The charm of a woman's garments to a man is often due in part to their expressiveness in rendering impressions of energy, vivacity, or languor.
It is on his songs that his fame rests most firmly, and no lyrics in any tongue have a more wonderful union of thrilling passion, melting tenderness, concentrated expressiveness of language, and apt and natural poetic fancy.
It is the quality of expressiveness as distinguished from that abstract or generalized character which belongs to Greek sculpture.
Yet there is a certain expressiveness in the face of the old fellow which makes us like him.
Expressiveness at all costs and music a servant, a slave to attitudes--this is the end.
Her words flowed freely, and her voice had begun to ring and give play to a natural expressiveness that must hitherto have been dulled, he thought, by the shock and self-restraint of the past few days.
He was amazed at the vigorous expressivenessin her telling of it.
Expressiveness at all costs and music a servant, a slave to attitudes—this is the end.
Expressiveness at all costs, which is what the Wagnerian ideal—the ideal of decadence—demands, is hardly compatible with talent.
Finally, the expressiveness of the human hand is here fully realised.
In later years, as we shall see, the expressiveness of the human hand per se will be recognised; but Giorgione already feels its significance in portraiture, and there is not one of his portraits which does not show this.
For Strawinsky is one of those composers, found scattered all along the pathway of his art, who augment the expressiveness of music through direct imitation of nature.
Its expressiveness is the thing that strikes one more forcibly every time one hears it.
But of its expressiveness there is not too much to be found in the music of other musicians than Byrde in Byrde's day.
One of them is the difficulty, not to say impossibility, of otherwise accounting for the expressiveness of music.
It is demonstrable that these inflections and cadences are not accidental or arbitrary; but that they are determined by certain general principles of vital action; and that theirexpressiveness depends on this.
But in the absence of this theory, the expressiveness of music appears to be inexplicable.
Once more, the question--How is the expressiveness of music to be otherwise accounted for?
The expressiveness of these various modifications of voice is therefore innate.
In the smoothest as well as in the roughest of their work, you can note how perfectly the brush searches the modelling, and with the most exquisite expressiveness and perfect frankness, follows the structural lines.
In expressivenessthe later men did not excel them.
Mr. Pinero has no sense of style, of the beauty orexpressiveness of words.
She speaks with a liquid articulation of every syllable, like one who loves the savour of words on the tongue, giving them a beauty and an expressiveness often not in them themselves.
The flexibility and expressiveness of dialect lies largely in its ability to change its verbal form and pronunciation from a speech very broad indeed to something approaching standard English.
It lost in euphony in the broadly sustained and sweeping phrases of Wagner, and the difference in power and expressiveness between its higher and lower registers was made pitifully obvious.
The Romans had neither time nor inclination to bestow any love or thought on the expressiveness and tender meaning of subordinate parts.
At least, it is only in a temperament exceptionally susceptible on the sensuous side, that this sense of the expressiveness of outward things comes to be so large a part of life.
The range of expressiveness allowed by this type of poetry was adequately shown by Browning and Tennyson, and recent poets like Edwin Arlington Robinson, Robert Frost and Amy Lowell have employed it with consummate skill.
She follows the track of an outline as sensitively if not as obviously as Ingres, and she exacts from line as much as it is capable of giving without interference with the expressiveness of the whole mass.
With expressiveness for her goal and the means of rendering technical problems for her preoccupation, Miss Cassatt has arrived at hard-earned triumphs of accomplishment.
Her wholesome young mothers with their animated children, comely and strong, unite the charm of great expressiveness with that of profoundly scientific execution.
The patient elaboration of after-years wrought into consummate expressiveness the donnée of that hour.
Similarly, in The Glove, the lion, so magnificently sketched by Browning, is made to bear out the inner expressiveness of the tale in a way anticipated by no previous teller.
