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单词 expression
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expression
(ɪkspreʃən )
Word forms: expressions
1. variable noun B2
The expression of ideas or feelings is the showing of them through words, actions, or artistic activities.
Laughter is one of the most infectious expressions of emotion. [+ of]
From Cairo came expressions of regret at the attack.
...the rights of the individual to freedom of expression.
Her concern has now found expression in the new environmental protection act.
Synonyms: statement, declaration, announcement, communication  
2. variable noun [oft poss NOUN] B2
Your expression is the way that your face looks at a particular moment. It shows what you are thinking or feeling.
The civil servant's expression, however, did not change, not so much as by a flicker.
Levin sat there, an expression of sadness on his face. [+ of]
The face is entirely devoid of expression.
Synonyms: look, countenance [literary], face, air  
3. uncountable noun B2
Expression is the showing of feeling when you are acting, singing, or playing a musical instrument.
I put more expression into my lyrics than a lot of other singers do.
4. countable noun B2
An expression is a word or phrase.
She spoke in a quiet voice but used remarkably coarse expressions.
5. countable noun
In mathematics, an expression is a symbol or equation which represents a quantity or problem. [technical]
This forms the basis for our mathematical expression for the electric field.
Collocations:
expression of faith
Calls into an expression of faith and repentance.
Christianity Today
What would an untheoretical expression of faith in human equality look like if not a willingness to take people one at a time?
The Times Literary Supplement
Distorted expressions of faith pose a serious threat to world peace.
The Times Literary Supplement
Questions create space for new expressions of faith and orthodoxy to emerge.
Christianity Today
He explains that public expressions of faith are stressed, especially emotional expressions that often feel inauthentic to introverts.
Christianity Today
expression of feelings
It permits no expression of feelings, doubt or weakness.
Times, Sunday Times
Although advice and reassurance can do wonders for a depressed person, if they are offered too early they can stifle the expression of feelings.
Christianity Today
They pay more attention to the expression of feelings and sensations than the simple act of listing events.
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The transference, which binds them to the therapist, permits the expression of feelings patients can not own.
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Both descriptive and experimental studies have documented effects of music on quality of life, involvement with the environment, expression of feelings, awareness and responsiveness, positive associations, and socialization.
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expression of frustration
Thirdly, this was no expression of frustration from disaffected youth without a voice.
Times, Sunday Times
There were boos at the final whistle — not loud, angry boos, but a clear expression of frustration.
Times, Sunday Times
Expressions of frustration caused by a deepening detachment from the millionaires on the pitch, or evidence of modern society's bad manners?
Times, Sunday Times
expression of gratitude
We were overwhelmed by their expression of gratitude.
Christianity Today
As the players trooped off at the end, the applause was an expression of gratitude.
Times, Sunday Times
The hug was a spontaneous expression of gratitude from someone who was used to people like me just walking right past him and pretending he didn't exist.
Globe and Mail
Her love ought to have been to you a proof of her having obtained forgiveness, that love being an expression of gratitude for the benefit received.
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He netted $40 as an expression of gratitude.
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expression of grief
Her comment was nothing but an expression of grief and disbelief, but she was devastated.
Times, Sunday Times
Magpies have been observed engaging in elaborate social rituals, possibly including the expression of grief.
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It began as a natural expression of grief and has turned into social turmoil.
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But his loss has also brought out something else - a vengeful intolerance of those whose view of the monarchy diverges even mildly from conventional expressions of grief and adoration.
Times, Sunday Times
Further, high melodies would cover the singers' expressions of grief or joy, thus breaking decorum.
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expression of identity
It's a legitimate form of expression of identity, deeply felt and adhered to.
Times, Sunday Times
His adventures are thus no longer narrative fictions but expressions of identity.
Times, Sunday Times
Are mobile phones expressions of identity, fashionable gadgets, tools for life -- or all of the above?
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expression of joy
If only the last expression of joy wasn't a track of jazzy improvisation, unnecessary and out of place.
Times,Sunday Times
Inner peace can be an expression of joy.
Christianity Today
The tossed-and-blown masters of the wind filled the air with the sound of their pleasure, and it was an expression of joy.
Times, Sunday Times
He responded with a happy emoji, a digital expression of joy.
Times, Sunday Times
An overt expression of joy will merely irritate those around you and contradict the act you gave your boss.
Times, Sunday Times
expression of love
I was grateful to friends who made suggestions, because each was an expression of love.
Christianity Today
You have to be physically present for that expression of love.
Christianity Today
It's often so simple, but it's the most obvious and effective expression of love.
Christianity Today
And there's marriage as an expression of love in front of the people who are important to me.
Times, Sunday Times
What they did was the ultimate expression of love.
Times, Sunday Times
expression of opinion
Last night's vote was only an expression of opinion.
Times, Sunday Times
Going back decades, presenters were asked to sign a document that included a line about the expression of opinion.
Times,Sunday Times
The move came despite its own independent disciplinary panel deciding the offence amounted to 'a strong expression of opinion'.
The Sun
He explained that, provided there was no element of hostility toward third parties, it was program policy to allow expression of opinion unchallenged.
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He became a champion of the right to free expression of opinion.
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expression of outrage
It did not always excite the eavesdropped prisoners, but the transcripts don't record any expressions of outrage either.
Times, Sunday Times
No, its theatrical expressions of outrage stem from quite other feelings.
Times, Sunday Times
Asking for more and increasingly public expressions of outrage will only add to a sense of demonisation and double standards.
Times, Sunday Times
Despite the sadly predictable and somewhat distasteful play-acting, amid the feigned shock and the holier-thanthou expressions of outrage, the tributes poured in.
Times, Sunday Times
Any storm of angst must be appeased by endless 'expressions of outrage' followed by 'doing something', preferably warlike.
Times, Sunday Times
expression of regret
His five-year international ticket ban was suspended for two years because of his guilty plea, apology and expression of regret.
Times, Sunday Times
An expression of regret, not guilt, was all that any reasonable person could ask for.
Times, Sunday Times
To whom are you apologising with this expression of regret?
Times, Sunday Times
And of course she didn't receive a reciprocal expression of regret.
Times,Sunday Times
There was just one expression of regret.
Times, Sunday Times
expression of sympathy
The unlikely saint returns, shaking his head with his usual expression of sympathy and resignation, but this time also suspicion.
Times, Sunday Times
Not even the slightest expression of sympathy.
Times, Sunday Times
Every fall brings an end to hope and to months, and years, of work, and every expression of sympathy makes it worse.
Times, Sunday Times
We regret the civilian casualties, even though our expression of sympathy will be dismissed.
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An inclination towards can be an expression of sympathy and acceptance.
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expression of thought
Is a term relevant to the fields of psychiatry and psychology and describe the expression of thought(s) that have no apparent basis in inference.
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The expression of thoughts and feelings should be encouraged without blaming, judging or belittling.
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Gestures (and words, etc., as well) are themselves thinking in one of its many forms, not only expressions of thought, but thought, i.e., cognitive being, itself.
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It provides a forum for the expression of thoughts on doctrinal and conceptual issues and other matters of professional import, or those related to national security and interest.
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facial expression
In the pervading silences, the family communicates almost entirely in sign language and by facial expression.
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There was just one thing that really bothered me: his facial expression when we played.
Times, Sunday Times
Slowly though, to the surprise of everyone, his facial expression softened, and a smile began to appear.
Times, Sunday Times
It's a particular facial expression that's really getting her down.
The Sun
Mainly by facial expression, which in turn depends on muscle contractions.
Times,Sunday Times
form of expression
Rap and hip-hop shaped the 29 performers' sense of themselves and was a natural form of expression.
Times, Sunday Times
It's a legitimate form of expression of identity, deeply felt and adhered to.
Times, Sunday Times
I feel like it's another form of expression.
The Sun
He just chose a different form of expression.
Times, Sunday Times
Music has, according to estimates, been a form of expression and ritual for at least 45,000 years.
Times, Sunday Times
free expression
I'm a nearabsolutist on free expression but a right to speak doesn't entail a right to a megaphone.
Times, Sunday Times
When deciding on these, judges weigh rights to privacy and rights to free expression.
Times, Sunday Times
He was, in effect, arguing for curbing free expression to enhance privacy.
Times, Sunday Times
There are times in liturgical worship that cry out for free expression.
Christianity Today
There are also points about the correct balance to be struck between privacy and free expression.
Times, Sunday Times
gene expression
This was a super-muscular creature created, again, by an intervention of skeletal muscle gene expression.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
I can make antisense RNA and block the gene expression -'` Hold it.
Greg Bear VITALS (2002)
Many fundamental cellular processes such as gene expression are tightly regulated by protein allostery.
Wolfram Stacklies, Fei Xia, Frauke Gräter 2009, 'Dynamic allostery in the methionine repressor revealed by force distribution analysis.', PLoS Computational Biology
These results provide deeper insights into the evolution of allotetraploid cotton gene expression and cotton fiber development.
Marina Naoumkina, Gregory Thyssen, David D Fang, Doug J Hinchliffe, Christopher Florane, Kathleen M Yeater, Justin T Page, Joshua A Udall 2014, 'The Li2 mutation results in reduced subgenome expression bias in elongating fibers of allotetraploid cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.).', PLoS ONE
Hypothalamic gene expression measurements revealed increased expression of orexigenic and decreased expression of anorexigenic signals.
Amanda C. Morris, Lynda M. Williams, Klaus W. Wahle, Jung-Heun Ha, Shabina Bashir, Sharon E. Mitchell, Alan A. Sneddon, D. Vernon Rayner 2009, 'Dietary Supplementation with Conjugated Linoleic Acid Plus n-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Increases Food Intake and Brown Adipose Tissue in Rats', Nutrients
genuine expression
In a world where there were only three television channels and live sport was a broadcasting rarity, it was a genuine expression of public interest.
Times, Sunday Times
It must be immediate — the slightest hesitation will suggest you are enjoying yourself — and it must sound entirely involuntary, thus appearing as a genuine expression of horror.
Times, Sunday Times
With other players there'd be the fear that suave technical finesse might smother genuine expression.
Times, Sunday Times
That moment of the truest, most genuine expression of what it means to be human.
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Only two of the discs 11 tracks attempt a genuine expression of vulnerability.
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grim expression
She meets me wearing a lurid pink jacket and a grim expression.
Times, Sunday Times
Cue lots of screams, except from the two male cousins both wearing determinedly grim expressions.
Times, Sunday Times
With those grim expressions, they must've seen a ghost.
The Sun
I could tell from the grim expressions as they emerged that there had been no resolution of their differences.
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This knowledge of their fate wipes away any joy or other expressions from these warrior priests, their faces set instead in grim expressions of doom.
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individual expression
The play diminishes in freedom and individual expression.
Times, Sunday Times
Shape and occupying space on the pitch has always been prioritised over individual expression.
Times, Sunday Times
You can have individual expression and superstars, but within the narrowly defined parameters of the game and whether it helps the team to win.
Times, Sunday Times
Opportunities for personal development and individual expression abound.
Times, Sunday Times
The past five years have seen mass media under intense commercial pressure, with new media able to blossom with its own brand of individual expression and interaction.
Times, Sunday Times
literary expression
That kind of accolade won't help if you commit an offence against certain notions of linguistic usage, even in a work of nuanced literary expression.
The Times Literary Supplement
His 'vagueness and vulnerability' would be best understood as characteristic of his mystical experience, rather than his literary expression of it.
The Times Literary Supplement
In the twentieth century, the anxieties produced by such conditions found literary expression.
The Times Literary Supplement
The award aims to encourage high-quality literary expression that remains faithful to modern times.
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In the 1910s, the dominant form of literary expression was now the novel.
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musical expression
But even these miracles of musical expression are enigmas.
Times, Sunday Times
I couldn't fathom how someone so sensitive to every nuance of musical expression could be so insensitive to people.
Times,Sunday Times
It's hard to say because, for myself, such a transformation occurs first within me and then it seems to manifest itself in an exterior form of musical expression.
The Sun
Musical expression will satisfy the talented, but what about the tone-deaf?
Times, Sunday Times
This was a fine example of consciousness-flow through musical expression that only a player entirely comfortable with his instrument can achieve.
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neutral expression
Some held a neutral expression, some a standard smile using just the mouth and others a big grin.
Times, Sunday Times
Some saw snaps of them smiling while others were shown a neutral expression.
The Sun
Selfies will not be permitted, though, and the rules relating to plain background and neutral expression will still apply (passport.service.gov.uk).
Times, Sunday Times
They must adopt a neutral expression and have the mouth closed ...
Times, Sunday Times
Then they used this information to manipulate the faces of people with a neutral expression so that, for instance, some had happy, disgusted, surprised or fearful colouration.
Times, Sunday Times
outward expression
Another called for a ban 'on any outward expression of approval'.
The Sun
I'm sure there's love in everyone's family, but with us there was always that outward expression of emotion.
Times, Sunday Times
Is the outward expression of anger becoming more common — in other words, do we live in an increasingly angry culture and society?
Times, Sunday Times
Her thin, tight lips are the perfect outward expression of her reticence.
Times, Sunday Times
Some wear it because it's an outward expression of their faith; others because it's a cultural norm.
Times, Sunday Times
overt expression
An overt expression of joy will merely irritate those around you and contradict the act you gave your boss.
Times, Sunday Times
Many contain overt expressions of disquiet over official attempts to govern the lives and minds of colonial subjects.
The Times Literary Supplement
Men who resort to confrontation, conflict, or even physical aggression are ostracized as well, though society generally expects and accepts more overt expressions of anger from them.
Christianity Today
pained expression
He said so with his arms folded and a pained expression on his face.
Times, Sunday Times
Asked about those collapses, a pained expression crosses his face.
Times, Sunday Times
What's more, they all have the same pained expression.
Times, Sunday Times
Picture a dolphin that's been flattened by a steamroller, complete with pained expression, and you're getting close.
Times, Sunday Times
At this the candidate looked up from his book with a pained expression.
Times, Sunday Times
personal expression
The emphasis on personal expression as the ne plus ultra of human existence.
Times, Sunday Times
While many of the kiosks met basic demands, importing goods such as spices and yoghurt across the camp perimeter, others catered to personal expression.
Times, Sunday Times
Rightly or wrongly, we live in a society that values and encourages personal expression and development above all.
Times, Sunday Times
It's a personal expression that must be respected.
Times, Sunday Times
Modernist paintings, 'designed to be devoid of personal expression', are a piece of cake to copy.
Times, Sunday Times
poetic expression
Instead, poignant poetic expression goes hand in hand with tough counterpoint, making the work alluring to heart and mind.
Times, Sunday Times
They are poised between abstraction and figuration, and between physical laws and poetic expression.
The Times Literary Supplement
Her works are noted for displaying an unusual view of the world, poetic expression, foreign words, science terms and neologisms, creating an alienated society.
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He preferred nazm over more popular ghazal as a mean of poetic expression.
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His collection of flamenco songs was first anthology of this poetic expression.
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protein expression
Furthermore, cantharidin reduced pro-caspase-12 protein expression.
Chin-Chuan Su, Kuan-I Lee, Mu-Kuan Chen, Chun-Ying Kuo, Chih-Hsin Tang, Shing Hwa Liu 2016, 'Cantharidin Induced Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma Cell Apoptosis via the JNK-Regulated Mitochondria and Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress-Related Signaling Pathways.', PLoS ONE
Osmotic stress has been shown to regulate cytoskeletal protein expression.
Bettina S. Buchmaier, Asima Bibi, Gerhard A. Müller, Gry H. Dihazi, Marwa Eltoweissy, Jenny Kruegel, Hassan Dihazi 2013, 'Renal Cells Express Different Forms of Vimentin: The Independent Expression Alteration of these Forms is Important in Cell Resistance to Osmotic Stress and Apoptosis', PLoS ONE
We tested the hypothesis that daunorubicin alters cardioprotective protein expression in the heart.
Yasuhiro Ichikawa, Alice E. Zemljic-Harpf, Zheng Zhang, M. Dan McKirnan, Ana Maria Manso, Robert S. Ross, H. Kirk Hammond, Hemal H. Patel, David M. Roth 2017, 'Modulation of caveolins, integrins and plasma membrane repair proteins in anthracycline-induced heart failure in rabbits', PLOS ONE
Glucokinase and hexokinase specific activity, glucokinase content, and glucose transporter 2 protein expression were also determined in the isolated islets.
Aliashraf Godini, Asghar Ghasemi, Saleh Zahediasl 2015, 'The Possible Mechanisms of the Impaired Insulin Secretion in Hypothyroid Rats.', PLoS ONE
The immunoperoxidase reactions were also consistent with neurilemmal differentiation; however, glial fibrillary acidic protein expression was widespread and unexpectedly seen.
Miguel Fdo. Salazar, Martha Lilia Tena Suck, Daniel Rembao Bojórquez, Citlaltepetl Salinas Lara 2016, 'Intraventricular Neurilemmoma (Schwannoma): Shall GFAP Immunostaining Be Regarded as a Histogenetical Tag or as a Mere Histomimetical Trait?', Case Reports in Pathology
religious expression
All this makes even the most tolerant liberal think twice about freedom of religious expression.
Times, Sunday Times
I cherish a liberal society that tolerates freedom of religious expression.
Times, Sunday Times
A country that promotes freedom of personal and genuine religious expression breeds a tolerant society with confident, diverse individuals.
Times, Sunday Times
So a whole generation has grown up unchallenged by articulate religious expression.
Times, Sunday Times
It and other laws prohibit discrimination on the basis of religion and impose few legal restrictions on religious expression or speech.
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shocked expression
The first laugh comes from seeing the shocked expression on the usually unflappable singer's face.
The Sun
She turned to me with a shocked expression on her face.
Times, Sunday Times
No, she said, with a shocked expression.
Times, Sunday Times
I'll never forget the veteran's shocked expression.
Globe and Mail
The painting shows the actor exhibiting emotions of fear and concern, with one arm raised and a shocked expression on his face.
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solemn expression
Her solemn expression turned abruptly to one of shock and disbelief.
Times, Sunday Times
A pair of feet appear beneath the proscenium top and one of the men descends, ever so slowly, on a wire to the floor, with a solemn expression.
Times, Sunday Times
And a solemn expression passed over his face.
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He was said to have died with a solemn expression.
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The careful modelling of the face portrays a powerful, solemn expression.
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spontaneous expression
The creative writing industry, with its group exercises focused on spontaneous expression and concrete imagery, has had a big effect on the kind of poetry that gets published.
The Times Literary Supplement
The great triumph, however, lies in the spontaneous expression of feeling.
Times, Sunday Times
The hug was a spontaneous expression of gratitude from someone who was used to people like me just walking right past him and pretending he didn't exist.
Globe and Mail
Meaning and spontaneous expression were to be avoided.
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In reaction to neoclassicism, it focused on emotion over reason, and on spontaneous expression.
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symbolic expression
It was a symbolic expression of defiance, nothing more, and the risks could not have been greater.
Times, Sunday Times
In addition, this perspective limits sermonic language as primarily a symbolic expression of experience.
Christianity Today
The latest rumpus centers on whether the abstract patterns qualify as symbolic expression, the $64,000 question of 64,800 years ago.
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For its symbolic expression in modern logic see the rule of transposition.
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They were anti-naturalistic in content and style, forsaking external drama for a symbolic expression of the inner life of the characters.
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vacant expression
Look out for wide eyes and a slightly vacant expression.
Times, Sunday Times
His hunched shoulders say he's been suitably chastised by his telling-off, but his vacant expression tells us it's fallen on deaf ears.
The Sun
I wasted three mornings of my life trailing to horrible flash showrooms, listening to suited salesmen with vacant expressions signalling 'time waster'.
Times, Sunday Times
Well, perhaps the vacant expressions - sheep aren't terribly bright.
Times, Sunday Times
verbal expression
As they swap stories, he also takes the lead from her, giving verbal expression to her gestures.
Times,Sunday Times
But if you're talking about verbal expression, yes, it's a lot easier to say something in a song.
The Sun
For someone so concerned with verbal expression, an appreciation of visual expression eluded him - to his, and our detriment.
The Times Literary Supplement
The term may be applied to the person or thing so honored, the drink taken, or the verbal expression accompanying the drink.
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Subjects who listened to highly emotional experiences exhibited less verbal expression, attempted less de-dramatization, and much more nonverbal comforting.
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visual expression
The 'visual expression' consists of tangled, computer-generated circles.
The Sun
More and more exaggerated claims, inspired by skewed readings of historical sources, were given visual expression, some of it pure fantasy.
The Times Literary Supplement
For someone so concerned with verbal expression, an appreciation of visual expression eluded him - to his, and our detriment.
The Times Literary Supplement
Modern workplaces often rely on lists and linear modes of thought - even though our brains are more suited to visual expression.
The Sun
Having the signing take place on the platform gives a beautiful visual expression to worship.
Christianity Today
wear an expression
Have you noticed that marble popes always wear an expression of ineffable smug selfsatisfaction?
Times, Sunday Times
The artworks in both cases wear an expression of disbelief, like a goosed ingénue - a form of occultatio.
The Times Literary Supplement
His cartoon face, sketched with an economy of line so deft that it looks almost careless, wears an expression of extraordinary friendliness and optimism.
Times, Sunday Times
He wore an expression of terrified incomprehension, as if he were going into shock.
Times, Sunday Times
He looks lost, and wears an expression of unbearable sadness.
Times, Sunday Times
Translations:
Chinese: 表情
Japanese: 表現
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