The phrase "a kind of expression" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a specific type or category of expression, often in the context of art, language, or communication.
Example: "Poetry is a kind of expression that allows individuals to convey their emotions and thoughts in a unique way."
Alternatives: "a type of expression" or "a form of expression".
Thus expressivists of the narrower sort must identify a kind of expression which allows them to distinguish the way in which "Lying is wrong," expresses the attitude that generates its semantic value, from the way in which "I disapprove of lying," or even "I think that lying is wrong" might express the very same attitude.
In the artistic movement they founded, Mr. Tjupurrula and the other Papunya painters drew on Dreamings for inspiration, developing a kind of expression that owes nothing to European tradition but instead borrows symbols and patterns from body paintings and sand drawings associated with Aboriginal sacred ceremonies.
A historian of war once theorised that in those cases, where the determination to maintain that your war was right and justified even in the face of the facts, you become a kind of expression of imperialism – as warped and contradictory as, for example, the Iraq war.
Nonetheless, his anger was apparently judged by many other men, and by some women, to be admirable, as a kind of expression of masculinity: so admirable that it enabled him to redefine the hearings in terms of his suffering, his struggle, his martyrdom, his career — his reality.
According to expression categories on the Chernoff face images, welding quality was classified into five levels and each level just corresponded to a kind of expression.
There are times when our public discourse seems to have become one of hypersensitivity and discourtesy, ham-fistedly combined, of reaction, stridency and paranoia - a kind of expression of poor listening.
When he wants to undercut something he is saying, to indicate that he knows he is speaking in a cliché or taking on a stentorian or pompous tone, he uses the Mr. Goofy voice, stretching his face into a kind of clownish expression and affecting a tone more suited to a television dinosaur.
A kind of vascular expression?
And it encourages a kind of musical expression that was much more overt.
The dog is both a very real, monstrous animal and a kind of visceral expression of her fears.
If jazz improvisation is a kind of democratic expression, then Rollins may well be our greatest purveyor of utopian feeling.
