Sentence examples for expressive devices from inspiring English sources

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

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

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.

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.

She is never less than animated, but she seems livelier than ever in her small role here, as if delighted to have another expressive device at her command.

The saffron color recalls the park in fall foliage, a particularly expressive device when set against a mélange of February-bare trees.