spontaneous expression

collocation in English

meaningsofspontaneousandexpression

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spontaneous
adjective
uk
/spɒnˈteɪ.ni.əs/us
/spɑːnˈteɪ.ni.əs/
happening or done in a natural, often sudden way, without any planning or without ...
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expression
noun
uk
/ɪkˈspreʃ.ən/us
/ɪkˈspreʃ.ən/
the act of saying what you think or showing how you feel using words ...
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(Definition ofspontaneousandexpressionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofspontaneous expression

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The original levee en masse was a system of conscription enforced from above, but it was presented as aspontaneousexpressionof popular will.
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Spontaneousexpressionis highly valued.
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It was not intimidation, it was aspontaneousexpression, even women were moved.
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We cannot at this moment do more than record aspontaneousexpressionof our grief.
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Meaning andspontaneousexpressionwere to be avoided.
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It is also possible that the child can only use these inflected forms in narrow sentence contexts and these are precisely the ones chosen by the child forspontaneousexpression.
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That affection found itsspontaneousexpressionwhen we all rejoiced a year or vivo ago to congratulate him upon his golden wedding.
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Folklore in this region is aspontaneousexpressionof human behavior and thoughts.
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Pantsula is an energetic andspontaneousexpressionof the lives of people in the townships.
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In reaction to neoclassicism, it focused on emotion over reason, and onspontaneousexpression.
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On the contrary, it is aspontaneousexpressionand it is an inevitable expression of the attachment which we all feel to the principle of racial toleration.
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He will see the kind of misgiving that is felt by people reflected in thespontaneousexpressionof my noble friend behind me, whose heart is in the land.
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There is always room for the acts of individual kindness that are aspontaneousexpressionof the community's concern and a continuing link with the world outside the hospital.
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Characterized by intuitive and loose paint handling,spontaneousexpression, illusionist space, acrylic staining, process, occasional imagery, and other painterly and newer technological techniques.
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Their music was mostly experimental, making classification all but impossible and contained an extreme variety of timbres and dynamics at the basis of aspontaneousexpression.
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In a ritual context, prayer ("prex") was not a form of personalspontaneousexpression, but a demonstration that the speaker knew the correct thing to say.
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