The result gives the impression of a remarkably expressive moving painting, with discernible roots in the style and design of romantic painters like J. M. W. Turner and John Martin.
The dance scenes were not only dazzling to the eyes but also wrenchingly expressive: balletic moves alternated with naturalistic gestures of ardor or sorrow.
Ms. Gilliland, a tall dancer with long, resiliently expressive limbs, moves along circumscribed paths from the spidery black silhouette that begins and ends the ballet in dancing of gradually increasing physical nuance.
In his book, he quotes Paul Klee describing graphic art as "the expressive movement of a hand equipped with a pencil to move it".
They provide a reminder of how expressive, how moving, pictures can be.
As soon as he was tall enough to drive, Touré, who is broad-shouldered and has dark, expressive eyes, moved to Gao.
One floor down, a pen-and-ink portrait of a preacher, from 1952, by Charles White, best known for his W.P.A. murals — the foreshortened perspective renders the preacher's gesturing hands larger than his expressive face — moved me to tears, as my thoughts turned to Clementa Pinckney.
I was pleasantly surprised to hear the expressive and moving speeches of three particular women at the Republican Convention last week in Tampa, FL: Ann Romney, the GOP presidential nominee's wife; former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Governor Susana Martinez (NM).
And not because his curly, silver ringlets dangle from his effervescent, shiny head or his elegant, expressive hands move gracefully when he speaks, or because his cheeks always look so soft, smoothly shaven and his teeth, so perfectly pearly white, it's because of his walk.
