Sentence examples for expressive significance from inspiring English sources

Moreover, because of the expressive significance of political spending, shareholders may attach greater importance – beyond the amounts spent – to political spending that deviates from their preferences.

The thin text, set in long takes, is drawn out in a pace of lugubrious sluggishness as if to emphasize the expressive significance of inexpressive dialogue, the weightiness of silences, the ponderous sadness at the center of the film.

He said the court could not rule for North Carolina Right to Life in this case "without recasting our understanding of the risks of harm posed by corporate political contributions, of the expressive significance of contributions, and of the consequent deference owed to legislative judgments on what to do about them".

Mr. Milford's Handel was blunt, loud and a little awkward, but Ms. Connolly, who made her American debut with City Opera in the title role of "Ariodante" in 1999, invested two arias from that opera with expressive significance, from the bitter despair of "Scherza infida" to the relieved happiness of "Dopo notte," in which the radiance of the sun echoed in her happy coloratura.

He argues it seems implausible to understand his act as having an expressive significance that devalues all fourth-children.

The general question of how to reconcile the demands of equal respect and distributive fairness has taken center-stage in a recent debate over the expressive significance of different measures to remediate the disadvantages associated with disability.

The most basic and primitive type of symbolic meaning is expressive meaning, the product of what Cassirer calls the expressive function (Ausdrucksfunktion) of thought, which is concerned with the experience of events in the world around us as charged with affective and emotional significance, as desirable or hateful, comforting or threatening.

He seemed less concerned with the expressive and structural significance of the harmonic writing, surely axiomatic in this context.

Thus, they distinguished cognitive-factual meaning from expressive and evocative (or emotive) significance in words and sentences.

Competing with lithography, photography, and the spectrum of Western technique, the woodblock medium asserted its significance and expressive power through these movements," says Libertson.

Although the art of Rodin appears conservative in comparison to the painting of the time, in that he explored literary and mythological themes, the new style that he evolved did much to revive sculpture's significance as an expressive medium, and his importance to 20th-century sculpture can hardly be overestimated.