Sentence examples for expressing nothing from inspiring English sources

The Chinese book had been cagey toward its foreign readers, expressing nothing negative about China, but the Egyptian text wasn't shy about bad behavior.

But just as even the blandest food has some taste, no music can be austere to the point of expressing nothing.

Ten years ago, young French-born Muslim women were seldom veiled, and the few who were veiled were often, like Djamila, expressing nothing more political than piety or modesty or virtue.

In the plotless ballet Monotones I and II, Ashton took inspiration from two Satie scores, Trois Gymnopédies and Les Gnossiennes, to choreograph in a style of limpid simplicity, which he himself described as "expressing nothing but itself, and thereby expressing a thousand degrees and facets of emotion".

But the Labour party, a limp and lifeless thing expressing nothing but a feeble desire to not be spued, has found a way around this: to be hot and cold at once.

In the "Three Dialogues" he wrote with Duthuit in 1949, he claimed to favor "the expression that there is nothing to express, nothing with which to express, nothing from which to express, no power to express, no desire to express, together with the obligation to express".

They express nothing, which is her point.

"The musical ideal," he called them, "music spontaneous and 'useless,' music that wishes to express nothing".

And at least one interested party expressed nothing but warmth for the new competition.

Style is what "constitutes reality" in such a novel, which ultimately "expresses nothing but itself".

Indeed, Mr. Meng, the younger of the two by a generation, expresses nothing but admiration for Mr. Lin.