Sentence examples for memorable expression from inspiring English sources

In Alan Ayckbourn's A Woman In Mind (1986), his portrayal of the secretly admiring doctor of the unhappy heroine found memorable expression in a strange, nervous, grating cry.

The deal was indeed one of the "monstrosities" created by Wall Street in the years leading up to the crisis, to quote Tourre's memorable expression.

The audience's attention is fixed on the interior conflicts of the characters, rather than on exterior events, and language is used for the subtly nuanced and dramatically memorable expression of emotions, not the recital of a plot.

Other writers have applied their keenness of mind in this way, but Shakespeare is astonishingly clever with words and images, so that his mental energy, when applied to intelligible human situations, finds full and memorable expression, convincing and imaginatively stimulating.

These intellectual constructs have enjoyed such wide appeal not only because of their seductive literary qualities, but also because of their critical functions in shaping the French collective self-understanding (the contrast with British self-perception is again noteworthy: in Keir Hardie's memorable expression, the British are "not given to chasing bubbles").

The most memorable expression of this ambivalence comes at the death, when Greig informs us that Mackay Brown's last words were "I see hundreds of ships leaving harbour", and comments "Trust a poet / to hoard a good last line / then toss it overboard".

A veteran comic, Mr. Hou, 35, has mastered the impulsive, messianic speech, the rustic mannerisms and the memorable expressions on the face of Taiwan's president.

He also assigned several dissents last term to his usually mild-mannered liberal colleagues — Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen G. Breyer and David H. Souter — that inspired some of their most scathing and memorable expressions of frustration with the court's turn to the right.

Casa Guidi Windows (1851) is a subtle reflection on her experience of Italian politics, and "A Musical Instrument" (1862) is one of the century's most memorable expressions of the difficulty of the poet's role.

The centre of attention is in large part on the characters, described often with a personal slant and using memorable expressions ("It is we who are Hamlet"), and incorporating psychological insights that were to become highly influential in later criticism.

Besides such memorable expressions as "It is we who are Hamlet", Hazlitt, like no critic before him, was supremely attentive to "the whole interrelationship of one person with another, one mind with other minds presences both physical and psychological upon a stage".