Sentence examples for what expressions from inspiring English sources

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Mielke's words rang especially false because people had just seen, on the streets of Berlin, what expressions of love for one's fellow man really looked like.

Our conventions and decisions can and do affect what expressions mean and thus what sentences mean.

If you could have frozen time in the 80th minute then what expressions you would have seen.

Paul Grice developed an analysis of meaning which can be thought of as the conjunction of two claims: (1) facts about what expressions mean are to be explained, or analyzed, in terms of facts about what speakers mean by utterances of them, and (2) facts about what speakers mean by their utterances can be explained in terms of their intentions.

One powerful way to substantiate the claim that speaker-meaning is explanatorily prior to expression-meaning would be to show that facts about speaker-meaning may be given an analysis which makes no use of facts about what expressions mean; and this is just what stage (2) of Grice's analysis, to which we now turn, aims to provide.

Understand what expressions you will have to make and act.

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I can't pick up basic information — how old somebody is, what expression she has on her face — and inevitably my imagination starts to fill in the gaps.

He found facial attractiveness remained steadfast in other people's minds no matter what expression a person displays.

The next time you're stuck in a crowded subway car or in a long supermarket line, try looking carefully at the faces around you to figure out exactly what expression a face reveals, and what makes you think so.

I usually look into their eyes with a "say what?!" expression and then I let them know my dismay and complete lack of approval.

"America hasn't really changed between black and white, has it?" I wonder what expression I'll be wearing the next time I answer.

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