Definition of Expressive style

1. Noun. A way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period. "All the reporters were expected to adopt the style of the newspaper"


Lexicographical Neighbors of Expressive Style

expressional
expressionism
expressionisms
expressionist
expressionistic
expressionistically
expressionists
expressionless
expressionlessly
expressionlessness
expressions
expressis verbis
expressive
expressive aphasia
expressive language
expressive style (current term)
expressively
expressiveness
expressivism
expressivisms
expressivist
expressivists
expressivities
expressivity
expressly
expressman
expressmen
expressness
expresso
expressome

Literary usage of Expressive style

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A biographical dictionary of eminent Scotsmen by Robert Chambers, Thomas Thomson (1854)
"... in the university of Edinburgh ; a paper written in his usual flowing, simple, and expressive style. Л second was a paper on the causes which affect the ..."

2. Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal (1861)
"... fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries; or his style has no expression at all,—and then it is not Gothic, for Gothic is an eminently expressive style. ..."

3. Dutch Type by Jan Middendorp (2004)
"'My expressive style and urge for in novation,'Stolk said, 'were at odds with the ideas of Wim Crowel.'2 A brilliant illustrator, Stolk chose to quit the ..."

4. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1908)
"In other notices in the same periodical, he is said to have inherited the pure, singing, expressive style of Viotti, and practised it to perfection. ..."

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