expressive style

collocation in English

meaningsofexpressiveandstyle

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expressive
adjective
uk
/ɪkˈspres.ɪv/us
/ɪkˈspres.ɪv/
showing what someone thinks ...
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style
noun
uk
/staɪl/us
/staɪl/
a way of doing something, especially one that is typical of a person, group of people, place, ...
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(Definition ofexpressiveandstylefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Moreover, the television scenario in which the actors are performing champions a trendyexpressivestyle.
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She discovered two different strategies of language acquisition : the object-oriented referential style, and the self-orientedexpressivestyle.
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We assessedexpressivestyleusing a combination of content-based analyses and acoustic analyses of prosody, based on both audio recordings and transcripts of participants' responses.
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These works use a combination of different techniques and are inexpressivestyle.
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However, he very soon found his ownexpressivestyle.
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Person is also known for his distinctive sassy sound and hisexpressivestyleof playing.
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Its deep,expressivestyleis among the most important in flamenco.
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Some critics have seen in his landscape works, rendered in a looser,expressivestyle, a prelude to modern art and abstraction.
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In his later work he abandoned his early fascination with creating hyper-realized realistic imagery, instead focusing on a looser and moreexpressivestyle.
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Overall he finds change in expressive styles but continuity in the depth of grief.
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Theexpressivestyleblends contemporary electric sounds, orchestral and tribal textures, frequently incorporating improvisation within scored sections of material, spoken word, and collaboration with multimedia artists.
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