Sentence examples for expressive attitudes from inspiring English sources

Wearing a suit, Mr. Curran rushed in with store mannequins in children's clothes and placed them in expressive attitudes.

This music is more contemplative when it's performed with a drier expressive attitude.

The lower, gridded layer shows the influence of Mondrian's severe geometry while black silhouetted shapes suggest a more expressive and playful attitude.

(Chinen) Matt Wilson's Arts and Crafts (Tuesday through March 4) On his joyously expressive new album, "An Attitude for Gratitude" (Palmetto), the drummer Matt Wilson subjects a smart batch of tunes — originals, themes by jazz elders and "Bridge Over Troubled Water" — to the interpretive process of a working band.

(Chinen) ★ Matt Wilson's Arts AND Crafts (Tuesday through Sept. 9) On his joyously expressive recent album, "An Attitude for Gratitude" (Palmetto), the drummer Matt Wilson subjects a varied batch of tunes — originals, themes by jazz elders and "Bridge Over Troubled Water" — to the well-considered whims of a working band.

(Chinen) Matt Wilson's Arts and Crafts (Friday through Sunday) On his joyously expressive new album, "An Attitude for Gratitude" (Palmetto), the drummer Matt Wilson subjects a smart batch of tunes — originals, themes by jazz elders and "Bridge Over Troubled Water" — to the interpretive process of a working band.

And it may be that expressives in general that is terms which conventionally express an attitude function to express the speaker's attitudes even in belief reports and in indirect quotation.

The former term is employed here in the sense in which it was employed above (i.e., in opposition to "cognitive"); it is characteristic of stress, intonation, and other suprasegmental aspects of language that they are frequently expressive of the mood and attitude of the speaker in this sense.

And if we were dealing with only a few different types of attitude and corresponding expressive speech act it should be no difficulty at all.

This suggestion formed part of the broader non-realist interpretation of religion, which held that religious beliefs do not refer to putative transcendent realities but are instead expressive of human ideals, desires, hopes, attitudes, and intentions.

Their posture is expressive purely of surrender.