How to Use expressivity in a Sentence

expressivity

noun

• The music’s tone, too, has a ferocious expressivity that’s on display from the very start of the concert.
  — Richard Brod, The New Yorker, 26 July 2021
• This plays to Johnson’s strengths as a star: presence, yes, expressivity, no.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Oct. 2022
• Clinton is not known for the expressivity of her voice, but of course no other narrator would have sufficed.
  — Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, 13 Sep. 2017
• The orchestra’s reading of this piece again called for more expressivity and lyricism.
  — Tim Diovanni, Dallas News, 13 June 2021
• The film’s performances, by some of the best actors in the business, have a generic and atemporal expressivity that suggests neither the society of the nineteen-forties nor the movies of that time.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2021
• But aside from his singing voice, virtually unchanged in its timbre and expressivity, his latest album, Sky Trails (out Sept. 29), draws little from that well.
  — Bob Doerschuk, USA TODAY, 20 Sep. 2017
• The risk of stretching music — especially to the degree that a sense of pulse becomes weak — is that the shape of a phrase, a passage or an entire section becomes entirely lost in a profusion of expressivity.
  — Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2020
• Now Madeline Gannon, founder of the research studio AtonAton, leads the field in her exploration of robot expressivity.
  — Sydney Skybetter, Wired, 7 Feb. 2021
• She’s persuasively matched and reflected by newcomer Bonsu, who grows in stature and expressivity as Ama opens herself to the outside world.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 27 Jan. 2023
• And his Violin Concerto in D, despite being little more than a showcase for expressivity, is entrenched in the repertoire.
  — Joshua Barone, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2020
• Grimaud played with panache — sometimes at the cost of overpowering strings — and generous expressivity.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 2 Apr. 2021
• Her hands shaped and caressed the music with generous expressivity, which also was conveyed by her facial expressions.
  — Dallas News, 30 Jan. 2023
• Most of the pieces are for women’s voices, exploring different timbres and expressivity.
  — Heidi Waleson, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2020
• What began as a joke became a curiosity, and, slowly—with the help of Segarra’s on-screen magnetism and puppylike physical expressivity—Lance has become something like the show’s moral center.
  — Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 9 June 2023
• Though vocal beauty and proper technique were central to the Italian tradition, Ms. Freni placed a premium on expressivity and feeling.
  — New York Times, 9 Feb. 2020
• In a field that often fetishizes technical perfection at the inevitable expense of other virtues, Nuttall could play with daring spontaneity, unchecked expressivity, and an infectious sense of wonder.
  — Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Jan. 2023
• Heider’s programs always were astutely assembled, and her guided tour of some of Bella Voce’s great successes brought telling contrasts of style and period that felt all of a piece because the performances were of such high quality and expressivity.
  — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 29 Apr. 2018
• Familiarity comes when an artist makes the emotional commitment of expressivity, and that was sometimes missing.
  — Peter Dobrin, Philly.com, 8 Jan. 2018
• Luisi displayed his first-rate skills as a collaborator, matching Kerr’s expressivity.
  — Dallas News, 1 Mar. 2022
• An exception is an untitled plant sketch of remarkable dynamism and expressivity.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Oct. 2019
• Rather, the terminology, assumptions, and mode of expressivity were all geared toward a very specific audience.
  — Bruce Sterling, WIRED, 6 Feb. 2007
• The idea that people are discovering their sexuality and their expressivity online is a beautiful thing.
  — Emil Wilbekin Shikeith Ian Bradley, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2022
• The sublime 25th Variation, a slow, achingly lyrical rumination with passages that explore bold realms of chromatic harmony, invites a performer to play with brooding expressivity.
  — Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2020
• Reeves’s admirably minimalist expressivity and air of distraction, as if he is perpetually tuned into a higher frequency, lends Wick a deceptive semblance of substance that the script doesn’t define and the action doesn’t dramatize.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2017
• The foursome has an amiable mix of technical precision, expressivity, and an ability to turn on a dime that beautifully animates Shaw’s prismatic tendencies.
  — Peter Dobrin, Philly.com, 14 May 2018
• Cho made a perfect foil for Dudamel’s extravagant expressivity.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2021
• Barnatan’s playing bordered on being too precious for my tastes, a fey hyper-expressivity that traded concern for Schubert’s architecture with Barnatan’s delight in magnifying the details.
  — Christian Hertzog, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 Apr. 2018
• Playing a Chopin sonata by hitting every key equally hard will yield a dramatically different result from allowing expressivity and dynamics to influence decisions on how loudly or softly a note should be played.
  — Paul Tullis, Town & Country, 6 Feb. 2018
• Actors Labaki and Bakri are at another level of expressivity and nuance separately and together, and their characters come to symbolize differing paths forward for their family and their country.
  — Vulture, 16 July 2022
• Gerry Wood, in consideration for the principal horn position, delivered polished tone and amazing expressivity — hire him!
  — Dallas News, 15 Jan. 2022

Last Updated: 19 Oct 2024