For David Miliband, the former Foreign Secretary, who has made maintaining neutral facial expressions something of an art form, it was an especially difficult occasion.
If we use the expressions "something that is black" and "something that is light" in the closed way, the objects meant by these expressions are necessarily distinct.
The creative process, he wants to say, is (or is also) an expressive process, and for expression something more is necessary than that the artist be creating something.
When Johnny returns, he finds a domestic scene: "They were sitting just where they had been, Evert with an excited but unfocused expression, David, saying something in desultory agreement, with a look of unusual and virtuous patience".
"What I do is capture an expression, something they didn't expect".
His lumbering waddle, Spock-like logic and eternally blank expression (something of a kiddie Kuleshov effect) are a perfect recipe for comedy.
She wears a strappy black dress, pearl earrings, and a familiar expression: something around her ice-blue eyes is smiling, but she looks powerfully disdainful as if she might, in a moment, order you to lick something off her shoes.
Mac Han, who organized the show, said he did so as an act of free expression, something he prizes as someone who became an American citizen last year.
Still, there was a softness in her expression, something like sympathy, when I looked up from my computer screen and saw her watching me while her hand went slap, slap, slap on her head.
A free press is part of a larger right of free expression – something to be jealously preserved and guarded, regardless of the abuses of those freedoms by, or on behalf of, a small number of people calling themselves journalists.
Among them is an opera by Siegel called "Tea Before You Go," which is about a terminally ill man who visits a therapist to prepare for his end and is given psilocybin as an aid to self-expression, something Siegel had read about in a study.
