Example sentences for: expressive

How can you use “expressive” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • "[A]fter all this time, a role that suits his rocklike demeanor perfectly and makes virtues of his expressive limitations" (Terrence Rafferty, The New Yorker ). Slow-paced and minimalist, the film is hailed as an anti-blockbuster: It "achieves a rare, and rarely earned, emotional depth ...

  • They only have to remember to let enough of their face show and not to let the hat flatten them on top, so that their full-sized, shapely head and speaking eyes will support the hat's dashing impact, and the hat itself won't appear to jam a lid on the body's expressive means.

  • It was in Delft that de Hooch mastered the expressive balance of architectural setting and human character, as in his ambitious A Family in a Courtyard (circa 1657-60).

  • Threnody is expressive in spite of itself.

  • In their expressive self-effacement, suits make grown-up politics possible.


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