expressive
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“Gregory has always been the more grounded, measured type. And then Janine is naturally more whimsical, optimistic and quirky, so she carried the bigger, more expressive visual in the moment,” she says.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026
"It is a combination of a real standout of its era, a winning team and then the first real kind of expressive design coming to the fore."
From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026
Recent work in artificial intelligence and music technology has focused on modeling timbre, generating realistic piano motion, and building systems that can reproduce subtle expressive nuances in performance.
From Science Daily • May 28, 2026
It features 26 paintings, oil sketches and drawings, these last done in Conté crayon, a medium made from powdered graphite and carbon black that allowed deeper blacks and more expressive tonal contrasts.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026
Iofur Raknison was even taller and bulkier than Iorek, and his face was much more mobile and expressive, with a kind of humanness in it which she had never seen in Iorek’s.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
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