Sentence examples for expression of what it from inspiring English sources
"Danny Boyle's Olympics opening ceremony was a fantastic expression of what it means to be British, but it excised all mention of empire," Rutman has said.
And art, once the greatest expression of what it means to be human, had become little more than a decoration to conceal and soothe mankind's epic failure.
For Labour, it would be an expression of what it believes in - deploying the state to create a fair society - and a powerful challenge to the Conservatives to back it as "capitalism with a conscience".
Since then, the Notting Hill carnival has gone through another seismic shift, but is an equally relevant expression of what it means to be black in London in the 21st century – a far more diverse, mixed up and inclusive state of affairs.
As Stephen ranges through the jungle, his fixation on collecting tribal carvings becomes a doomed hunt for himself and "a pure expression of what it was to be a man: sexual, angry, full of remorse, sorry to be a creature that will die".
In fact, it was the first major change in how it defined itself that saw it blow up from a low-key London street festival celebrating an aspect of Caribbeanness, with a cast of several hundred, to a vivid expression of what it meant to be black in Britain, attracting hundreds of thousands from all over the country.
The performing arts, and most particularly theatre and music – especially popular music – are our most immediate expressions of what it is like to be an Australian at this time in our history, and changes – in immigration, education and language, war, recession, crime, climate change – are all part of the ecosystem from which the artist can draw.
They worship in simple, ancient churches, some dating to the fourth and fifth centuries, and they preserve, in their rituals and liturgy, the earliest expressions of what it means to be a Christian.
It's the purest, most accurate expression of what I wanted it to be when I was thinking of it.
He was assaulted by frat members who threw cans and bottles at him because his gender expression threatened their fragile notion of what it meant to be a man.
