Thiers has a tongue which never lacks a word, and that the most expressive word.
The Peerage capitulates, in fact--no more expressive word can be found to describe the situation.
Yet the noises were so blended together, so indistinct, so strangely expressive of both laughter and defiance, that it was impossible to identify or describe them.
He looked with sympathy into the troubled, tear-stained faces of these three helpless women, and listened with many expressive gestures to the proposal of the priest and the offer of the old marquis.
Then he is moved by the letters written by Lansdowne, Grey, and Charles Wood to Palmerston expressive of regret at parting with him.
The speeches, especially Lord Lansdowne's, all so moderate and expressive of an earnest desire for a reconciliation with France.
I arrived yesterday," answered Varvara Pavlovna, seating herself on a chair in an attitude expressive of humility.
Her features called to mind Kalitine's regular and finely-moulded face, but her eyes were not like those of her father; they shone with a quiet light, expressive of an earnest goodness that is rarely seen in children.
A] [Footnote A: A diminutive of Ivan, somewhat expressive of contempt Vanya is the affectionate form.
And he looked at Fanny with an expressive smile, which evidently meant, "That lady will never allow a theatre at Everingham.
But another note will probably interest the reader still more, as being strongly expressive of that parental affection which formed so amiable a feature in the character of Mr. Burke.
Besides all this, the eye affects, as it is expressive of some qualities of the mind, and its principal power generally arises from this; so that what we have just said of the physiognomy is applicable here.
So that to form a finished human beauty, and to give it its full influence, the face must be expressive of such gentle and amiable qualities, as correspond with the softness, smoothness, and delicacy of the outward form.
A slightly upturned fair moustache covered the upper lip, and few of those who for the first time saw the king's free movements, and the rapid changes of his expressive face, discovered the fact that he was totally blind.
Miss Prue did not answer, except by an expressive little grunt, and then, apparently, changed the subject.
A French barber was engaged in titifying Campanini's wig for "Linda," and he expatiated on its wonderful approach to nature with all the chic of his veryexpressive mother tongue.
The brief but expressive epitaph, "Thou knowest," is carved upon her tomb.
They, in expressive but slangy language, lay for him.
Their appellation was Elves, subsequently Fairies; but there would seem to have been formerly other terms expressive of them, of which hardly a vestige is now remaining in the English language.
Grimm suppose with a good deal of probability, that these are compounds formed to render the Greek ones, and are not expressive of a belief in analogous classes of spirits.
A gentle lady turned on me Her bright expressive eyes, And bade the flame of poesy Within my bosom rise.
The duke inquired if this lady died of her love, but to this question Viola returned an evasive answer; as probably she had feigned the story, to speak words expressive of the secret love and silent grief she suffered for Orsino.
The monuments wereexpressive of the weakness and superficiality into which the Eastern Hellenic world had fallen, and for which the forms of Greek art were employed only as a transparent varnish.
While he speaks, his features are still more expressive than his words.
Pranken seated himself with Roland under a great nut-tree, by the road, and read aloud some expressive passages.
Had it been one of our own men, now--" An expressive shrug of the shoulders finished the sentence.
No one of its qualities can be incongruent with any other, and all of them together, in their unity, must be expressive of its substantial nature.
In the world of sense every efficient cause must have a specific empirical character, since only so can it determine one effect rather than another according to the universal and invariable law expressive of its nature.
The judgment expressive of contingency is still judgment, and is therefore no less necessary in its conditions, and no less objective in its validity, than is a universal judgment of the scientific type.
Its argument is limited to the contention that propositions expressiveof numerical relation, though synthetic, are not universal.
Similarly the logical relation of ground and consequence, conceived as expressive of logical identity, gives way to the synthetic temporal relation of cause and effect.
In the major premiss the middle term is used as referring to real existence, in the minor only as expressive of the unity of consciousness.
For by it we are constrained to interpret sensations, not as objective qualities, but only as subjective effects, expressiveof the reactions of our psycho-physical organism.
As expressive of the "I think," the category of substance and attribute can be employed only to define the relation in which consciousness stands to its thoughts; it expresses the merely logical relation of a subject to its predicates.
A language in the progress of its refinement loses as well as gains in the amount of words, and the good fortune of expressive phrases.
To this mass, with due labour and shaping, he gave the baptism of an expressive name, and conceived that a name would necessarily become a person.
We perceive Wyatt's keen perception of character in the last verse, admirably expressive of the playfulness and levity of the thoughtless but susceptible Anne Bullen, which never left her when in the Tower or on the scaffold.
It is one of the charges in their trial; and we learn, from a more secret quarter than the public trial, that the queen deeply felt the acting of this play at that moment as the watchword of the rebels, expressive of their designs.
They were even rendered more attractive by the expressive woodcuts which palpably appealed to a sense which required no "cunning" to comprehend.
However this may apply to the origin of the languages, the term is not expressive of the genius of the people.
In the slight emendations, we may observe that our poet consulted his ear; but in the first verse he has chosen a more expressive term.
I longed to talk to a man who stood near me, with a very singular and expressive countenance, whose cape and looped hat were entirely covered with scallop shells and reliques, and his long staff surmounted by a death's head.
He replied with an expressive gesture, "Signora,--i briganti!
But they have no actress here like the graceful, the expressive Pallerini; nor any actor equal to the Æneas of the Scala.
In general their respective countenances areexpressive of their characters and style of painting.
My answer was an expressive shrug and a motion of the eye-brows.
He might well have thought only of himself in that time of suspense; but he thought of me too, and the precautions he took against being seen to pay me money were expressive of his inbred delicacy.
The dental is also used by European races as a sound expressiveof disappointment, unspeakable contempt, &c.
And the same applies to the so-called interjectional element in word-formation, or the utilization as names of sounds which are naturally expressive of states of human feeling.
For the most part they are expressive of emotional states, and simple desires.
Antecedently we might form various anticipations on this head, such as that they should be imitative of natural sounds, expressive of concrete ideas, and so forth.
Not every name that is bestowed need necessarily be expressive of a concept, any more than every “inference” that is conducted need necessarily be the result of self-conscious thought.
Nevertheless, the language of tone, like the language of gesture, clearly lies nearer to, and is more immediately expressive of the logic of recepts, than is the language of articulation.
There was not one redeeming feature among them—not a glance of honesty—not a wink expressive of anything but the gallows and the hulks, in the whole collection.
The younger girl was weeping bitterly—not for display, or in the hope of producing effect, but for very shame: her face was buried in her handkerchief: and her whole manner was but too expressive of bitter and unavailing sorrow.
First, there is the expressive pantomime of every one of the eighteen cabmen on the stand, the moment you raise your eyes from the ground.
I grieve to say that the expressive features of Professor Muff were much scratched and lacerated by the injured lady; and that Professor Nogo, besides sustaining several severe bites, has lost some handfuls of hair from the same cause.
Hardly ever off it,’ is the response, accompanied by sundry adjectives, expressive of the speaker’s heartfelt admiration of that element.
I want to speak to you,’ said Gabriel, with a look strongly expressive of his dislike of the company.
Pa returned the glance, and blew his nose very emphatically; and the poor governess peeped out from behind the pillar, and timidly tried to catch ma’s eye, with a look expressive of her high admiration of the whole family.
Spruggins was a little thin man, in rusty black, with a long pale face, and a countenance expressive of care and fatigue, which might either be attributed to the extent of his family or the anxiety of his feelings.
Despite his expressive speech which sets him above all other popular poets, he has the triviality of emotion, the poverty of ideas, the imperfect sense of beauty of a poetry whose most typical expression is in Longfellow.
True art is expressive and symbolic, and makes every form, every sound, every colour, every gesture, a signature of some unanalyzable imaginative essence.
As an orator, I do not think he has many equals, and his voice is very fine and resonant, and his gestures expressive and pleasing.
