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expressive Adjective 1. of or full of expression 2. expressive of showing or suggesting: looks expressive of hatred and revenge
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expressive adjective 1. vivid, strong, striking, telling, moving, lively, sympathetic, energetic, poignant, emphatic, eloquent, forcible << OPPOSITE impassive adjective 2. (with of) meaningful, indicative, suggestive, demonstrative, revealing, significant, allusive Translationsexpressive ability → Ausdrucksfähigkeit f |
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Again, if you string together a set of speeches expressive of character, and well finished in point of diction and thought, you will not produce thc essential tragic effect nearly so well as with a play which, however deficient in these respects, yet has a plot and artistically constructed incidents. To follow that way is an initiation, by which they will become able to distinguish, in art, speech, feeling, manners, in men and life generally, what is genuine, animated, and expressive from what is only conventional and derivative, and therefore inexpressive. The slender expressive fingers, forever active, for- ever striving to conceal themselves in his pockets or behind his back, came forth and became the piston rods of his machinery of expression. |
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