How To Use Self-expression In A Sentence

  • Corporate dress codes don't give workers much room for self-expression.
  • I am not talking about too much authentic, unabashed, festive, bodacious self-expression - goodness knows there's too little of that going around.
  • Our compliance will consequently depend to some extent on the opportunities for self-expression through conventional avenues.
  • In 19th-century New Zealand, where female self-expression, like civilization, is postulated as still being on the brink of formation, Ada's muteness is set forth as a kind of inexact metaphor for the repression of women -- an oddity and an encumbrance, like her enormous hoopskirts, but still a fact of life. Chicago Reader
  • Self-expression and individuality are the greatest weapons against tyranny.
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  • Drama, of course, is an important means of self-expression. SAMSON SUPERSLUG
  • A child in the 1960s encountered philosophies of immense freedom and self-expression.
  • Art was not simply for enjoyment or self-expression but a means of passing on ideas and values that had complex social significance.
  • And this sort of self-expression does not require alternative possibilities.
  • Her work is so much more about self-expression in an unmediated way than the artists you're bringing up.
  • Therapists help children develop self-esteem and awareness, improve their social skills and gain confidence through painting, drawing and self-expression.
  • My parents belong to that academic genus known as "artsy types," and our home reflects their belief that every last object is an opportunity for self-expression. Gregory Beyer: November Sting: A Thanksgiving Satire
  • He has been arrested numerous times for his artistic self-expression by his government who does not agree with his reasoning that because they are forcibly removing these citizens from their dwellings in order to demolish the buildings and build commercially on the land, that spray painting his profile on building facades is only temporary "defacement" and that, really, it is art. Paige Donner: Greening Hollywood: L.A. Art Show's Visually Moving Feast
  • Once Kampusch had finally burst free, beaten and half-starved – aftereight years of unseen sunsets and sunrises, she had become something of a butterfly when it came to self-expression. 3,096 Days by Natascha Kampusch
  • What he's looking for in a bona fide getaway place is fun, informality, joy, whimsy, self-expression, magnificent land, views and an opportunity for magical experiences.
  • Exchanging freedom for security, self-expression for stability, strikes them as a generally good deal, however philosophically troubling.
  • He found that a part of the brain that plays a role in self-restraint and evaluation - the inner critic - powered down when the musicians were improvising, while an area associated with self-expression ramped up. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
  • In the music studio, teachers work to develop self-expression through musical performance.
  • Bonny Hicks appeared to me to be the paradigmatic example of an autonomous, free-choosing individual who decided early on to construct a lifestyle congenial to her idiosyncratic sense of self-expression.
  • One-percenters are dedicated to principles of personal freedom and the right to self-expression. Times, Sunday Times
  • She was all for self-expression, but you had to know the rules before you were free to break them. EVERY SECRET THING
  • How can you raise your level of self-expression?
  • Instead, his narratives exist in a weird bizarro plane where crimes are calling cards, conventionality is cursed, and surreal self-expression becomes the definitive statement of individual freedom.
  • To love is to see myself in you and to wish to celebrate myself with you. What I love is the embodiment of my values in another person. Love is an act of self-assertion, self-expression and a celebration of being alive. Nathaniel Branden 
  • It is a money-making machine that has little to do with culture, art or self-expression.
  • Not that he's buying the accolades about challenging the parameters of punk and blazing new paths of self-expression.
  • Although this was essentially ceramic art, it assumed the form of pure art since it was a means of self-expression.
  • Our compliance will consequently depend to some extent on the opportunities for self-expression through conventional avenues.
  • Self-expression is validated as a genuine and authentic act, and is often favourably contrasted to what is perceived as the estranged artificial world of politics.
  • The celebration of radical self-expression climaxed late Saturday night with the torching of its 40-foot signature effigy. Burning Man festival
  • That phrase ‘Parlay cheval ou’ [tell my horse] is in daily, hourly use in Haiti and no doubt it is used as a blind for self-expression.
  • Ah, but the joy of life is not only the joy of self-assertion: there is the joy of self-effacement, which is only another form of self-expression, the assertion of a higher self. Without Prejudice
  • He regarded them as a means of self-expression, and therefore private to himself. DEATH SPEAKS SOFTLY
  • Where once the talk was all of defensive "naivety", self-expression and the obligatory pre-match juju frenzy, neurotic defensive caution has taken over – vast rippling centre halves hoofing the ball miles downfield like a tiny balloon in those scrolling African skies. Gary Lineker's jokes have you itching for a touch of punk from Africa | Barney Ronay
  • To love is to see myself in you and to wish to celebrate myself with you. What I love is the embodiment of my values in another person. Love is an act of self-assertion, self-expression and a celebration of being alive. Nathaniel Branden 
  • Bonny Hicks appeared to me to be the paradigmatic example of an autonomous, free-choosing individual who decided early on to construct a lifestyle congenial to her idiosyncratic sense of self-expression.
  • It stands at the pinnacle of notions of individual self-expression and artistic freedom.
  • In speech, the old-time 'shellback' was notoriously reticent -- almost inarticulate; but in song he found self-expression, and all the romance and poetry of the sea are breathed into his shanties, where simple childlike sentimentality alternates with the Rabelaisian humour of the grown man. The Shanty Book, Part I, Sailor Shanties
  • Artists find it incumbent… to betake themselves to their work as an isolated means of self-expression.
  • Now, obviously, dyslexic old me is not suggesting for a moment that anybody should allow their self-expression to be circumscribed by such bagatelles as accepted usage.
  • Now all of you know that Naziism is acknowledgedly entirely opposed to any self-expression, any individualism, and any freedom. Racial Relations in the Union of South Africa
  • Art is our mouth, the poetry of languages and self-expression.
  • He regarded poetry as sentimental self-expression.
  • I have always liked to do art because it is not only a form of self-expression, but it helps me relax and think.
  • The title affixed to this bit of self-expression was Oh, Dearie, Round-Eyes Hara-Kiri: The Wretched Act. Over the Edge
  • The internet ‘should be a medium for unbridled self-expression’, not an amplifier of fears.
  • In Karachi, what at times starts off as a docile four-lane line-up in a thoroughfare meant for two lanes, frequently descends to a crawl and ends in a seething orgy of terpsichorean self-expression run riot.
  • The ruling class wants to repress artistic freedom of self-expression, as a part of the broader attack on the democratic rights of the people.
  • Our compliance will consequently depend to some extent on the opportunities for self-expression through conventional avenues.
  • Our compliance will consequently depend to some extent on the opportunities for self-expression through conventional avenues.
  • Also, I believe that choosing a condiment is a form of self-expression, and in the context of sandwich eating I express my inner longings through judicious application or withholding of mayonnaise, mustard, ketchup, and even barbecue sauce. The Indignity of Commuting by Bicycle: Cakes and Cheese
  • The teacher without students would have no means of self-expression or mirror for his actions and ideas.
  • They offer none of the skills traditionally conferred by dance, such as grace, self-expression and improved confidence in ourselves.
  • Now I don't think a composer who is actually writing a piece of music should be conscious of self-expression.
  • So irrepressible in youth is the thrust to become," one specialist has warned, "that it will surface somehow, if not in constructive self-expression, then in wilful vandalism or defiant apathy or even suicide as an ultimate, tragic expression of self-determination. Our Responsibility to Youth
  • Spontaneous self-expression shatters shyness and habits rooted in your need to remain in control. Midnight Moon Cafe
  • Any form of line dancing that encourages freewheeling self-expression must be forcefully discouraged.
  • Writing as self-expression acquires a very literal meaning, for it is only through creative activity that identity is constructed.
  • It is quite often stressed that consumption is an important form of self-expression and a major way of demonstrating one's identity.
  • Yet at the same time, especially since the baby boomers came on the scene, many American women have treated the experience of motherhood as an exercise in self-expression - indeed, they do so more fervently than the kibbutzniks.
  • But you trusted entirely these rare moments of triumphant self-expression: every jink and turn by Diego Maradona at the 1986 World Cup was hard-won, brutally paid for and born out of absolute courage and commitment. World Cup 2010: How a love of Spain can make for a sterile affair
  • It's impolite to challenge their integrity, the veracity of their self-expression.
  • Clothes are a fundamental form of self-expression.
  • It fits perfectly the template for the new breed of Britflick; talented rebel clashes with buttoned-up pillars of the establishment, who are forced to unbend, and finally admit that self-expression, and so on, is a good thing.
  • Learning to express opinions more assertively is a form of self-expression.
  • The direct link between economic freedom and unfettered self-expression is the unarticulated subtext of the many biographies of stars from this era.
  • Alive, but with no capacity for self-expression, their mode of perception is incommunicable.
  • The difficulty in creating these models stems from the harsh political situation, which allows neither men nor women the leisure to focus on egalitarian relationships that would permit them total self-expression unconstrained by outer factors that derive from living in the shadow of a dreadful, bloody conflict. Israeli Women's Writing in Hebrew: 1948-2004.
  • Only she knows if her exhibitionism is sincere self-expression or carefully engineered self-promotion.
  • The traditions around weddings seemed very narrow and uninteresting; I couldn't see any self-expression, just a list of musts and shoulds.
  • Bonny Hicks appeared to me to be the paradigmatic example of an autonomous, free-choosing individual who decided early on to construct a lifestyle congenial to her idiosyncratic sense of self-expression.
  • In contrast, the other three value speech as a means to an end - that of self-expression and enlightenment or, at least, exhibitionism.
  • You should encourage your child's attempts at self-expression.
  • Bonny Hicks appeared to me to be the paradigmatic example of an autonomous, free-choosing individual who decided early on to construct a lifestyle congenial to her idiosyncratic sense of self-expression.
  • When the cup of human life is so overflowing with woe and pain and misery, it seems to me a narrow dilettanteism or downright charlatanism to devote one's self to petty or bizarre problems which can have no relation to human happiness, and to prate of self-satisfaction and self-expression. Woman Her Sex and Love Life
  • They did so by encouraging self-expression and imaginative play as well as the frank expression of emotions.
  • It becomes a mere sport, a form of self-expression that must not be denied even to the youngest and dopiest. Times, Sunday Times
  • The film explores his personal journey for self-expression and artistic fulfilment.
  • This artistic endeavor is about choice, autonomy, self-expression, trust, and sharing.
  • Cycling and painting are quite separate means of self-expression and their combination is both incongruous and indecorous.
  • For the iconographer, art is not a means of self-expression, but a method and practice of the path to the transfiguration of his nature.
  • To love is to see myself in you and to wish to celebrate myself with you. What I love is the embodiment of my values in another person. Love is an act of self-assertion, self-expression and a celebration of being alive. Nathaniel Branden 
  • Influenced by the avant-garde jewellery art scene in Germany, her designs go beyond functional accessory into the realm of individual self-expression.
  • It also provides a vehicle for a child's self-expression and is a way for children and adults to communicate nonverbally.

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