And despite the feline presence in religious contexts, Egyptians didn't worship cats per se, but created gods that had their physical features, their expressive moods and their near-supernatural intelligence.
The younger Mr. Del Tredici also performed his uncle's hair-raisingly virtuosic "Felix Variations for Solo Trombone," on the theme of Paganini's Caprice No. 24, covering, with the help of four different mutes, a range of expressive moods and sonic effects.
One such human convention is the use of expressive moods and emotions as an integral part of social interaction.
For instance, the portrait of "Colonel Thomas Handasyd Perkins" (1831 32; Boston Athenaeum), by Thomas Sully, the leading exponent of a new portraiture supposedly expressive of mood, has touches of Sir Thomas Lawrence in the delicately brushed surface, strong contrasts of light and dark, and exquisite elegance of pose.
But part of what made Virgin so loved was its customer service-focused culture, which is something no amount of new "expressive blue mood lighting" will help recreate.
But most of the weekend's companies gave us choreography that was generic rather than specific, expressive in overall mood rather than in drama.
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.
There's not a single line of Shakespeare's script, but the poetry's all there in the burnished black-and-silver of the photography, the razor-sharp editing, the subtle shifts of tonality and mood, its expressive shifts between stillness and crazed violence.
By contrast, the vast majority of psychiatric signs are expressive, linked to emotion, mood, interpersonal rapport, bodily movement and (pre-eminently) language, and discourse all of which involve a subjective component.
The titles align Ms. Weatherford's efforts with those of early American modernists like John Marin and Abraham Walkowitz, which, while hardly abstract, were as expressive of the city's moods and energies as of its forms.
