A leading interpreter of Russian composers, Mr. Svetlanov's programs were hailed at home and abroad as disciplined, spirited expressions of Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, Mussorgsky and Scriabin, but he also performed Mahler, Beethoven and others in the classic repertoire.
Mr. Svetlanov was a leading interpreter of Russian composers, and his programs were hailed at home and abroad as disciplined, spirited expressions of Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, Mussorgsky and Scriabin, but he also performed Mahler, Beethoven and others in the classic repertory.
They're the free-spirited, expression of such natural nobility — and, as such, they're a form of defiance, of resistance.
Women in my generation didn't have this free-spirited expression of themselves in their fashion like Europeans do".
There's a mean-spirited expression about addition by subtraction -- meaning that when an unhelpful person is relieved of his or her duties, everyone else benefits.
He is thin and precise, like a serious child, with a scribble of brown curls and a spirited facial expression that his uncle calls a "shark's smile".
Yesterday's spirited festival of free expression, organized by Heritage of Pride, began with a same-sex wedding ceremony in which 50 couples were married in a service that was not legally binding but served as a rallying point for gay rights advocates.
The fundamental trope of Apatow's films is the fuckup whose chaos is no free-spirited, uninhibited self-expression or even self-indulgence but rather a form of self-destructive, un-self-conscious turmoil that nonetheless bears within itself the seeds of enduring love.
But the effect was diminished by the participation of Mr. Chavez, a spirited but sloppy mover whose facial expressions constantly indicated difficulty in chewing something.
Often, our mean-spirited commentary is capped off by the awful expression, "Just sayin'," the polite equivalent of a mobster saying "It's just business, nothing personal," before putting a bullet in someone's brain.
The clerks' ballots (collected on Mr. Stevens's Web site, leroystevens.info) contextualize the range of expression in the music, from the Slits' free-spirited "Shoplifting" to the "horrific first-person existential crisis" of Suicide's "Frankie Teardrop".
