Sentence examples for strange expressive from inspiring English sources

The artist Mikhail Vrubel takes portraiture into strange expressive realms: Dostoevsky has the anguish of one of his own antiheroes, while Tchaikovsky can barely conceal his nerves.

One of the more powerful in the show is Barnett Newman's "Pagan Void" (1946), a deep black hole surrounded by an explosive amoeboid burst, perhaps suggesting a nuclear eclipse of the sun but also, with its strange, expressive markings, harking back to pagan prehistory.

In the official obituary -- written by one of Bach's sons, C. P. E. Bach, and an associate -- tribute was paid to Bach's music, with its "strange, new, expressive and beautiful ideas," and for Wolff the ideas are central.

Ancient art and contemporary culture merge in her expansive imagination to create strange totemic figures with a visceral, expressive power.

His drawings of them fill the first room of the show, and they're strange, at once bland and overly expressive, closer to caricatures than to portraits.

Apart from a few expressive touches, like the strange opening cacophony of classroom sturm und drang, Redford cleaves to the documentary textbook, serving up clear confessional space for the kids.

To add to the strange visual style, the actors used expressive movements and gestures.

It should feel real, but it should all the time feel slightly on the edge and expressive, slightly disturbing and strange.

I find it strange that Mira Nair freely expresses her resentment of the West and America, which have given her the creative and expressive freedom she currently enjoys.

The eyes are the windows to the soul, but the mouth is an almost equally expressive instrument, so it seems strange to not see it.

"My own education led me to the Dadaist artists and their strange, often outsider art that was alert to the idea that emptiness of meaning might be as expressive and 'true' as art that purports to be full of meaning.