Sentence examples for merely expressive from inspiring English sources

It is merely expressive.

Ballard was a beautiful man, with a marvellously full, resonant face and hot eyes, and talked in the cadences of extreme sarcasm with very heavy stresses - he wasn't being sarcastic, merely expressive.

Schleiermacher's initial intention there, it seems, was to demote art (in comparison with religion) in two ways: First, as we saw, the lectures initially set out aiming to give an account of non-linguistic arts (music, painting, and sculpture) which represents them as merely expressive of sensuous feelings and non-cognitive in character.

While Nietzsche was, to be sure, among the first to recognize the extent to which linguistic and grammatical practices generate metaphysical assumptions and problems, he simply did not view metaphysical questions themselves as best framed as issues about the semantics of a given region of discourse (e.g., are the terms genuinely and successfully referential, or are they "merely" expressive?).

An association must merely engage in expressive activity that could be impaired in order to be entitled to protection.

And because Mavis Staples merely grunting is more expressive than most orators in full flow.

Above all, he was already detaching the image from dialogue, creating images that weren't merely illustrative but highly expressive; his sense of visual storytelling was based on an intensity of rhetorical inflection.

"Alexander the Last" is a significant advance over Swanberg's other films; his camera work — and he does indeed do the camera work — is more careful and more controlled, and his images are by and large more expressive, not merely revelatory of performance (as they were, for the most part, in his earlier films).

The tenebrous opening certainly signals the tragedy that is to come, but when it does, with Jack's death almost two hours later, there's nothing to deliver the gut wrench needed; Ennis's final monologue merely hints at the expressive world the music might have explored.

Her burnished tone and carefully shaped lines invariably went directly to the heart of an aria, and although all the singers ornamented the repeats inventively, Ms. Cooke's embellishments were expressive rather than merely showy.

He holds that there are languages which differ in expressive power, not merely as notational variants.