expressive purpose

collocation in English

meaningsofexpressiveandpurpose

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expressive
adjective
uk
/ɪkˈspres.ɪv/us
/ɪkˈspres.ɪv/
showing what someone thinks ...
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purpose
noun
uk
/ˈpɜː.pəs/us
/ˈpɝː.pəs/
why you do something or why ...
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(Definition ofexpressiveandpurposefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofexpressive purpose

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She exploits the redundancy forexpressivepurpose: the repetitive treading of the same harmonic paths captures an appropriately worldweary tone.
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Surely, however, if the expressive accompaniment is not perceived by the other characters present, it is serving noexpressivepurposewithin the world of the operatic work.
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But these characteristics need not prevent an activity that is normally devoid ofexpressivepurpose from being used as a novel mode of communication.
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It applies to the body and not to a mental state, but the arrangement of the body is presumed to serve a communicative orexpressivepurpose.
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This would be designed to allow uses enabled by technology of works in ways which do not directly trade on the underlying creative andexpressivepurposeof the work.
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Second, children exploit, tacitly and explicitly, features of the written mode for their own rhetorical and expressive purposes.
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Once one steps out of the realm of archivist and into the creative role of composer, the distortion of meaning for expressive purposes becomes, not only appropriate, but essential.
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She also deviates here and there from the notes as written, but well within the usual range employed by singers for expressive purposes.
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Artwork that reshapes the natural world for expressive purposes is called abstract; that which derives from, but does not imitate a recognizable subject is called nonobjective abstraction.
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Blues singing is based on the use of the blue notesnotes sung at a slightly lower pitch than that of the major scale for expressive purposes.
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