What is "expressive"

Usage examples of "expressive".

Because there was no foresight to ensure continuity in the growth of institutions, there were these unpremeditated and often morbid growths, expressive of the accumulating discomfort and discontent and of the need for a more intimate, energetic and fruitful form of human association.

The poem contained some passages expressive of liberal sentiment, and these, much rather than its obscenity, attracted the attention of the police.

Boundlessness and emptiness -- these are the two most expressive symbols of that attributeless Godhead, of whom all that can be said is St.

She was graceful, wellmannered, and intelligent, her mouth was well-shaped, and her eyes large and expressive.

Celtic singers and harpers was one of the most important of all the forces operative in the transformation of the art from the monody of the ancients to the expressive melody and rich harmony of modern music.

Having neglected to master the more vigorous vowels and expressive consonants, she cannot assert her art in dramatic works.

Kisses--that mute, yet expressive language, that delicate, voluptuous contact which sends sentiment coursing rapidly through the veins, which expresses at the same time the feeling of the heart and the impressions of the mind--that language was the only one we had recourse to, and without having uttered one syllable, dear reader, oh, how well we agreed!

But some had a faraway look about them and a sadness that made Corvax turn away and hide his expressive forebody from them, in case they saw his sudden answering pain.

She knew that this particular memory was being called up by another, the memory of the tapes of the various escrow hearings on Helvetia, of a face more attractive than beautiful, mobile and expressive, shifting between disgust, deep interest, flashes of sudden amusement, the wry appreciation of absurdity, indignation and satisfaction.

Her face was expressive and angular rather than plumply lovely the way Mabel Normand or Mary Miles Minter had been.

To any strangers she was invariably described, with expressive signs and gestures, as the one who had been chained, Baneelon making a great pantomime of it, groaning, rolling his eyes, and pointing to Pinchgut Island, which instantly won her the sympathy of the newcomers.

Then Petkum wrote a letter to the marquis de Torcy, intimating, that the allies required his most christian majesty should declare, in plain and expressive terms, that he consented to all the preliminaries, except the thirty-seventh article, which stipulated a cessation of arms, in case the Spanish monarchy should be delivered to king Charles in the space of two months.

It was a simple, tender caress, expressive and renunciatory and it must have touched her for she shuddered and then, twisting round violently she threw her arms around his neck and crushed her cheek to his, holding him awkwardly and convulsively, less like a woman demanding a lover than a child frightened of the dark.

I do not care myself, in dealing with that expression, whether it is intended to be expressive of his individual sentiments on the subject, or only of the national policy he desires to have established.

His dusky skin, forked jet-black beard and expressive dark eyes, no less than his eastern robes among the fair, Germanic Suevi, gave him an air of strangeness and alien mystery that Zarabdas was not ashamed to exploit.