The phrase "action and expression" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing creativity, communication, or the ways individuals convey their thoughts and feelings through various means.
Example: "In art therapy, participants are encouraged to explore their emotions through action and expression, allowing for personal growth and healing."
Alternatives: "movement and communication" or "activity and representation".
The former is a musical turn; the latter, in which action and expression are at ironic odds, is musical theatre.
In this sense Qwabe's invocation of "violence" exemplifies an intellectual and generational shift away from objective principles of action and expression towards subjective notions of interpretation and feelings.
In this context, it might be better applied to, say, Garry Winogrand or Joel Meyerowitz, photographers who pounded the streets in search of the right convergence of light, action and expression rather than patterns and geometry.
And the idea of a game is important in this piece, because, as Carter goes on, "like all games this piece adheres rather strictly to certain laid-down rules within which it presents a large expanse of action and expression".
Over the past year, Clarke became deeply involved in cross-disciplinary projects at PAL Performing Arts Labb, also at Siobhan Davies Studios) in which she upheld her core belief in the body not only as a means of action and expression, but as a source of knowledge and understanding.
The fringes of human action and expression you can see and hear at any given moment on the internet or cable TV may seldom rise to the artistic level of Miller or Lawrence, but they brought it to the world, through the offices of Barney Rosset.
By the time of that last visit, Obama had begun to question whether any of the speeches, calls to action and expressions of grief had changed the way anyone looked at the problem.
The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn Comic Book Among the appealing elements of the Tintin books are how action and expressions are evoked in each drawing.
Your social cognitions are similarly aided by specialized neurons that reflect facial expressions, gestures, and other signals, and develop your ability to read other people's actions and expressions by matching them with internal representations you have acquired.
When portraits and conversation pieces failed to bring in sufficient cash, Hogarth decided, he said, to "turn my thoughts to a still more new way of proceeding, viz painting and engraving modern moral Subjects, a Field unbroken up in any Country or any age... my Picture was my stage and men and women my actors who were by Means of certain Actions and expressions to exhibit a dumb shew".
That is, they need to behave consistently with the standards set forth and actively support those standards verbally, combining actions and expressions to reinforce the desired actions.
