The phrase "be expressive of" is grammatically correct and can be used in written and spoken English.
It is used to describe something that conveys a certain feeling or emotion. For example: - Her artwork is very expressive of her inner turmoil. - The way he speaks is not very expressive of his true feelings. - The song's lyrics are so expressive of heartbreak and loss.
It is more important for a building or space to be expressive of its purpose.
Music may be expressive of human feelings, in the sense already described, but this is a far cry from saying that it contains depictions that are true to human nature.
Not only is there an ambivalence in the individual's reaction to the numinous quality of the sacred but the restrictions, the tabus, can be expressive of the creative power of the sacred.
This great work, damaged beyond recovery, became the symbol of Florence's collapse - but in the 1970s its representation of an elongated form in agony would also be expressive of the Italian national trauma.
How could she fake her way through a highly emotional performance at the inauguration ceremony that is supposed to be expressive of our real American values, our real American story?
But to that extent it could be expressive of the complicated allegiances of its population - caught between Russia and Western Europe; between the dreams of its socialist past and the specter of its market-capitalist future; between a desire to be part of the action of the West and a sense that the West is perhaps foreign.
Speech acts are intentional in a derivative sense, insofar as they are expressive of intrinsically intentional mental states, including expressed psychological states and propositional contents.
Most theorists also distinguish between expressivity and representation, claiming that music is expressive of emotions, rather than representing them.
The script is expressive of inexpressibility.
They are expressive of both the "is" and the "ought" in human affairs.
It is usually characterized by a blend of social criticism and aristocratic disillusionment and is expressive of a pessimistic irony.
