"expressive patterns" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to the patterns or structures used in language to convey emotions, attitudes, or intentions. Example: The author effectively used a variety of expressive patterns to create a sense of isolation and despair in the protagonist's inner dialogue.
"Now in Scandinavia we are looking for colorful, graphic expressive patterns," said Erika Pekkari, the Swedish designer of the Skogsklocka quilt cover and pillowcase set.
These elements are combined into expressive patterns in order to represent real or supernatural phenomena, to interpret a narrative theme, or to create wholly abstract visual relationships.
In applications such as social media marketing, knowledge discovery and cyber security, more expressive patterns are needed, notably ones with counting quantifiers.
The design of a painting is its visual format: the arrangement of its lines, shapes, colours, tones, and textures into an expressive pattern.
In one instance, Hatoum juxtaposed recent works by Gallagher — pale abstractions riddled with grotesque racial symbols, such as tiny "banjo eyes" — with works from the nineteen-fifties and sixties by Yayoi Kusama, a Japanese artist who for many years was a lightly regarded resident of New York and whose feverishly expressive patterning with dots and polyp shapes has lately won overdue recognition.
For the expressive performance, the patterns of emotional arousal ratings were significantly positively correlated across the two trials for nineteen out of twenty-one participants (mean r = .62, SD = .23, p<.05).
Shape and motion are an expressive abstraction of visual patterns, in space and time respectively.
So he set out to create software that would convert expressive gestures -- lines, patterns, textures and colors -- made on the screen into pleasing and variable sounds.
He planted these elements in his paintings — the fear symbol dominates the church picture — to give his decorative patterns an expressive personal subtext.
The body is held squarely upright in a vertical axis, holding a tight bend in the lifted elbows and knees, the foundation for intricate footwork patterns and expressive, flowering hand gestures.
Every time the collective imagination became soupy, someone came along to push it back toward structure: Steve Bernstein focused it with a riff, Mr. McNeil inaugurated a duet, Mr. Lavelle hammered out expressive, major-triad, folklike patterns, Mr. Douglas ripped through blues and bop lines.
