Sentence examples for characteristic expressions from inspiring English sources

Far from Nazi Germany, fascist Italy and Stalinist Russia being monstrous aberrations, they were in many ways its characteristic expressions.

The writing, like Kranz himself, is brisk, unadorned and informative, but warmed from time to time by characteristic expressions of irony and humor.

The researchers had used publicly available images of Hanks to create a three-dimensional model, or "mesh," of his face onto which they projected his characteristic expressions.

A conjurer in clay, Mr. Bender was, he often said, as much psychologist as sculptor, divining — or so it seemed — features that skulls alone could not tell him: hair color, characteristic expressions or precise skin color, which he painted onto the finished sculpture.

Yet emotions are not merely evaluations of their targets; they in part motivate us to behave in certain ways, both rationally (by motivating action to avoid the danger) and arationally (via certain characteristic expressions, such as slamming a door out of anger).

A characteristic expression?

Ragtime found its characteristic expression in formally structured piano compositions.

She flashed the smile of reassuring optimism that is probably her most characteristic expression.

Mr. Arafat repeatedly parried questions with his characteristic expression, "Not to forget".

The researchers also found distinct patterns of aging in different tissues: neural, vascular, and endocrine tissue each had a characteristic expression profile.

I had suggested that political opposition in Damascus often seemed more gestural than real, and that making movies no one could see was therefore a characteristic expression of Syrian dissent.