Sentence examples for purely expressive from inspiring English sources

Fahey took the guitar and all of its rich history in the blues and folk musical forms and then freed it to be a purely expressive instrument".

"Computer code is not purely expressive," he said, "any more than the assassination of a political figure is purely a political statement".

This article has not however ever been applied to activity that is purely expressive in nature.

Such impositions however are not directly produced by activities that are purely expressive in nature such as communication programmes.

This is often because such measures represent activities that are purely expressive in nature and therefore not capable of imposing any binding legal or corporeal changes on individuals.

Whether the types of harms that can be caused by purely expressive activities which can (in theory at least) be simply ignored would warrant such interference is a complex discussion that deserves much more attention.

It's the difference, for instance, between a remix of "found" text that appears superficially to be an original, self-expressive document (metamodern) and a poem that is, without formal/thematic complication or constraint, a purely self-expressive document (a Romantic tendency we might also associate with early modernism).

Their posture is expressive purely of surrender.

Note that purely physical differences between expressive and non-expressive conditions cannot account for this effect, because we compared the difference in SCRs between expected and (very) unexpected harmonies, separately for the expressive, and for the non-expressive music.

Whether emphasizing expressive or purely visual considerations, the landscape paintings of the period display dazzling colour.

He was also an athlete, and he approaches dance, to judge by "érection," as a purely physical rather than expressive discipline.