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You can admire the ambition, but in the end, the feeling is of art as an expression of imperialism.

Children might try tracking a speaker’s lips, watching a speaker’s facial expressions, or following where a speaker is looking.

Online communities that frame themselves as refuges for free expression often find themselves pulled to the fringes, forcing members to either confront the shift or tolerate increasingly radical ideas.

Humans evolved to survive by communicating and responding to cues, down to minuscule shifts in tone and expression.

While the expression “cold hands, warm heart” is considered a compliment, we prefer to have a warm heart and warm hands.

It was also an attack on our freedom of expression and way of life.

“Tu eres como chuleria en pote,” goes the Puerto Rican expression that gave rise to his moniker.

Instead, he is cruelly jailed solely for the peaceful expression of his beliefs.

We stand by our filmmakers and their right to free expression and are extremely disappointed by this outcome.

However the expression on his face offered some explanation.

It is most peculiar, and when he plays that way, the most bewitching little expression comes over his face.

Of course the expression of this value is modified and characterized by the nature of the thing spoken of.

All elements of expression modify each other, so that no mere rule can cover all cases.

At the mention of the Merrill Horse, Poindexter's countenance took on a demoniac expression.

Various impulses urged him into a pouring flood of words; yet he gave expression to none of them.

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On this page you'll find 141 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to expression, such as: definition, explanation, interpretation, language, phrase, and remark.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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