Sentence examples for little expressions from inspiring English sources

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I think it might have been their sad little expressions.

Anne Tyler's lumpy new novel, "Back When We Were Grown-Ups," has all the ingredients her readers have come to expect: an eccentric Baltimore family, a quirky protagonist suffering from a midlife crisis, a jerry-built plot that pivots around one character's sudden death and a supporting cast of oddballs fond of using quaint little expressions like "Oh, piffle" and "Just dandy".

Meighan Stoops, another Da Capo member, showed an impressive agility and a supple sound on bass clarinet as Mr. Emelianoff's partner in "Three Little Expressions (Homage to Brahms)," a likably gabby new duet by Gunther Schuller that opened the second half of the program.

Socrates railed against the followers of Heraclitus of Ephesus for much the same reasons that Mr Derrida's critics berate his unfortunate disciples:If you ask one of them a question, they draw out enigmatic little expressions from their quiver, so to speak, and shoot one off; and if you try to get hold of an account of what that one meant, you're transfixed by another novel set of metaphors.

Drudge also emphasized that he doesn't care about likes, upvotes and the other little expressions of approval that form the currency of the social Web.

I passed one booth selling "steamed buns," fat plush bunnies with angry little expressions on their face, nestled in bamboo containers.

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Human retinal endothelial cells express ephrin B2, with little expression of Eph B4.

This analysis indicated that 80% of mCherry-expressing neurons were SF1+, while little expression was observed in VMHvl.

Peach has four members of the SEP1-4 clade (PpeMADS19, PpeMADS38, PpeMADS21 and PpeMADS09), most of which were highly expressed in fruit and showed little expression elsewhere.

Spondin 2 and MGP were both highly expressed at 1d posthatch with very little expression at 18de or 16wk.

Also in the case of osa-miR1428e this was difficult to assess as this miRNA is expressed mainly in panicles, with very little expression in seedlings.

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