expressiveness
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Expressiveness may be found in any one thing that suggests another, or draws from association with that other any of its emotional colouring.
From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by Santayana, George
Sincerity and Candor or Expressiveness also add much to the capacity for attaining truth; and Liberality, between Foresight and Benevolence, adds much to the expansion of the understanding.
From Buchanan's Journal of Man, November 1887 Volume 1, Number 10 by Buchanan, Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes)
Expressiveness at all costs and music a servant, a slave to attitudes—this is the end.…
From The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms. by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
Expressiveness at all costs, which is what the Wagnerian ideal—the ideal of decadence—demands, is hardly compatible with talent.
From The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms. by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
Expressiveness, getting the idea into circulation, getting something said, this appears to be the common goal of the German painter of the present day.
From Artists Past and Present Random Studies by Cary, Elisabeth Luther
