| 单词 | expressive |
| 释义 | expressive (ɪkspresɪv ) 1. adjective If you describe a person or their behaviour as expressive, you mean that their behaviour clearly indicates their feelings or intentions. You can train people to be more expressive. ...her small, usually expressive face. ...the present fashion for intuitive, expressive painting. expressively adverb [ADVERB with verb] He moved his hands expressively. expressiveness uncountable noun Crying is part of our natural expressiveness. 2. graded adjective [v-link ADJ of n] If something is expressive of particular ideas or qualities, it has features which indicate or demonstrate them. [formal, written] Perhaps all his poems were really love poems, expressive of love for someone. Its history is expressive of the character and development of the people who possess it. Synonyms: meaningful, indicative, suggestive, demonstrative Collocations: expressive eyes She possessed an imposing physical stature and an astonishing control of posture and gesture, while her face was exceptionally mobile, with superbly expressive eyes. Times,Sunday Times And those expressive eyes and cowered postures exhibit true contrition on their part. Christianity Today Not beautiful, exactly, but with huge, expressive eyes, a pixie face, a wide smile, and a charisma that draws you in. Times, Sunday Times She was softly-spoken and gentle, with large expressive eyes and a delightful smile. Times, Sunday Times She has expressive eyes and a broad and ready smile, but she can utter only occasional single words with diffi culty. Times, Sunday Times His expressive face shines through the computer animation. The Sun (2009) Her accent is deliciously strong, to match her expressive face. Times, Sunday Times (2013) She is dressed in a baggy jumper with her hair pulled back; her young-looking expressive face currently registers anguish. Times, Sunday Times (2012) Yet he uses the stage with a startling degree of expressive freedom. Times, Sunday Times Collectively they set the tone for the entire exhibition: testing and pushing the limits of ceramics to win a new expressive freedom and abolishing the taint of 'craft'. The Times Literary Supplement He brought such incredible harmonic and expressive freedom to music — but of course that only made me more aware of the piano's limitations; you can't sustain vocal music on it. Times, Sunday Times He says this because he believes this to be the album that he had the most creative and expressive freedom in the recording process. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 From a complete catalogue of past styles, the ability to mix and combine styles allowed for more expressive freedom and provided an endless source of inspiration. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Without such constraints the significance of the expressive gesture cannot be grasped. The Times Literary Supplement This would include stronger use of his left hand, which currently makes expressive gestures with the élan of a limp fish. Times, Sunday Times As a teacher, he was perhaps at his best on informal occasions, when his mobile features and expressive gestures would warm to an argument. Times, Sunday Times No recordings of his acclaimed performances have survived, but photographs of his striking physiognomy and expressive gestures convey a powerful stage presence. The Times Literary Supplement One joke makes use of the difference between the expressive gestures of silent cinema and those used in guessing games, such as charades. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A language disorder could involve problems with receptive language (understanding others) or with expressive language (communicating thoughts and feelings). Times, Sunday Times This implies that expressive language deficits are unrelated to the ability to connect word and referent in a single exposure. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Expressive language disorder can be further classified into two groups: developmental expressive language disorder and acquired expressive language disorder. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Expressive language disorder affects work and schooling in many ways. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He consciously works in the areas of expressive language among text, visual stroke, body movement, voice, and expansion into space. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Its reputation remains tied to new writing usually aligned to expressive movement and body language. Times, Sunday Times His craggy good looks were a benefit in this and other parts, his expressive movement even more so. Times, Sunday Times Each has been feted for his formula-breaking blends of expressive movement, live music, heightened theatricality and heavyweight themes. Times, Sunday Times It emphasizes mobility process rather than muscle strength to achieve maximally efficient and expressive movement. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Soon a number of other young people became interested in this form of expressive movement. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They distinguish between basic performance cues, interpretive performance cues, and expressive performance cues. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship of individual expressive performance to ensemble achievement, technical achievement, and musical background. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They sing without once betraying the technical difficulties of these intricate musical jigsaws, instead giving natural, spacious, rich, expressive performances. Times, Sunday Times Unlike the early sequencers used to play mechanical sounding sequence with exactly equal length, the new ones recorded and played back expressive performances by real musicians. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It introduced him to the expressive possibilities of modernism. Times,Sunday Times A restless experimentor, he would throw pots off-centre or upside down, sometimes dropping newly thrown pots on the floor to find in their crushed shapes new expressive possibilities. Times, Sunday Times And the gradual abandonment of baroque control in the eighteenth century allowed further expressive possibilities to emerge. The Times Literary Supplement He then set about an exploration of the expressive possibilities of the human anatomy. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He worked to release new expressive possibilities from oil colours and in this way further emphasized the luminous power and depth of the picture plane. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The researchers are very excited about this because it 'heralds new strategies of voice representation within a typewritten medium ostensibly limited in its expressive potential'. Times, Sunday Times Far from annihilating the codex, our new digital age has raised awareness of the book form's full expressive potential. The Times Literary Supplement She has since specialized in photographing dancers not in performance, but in her photo studio as part of her exploration of the expressive potential of movement. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Research suggests that the combination of thumb-controls and internal motion sensors could give jammers more expressive potential than other polyphonic musical instruments such as the piano, guitar, and accordion. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 English is constantly changing but its expressive power and grammaticality aren't deteriorating: not at all. Times, Sunday Times (2016) These biological oddities help to explain the expressive power of the gaze. Times, Sunday Times (2015) I must talk about the expressive power of folds. Times, Sunday Times (2014) But with that done we can all enjoy four hours with a tenor of sterling security and an expressive range. Times, Sunday Times (2013) The three works on this disc, spanning a quarter of a century, cover a huge sonic and expressive range. Times, Sunday Times (2010) Inevitably, her austere solo performance style also lacked some of the expressive range of her studio recordings, which typically benefit from richer instrumentation and more eccentric arrangements. Times, Sunday Times (2011) These works use a combination of different techniques and are in expressive style. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 However, he very soon found his own expressive style. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A deeply expressive style... rich melodies and improvisations... and an appealing impressionism. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Some critics have seen in his landscape works, rendered in a looser, expressive style, a prelude to modern art and abstraction. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In his later work he abandoned his early fascination with creating hyper-realized realistic imagery, instead focusing on a looser and more expressive style. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He sang poetic songs of love and regret in a warm, expressive voice laced with debonair Gallic charm. Times, Sunday Times (2015) The timbre of his strong, expressive voice and the poetry of his lyrics captured the imagination of a generation. Smithsonian Mag (2017) An expressive voice, yes, but here it seemed so brittle. Times, Sunday Times (2016) Why has an actor known for his wonderfully expressive voice joined one of the world's great ballet companies? Times, Sunday Times (2011) Instead, he advocates, 'expressive writing', which, he says, by putting down your thoughts on paper, seems to give your worries a clearer structure. Times, Sunday Times They read little, if at all, and so have no models of more subtle, searching or expressive writing to set beside their own. Times, Sunday Times The short-term effects of expressive writing include increased distress and psychological arousal. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 One of these went on to strongly suggest that expressive writing has the potential to actually provide a boost to the immune system, perhaps explaining the reduction in physician visits. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The seminal expressive writing study instructed participants in the experimental group to write about a past trauma, expressing their very deepest thoughts and feelings surrounding it. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But, as well as the highly expressive and incisive orchestral and choral narrative, this performance was also strongly cast. Times, Sunday Times Her lively face, dominated by unexpectedly large eyes, proved highly expressive in all her roles. Times, Sunday Times The gestures are daring, the bowing and articulation highly expressive, the sound (here from an expanded group of 14 string players) handsome. Times, Sunday Times She lacked the technical brilliance of some of her rivals but was highly expressive, thanks to a new choreography coach. Times, Sunday Times When both lectures were highly expressive, no correlation was observed. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 What he's not telling us is that it is a wonderfully expressive instrument. The Sun (2007) The first movement suffers particularly, deprived of its bleak but wonderfully expressive scoring. Times, Sunday Times (2008) His edges defined his shapes; they were simple and natural and wonderfully expressive. Times, Sunday Times (2010) Why has an actor known for his wonderfully expressive voice joined one of the world's great ballet companies? Times, Sunday Times (2011) The choral singing - cleansed and vivid - is wonderfully expressive. Times, Sunday Times (2015) Translations: Chinese: 富于表现力的 Japanese: 表情豊かな |
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