Sentence examples for oddly expressive from inspiring English sources

One particular gesture is oddly expressive and impassioned.

For all their blankness, these are oddly expressive: cartoon eyes, their wide-open look suggestive of faint alarm.

Her eyes are gazing off into the distance, anguished and fretful despite the resignation that clings to her mouth and the unyielding angularity of those oddly expressive cheekbones.

When Rupert decides to knit himself an orange sweater, "most of the other Hueys were horrified!" Jeffers's tale owes a serious hat tip to Mo Willems's "Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed," but the book's sweet humor and oddly expressive oddball creatures stand — and stand out — on their own.

FunkBrother69 is rereading Gore Vidal's collection of essays United States, and recommends it "to anyone who has an interest in American history or literary criticism": What strikes me after a gap of maybe 15 years since I last read this is the simple yet oddly expressive prose Vidal uses.

In that same vein, Kuri can also look in the direction of sounds now, so if you speak or laugh or talk to someone else it'll look up at you with those glowing, oddly expressive eyes.

(A comparison between each performer's interpretation of the finale, with its oddly insinuating expressive marking "the bass [voice] quite easily and freely," tells all).

It also handily sums up my response to this highly impressive, expressive but oddly unmoving film, which wallows in sadism with a faux-horrified grimace before offering a perverse twist on the inspirational-teacher genre.

Their facial and bodily readings are heart-wrenchingly expressive, an effect oddly magnified by their small size.

And Barnes crowned the whole conglomeration with a glass cabinet in the middle of the room displaying one of the best Greek vessels he ever bought, an Attic pyxis, or lidded round box, from 750 B.C., topped with four expressive horses with oddly birdlike heads.

It is an oddly two-dimensional work, both in its constricted expressive range and in the coolly intellectual absorption of its main musical influences.