scientific detail with beauty, delicacy and expressiveness.
Viewed collectively, all these imprecise images speak expressively of his key virtue—his remarkable selflessness.
Frequently covered in zits, freckles and pockmarks, his character's faces are detailed in their expressiveness without being overly polished.
In the pit, Bruno Campanella conducts a purposeful yet expressive orchestral performance.
Buildings are not only artefacts of expressive culture, but important sites for the continuous enactment of culture in everyday life.
Ecclesiology, soteriology, missiology, eschatology, and pneumatology are expressive terms attached to various understandings or interpretations of God, or the acts of God. Philocrites: A religion still seeking definition.
In a language so expressive as the English, I hate the pedantry of tagging or prefacing what I write with Latin scraps; and ever was a censurer of the motto-mongers among our weekly and daily scribblers. Clarissa Harlowe
A rich strong expressive affection in short pounced upon her in the shape of a handsomer, ampler, older Mrs. Beale. What Maisie Knew
After the strong beginning, Louret seems increasingly vapid and inexpressive.
During the performance, gamelan players are required to display both music and dance skills, exhibiting a perfect blend of expressive dance movements and harmonious music.
Yet he's equally expressive shading his voice in his middle pitch, almost cradling the listener with intimacy. Times, Sunday Times
There was much pumping of chests and expressive gesticulations. Times, Sunday Times
Compounded or compacted terms like "darksome" and "lionlimb" are expressive in a way that seems the opposite of Thomas '"unable to rejoice" and "others could not": the power of explosive compression, forcing meanings together, rather than the unfolding power of directness. Slate Magazine
Instead, he often chose subjects from the kitchen table and gave them their own character through expressive brushwork and bold colors.
He looked up at her, his dark eyes inexpressive, ‘You don't want her to go back to her race and forget you.’
A successful production of Poppea depends not upon operatic voices but upon singing actors who can color their voices and make drama out of the expressive melismas and coloratura.
Nevertheless, Corelli's own concerti grossi probably inspired the very original "Quis hic?" suite, though no one other than Muffat could imagine those expressive rests in the Grave movement.
Brendel, on the other hand, presented the piano parts in his customary bleak way, clothing the songs in an expressive straitjacket completely at odds with Goerne's fluid vocalism.
Pepys's age, I venture to submit that the _humble pie_ of that period was indeed the pie named in the list quoted; and not only so, but that it was made out of the "umbles" or entrails of the deer, a dish of the second table, inferior of course to the venison pasty which smoked upon the dais, and therefore not inexpressive of that humiliation which the term "eating humble pie" now painfully describes. Notes and Queries, Number 06, December 8, 1849
One lingering shot of his unbelievably expressive face is enough.
Now, though Captain Riga had not been guilty of any particular outrage against the sailors; yet, by a thousand small meannesses -- such as indirectly causing their allowance of bread and beef to be diminished, without betraying any appearance of having any inclination that way, and without speaking to the sailors on the subject -- by this, and kindred actions, I say, he had contracted the cordial dislike of the whole ship's company; and long since they had bestowed upon him a name unmentionably expressive of their contempt. Redburn. His First Voyage
In this way Avalon luthiers can harness the power and vibrancy of soundbox acoustic dynamics into an ensemble of resonant voices to give the player a rich, expressive and varied tone palette.
For style in its widest sense is not merely the beauty or the grace or the conventional deportment of language, but its whole expressive apparatus, its breadth of capability.
Her sensitive and expressive playing lacked colour and projection in the live concert situation.
His height was only 5 feet 2 inches; he had red hair, a high-coloured, handsome, but inexpressive face, and a slight limp.
But unlike Newman and Rothko, who used fairly flat, unmodulated pigment, Still used heavily loaded, expressively modulated impasto in jagged forms.
I do not mean, that calling a boy Cicero will certainly make him an orator, or that all Jeremiahs are necessarily prophets; nor is it improbable, that the same peculiarities in the parents, which dictate these expressive names, may direct the characters of the children, by controlling their education; but it is unquestionable, that the characteristics, and even the fortunes of the man, are frequently daguerreotyped by a name given in infancy. Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States
They had in common the repudiation of such painterly qualities as expressive brush strokes and personalized facture.
A singer must also know how that soprano blew her audiences away by flawlessly mixing her registers, phrasing with magisterial grandeur, and nuancing her voice with such expressive color.
This sentimental literature exalted spontaneous and expressive emotion springing directly from the heart.
The southeastern portion of the island of Newfoundland, as may be seen by a glance at the map, may be well described by that expressive epithet of "nook-shotten," which in Shakspeare is applied to the mother-island of which it is a dependent. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858
This workshop is designed for those photographers who already have a collection of images and who would like to further amplify and extend the expressive content of their work.
Are the words not only correct, but also pronounced accurately and clearly, and are they inflected appropriately and expressively?
Of all the journalistic stereotypes regularly committed to celluloid, none has been more expressive of its times than the war correspondent.
It's wonderfully expressive of a hot night and the feeling of expectancy, that someone is about to step out of the dark.
Both actors perform well above the average, with Faulkner having the added benefit of physical grace and a radiantly expressive face.
She is a wonderful actress, with striking, expressive features.
The songs are vehicles for James' expressiveness and storytelling.
But their movement and actions are depicted with expressiveness and drama.
To keep the mind alert we have French, writing and play acting, painting in water colour and oil, egg decorating, folk art, calligraphy, woodcarving, and basic and expressive drawing.
Within the calm and inexpressive facades above are the teaching areas in which spaces are divided according to needs of individual departments that will doubtless change over time.
-- Ipley crooned a ready accompaniment: the sleepers had been awakened: the women and the men were alive, half-dancing, half-chorusing here a baby was tossed, and there an old fellow's elbow worked mutely, expressive of the rollicking gaiety within him: the whole length of the booth was in a pleasing simmer, ready to overboil with shouts humane and cheerful, while Sandra Belloni — Volume 2
Her aim now is to explore a more expressive, fine art interpretation.
Secondly, if the league is a public accommodation, is the desire to keep the league a safe place for gays to socialize covered by “expressive association”? The Volokh Conspiracy » Enough with the Ridiculous Hyperbole!
A baby's cry may be expressive of hunger or pain.
In each wind instrument I have defined the scope of greatest expression, that is to say the range in which the instrument is best qualified to achieve the various grades of tone, (forte, piano, cresc., dim., sforzando, morendo, etc.) — the register which admits of the most expressive playing, in the truest sense of the word. Principles of orchestration
His edges defined his shapes; they were simple and natural and wonderfully expressive. Times, Sunday Times
He also praises it as much as the others before, saying that the result of Steven Soderbergh's work as director, editor, and cinematographer is "expressive, innovative, striking, exciting. Why You Should Take an Interest in Steven Soderbergh's Che « FirstShowing.net
Each of the twelve songs on this album are composed of beautifully expressive and intimate lyrics.
Setting up shop in the zone between intimacy and intrusion, a place where emotional and expressive prerogatives are negotiated, is a risky business that he manages with perfect sangfroid.
Modern artists like Kirchner explored the rough, expressive aesthetic of woodcut.
First, there is the expressive pantomime of every one of the eighteen cabmen on the stand, the moment you raise your eyes from the ground. Sketches by Boz
It's the product of a stunted, overanalytical mind that demands unfairly that all ancient art, art which is by nature expressive and non-rational, must be reduced to purely non-religious origins and meanings, even when a religious interpretation is wholly unavoidable given a competent understanding of greater context. The myth of the secular
Venetian art was more painterly than the sculptural art of central Italy, and artists used light and colour more dramatically; Titian, Tintoretto, and Veronese developed the expressive power and illusionism of oil painting.
Bertie gave an expressive grunt, which conveyed his opinion that there was no accounting for tastes.
You will come here; you will observe what the artists are doing; and you will sometimes speak a disapprobation in plain words, and sometimes by a no less expressive silence. Selected English Letters
Curtis was asleep, limbs akimbo, his usually expressive face was relaxed and serene.
Some 1,800 of his sayings are collected here, most of them expressive of his wit and erudition.
How did he achieve such excellence, such vivid diction, such lovely phrasing, such expressiveness?
The Pahiatua full-time equestrian kept her composure amidst stiff competition to win both of her title classes, with expressive tests from Waikiwi. Horsetalk.co.nz Headlines
I guess it's fairly predictable that I would instantly fall in love with a song that has such an expressive title.
I hope, at least, that by the light of this spark he may apprehend the emphaticalness of all the expressions used in this place to be pointed towards the particular case under consideration, and not in the least to be expressive of the possibility he contends for. The Doctrine of the Saints�� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
An expressive voice, yes, but here it seemed so brittle. Times, Sunday Times
No one has put together, or, to adopt a more expressive phrase, heaped together such enormous paragraphs; no one has linked clause on clause, parenthesis on parenthesis, epexegesis on exegesis, in such a bewildering concatenation of inextricable entanglement. A History of Elizabethan Literature
Woody Allen says he loves London's famous gray and dreary weather and its residents' ever-expressive slang.
The first movement suffers particularly, deprived of its bleak but wonderfully expressive scoring. Times, Sunday Times
If I were forced to choose a bride, I would rather choose you, my dumb foundling, with those expressive eyes.
The timbre of his strong, expressive voice and the poetry of his lyrics captured the imagination of a generation. Smithsonian Mag
Saddling their story with such an unexpressive director is just plain mean.
It still fulfilled prescribed ecclesiastical functions, but its euphony and its expressive power showed the way toward artistic autonomy.
Facial make-up, mehendi and impressive costumes enhance the expressive powers of classical dancers, as they unravel a tale of folklore and mythology to the accompaniment of sitar, flute, harmonium, tabla and tambura.
There were no roars or bloodcurdling yells; there was only silence, and then, suddenly, a sigh - a deep, moaning sound, seemingly expressive of release from something dark and fetid.
The invitation to become members of a surrogate family not based on blood ties yet expressive of the inter-personal values of sibling kinship.
After drugs, the most frequent references and most expressive colloquialisms in The Hippie Dictionary deal with sexual intercourse and sexual organs.
We'd just prefer a composer who, rather than hiding his expressive potential, expressed something, dammit!
Lyrics should be poetic, concise, imaginative, theologically strong and expressive of worship to God.
Natural languages arise unconsciously, haphazardly, while artificial languages lack expressiveness.
The vital energy and expressive dances got me in touch with my inner Greek poet.
The word cathedra, so expressive in the language of antiquity, has gradually been replaced in liturgical usage, by throne (thronus) or seat (sedes). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
Though stationary, they keep up a constant sculling or waving motion with their fins, which is exceedingly graceful, and expressive of their humble happiness; for unlike ours, the element in which they live is a stream which must be constantly resisted. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
And yet you seem to support the enablement of racist acts when the exercise of what you characterize as intimate or expressive rights constitutes a racist act. The Volokh Conspiracy » “Activist Government” and the Rights of Minorities
One therefore commits a linguistic fallacy if one translates the expressive language of doxology and thanksgiving (in the beginning and end of the Lord's Prayer) into explanatory speech acts about God as a first cause.
While I think that blogging in conjunction with a host of other things can sink to the level of self-absorption, I also think it also has the capacity to be constrictively reflective and expressive. Narcissus and Me
Similar incidents carrying apprehension (as Lord Macaulay would say) to the breezy interiors of a thousand shanties on the same fatal morning, the domestic circle would know no name so expressive as _hrac_ for that fatal tube through which man, ingenious in illegitimate perversion, daily compels the innocent breath to discharge a plumbeous hail of rhetoric. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860
Nonetheless, a movement such as the Largo in the B flat concerto can only amaze with its expressiveness and power.
They eagerly turned to literature printed in the East to acquire fluency in the expressive, if nonverbal, rhetoric made possible by this new sensibility.
As I pointed out above, keyboarding itself lacks the expressiveness and variability of handwriting.
Put another, metaphorical way, American writers tend toward an expressive register commensurate with the open spaces and endless distances of our continent; Perec's magnitude is no less great, but his vastness is essentially urban, highly structured, and by necessity constrained, entailing complex negotiations and yielding delight in serendipity, surprise, and incongruity. Art and Culture
I will here subjoin a little poem, so strongly expressive of my abhorrence of despotism and falsehood, that I fear lest it never again may be depictured so vividly. The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
In her years with the New York City Ballet, Verdy was known as a brainy, musical and wonderfully expressive dancer; here she puts all those skills to work as a writer. Innocence And Experience
The passive voice gives a sense of detached and objective authority that, in contrast to the imperative mode, is expressive of neutrality.
There is no provision for real-time instrumental or expressive input at all, unless you use a separate MIDI sequencer and do a lot of file swapping.
Fourteen respondents reported utilizing education through a variety of media, including genograms, use of stories and metaphor, bibliotherapy, television, movies, music, and other expressive formats.
The overall effect of these works is that Tippett was a symphonist of great technical skill and expressive ability.
Although expressiveness is maintained as far as possible, it has to be sacrificed on occasions in order to insert new subjects.
The Newfoundland dog has a broader and more expressive visage, and a blunter nose than either of the dogs yet mentioned, the orbits of his eyes have more prominent superciliary ridges, the ears are broad, soft and pendulous, and the whole body is more robust, and covered with long, soft and glossy hair.
The first section of "Eri tu" is rendered in a splendidly firm, strong-lined legato, the words crystal-clear; it comes to an end with a decrescendo and portamento down from the top F on "guisa," a most expressive turn and acciaccatura on "primo," and a fermata at the end of the phrase. Conrad L. Osborne: Best Opera Critic Ever
She has to have one of the most distinctive and expressive faces in the business - large, sunken, sad eyes in a thin face surrounded by a mass of unruly long hair shooting out in all directions.
The canzonas and sonatas are unsurpassed - in scale, expressive range, and sheer idiomatic flair - in the entire sixteenth-century instrumental repertoire.
Her Connie exudes calm confidence one second and is helplessly expressive the next. Times, Sunday Times
The score contains helpful fingerings and expressive markings, but most pedaling indications are directives such as ‘pedal sparingly.’
From the start, his themes were expressive of his personal traumas, his aversions and aspirations, and above all conflict with authority.
For as well as a term relevant to expressive theories of poetry, voice is a narratological concept.
It might have been well attended but still inexpressive and mysterious, a merely formal exercise whose meaning was hard to interpret.
The timbre of his strong, expressive voice and the poetry of his lyrics captured the imagination of a generation. Smithsonian Mag
Her accent is deliciously strong, to match her expressive face. Times, Sunday Times
He travelled to 40 different countries in search of Ceol Mor ‘the Great Music,’ the obscure, expressive, less formally rigid art of piobaireachd - also pronounced ‘pibroch.’
Mechanically, the piano's capacities for expressiveness increased, through more powerful and even action, damper pedals, and a full seven octaves.
In Mozart and Salieri he wrote in a highly expressive declamatory idiom, while in Tsarskaya nevesta he used traditional forms and smooth melodies.
He sang poetic songs of love and regret in a warm, expressive voice laced with debonair Gallic charm. Times, Sunday Times
What is already clear is that this is a tenor at the peak of his expressive powers. Times, Sunday Times
I could see his blue eyes, expressive and vibrant, when movement in his face was so difficult. Times, Sunday Times
Painted with an almost Dutch-Renaissance verisimilitude, Harrison's work is of extreme close-ups that focus us on expressively open faces.
His arias became more expressive in the 1840s, but he also continued to use popular song types such as barcarolles, ballades, and chansons.
You don't need it to be tricksy or expressive of modern design—it just needs to tell the time. The Rebirth of a Classic
Salammbô is as inarticulate for us as the serpent, to whose drowsy beauty, capable of such sudden awakenings, hers seems half akin; they move before us in a kind of hieratic pantomime, a coloured, expressive thing, signifying nothing. Figures of Several Centuries
In addition to this expressive limitation, Euler's system also suffers other kinds of expressive limitations with respect to non-empty sets, due to topological restrictions on plane figures.
The French have adopted the term epicier (grocer) to designate the sort of being whom the Germans designate by the term Philistine; but the French term ” besides that it casts a slur upon a respectable class, composed of living and susceptible members, while the original Philistines are dead and buried long ago ” is really, I think, in itself much less apt and expressive than the German term. Matthew Arnold
My mother was really expressive and so was my father. Times, Sunday Times
She was beautiful in an unconventional way, triangular elfin face with big, expressive eyes and a lithe body.
Although not a formal member of the Ashcan School, Bernstein shared with it a passion for “modern” subject matter, to which she added a radically expressive manner. Theresa Bernstein.
Aroma: Very aromatic and expressive bouquet with quince and citrus fruits ( lemon ) aromas.
an animated and expressive face
It is apodeictic that, while perhaps obscure, words like "skirr" and "periapt" serve uniquely expressive purposes and cannot be subrogated by other, more commonplace words. A malison on the poor of spirit.
Therefore, their images are an important expressive and communicative resource and should be part of the cultural debate.
Fred could see the compliment was sincere in her expressive eyes and gave a curt nod then started down the stairs.
A medical man in his employ issued from the house and crossed the grass to the little fellow, making, as he came, expressive gestures.
The switch to ready-made clothing and the business suit has sometimes made middle-class men seem "inexpressive", "anonymous", and " undemonstrative ".
Though she's usually right on the money with her footwork, Kane has trouble emoting the more expressive dances, like the paso doble and Argentine tango. Dancing with the Stars' Final Three: Who Will Win?
It is expressive of the dynamic process of ‘give and take’ between partners in an alliance.
Joao's extraordinary expressive range reached from guttural croaks to coloratura trilling, with scatting and vocalizing in between.
Even though they weren't the most sophisticated culture, or the most refined compared to, say, the Maya, the Aztecs were highly expressive.
But the storytelling is clear, and the characters, in their body and faces, are expressive — both of these things being hard to achieve (and more and more rare I find). Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Prospective Colorist #1: Emily
Their music ranges from the sweet and mournful to the highly expressive sounds of Eastern European klezmer, which is best described as jazz mixed with traditional Eastern European music. Anderson Independent Mail Stories
She was eccentric and expressive and we found a strong emotional connection. The Sun
By nature, Jenn was inexpressive about her emotions and valued her private time.
We set up under of a large boab tree - an icon of this part of Northern Australian - its spindly expressive branches curling over our tents from a chunky grey trunk.
The dolts - his Italian appellation was considerably more expressive - had omitted the year. MURKY SHALLOWS

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