Sentence examples for expressive device from inspiring English sources

Like any other literary effect, the present tense is an expressive device; but expression works by contrast.

WE underrate imperfection as an expressive device.

Also very much in style is her use of vibrato as an expressive device.

Being expressionless in music like this is sometimes the most expressive device of all.

A different expressive device is provided by the great range of light reflection in the colour scale.

Ms. DeYoung's mezzo-soprano was strong, healthy and flexible, and gave promise of growing into a truly expressive device.

Here he really put his expressive devices to work: on "Mandela's Blue Mbira," he used slap-tonguing exclusively, mimicking an African thumb piano.

She paid scrupulous attention to expressive devices: for instance, the emphatic strangeness of Beethoven's dissonant spikes in the 27th variation.

Reacting, like many of his contemporaries, against the cold and often formulaic Modernist buildings that had begun to dot many cityscapes, Gehry began to experiment with unusual expressive devices and to search for a personal vocabulary.

The popular singer, too, relieved by the microphone of the necessity of raising his voice, and exploiting the improvisatory conventions of jazz, employed intuitively many ornaments and expressive devices nearly identical to those of bel canto.

Full discussion of these phenomena would be out of place here, but some commentary on each is warranted, since the process of semantic interpretation and understanding (as well as generation) clearly depends on the expressive devices available in the semantic representation.