Sentence examples for expressive utterance from inspiring English sources

But at the same time he holds to a Romantic view of music as expressive utterance.

Is there really such a thing as musical authenticity (by which I don't mean using period instruments, or playing without vibrato) in the sense of giving voice to an absolute sincerity of emotional or expressive utterance?

For all his authentic 19th-century turns of phrase (the film's Dickensian language is a joy), Spall's most expressive utterance is not a word but a growl – a guttural sound that speaks poetic volumes.

The disorientation we would feel in trying to describe the person's feeling with subtlety and precision without any possibility of imitating his precise expressive utterance—"the way he said it" – shows how very far the dualistic or subtractive conceptual template is from our human experience, our natural history.

A simple expressivist view—sometimes attributed to Wittgenstein on the basis of these and related passages denies that the expressive utterances (e.g., "that hurts!") genuinely ascribe mental states to the individuals uttering them.

Consequently, Bar-On advocates, instead, what she calls a neo-expressivist view according to which expressive utterances can share logical and semantic structure with non-expressive utterances, despite the epistemic differences between them.

Even though these statements may be true with respect to the expressive acts of utterance, Saussure himself argued cogently that as a meaningful entity the existence of the sign depends on its social currency.

There was, however, a further, more troubling, point about the role of moral terms in arguments: moral terms can be used in arguments in which the moral term appears in a conditional, and so is not there contributing to the expressive force of the utterance, so not expressing any emotion of the speaker.

Mr. Gago has the kind of small, high voice that's sometimes called a tenorino, but there's nothing diminutive about the cascading fluency of his coloratura or the expressive vitality of his utterance.

The cognitive function is fulfilled characteristically by 3rd-person nonmodal utterances (i.e., utterances in the indicative mood, making no use of modal verbs); the expressive function by 1st-person utterances in the subjunctive or optative mood; and the conative function by 2nd-person utterances in the imperative.

These domains were assessed by tests of expressive vocabulary and mean length of utterance, two important measures of expressive language competence.