The vote was an expression of sentiment, not a formal recommendation.
The latter point is debatable, as is the contention that Iconoclasm was particularly an expression of sentiment to be found in the eastern themes of the empire.
"Considering Mr. Graham's age and limited mobility, his statement was more an expression of sentiment and solidarity with the Cathy family and their cause than actually a commitment to go to a Chick-fil-A himself," a spokesman, A. Larry Ross, said on Monday.
Their participation in this project is an expression of this sentiment.
But he left it unclear whether this was an expression of personal sentiment or whether he had in mind an official pardon.
So Ms. Harvey interprets Church's big, lurid painting "Cotopaxi" (1862), in which a South American volcano erupts in the distance, as an expression of abolitionist sentiment.
Not only did Mr. Vajpayee reject the demand on Dec. 6, the eighth anniversary of the mosque's destruction, but he also offered moral support to the temple movement, calling it "an expression of national sentiment".
Ceding the punch-point to the Daily News headline — though whether it should be considered an expression of populist sentiment, or, as tabloid headlines so often are these days (cf. the New York Post), an expression of its owners' idea of populist sentiment — there is still some room left to others for punctilio in the shadings.
Mr. Vajpayee, who is the party leader and who leads a self-consciously secular coalition government, asserted that although he did not support demolishing the mosque, "construction of the temple at Ayodhya is an expression of national sentiment that is yet to be realized".
"Hairwork was an expression of genuine sentiment and was accessible to those, especially women, who could spend painstaking hours working hair into a memorial or reminder of a loved one," Reierson says.
The work has been interpreted as a meditation on death; as an allegory of artistic creation; as Keats's response to the Peterloo Massacre, which took place in the same year; and as an expression of nationalist sentiment.
