mode of expression
Example Sentences
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In Berlant’s view, irony is a key mode of expression in contemporary life because it showcases the gap between our ideals and the reality of our lived experience.
From Salon • Nov. 29, 2024
At that time when there were only 200,000 voters in the country, the saucepan was the mode of expression of those who had no voice, he added.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 24, 2023
When Mitsuko Uchida does it, for example, she treats the orchestra as an extension of her instrument — a mode of expression somewhat perversely, but beautifully, in service of her interpretation.
From New York Times • Apr. 16, 2023
“I loved reading, and in search of my own mode of expression, I started to write,” she told the Sentinel.
From Washington Post • Jun. 30, 2021
These metaphors may all of them be of use, in a region where metaphor is our only mode of expression; but none of them covers all the facts now collected.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)