She could learn to be a little more expressive from her cousin whose turn it now was to put a comforting hand on Briony’s shoulder. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Her big expressive mouth, now spilling with something that sounds like a confession. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

It was very hard to detect any expressive tones in his voice, whether of irony or anger, because it was so deep and so flat. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Her large, expressive eyes looked at him with absolute adoration. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lay with one leg bent beneath him, his jaw in his throat, his face neither expressive nor inexpressive. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She just waltzed in on her expressive, blue, highly arched bare feet. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He was much more expressive as a human. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Your American terms are so quaint, so expressive,” he said. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

The elongated forms, eerie moonlight, and expressive colors—all hallmarks of El Greco’s style—help to heighten our sense of identification with Christ’s suffering. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have expressive eyebrows. They have a life of their own.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Like Farmer, he had an expressive face that revealed his enthusiasm and determination, and as second in command at PIH, his role was to keep the wheels of that machine well oiled. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The features of these enormous portraits are naturalistically carved and amazingly expressive— thoughtful or fiercely proud, mirthful or dismayed. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

His hands were sticky with it and his eyes expressive of guilt. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“This is a pretty thing, Belinda!” said Mr. Pocket, returning with a countenance expressive of grief and despair. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

When the music finally stopped, the audience reacted with stunned silence; the dance had been so beautiful and expressive. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now practice describing the expressive qualities of a song. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

As an answer Jack dropped into the uncomprehending silence that followed it the one crude expressive syllable. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

But our involuntary expressive system is in many ways even more important: it is the way we have been equipped by evolution to signal our authentic feelings. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

And he’s not really talking, but he has very expressive brown eyes. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Luckily, the ubiquitous nature of music and arts as an expressive form found in all cultures, allows for extensive exchanges of ideas from all corners of the globe. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Children’s expression of emotional meaning in music through expressive body movement. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I liked watching his hands move— he isn’t expressive, but he moves things around a lot. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had expressive dark brown eyes, and there was a liveliness in her that Kaede liked immediately. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“There are carriers, people who are very expressive, and there are people who are especially susceptible. It’s not that emotional contagion is a disease. But the mechanism is the same.” The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vermeer’s mastery of light’s expressive qualities elevates his concern for the reality of appearance to the level of poetry and subsumes its visual and symbolic possibilities. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Normally the most expressive thing about my mother’s face was the gap between her front teeth. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He was like that—overly expressive—the kind of guy who cried at a greeting card commercial. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

People are everywhere, all dressed in black, all shouting and talking, expressive, gesturing. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Oh, it was great!” the normally articulate Robert exclaims, unable to find a more expressive way to describe the event. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

But evidently he was not addressing me for he dropped my hand and covered Gatsby with his expressive nose. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

These private comments were more often far more expressive than those his reticent public persona allowed. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

His dark eyes are really expressive, and he stares at us like he’s trying to size us up. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Emma listened, and looked, and soon perceived that Frank Churchill’s state might be best defined by the expressive phrase of being out of humour. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

An animated talker, she flips her waist-length hair from her face with a toss of her head as she speaks and chops the air for emphasis with small, expressive hands. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ekman does not appear to have a particularly expressive face. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Her voice was low and expressive, with a current of laughter and happiness under the clear surface. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The old dog took another reluctant step forward, whining piteously, his expressive tail tucked under. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw Njemile talking to someone he didn’t recognize, both of them animated and expressive. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

There was something about the expressive ups and downs of the music—the fluid emotion that escaped with every twitch of V’s fingers—that V couldn’t pull herself away from. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Donovan looked after him as he left and muttered a short, expressive phrase at his back. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Listening to him, I’m always reminded of why I started playing cello in the first place—that there is something so human and expressive about it. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re expressive, Moss. It’s like...your face says a lot in a very short amount of time.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I acted out a pantomime more eloquent than my most expressive words. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a homely, lanky, young fellow with close-set eyes, and a wide, expressive mouth. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Personal uses of writing by nonprofessionals came only much later, as writing systems grew simpler and more expressive. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Debbie, who works as a bookkeeper at a private elementary school, has a mobile, expressive face framed by blond chin-length hair. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Photographs from Ernest’s adolescence portray a handsome young boy, with his mother’s full lips and his father’s expressive blue eyes. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

While musicians and instrument-makers were finding ways of expanding the expressive range of what they could play, historical destiny was going to hand the bass line an unexpected boost. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I watched her for nearly half-an-hour: during all that time she never turned a page, and her face grew momently darker, more dissatisfied, and more sourly expressive of disappointment. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Lane looked at her, then exhaled a thin, overly expressive stream of smoke down at his plate. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

She had long, dark hair, and really expressive eyes, and she was using those eyes today to express to me that she wanted to kill me. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

As we said them out loud, our voices gathered confidence and became more expressive. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His sister was less delicate, and directed her eye towards Mr. Darcy with a very expressive smile. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

I thought of his expressive face, handsome and vigorous. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In profile she resembles a cute Punchinello, her cheeks expressive, painted, and the nose carved for comic effect. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Children’s expression of emotional meaning in music through expressive body movement Journal of Non-verbal Behavior. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Of all the visual elements, color is undoubtedly the most expressive—as well as the most intractable. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said mildly, “You could be a little less expressive toward your sister.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Not whose?” he said, and his voice was lighter than she had thought it would be, but full of expressive tones and subtleties. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

"The carvings on the gatehouse are exquisite, they make me weep each time I see them. The eyes ... so expressive, don't you think? They almost seem to follow you as you ride beneath the portcullis." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Therefore, to use the expressive, if not elegant, language of a schoolgirl, “He was as nervous as a witch and as cross as a bear”. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

We gagged the man and hauled him into his loft, where we left him lying, entombed by heat, eyes expressive of the greatest terror. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

If a phrase sounds expressive and lively and nothing else will do, fine. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she looked up, the dragon was there, its surprisingly expressive blue eyes passing back and forth between Anya’s face and her arm. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“Well, my love, I consider him a trump, in the fullest sense of that expressive word, but I do wish he was a little younger and a good deal richer.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mollie could not cure her, but she could feed her, and she could brush her long, beautiful, silvery hair from her face—a face that was lined and expressive, that maintained its aura. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

But expressive abilities of music do not have to be limited. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Line has traditionally been admired for its descriptive value, so that its expressive potential is easily overlooked. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

They gestured broadly with their arms and made expressive faces, reminding me of Uncle Turu. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

That was surely determined as a matter of pictorial and expressive necessity. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, if anything, he seemed to be the least expressive of the three. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was a beast again, no longer the beautiful young woman she’d spoken to a day prior, but her dark eyes were uncannily expressive. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

In his deep, expressive voice, Welles introduces the radio play. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

The same full lips, the same thick eyebrows, the same expressive eyes. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Our voluntary expressive system is the way we intentionally signal our emotions. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

An Osage man in his seventies with expressive gray eyebrows and a deliberate manner, he served as the chief trial court judge. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The faces were covered in purple patterns, tattooed in swirls of indigo, turning the dead faces into strange, expressive monstrous things. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The Xhosa are a proud and patrilineal people with an expressive and euphonious language and an abiding belief in the importance of laws, education, and courtesy. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Could it be, for example, that Jennings is just more expressive in general than his colleagues? The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was lovely and expressive and born of grim necessity. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“I have lately imagined that I saw symptoms of attachment between them—certain expressive looks, which I did not believe meant to be public.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

My eyes were huge and expressive, dark brown popping against the copper-colored eyeshadow. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

In the final phrases the two sing with unabashed expressive ardor. Toscanini and Giulini Put Their Mark on ?Traviata? 2010-04-04T21:37:00Z

Accompanied by Christie’s expressive paintings, Weatherford’s poetic text depicts the liberation and the community that Congo Square Sundays provided each week after six days of hard labor. Best children’s and young adult books of 2016 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

But the chairs, which are surprisingly expressive when grouped in pairs, like lovers, or uncanny towers, are actually cast, exactingly, in resin before being painted in muted office-work tones of beige, black or green. TriBeCa Gallery Guide: New York’s Most Vibrant Art Scene 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

Together, they inspired the big, expressive eyes that would become characteristic of Tezuka's work. Hayao Miyazaki’s "Spirited Away" continues to delight fans 20 years after its U.S. premiere 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z

She is perky, with subtly Manga-esque features – wide-open eyes and a tiny, expressive mouth – but she hasn't had the most relaxing morning. Anna Kendrick: 'It's all about that fatal flaw' 2012-05-24T19:30:00Z

The exhaustion itself is expressive; you see him struggling, and that struggle heightens the emotional pitch of the dance. A New Incarnation of Mark Morris’s Singular Dance 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

She is still very much in mourning — melancholy seems to have settled on her like a heavy blanket, giving her an ineffable sadness that Newton conveys with expressive subtlety — but she seems otherwise OK. ‘God’s Country’ Review: A Solitary Woman Isn’t Left Alone for Long 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z

Filigree trills hovered like hummingbirds and quicksilver scales, and delicate grace notes melted into an expressive chorale. Review | Zoltan Fejervari shows off his technique with a program of gems 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z

Still, Mr. Smith smartly conserved his voice and sang consistently with healthy technique and expressive urgency. Music Review: Plush and Lyrical Strauss (and That?s Just the Conducting) 2011-05-08T21:53:47Z

Anthony Dowell, her former colleague at the Royal, says that Mason always reminded him of the "young Joan Crawford ... with these incredibly expressive eyes". MoveTube: A foxy farewell to the Royal Ballet's Monica Mason 2012-07-18T13:36:40Z

Aching sadness and expressive economy characterized “Shepherd’s Lament” and “Wanderer’s Night Song II,” setting the stage for a hair-raising “Erl-King.” Review | A wide-ranging program of song at the Library of Congress 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

Whatever the cause, his music is unanchored by loyalties of style, expressive intention, or good taste. Prom 45: BBCSSO/Volkov ? review 2011-08-19T10:09:00Z

What followed contained moments of harshness as well as beauty, but was always expressive and alive. RPO/Litton/Kennedy – review 2012-06-14T17:13:25Z

In her early works, she reacted against the presentational manner of ballet as well as the expressive/dramatic mode of modern dance, seeking instead an objective, undemonstrative style. Step-by-step guide to dance: Yvonne Rainer 2010-12-24T13:12:31Z

My sister always seemed to be looking past me with her large expressive eyes. The coalition's attacks on the NHS will return us to the age of the workhouse 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z

Sometimes the orchestra almost hugs the vocal lines, giving lift and support to every syllable, which can be very expressive. Music Review: Mark Adamo’s Opera Makes a Wife of Mary Magdalene 2013-06-20T22:14:00Z

Her voice is rich, full and slightly earthy in an expressive way. Music Review: Winners of Grand Finals of Metropolitan Opera Auditions 2014-03-31T21:47:28Z

The trimmed-down Chorale, prepared by Joseph Crnko, provided a fleet, light sound with considerable dynamic and expressive range and a lot of tonal variety. Handel's 'Messiah' gets zippy, memorable treatment 2011-12-18T02:26:03Z

There is a lot of slow-motion acrobatics, impressive but not very expressive. Review: Waging Battle With Scarcity and Borders at La MaMa Dance Festival 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z

The greatest challenges fell to tenor Robert Murray, who sang Gerontius with beautiful timbre, expressive depth, and immaculate diction. ‘Gerontius,’ where have you been? Seattle Symphony brings seldom-heard piece to vibrant life 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

His eyes are expressive and open, allowing the viewer to imagine what he is feeling and thinking. Riz Ahmed’s Tragic Transformation on “The Night Of” 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z

Portraits caricature revered teachers with gnarly, fiercely expressive faces rendered in crisp linear detail. Art Review: Spiritual Seeker With a Taste For the Satirical 2010-12-23T22:15:17Z

The Polish pianist Krystian Zimerman has always been a thoughtful interpreter with a gift for clarity and singing melodic lines — adept at the modes of expressive longing in Romanticism and Chopin alike. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z

As one man after another silently claims a dance partner, Coral Messam’s tactile choreography gives us rolling hips and expressive hand gestures, the camera weaving and sliding among stomping feet and twisting torsos. ‘Small Axe’ Review: The Agonies and Ecstasies of Black British Lives 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z

Mr. Speed is key to this equilibrium: His output is expressive and hale, with a breathy blur that nicely offsets the weblike precision of Mr. Mitchell’s lines. Review: On ‘Vista Accumulation,’ Matt Mitchell Plays Tension Like an Instrument 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z

The Iron Market was designed and made in Paris around the same time as the Eiffel Tower, and there's a similarly heroic aesthetic to its riveted plates and expressive structure, augmented with neoclassical flourishes. Haiti: rocked to its foundations 2011-01-11T21:31:00Z

They played a tune apiece by Mr. Zorn and Mr. Douglas, snapping between airtight melodic forms and a fierce, expressive scrawl. Music Review: Tri-Centric Modeling Event Honors Anthony Braxton 2010-06-21T22:59:00Z

She speaks as eloquently in thin whispers as in bold, vibrant tones, and the audience’s stillness — throughout each piece and after the end of each — spoke volumes about Isbin’s expressive powers. Guitarist Sharon Isbin shows off dynamic range at Phillips Collection 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z

The footwear is sometimes more expressive than the characters. 'Beloved': Romantic musical stumbles as it skips around history 2012-08-31T00:01:05Z

We even enjoy the later numbers in which Zegler, launched into fame as Maria in Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story,” downshifts her Broadway pipes into a reedy, expressive Dolly Parton twang. ‘The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes’ Review: Fallen Snow 2023-11-15T05:00:00Z

For Payakan’s more playful moments, however, the inspiration came from seals, particularly their expressive tails. Creating the Exiled Sea Creature of ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z

Here’s a look at what La Scala and some of her colleagues have been doing — if not for money, then for an expressive outlet while the world is stalled. Designing Doesn’t Stop, Even When Stage Shows Do 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z

“Preface to the Poems Composed at the Orchid Pavilion” became the most widely emulated work of calligraphy in Chinese history, the model for a new standard of expressive writing. Review: Chinese History, Writ in Stunning Stone 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

By contrast, the highly stylized mask sends back an echo to the earlier forms of expressive art known from finds much further north. Review: 'Routes of Arabia'' Exhibition at Louvre Is Startling 2010-07-23T11:56:00Z

To maintain the pace and keep up the tension, he relied on the expressive faces of his actors. ‘A Quiet Place,’ a Nearly Silent Movie, Makes Noise Ahead of Its Opening 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z

Against this, social dances of the 1960s and ’70s evolve into expressive flicks and solo turns of ineffable longing. “What’s Going On”: Dance tribute to Marvin Gaye offers comfort and defiance 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z

Late-night hosts feasted on O’Rourke’s physically expressive entrance into the crowded Democratic race, offering a buffet of slights of the Texan’s hands. A video of Beto O’Rourke’s wild hand gestures went viral. Does distinctive body language help or hurt a candidate? 2019-03-16T04:00:00Z

When they come of age, the scope of 3D's expressive potential will be revealed. 3D technology has even sceptical directors embracing another dimension 2011-03-17T10:24:38Z

Just as Vanbrugh and Lutyens made chimneys and fireplaces into expressive elements, says Cullinan, so he wants to make architecture out of their modern equivalents. Maggie's cancer care centre, Newcastle – review 2013-05-18T23:05:22Z

Just like the present tense, the hand-held camera is an expressive device whose expressive power is being drained away by making it the only way of shooting a film. Philip Pullman calls time on the present tense 2010-09-17T23:06:00Z

Mr. Lang’s interventions were most apt in the second movement, which he played like a richly expressive aria. Review: Lang Lang Returns, Rehabilitated and Almost Reformed 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z

McClarnon, with his marvelously expressive face and wiry but deliberate physicality, can communicate Leaphorn’s fears and frustrations with few if any words. ‘Dark Winds’ Review: Murder Most Foul in the Navajo Nation 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z

Von Otter has honed the art of singing to such a point that she is purely expressive, no matter what she’s singing. Classical artists show that when it comes to new music, pop may be better 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z

Her flexible instrument — expressive and light — can follow the challenging requirements of her music, can flow alongside her bass, can tell the delicate stories in her poetry. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Jazz Vocals 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z

His melodic material is more varied, his expressive range infinitely broader, his orchestration far more piquant and inventive. Daniel Barenboim and the Music of Anton Bruckner 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z

He was chiefly associated with his own expressive dark eyes, bushy eyebrows, outstanding mimetic talents and distinctive Dublin brogue. Milo O'Shea obituary 2013-04-03T18:06:02Z

Her face, he added, “is cinematic, expressive and beautiful.” Pedro Almodóvar and His ‘Cinema of Women’ 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

Mr. Hampson’s powerful baritone projected easily in the hall, his expressive voice conveying the drama and mood changes among the mournful, angry and ironic songs. Music Review: Thomas Hampson Sings Schumann, Uncut, at Alice Tully 2010-04-12T22:36:00Z

Always, he was a philosopher of black expressive form and an astute cultural analyst. Ralph Ellison’s Letters Reveal a Complex Philosopher of Black Expression 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

But this sonata, written in 1978, takes expressive tension to neurotic heights, pushing the cello line to near breaking point in the two slow movements that frame a furious scherzo. Music Review: Wendy Sutter and Olga Vinokur Perform at Bargemusic 2013-07-15T21:40:35Z

But her voice remains alluring and expressive over all. Music Review: Opera Orchestra of New York at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-11-09T23:02:45Z

Handel's setting of the same text was another matter, displaying Bostridge's reedy tenor – admirably focused and flawlessly tuned – and expressive intelligence to advantage. With tenor Bostridge, rare Baroque arias sound newly minted 2011-05-08T12:35:00Z

Veering between euphoric peaks and anguished depths, Mr. Flynn laces the memoir with gallows humor, haunting imagery and expressive physicality. Theater Review: ?James X? by Gerard Mannix Flynn - Review 2011-12-10T00:21:41Z

It was Malle who, casting her in his first feature film, “Elevator to the Gallows,” shot her in natural light without heavy makeup, letting her hauntingly expressive face work its magic. Jeanne Moreau, Femme Fatale of French New Wave, Is Dead at 89 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z

Chinese folk tunes get transformed into rapturously expressive new music, gorgeously colored. Chinese opera 'Dream of the Red Chamber' opens in San Francisco with much ambition, too little nerve 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

Chaykin's appearance, with his fleshy, expressive face and soft body, allowed him to suggest pathos, but he was able to play it with a fierce, often ironic, comic intelligence. Maury Chaykin obituary 2010-08-19T17:22:00Z

It is a wildly expressive dance performed to the driving rhythms of drums and the chants of men, and provides a rare outlet for women to unleash their passions in a restrictive society. The Saturday Profile: An Iranian Filmmaker Tiptoes Around the Censors to Explore Risky Subjects 2011-05-07T01:56:05Z

“You get to a place where what things mean literally doesn’t serve your expressive purpose,” said Michael Adams, the author of “In Praise of Profanity” and a professor of English at Indiana University, Bloomington. Curses! And Why They Work So Well Onstage (Sometimes) 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z

Though the eyes do their part, exceptionally expressive, it is the naturalistic look when he's speaking that separates Paddington from all the comically bizarre talking CGI animals that populate movies and TV. 'Paddington' brings irresistible bear to life 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

He has an aversion to what he calls "too expressive" acting, particularly in American films. Tran Anh Hung enters Norwegian Wood ? and emerges to tell the tale 2011-03-03T22:00:02Z

I think Clooney is a minimalist who’s incredibly expressive, which I tend to admire. The Carpetbagger: My Oscar Picks: B.J. Novak 2012-02-14T17:23:40Z

And if his subject matter is sometimes brutal, the choreographic content is mostly firmly classical, though often extended into new expressive terrain. Kenneth MacMillan’s School of Ballet Sex, Neurosis and Grit 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

But the most expressive choreography was reserved for the lead actors, including Ms. Knightley and Mr. Taylor-Johnson, who perform intricate phrases throughout. Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s Choreography for ‘Anna Karenina’ 2012-11-23T21:30:27Z

Throughout the album, the robot vocal tracks sound more expressive than the human voices. Album review: Daft Punk, 'Random Access Memories' 2013-05-17T17:59:00Z

As soloists, the two superb pianists offer insightful and profoundly expressive music making; here they proved ideally matched collaborators. 2010-02-15T22:28:00Z

The musicians offer a tender, deeply expressive interpretation of the piece, completed just two months before the composer’s death at 31. Classical Playlist: Verdi, Schubert, Michael Gordon and More 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

Other research found that shared reading was related to the development of expressive vocabulary. Why every parent should read to their kids 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z

De Ridder shaped the music with his expressive hands, and the players responded with gusto. A night of supercharged Bartok, sparkling Mozart at SSO 2014-03-14T18:08:01Z

Winik narrates the book herself in a bold, pleasantly low-pitched voice, her delivery exceptionally expressive of the emotions her fine, concise writing conjures. Review | In these new audiobooks, great tales are matched with great narrators 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

From the start, above, the contrast between stillness and movement is powerfully expressive. ‘Symphonic Variations’: A Frederick Ashton Classic Returns 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

Making better use of the Wave Hill location, it’s more cinematically expressive than “Revelations Reimagined,” though its director is the same. The Ailey Company Meets the Challenge of This Lost Season 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z

The 2017 is rich and expressive, structured and linear, with fine tannins and flavors of dark cherry and flowers. This Summer, Make It Chianti Classico 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z

Sham fell short in this regard, focusing on textural clarity and short-term expressive effects. Piano prodigy doesn’t miss a note in knuckle-busting program, but is there more? 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z

The sounds of klezmer, blues, Broadway, Motown, Mozart and girl-group pop, among many others, pinpoint each character but also serve as expressive vehicles for the larger ideas the story is assembling. Review: ‘Caroline, or Change’ Makes History’s Heartbreak Sing 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z

If the group did not yet sound like a polished ensemble in its account of Mr. Glass’s genially restless Fifth Quartet, it compensated with deliriously beautiful sound and expressive spirit. Music Review: Glass?s Players Warm Up for a Festival in August 2011-06-13T22:17:30Z

Or as it is put in the book: “Mary’s stage presence and her dramatic beauty were as arresting as her remarkably expressive and powerful voice.” Peter, Paul and Mary forever: CD, PBS special, book continue folk trio’s legacy

More importantly, it's a wonderfully expressive way to talk about the world. Scots: an auld dug with plenty of bite 2010-06-04T21:00:00Z

Ben Lehwald, an Illinois junior with a passion for photography and possibly the most expressive eyebrows on television since Mr. Spock, narrates his life as the child of a transitioning transgender woman. Kids, transgender parents are heart of ABC Family's 'Becoming Us' 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

She and scenic designer Andrea Bush have come up with "a very expressive design," Daniels says. A spooky, dreamy 'Midsummer' to spread its wings 2011-10-20T20:16:08Z

Setting persuasively slow tempos in expressive numbers and reasonably quick ones elsewhere, Mr. Petrenko seemed determined to leave no musical beauty unexplored. Opera Review: No Beauty Goes Unexplored in ‘La Clemenza di Tito’ 2014-02-17T16:05:54Z

Her feet are firmly planted, her hands mobile and expressive, her eyes open wide. Monica Lewinsky and the Shame Game 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

His trumpet solos were models of rhythmic precision, tonal subtlety and expressive understatement, executed without showboating. Review: Herb Alpert and Lani Hall Bring Rhythmic Precision to Café Carlyle 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z

The playing is deeply, intuitively expressive, and Scheuer’s joyful display of craft is a large part of the story. Singer-guitarist Benjamin Scheuer purrs his life and times in ‘The Lion’ 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z

The expressive production design mixes old and new, organic and tech, like the surprising bits of wood and green plants inside the family’s driverless vehicle, a pod that suggests a moving terrarium. ‘After Yang’ Review: Do Androids Dream of Sheep, Babysitting, Being? 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z

He played “Layla” in an arrangement similar to the one on his 1992 album “Unplugged,” but with a more unpredictable and expressive acoustic guitar solo. Review: Eric Clapton, at Madison Square Garden, Travels a Familiar Road 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z

The six paintings, which Titian called his “poesie”, or poems, are considered landmarks in European art for their highly expressive rendering of emotions. After 400 years, London show reunites six masterpieces by Titian 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

It is an oddly two-dimensional work, both in its constricted expressive range and in the coolly intellectual absorption of its main musical influences. We’ll Never Have Paris 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

And Prince’s rockers featured guitar solos as expressive as his voice, whether he was playing hard-bitten, bluesy jabs or anthemic long lines. Music Review: True Guitar Hero, With More Love and Less Leer 2010-12-16T22:00:26Z

The piece marked the young Adams out as a composer who would take minimalism in fresh, expressive directions. USB Soundscapes: Eclectica – John Adams; The Rest is Noise: LPO/Jurowski; Britten Sinfonia – review 2013-01-27T00:08:04Z

He played expressive lyric melodies with creamy ease. It's an old-school night at the Hollywood Bowl with Stravinsky and Joshua Bell 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z

He was one of the most authoritative, expressive and subtle artists of his generation. William Turnbull obituary 2012-11-18T15:02:29Z

A commanding nkisi n’kondi from Kongo, its hips thrust forward, its body studded with nails, lords over an impressive African collection that integrates performance and masquerade to show the continent’s expressive cultures across media. Finding a Globe’s Worth of Art Treasures Close to Home 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

This expressive and artistic festival favorite converted a $1.3 million budget into more than $8 domestically, and Bock says continues to screen in hundreds of theaters nationwide. Box Office Surprise: How Judi Dench and an 8-Year-Old Won the Summer 2012-08-27T11:30:52Z

As in the telecast, on Friday the soprano Shu-Ying Li portrayed the teenage bride Cio-Cio-San with dainty tread and a powerful, expressive voice. ?Madama Butterfly,? Monteverdi?s 1610 Vespers and Gerald Finley 2010-03-21T23:42:00Z

The male partner’s movements are meant to be sharp and decisive, while the female dancer is meant to be flowy and expressive. Can a waltz be a form of activism? Ask these same-gender ballroom dancers. 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z

But Nottage proved her wrong, paring the play to its expressive core, as the Lincoln Center Theater production, directed by Bartlett Sher, gave her full voice. Best Theater of 2022 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z

Every one of Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s facial features is intensely expressive, and that includes both eyebrows. Review: Phoebe Waller-Bridge Gives New York a Fabulous ‘Fleabag’ 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z

Music is notoriously difficult to write about — how to convey changes in a composition, both formal and expressive, using words instead of sounds? The Greatest Composers Ever 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

Over the course of 80 gripping minutes, Nézet-Séguin explored Shostakovich’s dynamic and expressive extremes, drawing fiercely disciplined and committed playing. Review | Philadelphia Orchestra triumphs in epic Seventh Symphony 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

Its strengths are those of Pilobolus: ingenious transformations of human bodies that are at least impressive and, at best, expressive of strange poetry. Alison Chase’s Troupe Has New York Debut at Miller Theater 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

The faces in Watteau’s paintings, however, are not transparently expressive. Watteau’s Peacefully Bittersweet War Scenes 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

It’s such an expressive grape, so pretty and yet capable of great depth and complexity. 20 Under $20: Beckoning Bottles in the Dead of Winter 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

But that sequence is as expressive and alive as the rest of the supposedly movement-loving drama is static. Review: A static 'Desert Dancer' lands flat footed 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

The piece started with the appearance of minimalism, offering repeating, slightly shifting, rapid patterns of notes in both piano and electronics; but it pushed that basic language to powerful and even conventionally expressive heights.  Art or music? The National Gallery of Art provokes ears and thoughts.  ​ 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z

In the first and last of Chopin’s four ballades, however, and in pieces by Louis Moreau Gottschalk and Edward MacDowell, Licad seemed to resist making the composers’ expressive language her own. Filipina pianist Cécile Licad in recital at Dumbarton Oaks

The soprano Christine Brewer sang several numbers, including a deeply expressive reading of “My Long Life,” the final aria from Virgil Thomson’s “The Mother of Us All.” Review: Opera Stars Come Out for a Gala Concert 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

Yet the performance emphasized equality, a sharing of labor for common expressive cause. Music Review: Soloists Take or Share the Spotlight as Needed 2010-12-05T22:13:00Z

By itself that idea is wonderful, and the CGI dragon Elliot–an expressive, furry green beauty–lives up to its promise. Pete's Dragon Soars Before It Stumbles 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

As Mr. Akil recalled that conversation, “Mara’s the very expressive one and I tried to be cool, like Miles Davis cool. I just sat there, like, ‘That sounds interesting.’ On ‘Black Lightning,’ a Superhero Takes On Race, Justice and the Real World 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z

This pair, the first same-sex dance partnership in the show’s history, has revealed something new: If you jettison the stereotypes, the expressive potential of ballroom dance is boundless. Perspective | Peloton’s Cody Rigsby is powerfully predictable on ‘Dancing With the Stars’ 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

Conceptual notions about authorship zing around this show, including the artist’s sly reversal of painting’s “support and expression,” since the objects — or supports — are more expressive than the paint. Art In Review: Gaylen Gerber 2013-01-24T23:47:21Z

“It was crucial and elemental for us to be as close as possible to the donkey, to feel his fur and hover over him, to have a tactile, very expressive emotional appeal to the audience.” The Charming Star With Soulful Eyes Happens to Be a Donkey 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z

It was sitting with their trauma and allowing them to talk about it, and be expressive, and give them a space to talk about it in a way that was authentic. "Attica" filmmakers on mistakes from that fateful prison riot: "The media failed the prisoners" 2021-11-06T04:00:00Z

After intermission, however, Mr. Dudamel turned to Tchaikovsky’s “Pathétique” Symphony, and the performance, though rhapsodic and intensely expressive, was rough and unfocused. At Avery Fisher Hall, Dudamel on a Joy Ride 2010-05-21T22:43:00Z

Seattle Symphony music director Morlot, a well-known exponent of Berlioz’s music, stitched up this varied musical fabric into a persuasive whole, giving the singers plenty of expressive opportunities while never allowing the pace to flag. Seattle Opera, with help of a few friends, presents opera-play hybrid ‘Beatrice and Benedict’ 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z

Some find his expressive gestures showy or mannered. Why Lang Lang’s Return Is a Big Deal for Classical Music 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z

"This self-portrait draws you to it through its technical proficiency and expressive power," commented judge Charlotte Mullins of Art Quarterly. Prague artist wins £20,000 prize 2013-05-09T10:04:12Z

Feiffer, 81, first won critical acclaim, including a Pulitzer Prize, years ago for the expressive, satiric political cartoons he drew for The Village Voice. Kids' books keep filling Jules Feiffer's radar screen 2010-06-25T22:27:00Z

His aversion to the last survived the advent of the auteur theory, which held that the commercial-film director had the expressive potential of the novelist. Philip Roth Versus the Movies 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z

Opposite Buck is Harrison Ford, countering the dog’s unnervingly expressive eyes with a disturbingly emotionless voice-over. ‘The Call of the Wild’ Review: Man’s Best Friend? Cartoon Dog. 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

She nailed the bun, achieved a creditable facsimile of the neurotic thoroughbred physique, and managed OK with the expressive arm-flapping. When did actors stop doing their own dancing? 2011-01-20T21:30:00Z

Llˆyr Williams was the soloist in Schoenberg's Piano Concerto, bringing his customary clarity and insight to the playing, balancing precision with expressive tone, as well as underlining the quirky playfulness of the final Giocoso. BBCNOW/Fischer |Classical 2010-06-25T21:00:00Z

As buncheong evolved, it became not more but less polished and more vigorously expressive. Art Review: Vessels of Clay, Centuries Old, That Speak to Modernity 2011-04-07T20:56:46Z

You could have a whole evening's experience from looking at the expressive Catherine Kinsella. Rutherford & Son; Glasgow Girls; Playing Cards 1: Spades – review 2013-02-17T00:06:21Z

The appeals court judges relied on a rule sprung from a dispute involving Ginger Rogers over a Federico Fellini film, and said Bad Spaniels is “an expressive work entitled to First Amendment protection.” In case involving whiskey and a dog toy, Supreme Court misses the joke 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z

You dearly want to be rewarded by a bottle that matures from awkward, inarticulate youth to expressive beauty and, eventually, elegant complexity. When to Open a Bottle: Aging Wine Without the Anxiety 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z

They become louder and more insistently expressive through repetition: “Polar Bear Curl” contains 34 variations on the same shape. New York Art Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

Alina Ibragimova is one of the most richly talented and expressive of violinists; in every performance, she instinctively finds the essence of the music and delivers it with a combination of grace and daring. BBCNOW/Søndergård – review 2013-07-01T17:10:56Z

He was attentive to the singers, almost overly so, during lyrical passages in which some expressive freedom was called for. Review: Third Tenor’s Not Quite a Charm in the Met’s ‘Roméo’ 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z

The icy blue eyes sweep and pierce, and then the lids slowly descend in a gesture as expressive of disgust as it is possible to imagine. | 'The Importance of Being Earnest': A Stylish Monster Conquers at a Glance 2011-01-14T03:00:01Z

And that’s a natural reaction to this writer who manages to be both expressive and enigmatic, inclusive and solitary — a rider in the world, coasting through the landscape, sometimes participating, always observing. In ‘Life Is a Wheel,’ Bruce Weber Bikes Across America 2014-03-20T12:00:13Z

That's what happens to the elderly man in Theatre Ad Infinitum's exquisitely delicate and moving mask and mime show, which is told entirely without words, but is nonetheless expressive for that. Translunar Paradise ? review 2011-08-12T17:00:39Z

His masterly command of the expressive possibilities of the instrument was allied with imaginative interpretive liberties and an operatic sense of timing and drama. Mozart and C.P.E. Bach in a dazzling fortepiano performance 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z

His contribution to “Africa,” the album’s droning title track, was an essay on wooden flute, expressive and gorgeous. Music Review: Big Bang?s Echoes, 50 Years Later 2011-04-22T21:52:51Z

Ms. Haïm’s movements resembled a dance in which her torso twisted and bobbed while her expressive arms seemed to will the music into being with gestures that floated, beseeched, cajoled and commanded. A Baroque Specialist Gets the Philharmonic to Play From the Gut 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

Hugh was unlike anyone I’d ever met — loving and expressive, but also tough and brave, and honest about mistakes in his own life: a brief, regrettable marriage, a bout with depression. Modern Love: Chubby, Skinny, Accepting — Modern Love 2013-01-03T22:44:01Z

But Webern practiced an art of paring music of excess, of making each gesture, however minimal, expressive and significant. Music Review: I?m Playing With the Orchestra. Leave a Message After the Beep. 2011-02-23T23:22:28Z

And we've all lived throughout history with this incredible sky," she said. "And the sky is so expressive. Annie Lennox makes the past her own on 'Nostalgia' 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z

I’m constantly fascinated and influenced by lots of different musicians and the way they create something expressive. Royal wedding cello prodigy hopes to inspire classical music’s next generation 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z

“The pig is expressive and sort of downtrodden,” Ms. Rowe, 25, said. That Pig Couch on Craigslist? Not for Sale. (Also, Not a Couch.) 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z

In the memoir, Mr. Hughes was as expressive about his brush with death as he always was about the art he loved. ArtsBeat: Robert Hughes, Eloquent and Combative Art Critic, Dies at 74 2012-08-06T23:00:01Z

They're incredibly expressive, incredibly poetic, clear, and they bring the fire of the truth to the moment through those words. Jeffrey Wright on veterans and mental health: “We have a lot of work to do” 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z

And yet, despite the stereotypical subjects, the backward style and the formulaic and repetitious compositions, these works have tremendous aesthetic and expressive power. ‘Object of Devotion,’ an Exhibition of Alabaster Sculptures 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

He planted these elements in his paintings — the fear symbol dominates the church picture — to give his decorative patterns an expressive personal subtext. Art Review: ?Paintings of Charles Burchfield? at the Whitney 2010-06-24T21:53:00Z

At the New Dance Group, the aim was “developing and creating group and mass dances expressive of the working class and its revolutionary upsurge.” Could Dance Be a Weapon All Over Again? 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z

There are also five chapters “On Consolation,” which describe Dillon’s life struggles and prove one of his main arguments: that the personal essay is the prime expressive mode for the modern self. Review | A look at the life-saving power of essays 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

So when Susan emerges glammed-up for an evening undercover at a swank casino — and with McCarthy looking great — there is suddenly something downright radical and expressive added to the tired idea of the makeover. 'Spy' is an agent of fun for Melissa McCarthy

For example, they have found that good wine is generally more expressive when poured properly into a stemmed glass rather than a teacup or tumbler. No-Sweat Answers to Some Basic Wine Questions 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z

Poetry is language that is most alive, most intense, and most fully expressive of the musical, dramatic, imagistic and emotional potential of words — words in shapes. ArtsBeat: Poetry Profiles: Tupelo Press 2013-12-12T18:14:25Z

"His art, in whatever medium, is honest, expressive, bold, joyful, and colorful. Attributes we strive to achieve in our food." 30 Yotam Ottolenghi recipes big on flavor, low on effort 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z

This simple gesture is oddly expressive, lending the peepers a surprised look and a frisson of the illicit. Comic sights, mysterious sounds at Martin Kersels show 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z

The orchestra performed beautifully throughout the evening, with transparent textures, a buoyant pulse and expressive phrasing. Music Review: Tradition Made Nimble, Marked by Buoyant Pulse 2010-12-23T21:42:26Z

The playing was pretty and well mannered, but Goldstein’s restraint left Mozart’s richly expressive lines sounding a little meandering. Back to basics with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z

Brahms created a grand dialogue here, and Mr. Bell and Mr. Langrée ran with it, matching, countering and parrying each other’s expressive gestures with a captivating vividness. Music Review: Mostly Mozart Festival, Louis Langrée Conductor 2012-08-19T21:50:48Z

The blend I tasted was pure, expressive, refreshing and dry, with pretty floral aromas. A Napa Favorite Goes Back to the Future 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z

Unfortunately, I also noted a softening of the customarily crisp upper-body lines in the opening and other parts, and somewhat less charisma and expressive urgency in the “Wade in the Water” section. Review | 60 years on, Alvin Ailey’s dancers take the stage — and prove why the company is unlike any other 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z

“They were instinctive, expressive, working in the present, very unlike those who were more experienced and aiming for an aesthetic look,” he said. | Paris in Pictures 2012-03-02T19:00:53Z

David Rudman, who is a puppeteer on this series and on “Sesame Street” — he plays Cookie Monster — wanted the creatures’ faces to be as expressive as possible. ‘Donkey Hodie’ Adds a Fresh Face to Fred Rogers’s World. And a Mohawk. 2021-05-02T04:00:00Z

The popular pianist Simone Dinnerstein and the ensemble excelled in a refined and lyrically expressive account of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 in A. Review: Ensemble LPR Plays, With Central Park as an Inspiration 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z

A mute, Liz communicates with her husband and children with her expressive eyes and hand gestures, using her youngest as a conduit to the larger world. Review: In ‘Brimstone,’ the B Is for Bleak, Brutal and Bloody 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

Seeing him turn severe limitations into something both expansive and expressive was an artistic life buoy for theater lovers, helping us survive the feeling that the perpetual invalid was, if not dead, in a coma. He Invited Us Into His Closet for Theater. And It Was Astonishing. 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z

Black and white would become the norm, and stenciling a primary expressive medium. Art Review: Messages That Conduct an Electric Charge 2011-03-10T23:09:03Z

In Schubert’s unfinished Eighth Symphony, Mr. Eschenbach deftly toed the line between expressive and excessive, molding phrases thoughtfully in a hauntingly shaded, deeply felt account. Music Review: Zubin Mehta Leads Final Concert in Festival 2014-03-17T22:11:13Z

It takes compelling singers, though, to convey the expressive subtleties of vocal writing that can come off as ponderous. Review: An Inspiring End to a 6-Month Tour of Monteverdi’s Operas 2017-10-22T04:00:00Z

Her drawings are fantastically expressive, with the result that her characters are as many-layered as those you'll find among the pages of a traditional novel. The Property by Rutu Modan – review 2013-07-15T07:00:00Z

Nestled in the basement of the Paramount hotel, the Diamond Horseshoe supper club was a nighttime playground, and an expressive outlet for the city’s theater set. The Diamond Horseshoe Club Reopens in New York’s Paramount Hotel 2014-01-08T05:00:00Z

Music is expressive, emotional and lively, yes, but because it is art it is also work. | 'Passione': Soaring From Poverty All the Way to Ecstasy 2011-06-21T22:19:30Z

For decades, the technique was overshadowed by the more expressive drawn animation and, later, by computer-generated imagery. For ‘Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio,’ a Star Built From Tiny Gears and 3-D Printing 2023-01-03T05:00:00Z

It’s rich and expressive, more in the Bordeaux style than the Loire, less subtle, more open and welcoming. 20 Wines Under $20: Reds for Winter Moods and Foods 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

To some extent, living as part of the diaspora, African expressive cultures were all around. Artwork Taken From Africa, Returning to a Home Transformed 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

What really unites them is that their digital cinematography is a constituent, expressive part of the whole. Film: The Revolution Is Being Shot on Digital Video 2010-12-17T23:34:06Z

Margaret Faultless's Music for Awhile orchestra were the most expressive accompanists. St John Passion – review 2012-07-26T15:43:26Z

It is an abstract form, as wild and expressive as anything conjured by Jackson Pollock, slapped together as if by a drunken carpenter and splattered with eye-popping colours. Feat of clay 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

Ms. Jungr, 60, used her whole body and expressive face to illustrate lyrics with a carefully determined intensity that made it appear as if she were living inside the songs from moment to moment. Barb Jungr in ‘Hard Rain’ at 59E59 2014-11-02T04:00:00Z

Ms. Baker is often praised for her expressive powers. Dance Review: Peggy Baker at 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Festival 2012-02-26T21:22:16Z

At 60, he’s an acknowledged influence among composer-improvisers, who are drawn to the expressive commitment and lurching, contrapuntal force of his music. Review: Tim Berne’s Snakeoil at the Jazz Standard 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

He valued gear only insofar as it allowed him to achieve a musical and expressive result. Ingram Marshall Built and Obscured Monoliths of Sound 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z

Hristova’s adherence to an old-style use of the bow, each stroke digging deeply into the strings and not always at the heart of the pitch, combined with incessant, unvaried vibrato, considerably narrows her expressive range. ‘Swan Song’ impresses as a strikingly original work 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

Reacting to events by freezing up with expressive body language and hooded stare, he causes eruptions of audience laughter without saying a word. Review: Annie Baker's 'The Flick' slow but funny 2013-03-13T00:10:10Z

His Tray remains something of an emotional cipher, at least until the final scene, yet his body is expressive — all ropy arms and springy legs and flashing teeth. ‘brownsville song (b-side for tray),’ at Lincoln Center 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z

Jenkins considers "Attila" a bridge between Verdi's early operas and his more naturally expressive later work. Seattle Opera's 'Attila' a timely tale of warfare 2012-01-04T23:09:03Z

His conducting style entailed expansive gestures that some critics found thrillingly expressive and others found a trifle flamboyant. Yakov Kreizberg, Orchestral Conductor, Dies at 51 2011-04-11T22:49:58Z

But in the history of popular music culture across the 20th and 21st centuries, how often have we extensively imagined Black folks as critics, as knowledge producers in relation to their own expressive cultures? The Vitality of Black Criticism 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z

Liem has written a beautiful book, focusing on champagne not as a luxury tipple but as serious wine, expressive of the place where it is grown rather than the lifestyle of the person drinking it. The stuff of the best 2017 wine reads: Everyman advice, a con man, a legendary region 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z

Now name me one image in either "Iron Man" that's as functional, startling and expressive as the two I just mentioned. Superheroes suck! 2010-05-06T11:01:00Z

In both the elaborated choruses and the more straightforward four-part chorales, or hymns, German diction was excellent and, most important, deeply expressive of the libretto’s often-fraught text. Review | Conductor Matthew Dirst leads Washington Bach Consort in St. John Passion 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z

But the expressive conductor and the exuberant soloist were certainly on the same page Thursday evening, in the first of four Seattle Symphony performances of a program featuring the Shostakovich Piano Concerto No. 1. Review: Expressive conductor plus exuberant soloist equals stirring evening 2011-05-06T17:10:05Z

"I'd done a scene from the play in school, a million years ago," declared the fair-haired, expressive Allgood. Queens prepare to clash in ACT Theatre's 'Mary Stuart' 2011-09-08T20:37:10Z

Big vibrato, big gestures – he's an old-fashioned soloist of sorts, and turned one of the scariest concertos in the business into a work of expressive, emotive necessity. The New Century – review 2012-06-01T16:11:15Z

Are you generally very expressive when you sign? My ‘Face Is My Voice’: A Deaf Dancer Lands Her Dream Role 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

That’s a testament both to the expressive power of dance and to its potential, by proximity, to make language seem all the more inadequate. ‘The Bandaged Place’ Review: A Dance With His Devils 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z

Ousmane Sow, often called the Auguste Rodin of Senegal, who earned an international reputation for his expressive sculptures of the Nuba, Masai and other African peoples, died on Thursday in Dakar, Senegal. Ousmane Sow, Sculptor of Larger-Than-Life Figures, Dies at 81 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

In keeping with its source material, the film is mainly concerned with expressive exuberance, visuals and atmosphere. What’s on TV Monday: The Finale of ‘The Terror: Infamy’ and Franju’s ‘Judex’ 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z

With his melting, pure sound, he shapes expressive phrases beautifully. Review: In ‘Written on Skin,’ George Benjamin Creates an Unusual Love Triangle 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z

By including and cross-fertilizing so many distinct but related expressive modes, Chance adds yet another layer to this centuries-old interplay, ever so slightly widening its focus. The Sound of Hope: Chance the Rapper 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z

“She’s always been extremely observant and very expressive at the same time, so I just accepted that part of her personality,” Norma Brunson said. Quinta Brunson’s Viral Fame Knows No Bounds 2021-06-13T04:00:00Z

She is a player of rare expressive energy and disarming informality, of whimsy and theatrical ambition. A Quirky Violinist and a Festival to Match 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z

Bach, much admired by the young Mozart, generally wrote in major keys but deviated on the Symphony in G minor, resulting in a dramatic, expressive work. Seattle Symphony celebrates baroque dads 2012-03-01T20:54:05Z

Dudamel's compensation was, if anything, to increase the expressive intensity in an effort to reduce the nagging sense that a heavenward vector has imperceptibly reversed direction. From John Adams to Mozart: Dudamel's powerful pairing at the Bowl 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z

Movement activists utilized more than speeches, proclamations and marches to motivate their followers: rhythmic, expressive, improvisational music also propelled the struggle. Black Power: American as apple pie 2012-10-17T16:28:00Z

“I loved the warmth, tone and range in it. I found it very expressive.” ‘Cinderella’ Has a Dusting of ‘Downton Abbey’ 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

The dry desert heat is almost palpable, the sun-bleached landscapes often beautiful and the characters uncannily expressive and lifelike. Rango ? review 2011-03-03T22:31:02Z

It serves no expressive purpose; its role is purely structural. ‘Donald Judd: Specific Furniture’ Review: Designs With Purpose 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z

In expressive, musical, and formal terms, “Private Light” is foolish and trite. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater Returns to City Center - Review 2011-11-09T22:54:34Z

Modern makeup is meant to reflect what’s going on inside; it isn’t about looking hot or as if you’re not wearing any at all — it’s colorful, expressive, imperfect and meant to be seen. A New Look for a New World 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

Kiyon Gaines’ mischievous, exuberant Puck exploded with energy, and his expressive face brought many laughs as he leapt around the stage trying his best to do his master’s wishes and recoup his errors. PNB fields a ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’ team 2014-04-14T16:32:46Z

In Mr. Gill’s “Ode: A Dramatic Cantata,” Ms. Shelton drew on expressive modes from dramatic spoken recitation to ringing fortes and softly floated high notes. Music Review: Dolce Suono Ensemble and Lucy Shelton at Roulette 2013-12-10T18:21:41Z

She is a very tall, slender, loose-limbed woman with a wide expressive mouth, and she works the classroom like a tummler. Arts & Leisure: Margaret Edson, Author of ?Wit,? Loves Teaching 2012-02-19T03:30:04Z

Many groups specialize in a particular genre or aesthetic, but these musicians have demonstrated their technical and expressive versatility in an eclectic range of styles, from Inuit throat singing to Georgian sacred polyphony. The Best Classical Music of 2015 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

The noisy throngs at a pop concert qualify as an “expressive crowd” — a gathering in which the participants are given implicit permission to abandon decorum and freak out. Beatlemaniacs, Beliebers, Directioners — why do they scream?

One of the most important lessons Bronzino learned was the expressive foreshortening of torsos, arms and hands, seen obliquely as if in a distorting or convex mirror. Bronzino's Medici portraits ? review 2010-10-22T23:07:00Z

Like Bach, Ysaÿe used a wide range of expressive and technical elements in the Ballade, a showpiece that displays Mr. Bell’s virtuosity, rich tone and characterful playing to full effect. Sam Haywood and Joshua Bell at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-11-16T22:38:31Z

But when I think of her, I also remember that incredibly expressive face. Review | What was George W. Bush really like? A novelist whips up a campy portrait. 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z

He's incredibly expressive and he even looks like the character. U.K. director Edgar Wright takes on "The World" 2010-08-16T03:19:00Z

The expressive connection between calligraphy and painting was always close, though Six Dynasties painting, like writing, survives mostly in secondhand form. Review: Chinese History, Writ in Stunning Stone 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

It's this economy, combined with expressive power, the ability to conjure immense breadth and depth through the leanest of means, that has repeatedly drawn other composers back to Bach. Bach in business 2010-07-29T20:45:00Z

Ms. Clark is meticulous, both expressive and obsessive in her deep, continuing study of Thai cuisine. At Nari, a Thai Chef Revitalizes Fine Dining 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

In a final aria — an oasis of expressive, elegant poetry from Smith, after so much expository prose — Patience dismisses the possibility of choosing either past or future. Review: A New Opera Tells an Original Story With an Open Heart 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z

Ms. Polaski was magnificent, singing with bright, sometimes steely yet always expressive colorings, abundant Wagnerian soprano power and great textural subtlety. Music Review: Pierre Boulez Conducts Met Orchestra at Carnegie 2010-05-17T22:00:00Z

You don’t hear much of what Mark, who’s most expressive when he’s grunting and grappling on a mat, says other than in 1984 he was a champion, winning the gold medal hanging from his neck. Steve Carell and Channing Tatum in ‘Foxcatcher’ 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

Miranda had given them a lot of the more expressive emotional material anyway — more expressive, often, because unspoken, and also nonpolitical. Debating ‘Hamilton’ as It Shifts From Stage to Screen 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z

From the first measures of Weber's overture to "Der Freischütz," Robertson highlighted the interplay of contrasting moods among low cellos, agitated strings, noble horns and joyous violins building an expressive portrayal. An explosive 'Doctor Atomic' at SSO 2012-01-06T19:09:04Z

Working with an ensemble of only nine, Mr. Tiffany, the overall director, and Mr. Hoggett, who specializes in expressive and subtle choreography, populate this forest with what feels like a full town. ‘Let the Right One In,’ a Stage Version of a Vampire Novel 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

The scenes of surveillance and pursuit, of crime and violence, have an idiosyncratic sense of nuance that’s matched by the pugnaciously expressive dialogue. “Dragged Across Concrete,” Reviewed: A Stylish, Repugnant Crime Thriller Starring Mel Gibson 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z

But even when the dancers wear tap shoes, their foot-drumming stays wonderfully subtle, expressive with timbre and touch. Dorrance Dance and a Mythili Prakash Premiere at Jacob’s Pillow 2023-07-23T04:00:00Z

Far from a "reduction", Kurtág's fragments are about musical and, above all, expressive intensification: maximising the effect and impact of every note, every gesture. A guide to György Kurtág's music 2013-03-12T10:13:00Z

But no superhero comic looks like this one: its swooping clean lines and its expressive faces resemble, instead, the covers of nineteen-fifties romance comics—and excel, by miles, the TV series from which it derives. Jem and Gender Theory 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

If the gorilla had the best line, Smith had the more expressive countenance, mugging with a deadpan virtuosity rarely seen since Oliver Hardy in his pomp. Mel Smith 2013-07-21T16:12:44Z

Everything here is less than $200, a reflection of Madcap’s strong belief that “good design need not be expensive, only expressive,” Loecke says. Shopping with the pros: The Madcap Cottage team chooses favorites from Terrain 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z

Ms. Ferri’s new quality of pathos is matched by another new gift for expressive stillness. Review: At 53, an Effortless Return to Dance ‘Romeo and Juliet’ 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z

In some ways, his virtuosic playing bears the hallmarks of the Russian Romantic heritage: rich singing tone, depth of sound, roomy expressive freedom. Review: Nikolai Lugansky Plays Schubert and Tchaikovsky 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

The package also includes a code, which gives access to an ever-expanding online library of live recordings by So Percussion that shows off the expressive range of Cage’s music, from joyous madness to placid introspection. So Percussion’s Limited-Edition John Cage Project 2012-11-25T00:50:16Z

This is as expressive as music gets, and Ms. Röschmann and Mr. Daniels traded off the arching phrases with floating eloquence and poise over a steady bass line. Music Review: From Two Stars, Handel?s Sober Side 2011-04-04T21:52:01Z

The main characters have been dutifully assigned arias, full of vocal writing that’s neither melodically compelling nor vividly expressive. ‘An American Tragedy’ and More at Glimmerglass 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z

The first half of the recital concluded with a highly expressive, poised reading of Beethoven’s Sonata No. 31 in A flat, whose Adagio sounded particularly lovely. Music Review: Christian Zacharias, Pianist, at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-12-15T22:43:05Z

"They are trying to get expressive oil into the flavor and smell of the cocktail, and you are lacing that with the smell of latex and powder" using gloves, Smith said. In California, chefs fight for bare-hand contact 2014-03-24T13:05:20Z

Maestro's classical touch retains an expressive delicacy whatever the mood. Shai Maestro Trio: Shai Maestro Trio – review 2012-06-21T22:15:01Z

Rather than imposing some sense of order on the movement, Mr. Gatti lavished expressive beauty and majestic restraint on the music. Review: Concertgebouw Orchestra Shows Off Its Legacy at Carnegie 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

From the sweeping opening melody of the Introduction, the playing was detailed and intensely expressive, carrying the listener along in this epic. Music Review | Minnesota Orchestra: Symphonic Drama: Rage-Filled Reunion for Slave and His Sister 2010-03-02T21:56:00Z

With a straight handle for a nose above the container’s own gaping round mouth, and a semicircular indentation for drooping brows, the work becomes not merely a face but an expressive one. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z

Colbert and Cryer do a decent job on "Sorry-Grateful," but that wistful song needs more expressive voices, which it only gets when Walton joins in. Theater review: 'Company' 2011-04-08T20:40:13Z

The film’s most haunting image, strangely enough, is of the broken Hawk Sidney – once preternaturally expressive, now appalled beyond words as his ghastly rival walks away into a soulless future. My streaming gem: why you should watch Pit Stop 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

The expressive detachment of the work recalls the commanding, elongated sculptures by the Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti or the anonymous, expressionless figures by George Smith. Brooding sculptures invite interaction, pushing of 'Borders' 2012-08-09T20:29:11Z

Shortly after that, on “wake up,” comes a moment of emotional, expressive unison, a fervid meeting of minds between Mensa and cellist Katinka Kleijn. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z

Mr. Lewin wouldn’t be the only one to have spent years seeing Mr. Hawkes in untold film and television appearances without being able to put a name to his thin, expressive face. John Hawkes Brings Years of Film Work to ‘The Sessions’ 2012-10-12T12:00:00Z

Ms. Neufeld has a warmly expressive sound palette, and the album gives her the chance to acknowledge her fondness for classical minimalism and ambient electronic music. Playlist: Hard-Swinging Sounds, With the Help of Friends 2013-08-16T19:26:20Z

Her technical dexterity and expressive flair earned an enthusiastic ovation. Review: Sphinx Virtuosi and Catalyst Quartet Are on a Mission 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

Beyond the expressive movement, “Congregata” features a new song, “Glass & Patron,” from a third EP, expected this summer, that addresses celebrity culture. FKA twigs Lives Large, in ‘Congregata’ and Beyond 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

The film creates a powerful, expressive visual language rather than offering up tropes and shorthand. The Profound Power of the New Solange Videos 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z

Deep and expressive, it moaned and demanded, the kind of desperation you’d hear from a man who is drowning. Concert review: Willis Earl Beal at the Hideout 2012-04-20T15:59:00Z

One breathtaking central sequence is a breakthrough in expressive virtuosity. Dance Review: Rachid Ouramdane?s ?Ordinary Witnesses? - Review 2011-10-12T21:30:36Z

Could I, he asked, recommend for a Finnish friend some 20th-century English books expressive of happiness? Where is happiness in 20th-century fiction? 2013-05-27T10:51:21Z

But I couldn’t help feeling that over time, the acidity in each would become more sedate, and the other elements would become more expressive. What Is a Great Wine? Verdicchio di Matelica Has Some Ideas 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z

I wanted something much more personal and expressive. Living in your art 2012-09-09T00:00:00Z

It may be intangible, but the collective pathos exuded by the assemblage is as valuable an artifact of Medieval consciousness as any one of its marvelously expressive parts. Last Chance: ?Mourners,? Many Faces of Grief, at Metropolitan Museum 2010-05-12T21:46:00Z

The older buildings manage to be expressive, varied, bold, dignified and unified all at once; the new do not. Museum of Liverpool 2011-07-23T23:06:01Z

Novel implements afforded further expressive potential: Ravel’s saxophone, Strauss’s wind machine, Respighi’s phonograph and Varèse’s magnetic tape. Music Review | Argento Chamber Ensemble: Sneezes, Hiccups, Laughs and a Chamber Group 2010-03-08T22:29:00Z

Mr. Morlot’s affection for the work’s expressive richness came through clearly. Review: A Pulitzer Sequel for Orchestra, Packed With Drama in Microcosm 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

“He likes those things that are very expressive and speak to him,” Ms. Sano said. Antiques: A Sugar Baron’s Scattered Art Collection 2013-06-20T21:52:26Z

Her face, with a beauty that reliably catches the light, is particularly expressive, her eyes part of her strong connection with everyone else onstage. Dance Review: Jenifer Ringer’s Adieu at New York City Ballet 2014-02-10T22:26:36Z

Clouds, skies and background landscape are also sometimes shocking in their loose, expressive execution, as if the meticulous figures of Mughal or Persian art have wandered into a Van Gogh painting. At the Met, the artistic riches of India’s Deccan Plateau 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

His work belies the notion that “expressive” art must somehow be an angst-y mess. Robert Swain presents color as a transfer of energy 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

Mr. Wang, the violinist, was also wonderfully clean in the Manhattan’s School’s Sibelius, and he made the most of its expressive opportunities. Juilliard and the Manhattan School of Music Play Strauss’s ‘Ein Heldenleben’ 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z

The ensemble’s full-blooded and unsentimental approach complemented Mr. Goto’s expressive playing, with his sweet tone particularly lovely in the Adagio. Music Review: Ryu Goto and Orpheus in Spirited Mood at Carnegie Hall 2010-05-05T22:12:00Z

The expressive wildness of the final movement was rousing. Review: Dudamel and Los Angeles Bring the Noise to New York 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z

This is part of why it is a particularly rich time for black expressive culture and will remain. Celebrating Black Culture With a Careful Eye 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z

Even in so concentrated a survey of recent pieces, the program showed Mr. Zorn’s vast expressive range. Music Review: John Zorn at the Miller Theater - Review 2011-12-11T21:43:46Z

The impact is not reduced by the size of the figures because Dzama's expressive force as an artist is so strong. Geoffrey Farmer: The Surgeon and the Photographer; Marcel Dzama: Puppets, Pawns and Prophets – review 2013-04-06T23:05:12Z

He’s an expressive musician, who defaults to a wide, emotive vibrato — especially in his encore, a harmonious arrangement of Bach’s “Komm, süsser Tod” for five cellists. Review: A Conductor Takes a Victory Lap With Her Orchestra 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z

“You could tell immediately the paint handling was incredibly expressive,” Valentine said. He Likes ‘Staying Under the Radar,’ but His Art Is Getting Noticed 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z

With this work Vivaldi eschewed his fiery habits to create a piece of striking beauty and simplicity, whose expressive austerity befits the 13th-century poem that describes Mary’s suffering during the crucifixion. Music Review: Sacred Vivaldi, Somber and Elegant 2011-04-22T21:57:36Z

Ms. Gabetta played a solo encore: an obviously contemporary piece that posed major technical and expressive challenges even before she started to sing a haunting vocalise in counterpoint to the cello lines. Review: Mostly Mozart, Highlighted by Sol Gabetta’s Haunting Vocalise 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

The expressive force of his paintings derives from the intensity and conviction of their engagement with colour, scale and abstract form, rather than with any direct expression of personal feeling. John Hoyland obituary 2011-08-01T19:14:31Z

Ms. Kirkland’s classes usually run long: creating an expressive, sensitive instrument that is also healthy is painstaking. A Former Renegade Spirit Becomes a Headmistress 2010-10-22T08:06:00Z

Of course Ms. Parton’s is the voice that matters, and she sounds almost ageless: expressive even at a whisper, and glorious at full cry. New Music 2011-06-27T22:41:28Z

Tiny expressive effects highlighted specific moments; and every movement showed precisely how it belonged on the beat and within the music’s larger span. Kathakali Dance, in India, With the Locals 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

Even when silent, she emoted with the entirety of her face, arrestingly expressive with just a small hand gesture. Review: Marina Abramovic Summons Maria Callas in ‘7 Deaths’ 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z

“In personal life, he’s not shy with his emotions. I would not see him as a classic English male in that sense – he’s a warmer person, a more expressive person than that.” The real David Attenborough 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z

She maintained an exquisite poise, leaving the drama to the voice, where it flowered richly in coloratura more expressive than the words themselves. Music Review: Ensemble ACJW With Heras-Casado at Zankel Hall - Review 2011-12-18T22:47:07Z

Only his expressive hands moved, turning magazine pages as he waited outside the office of a pioneer psychiatrist at a Zurich asylum. Nijinsky by Lucy Moore – review 2013-05-01T13:00:01Z

The surprisingly expressive puppets draw swords, dance with knights and cry over fallen suitors. In Transit: Exploring Ancient Czech Legends in Prague 2011-01-27T11:00:43Z

Mr. Valcuha was an alert accompanist; French horn, flute and clarinet solos were expressive marvels, and the thrice-familiar Adagio was heavenly. Music Review: New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-12-06T21:56:27Z

An action hero with expressive comic timing, he could become the Harrison Ford of our age. Guardians of the Galaxy first look review – a whip-smart space romp 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

For all Hugh's drunken fluency in four languages, his prolonged silence towards the close is his most expressive. Translations ? review 2011-07-19T18:00:05Z

The songs in the second half of the program allowed Mr. Holzmair a broader expressive palette. Music Review: Just a Voice, a Piano and Mahler Lieder 2010-12-01T22:32:00Z

The artist says: "I am particularly inspired by Lowry's sense of scale with dominant grimy buildings contrasting with tiny animated people complete with personalities communicated through a few expressive brushstrokes." In pictures: LS Lowry's legacy 2013-06-27T07:19:29Z

Kirchner’s music draws elements from his teacher Schoenberg, his mentor Stravinsky, and other 20th-century modernists, fashioned into his own rigorous, expressive voice. ArtsBeat: Classical Playlist: Zuill Bailey, Natasha Paremski, Leon Kirchner and More 2014-01-29T17:18:51Z

Flowers’s loose, expressive line is a little messy, a little scribbly, with both cursive and all-caps text floating through the images. Graphic Novels With Fresh Voices From the Margins 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

The goal was to both create a likeness and to allow Bale to be expressive. How Christian Bale Became Dick Cheney (and Other Tales of Transformation) 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z

Instead of expressive story development it depends on arbitrary structural tactics for its effects: not just the reversals and the symptoms-as-titles, but also the pointless weaving of characters into one another’s stories. ‘Breathe’ Review: A Pandemic Musical That Strains to Surprise 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z

Eisenberg boasts a wide expressive range on guitar and banjo, sometimes playing in lonely, resounding single notes, elsewhere in convexly shaped chords. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z

The arrangements broke no ground but made expressive use of the band’s palette, often calling on the saxophonists to double on flute while adding a layer of muted horns. Music Review: Words and Music: A Jazz Trumpeter Plays, Sings and Blogs 2011-03-02T22:19:39Z

Yet in among the flatulence jokes and unrestrained use of a genuine slap stick were pauses for some sublime, harmonic meditations the expressive equal of anything the northern Italian madrigal tradition has to offer. York Early Music festival 2010-07-12T21:30:00Z

Both she and Mr. Ross were wearing slim, light-wash jeans and oversized white T-shirts, and the two were physically expressive with each other, taking turns praising each other’s talents in conversation. Ashlee Simpson’s New Reality 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z

For all of Ms. Dorrance’s growing choreographic skill, it is that expressive awkwardness that remains most compelling. ‘ETM: The Initial Approach,’ Debuts at Jacob’s Pillow 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

Becker’s directorial vision catches both these refined deceptions and their underlying furies, nowhere more than in his incisively imaginative, piercingly expressive closeups. An Essential Retrospective of the French Filmmaker Jacques Becker at the Newly Renovated Film Forum 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z

The Argonaut is a private facility, so I wasn’t able to get a sense of the interior, but this is one of Kahn’s more expressive buildings: it has beautiful arches with striped banding patterns. In Energized Detroit, Savoring an Architectural Legacy 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z

“Gloria” makes it clear what all the self-doubt, body-obsession and rigorous training are in aid of: the creation of a transcendent stage experience built on expressive movement skills that very few people can master. Perfect match: Seattle Dance Project, choreographer Ohlberg 2013-03-27T23:21:23Z

These pictures are perfectly expressive of what Miyake referred to as his and Penn's "silent understanding" — but to visitors to the exhibition, they speak resoundingly of shared genius. Blind Inspiration: Irving Penn and Issey Miyake's Unique Collaboration 2011-09-14T08:15:00Z

You’re supposed to be a good citizen, not an expressive artist.” Ozawa?s Illness Shadows Festival He Inspired 2010-12-10T16:53:00Z

“He’s very humble, a student of the score and he isn’t over expressive.” A 19-Year-Old Pianist Electrifies Audiences. But He’s Unimpressed. 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z

Indeed, the conversational interplay of Thursday's performances heightened the music's expressive power, drawing the listener more fully into its elegance, refinement and singing lines. Mitsuko Uchida's makes for eloquent Mozart with CSO 2011-01-28T18:48:33Z

In Mr. Ehnes’s case there was plenty to enjoy — with the Kreisler notable for its dynamic subtleties and expressive shadings complimented by an effortless virtuosity. Music Review: The Violinist James Ehnes at Mostly Mozart?s ?Little Night Music? 2010-08-02T21:58:00Z

Enthusiasts fell in love with his brawny, expressive releases, often labeled “editions” — not “vintages,” since he might cancel an annual release if it didn’t meet his expectations — and named for constellations: Orion, Pleiades, Andromeda. Sean Thackrey, Creator of Eccentric California Wines, Dies at 79 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z

It examines overlaps between the two artists, including the expressive manner in which they approached human figures and the ways in which they employed color and iconography. Object Lesson: What Elsa Flores’ painting of Carlos Almaraz reveals about a marriage of artists 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z

The Second is not Mahler's biggest symphony, but it is one of the most ambitious in expressive and quasi-philosophical scope. Mahler's majesty a worthy farewell for SSO's Schwarz 2011-06-17T17:54:04Z

Finley's voice has been in better shape, though he pushes himself to his expressive limits to create an entirely credible portrait of a man at once noble and emotionally volatile. Les P?cheurs de Perles 2010-10-06T22:30:00Z

As the outstanding early-music ensemble Blue Heron showed in a thoughtful program presented at Corpus Christi Church under the auspices of Music Before 1800 on Sunday, Ockeghem’s music is both intricate and expressive. Review: Blue Heron Performs ‘Missa De plus en plus’ at Corpus Christi Church 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

Ratmansky is known for the dynamism and wit of his ballets, for his belief in the expressive potential of classical dance, and his ability to draw technically exciting, dramatically nuanced performances out of dancers. A Leading Choreographer Joins the War Effort, With Classical Ballet 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z

Enter the artists, who recognized video’s potential as an expressive medium. Steve Rutt, an Inventor Behind Early Video Animation, Dies at 66 2011-05-28T01:31:01Z

Even its most overtly expressive incidents are hard to label. For Gay Pride, Dark Dances of Mystery, Anguish and Desire 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z

But her gift for showing you a character’s interior states, for feelings that delicately brush the skin, gives Savannah a vulnerability that becomes an expressive counterpoint to Laura’s grandiosity and wounded narcissism. ‘J.T. LeRoy’ Review: Unpeeling the Layers of an All-American Hoax 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z

The Boston players turned in a performance that was balanced and expressive. Review: Boston Symphony Chamber Players Balance Acoustics and Expression 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z

He achieved those goals here with a scintillating and expressive performance. Music Review | Les Arts Florissants: Les Arts Florissants at BAM Opera Festival 2010-03-19T23:00:00Z

Words that might be thought "at best maudlin, at worst painfully trite" become transformed in the "mouth of an expressive, and doomed, teenager". Noises off: Theatre that makes us see differently 2012-05-25T08:35:20Z

Directing is more than choosing expressive shots and coaxing emotionally satisfying performances from actors. What's Missing from “The Martian” 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

Making synths tough was part of Reznor’s artistic achievement: he dramatizes the expressive qualities of the machine for the purpose of sounding human. Nine Inch Nails: a human scream in Reagan’s postindustrial America 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z

As both inanimate robots become more fearless in their flying, they become more expressive — hardly a surprise — forming something of a bond with Mr. Del Rosario. Dance Review: Alone With Schubert and 2 Flying M.I.T. Robots 2011-07-19T20:54:16Z

In her rendition of that aria at the band shell, she impressed soggy listeners with her earthy low notes, alluring dark-hued timbre and expressive top range. Critic’s Notebook: Singing in the Rain in Tribute to Richard Tucker 2013-08-29T22:07:53Z

Carr is interested in the expressive potency of the body, and the novel is meticulously structured to highlight its enduring cultural significance. Grief, Pain and the Lingering Impact of Trauma on Black Women’s Bodies 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z

If Hannigan's vocal limitations were evident here – hers is a smallish soprano, with little surface sheen – the vivid imagination underpinning her expressive delivery was never in doubt. Britten Sinfonia/Wigglesworth ? review 2010-12-01T22:29:00Z

The pilot script merely described the character Cameron as the more "passionate" and "expressive" of the show's gay couple. Fresh faces may enliven Emmys 2010-05-26T05:47:00Z

Of the expressive tools that “shadow/land” deploys, the cast is the most immediate and legible. ‘shadow/land’ Review: What the Storm Washes Away 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z

The performers who appear in the show that follows — which is conducted upstairs on a lighted stage — all possess memorable and distinctively expressive faces. Theater Review: ‘Not by Bread Alone’ at the N.Y.U. Skirball Center 2013-01-18T23:41:49Z

She is that rare opera star whose expressive vocal potential is nearly matched by a gestural eloquence. Theatrical victory belongs to Blanche in 'Streetcar' opera 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

The exuberant first movement leads to an elegiac Andantino, whose soaring melody Ms. Hristova played with expressive nuance and a rich tone, particularly attractive in the violin’s plummy lower range. Music Review: Showcase for Bella Hristova at Merkin Concert Hall 2010-04-22T21:19:00Z

The point is to be expressive, but not too expressive, to find a middle way. An expressive slowness to Jacaranda, Sankai Juku performances 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z

When I asked him how the quality of seafood and vegetables in Richmond compares to what he’d worked with in Hong Kong, his Cantonese reply was accompanied by an expressive eye-roll. The Best Asian Food in North America? Try British Columbia 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z

Alongside the competition lineup, the festival includes screenings of recent major releases as well as “Orizzonti,” a secondary competition dedicated to the “latest aesthetic and expressive trends in international cinema.” 2016 Venice Film Festival Lineup Is Announced 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

She was tough and had a cool exterior, but she was also playful and expressive. Warpaint: 'Ari Up never lost her ability to captivate an audience' 2010-10-22T09:13:00Z

Eventually she found a new expressive outlet at theater school and, later, as a fine artist. Wrapped in stretchy fabric, orchestral musicians become performance art at Green Umbrella festival 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

“All of this is new,” said Champion, who admitted she normally isn’t terribly expressive when she performs. Jenn Champion makes a sharp break from emo indie rock to a new synth-pop sound 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z

Roteness wasn’t his problem alone: Mr. Mikkelborg, for all his expressive poetry, often seemed like the victim of his own typecasting. Music Review: Terje Rypdal at Le Poisson Rouge 2012-06-28T22:33:32Z

Today, at the top of his profession, he is playing a role similar to Stadler’s in driving clarinet music in new expressive directions. Martin Frost Explores the Soul of the Clarinet 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

Not that this “vision” requires much expenditure of effort on the president’s part; Trump, just by being Trump, “elevates the expressive and personal dimensions of the office.” How Trump Is Remaking the Highest Office in His Own Image 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z

As a result, dance makes a triumphant return as an expressive cinematic language in “La La Land,” in ways big and small. Triumphant ‘La La Land’ demonstrates the power of dance to tell a story 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

The baritone Rufus Bonds Jr. sang and narrated with mellifluous voice in “It’s Freedom” and other sections, and the alto Lalah Hathaway rendered songs including “Twenty-Third Psalm” and “Come Sunday” with expressive conviction. Music Review: Six Youth Choirs Sing From Ellington’s Sacred Concerts 2014-03-26T19:59:03Z

Sabra called it a transparent vintage, meaning that the wines were quite expressive of their terroirs. 2016 Dry German Rieslings: Graceful, Resonant, Delicious 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

In a 2006 case that challenged the law, the state Supreme Court ruled, as Mr. Miller said, that “basically social dancing wasn’t expressive enough to be protected by the First Amendment.” Dance Parade: Where 100 Styles Fit Into 20 City Blocks 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z

And within each is the expressive wealth we might expect from an entire symphony or opera. CD reviews: A Hungarian master stirs the senses and the mind 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

Then, he was more restrained — with the occasional expressive, searching look in his eyes, but generally measured as he played three short pieces. Review: The Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason Makes an Entrance 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

Its origins date back to long before the printing press or even the bound codex, back to the emergence of prose in antiquity as both an expressive and an informational medium. The Chapter: A History 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z

Bergé’s expressive black-and-white photographs, many never before published, are joined by Saint Laurent’s own drawings for a lovely pergola, entryway, and garden. Tour Morocco with Yves Saint Laurent 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z

The elements of surprise are among the ways in which these Tao Dance Theater works prove more expressive than their impersonal manner seems to suggest. Dance Review: Tao Dance Theater at Alice Tully Hall 2012-07-26T21:24:32Z

One of the biggest challenges was making the creatures appropriately expressive — a surprising amount of work goes into figuring out how big to make the turtles’ eyes and mouths. How the New Ninja Turtles Got Their 'Realistic' Look 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z

For me, what was major was to realize that this kind of work existed, and that the dream of being an expressive man onstage was possible. Boys Will Be Swans: ‘What Is That Show, and How Do I Do It?’ 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z

Pas de l’Escalette is one of several younger producers in the Languedoc, applying modern techniques and careful site selection to make high-quality wines expressive of the mountains of southern France as well as the Mediterranean. 5 wines to try this week 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z

Gary Thor Wedow conducted Juilliard415, the orchestra representing the school’s historical performance program; the Choir of Trinity Wall Street, superbly trained by Julian Wachner and always expressive; and student and professional vocal soloists. Music Review: Bach’s ‘St. Matthew Passion,’ Presented by Juilliard 2014-03-19T19:36:07Z

Only when reading the titles — “Mass Grave at Cassinga,” “Minefield Near Mupa” — do you learn where the people are, or once were, and the pictures snap into expressive focus. Art in Review: JO RACTLIFFE: ?As Terras do Fim do Mundo (The Lands of the End of the World)? 2011-05-26T22:00:30Z

Apart from a few minor solo blemishes in the concluding Allegro, Mr. Zukerman offered technically solid and often highly expressive playing, especially in the second movement Larghetto. Music Review: Pinchas Zukerman Leads the Royal Philharmonic 2014-01-13T22:59:38Z

I told her that I wanted to challenge the notion of signing, which often tends to look so very beautiful and pastoral and emotive and expressive. My ‘Face Is My Voice’: A Deaf Dancer Lands Her Dream Role 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

It emerged as the first of about four slow-tempo arias of great expressive poignancy. Music Review: On Paris Stages, Intriguing Vivaldi and Novel Wagner 2011-03-15T12:30:07Z

“She said, ‘I can do a very expressive thing on one note if you let me,’ ” he explains. Perspective | A star violinist rebels against what she’s supposed to play — or wear. 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

This is the similarity to acting today — why we went from emotional expressive theatrical acting and now we have new actors who play against something. "My grandmother went through this hell and I am playing it" 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

Walker offers insightful comments on some of his most important compositions with their pianistic innovations and expressive elegance. An Ingenious Frédéric Chopin 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

In the Transcendental Études No. 9 “Ricordanza” and No. 10 in F minor he coaxed an impressive range of colors from the instrument with virtuosic and expressive ease. Music Review: Joaqu?n Ach?carro at Mannes College the New School for Music 2010-07-23T23:25:00Z

“Sometimes superficial things can make a big expressive difference,” Mr. Crutchfield told a singer who had been unconsciously throwing out his hands with each new breath. Music: Will Crutchfield, Preaching the Gospel of Bel Canto 2010-07-03T17:17:00Z

Align those three with one of rock's strongest, most emotionally expressive blues and soul-schooled voices in Paul Rodgers, and you had four musicians who together just flat-out worked. Andy Fraser: A bassist whose rumbling sound allowed Free to soar 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

Their exuberantly expressive yet intricately lyrical performances of the film’s rhyming text are unlike any in this year’s Oscar scramble. The Oscar Whiteness Machine 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

The title track is also a new composition that turns Stirling’s instrument into an expressive vessel for wintry melodrama and childlike wonder. 15 Fresh Takes on a Classic Tradition: The Holiday Album 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z

Psychological intensity, meanwhile, is generated through the naked exposure of the human voice, pushed almost to its technical limits in a quest for expressive extremes. Bellini: Il Pirata – review 2012-06-07T14:30:02Z

She was artistically expressive and thoughtful, and she became a target — like the time she converted rolling luggage into a colorful, hand-decorated backpack, and classmates kicked it through the halls. ‘Dork Diaries’: The book empire built one awkward moment at a time 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

He was amiable but not particularly expressive, and the gentle volume of his Texas twang was frequently drowned out by garbage trucks. What Does Everyone See in Jesse Plemons? 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z

Mr. Davies was expressive, often raising his voice at the video game, whether it was a near-missed goal, a poor offsides call or an uncooperative controller. Rivals on Xbox, Partners Onstage 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z

Whelan is as equally expressive and in command on the minimalist piano ballads as on the full-blown rockers. The 18-Year Wait for New Wrens Music Is Over. Sort Of. 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z

Cage's Quartet in Four Parts was guilelessly beautiful, like a series of renaissance madrigals bleached of their expressive dimensions. JACK Quartet ? review 2011-08-01T17:31:40Z

They are contemplative, self-contained creatures, like equine versions of the isolated, expressive humans sculpted by Giacometti. Review: Deborah Butterfield's contemplative horses at Greg Kucera 2011-06-09T20:23:04Z

Mythological narration, expressive mime and pure dance all took their turn as part of their “Durga Taranga.” Dance Review: Indian Dance at Downtown Dance Festival 2012-08-19T21:57:53Z

But we’re still in Wertzworld: the velvety black and white illustrations, the crisp lines of the landscapes and the rounded, expressive faces of the characters who look straight out of a Tintin comic. A Graphic Novelist’s Passionate Anatomy of New York 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z

Perhaps the cause was nerves: the opening phrases sounded stiff, while in contrast the encore — ‘Fêtes’ from Nocturnes — was relaxed, expressive and totally satisfying.” What the critics said about Seattle Symphony at Carnegie Hall 2014-05-08T20:28:09Z

She’s looking for the expressive potential of the dancer’s body buzzing on freedom. ‘Lois Greenfield: Moving Still’ review: Images of momentary magic 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z

The Hellenistic inspiration is obvious but so is the originality of the expressive handling of the face. Art Review: Murky Exploration of an Iranian Past 2011-05-27T12:00:04Z

The remarkable thing about her playing in the F-major concerto was how full of dynamic and expressive nuance it was. Mitsuko Uchida's makes for eloquent Mozart with CSO 2011-01-28T18:48:33Z

There is an old-school moral urgency to the work, which the young players brought out with sensitivity and expressive commitment. New Juilliard Performs Contemporary Music at Summergarden 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z

Isadora is so confounded by her fame and grief that she’s in the dark about her own emotions, even as her expressive dances capture the world’s attention. Review | Amelia Gray captures the mind of Isadora Duncan, the mother of modern dance 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z

“In the middle of all this,” Adams recalled, “I found myself composing what is if not the most personal, at least the most overtly expressive music I’ve ever composed.” John Luther Adams, Praying for the Earth in Music 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z

But in many parts of the country, local examples will be more expressive and worth seeking out. Two Big Brewers Try to Cash In on an I.P.A. Craze 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

“Nigerians are expressive and proud. Looking good is good business.” T Magazine: In Lagos, the 1% Takes Stock 2014-04-25T17:00:01Z

At the Met Drake’s jars are joined by expressive face jugs by potters and clay artists whose names are as yet unrecovered. New Shows That Widen the Beaten Path 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z

“I often paint my characters in broad colors, big expressive moments, whereas in reality I’m pretty direct and unsentimental.” Arts & Leisure: The Film ?Once? Becomes a New York Musical 2011-12-04T03:13:02Z

It would be mouthy and expressive, a medium that blew your lapels back. Carl Reiner Knew TV Like the Back of His Head 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

Nørgård's music becomes a force of nature in its own right, since it contains, accepts, and creates such titanic expressive extremes. A guide to Per Nørgård's music 2012-07-30T15:58:34Z

But they are Beethoven’s last word in the solo sonata, a genre he inherited from Mozart and Haydn and that he radically transformed to suit his own expressive aims. Aiming for a musical summit but falling short 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

In 2005 Alex Ross wrote in The New Yorker that “her smoky, penetrating, flatly expressive voice falls somewhere between grand opera and rural folk singing, and combines the best aspects of both.” Montserrat Figueras, Catalan Soprano, Dies at 69 2011-11-28T00:04:04Z

While Natalie expressed everything through the deep pools of her brown eyes, topping her outfits off with the perfect sunglasses, Lana’s most expressive feature was her voice. Lana Wood, Natalie’s Little Sister, Has Plenty to Say 2019-08-03T04:00:00Z

He was a composer who put everything onto paper in such an incredibly expressive and evocative way. Violinist Hahn-Bin at home with Bowie, Tchaikovsky 2012-02-23T22:13:23Z

In both, the orchestra tends to be attractively functional — a carpet of gently bluesy repeating riffs — rather than an expressive character in its own right. Review: ‘Champion,’ at the Met Opera, Spars With History 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z

Filmmaking does not get much more elegant and expressive than this, yet “Hurry Sundown” is ultimately not a satisfying film. Video: Late Preminger, the Un-Swinger 2011-05-13T23:13:01Z

His abstraction wasn’t remote from representation, merely a heightening of its expressive power. Perspective | I grew up in Upstate New York. It took the art of Charles Burchfield to help me rediscover the beauty of its winters. 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z

Her art isn’t expressive that way: the opposite, really. Zoe Leonard’s Messages Strike Hard — and Cast a Spell 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

Mr. Rautavaara’s second marriage ushered in a period of heightened creativity and coincided with a transition to a neo-Romantic, deeply expressive musical language. Einojuhani Rautavaara, Composer, Dies at 87; His Lush Music Found Wide Appeal 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

My mom may not be as expressive as you’d like, but she’s a terrific person and she happens to like you a lot. Social Q?s: In-Law or in the Way? 2010-02-19T01:39:00Z

What’s more, few theater artists have anything of his vast expressive range. City Ballet Revives ‘Davidsbündlertänze’ and ‘Union Jack’ 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

They are ripe for parody, the film explains, as owners and fans enjoy analyzing their seemingly ungovernable behavior and relish projecting comical personalities onto their expressive faces and bizarre behavior. ArtsBeat: Lil Bub Hits the Tribeca Film Festival 2013-04-25T12:00:18Z

Ms. King demonstrated an expressive warmth of soul and willingness to linger over her music that struck us as special. Hail the Amateur, Loved by the Crowd 2011-06-10T14:21:36Z

Michals shoots expressive portraits of expressive people: find Philip Roth, René Magritte, Meryl Streep and more in this compilation of a half-century of work. Inspiring, transporting and just plain gorgeous coffee table books 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

The great exponents of the style know the repertory and the art of singing so thoroughly that they can intuit on the spot what expressive liberties a singer is going to take. Toscanini and Giulini Put Their Mark on ?Traviata? 2010-04-04T21:37:00Z

And once works are purchased, many of them, including some of the world’s most expressive and expensive, end up hidden away in cavernous, nondescript, tax-sheltered free ports, their whereabouts largely unknown. As Money Launderers Buy Dalís, U.S. Looks at Lifting the Veil on Art Sales 2021-06-19T04:00:00Z

Those eyes, she thought, were the most expressive part of the face. At 87, ‘Big Eyes’ artist Margaret Keane gets her Hollywood break 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

In Symphony No. 12, Glass creates a freer, more expressive singing line and, rather than employing an operatic soloist as usual, has given the vocal part to West African pop star Angélique Kidjo. With world premiere of his thrilling 12th Symphony, Philip Glass continues to intrigue 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z

He used the natural grain of wood, usually covered up, as an expressive element. Review: The Darkness and Light of Edvard Munch’s Work 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

Of course studying the body as an expressive instrument is a lifetime study, so I keep at it. Anna Halprin on a ?Crucial Time? for Dance 2010-04-04T03:03:00Z

Even back then, Ms. Wasserman foresaw that Burgundy’s future lay in re-embracing the sort of agriculture that predated chemical farming, which permitted both grapes and wines to be more expressive. A Farewell to Becky Wasserman, a Great Sage of Burgundy 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

Even her hands, as articulate as a Bharatanatyam dancer’s, were achingly expressive, as she pressed the heels of her palms toward the sky or entwined her arms overhead. American Ballet Theater Performs ‘La Bayadère’ 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z

Emin draws, again and again, a reclining nude, but her lines are so whimsical and self-consciously "expressive" that we don't get much sense of physical reality at all. Tracey Emin should have had more fun at the seaside 2012-05-25T15:16:36Z

He is simply a guy with marquee ambition and a hugely expressive instrument, who is massively relatable to a mainstream audience. Sam Smith – just a pretty voice? | Concert preview 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z

Lynch said Tuesday the bill would potentially have a "chilling effect" on legitimate journalistic and expressive works protected by the state and federal constitutions and has no exceptions to the right to control one's identity. NH gov vetoes Salinger-inspired bill on identity 2012-06-13T14:35:09Z

Perhaps Ms. Dvorovenko embodies the production’s goals — the groupies were doggedly chanting, “Brava-bravissima-brava-bravissima” after all her showiest numbers — but she certainly illustrates its expressive limitations. Dance Review: The Enduring Mysteries of a Swan Queen and the Maidens Who Share Her Fate 2011-06-28T21:55:07Z

As the title suggests, Ellington’s version is a feature for the finely expressive trumpeter Cootie Williams, and it paints its warm, delicate moods with a musical palette that’s much finer than Kirby’s. Two New Recordings by Two Jazz Greats 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

Instead, through suggestive deployment of ordinary found objects, he replaced a story's expressive pictorial representation with a poetic, abstract evocation of it. 'Junk Dada' assembles Noah Purifoy's overlooked, pivotal works 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z

Lowenstein remembers her first night with Charlie vividly and describes with wide eyes and expressive gestures how he lay on his back, paws flapping, severely frightened. New Yorkers admit it: their dogs share their beds 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z

A major voice against the Vietnam war, Bly is also known for being one of the leaders of "the expressive men's movement", which aspires to reconnect men with their masculinity. Robert Bly to receive Poetry Society of America's Frost Medal 2013-02-14T17:49:35Z

But it’s worth recording that I’m spellbound by the expressive beauties of Odissi and other genres even while I remain in some state of ignorance about these things. Dance Review: Fringe Festival Presents Trinayan Dance Theater 2010-08-20T22:19:00Z

He nimbly avoided the pitfalls of yahooism, academicism, social realism and surrealist kitsch and, in so doing, forged a style that was exemplary for its technical and expressive economy, if not for daring imagination. Art Review: Testing the Waters of Abstraction 2011-08-04T22:02:30Z

Ms. Hunt Lieberson’s radiant voice is expressive throughout her range, with its bright top notes, smoky lower register and elegant vibrato. ?Peter Lieberson: 'Red Garuda,' Rilke Songs, Bagatelles, Piano Quintet? 2010-08-01T02:00:00Z

But her wildest, most expressive dancing-acting role to date is the Kenzo ad, choreographed by Heffington, where an uncontrollable primal force breaks free in her body and flings her cartwheeling into the night. These 18 movie stars are also amazing dancers. That’s their real superpower. 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z

Scanning the top deck of the bus for seats becomes an expressive dumbshow of plummeting self-esteem. Seann Walsh – review 2012-11-07T18:07:44Z

His lankiness, pallor, sleepy eyes and broad mouth are more expressive here. ‘The King of Staten Island’ Review: Pete Davidson Gets (Even More) Personal 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z

That he gave the work an expressive, carefully polished reading was no surprise. Music Review: Mostly Mozart Festival With Martin Fröst and Louis Langrée 2012-08-26T21:35:23Z

About the only expressive use of the medium is in the processing that gives the film the appearance of a dodgy video feed, with freezes and glitches that imitate a poor signal. Review: ‘Waiting for Godot’ in the Bleakest Zoom Room Ever 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z

I also recently tasted the 2018, which has softened and become more expressive, so I suggest stocking up on a few and holding some for six months or so. These Portuguese white wines are crisp, cooling and cost just $11 a bottle 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

It struck me as odd that Winston, aware that's he under constant surveillance, would be so expressive with his anxiety and fear. Orwell's '1984' has never seemed so current and terrifying as on the Broad Stage 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

There was no dawdling in ruminative variations, and just enough use of expressive rubato in episodes of soaring lyricism. Jurowski Leads London Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

These developments helped to generate intellectual debate within the design community, and to nurture new movements, like critical and conceptual design, whose purpose is expressive and analytical, rather than commercial. Design: Mixed Signals, but Some Signs Point to a Comeback Season 2010-06-06T18:42:00Z

“Metaphors aren’t even helping you anymore. You just have to reach beyond that to something that is ultimately expressive non-literally, and for us that is often profanity.” Curses! And Why They Work So Well Onstage (Sometimes) 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z

He is infinitely expressive, with almost every conceivable human emotion passing over his face in quicksilver rapidity. Book review: ‘Charlie Chaplin: A Brief Life,’ by Peter Ackroyd 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

Here, the words of three E. E. Cummings poems are milked by Berio for maximum expressive effect. Review: Decades Later, a Classic Concert Gets a Redo 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z

They could be mistaken for a concept band, or a dance troupe; their bodies are surprisingly muscular, as slender and expressive as if they’d spent their days at the ballet barre or in gymnastics training. Escape from Childhood 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

"I felt that, since CG came in, 2-D had to redefine itself, like when photography came in and painting had to redefine itself. It had to use the language of drawing, to be expressive." Animator Tomm Moore lives the dream with a 'Song' in his heart 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

"It's based in the fact that these words are so expressive, and express an emotion in the way that nothing else can. You can use them in a moment when nothing else will suffice." Why Nic Cage was the perfect f**king host for a show about cursing etymology 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

Born in 1934 in Guyana, then a British colony, Bowling’s long career has traversed many styles, including expressive figuration, Pop Art and Color Field painting. Frank Bowling’s New Paintings Are Family Affairs 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z

Yet it was in Mr. Magloire’s work that New Chamber Ballet risked being inconsequential in both expressive and musical terms. Dance Review: Ballet and New Music Mix, Meet and Mingle 2011-06-26T22:30:27Z

A gentleman composer, he consigned poignancy to the lower layers, which made the music all the more hauntingly expressive. How unlikely Steven Stucky proved indispensable to the L.A. Philharmonic's rise 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z

The Kennedy Center players brought searing expressive purpose to the music, particularly in the massive second movement, with its elaborate variations on a theme of Tchaikovsky’s. Kennedy Center Chamber Players present unusual, rarely heard music 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

Reviewing her paintings at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery in 2015 for The New York Times, Holland Cotter called her “an expressive geometrician” who “makes painting look like fastidiously worked joy.” Shirley Jaffe, Geometric Artist of Joyful Forms, Dies at 93 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

The singers seemed to feel supported by Mr. Armiliato, who was always there when they took expressive liberties. The Metropolitan Opera Performs Donizetti?s ?Anna Bolena? 2011-09-27T12:51:23Z

Their designs are formally expressive, yet also critique Chinese consumerism. Design: Looking at China as a Creator, Not Manufacturer 2011-07-10T13:20:00Z

The ensemble’s rendition of Mozart’s “Prague” Symphony, which concluded the concert, proved less satisfying over all — a routine performance that sometimes sounded lackluster and was undistinguished by any expressive nuances or interpretive insights. Work by Schnittke and Haydn at Mostly Mozart 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z

Light in body but expressive in fruit, they reward a little patience — not so much in aging in your cellar, but in enjoying over the course of a meal. This deep pink rosé is a favorite — and a steal at $16 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z

Only when you see the “Analogue” images over their entire span do you begin to hear the expressive score they’re set to: a slow, plangent bass note. Zoe Leonard’s Messages Strike Hard — and Cast a Spell 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

Although previous vintages of Niebaum-Coppola wines were characterized by power, upfront fruit and a slight alcoholic burn on the finish, these were restrained at first but quite expressive after a few hours. How influential can one vintner be? Two famous wineries get to find out. 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

Thomas Quasthoff, 52, the celebrated German bass-baritone renowned for his sensitive, expressive performances and deep artistic intelligence, says he is retiring from the concert stage. ArtsBeat: Thomas Quasthoff, Celebrated Bass-Baritone, Is Retiring From Performing 2012-01-11T21:23:31Z

It's eerie how much more mobile and expressive the faces of the porcelain pieces seem to be in the photographs than when you look directly at the ceramic models themselves. UW faculty artists get an 'A' at Traver Gallery exhibition 2012-03-08T23:36:01Z

Whether the rest of Mr. Baker’s body was similarly expressive remains, thankfully, undivulged. Movie Review: ‘The Source Family,’ a Documentary on Father Yod 2013-04-30T21:26:22Z

Jasper Johns, the most cerebral of great American artists, made much the same point in his richly expressive paintings of a map of the United States. Tracey Emin's tube map draws a natural connection 2012-05-17T13:35:12Z

They get to be in front of people and be expressive.’ ” Top Notes That Shatter The Glass Ceiling 2011-03-11T15:32:57Z

Instead we hear this music as one of several expressive approaches from a stylistically polyglot century. Music Review: Traditional Works Made in an Avant-Garde Time 2010-12-06T23:25:00Z

The overall impression was of undeniably talented musicians who, despite their enthusiasm, left some of the music’s variety and full expressive potential untapped. Sitkovetsky, Qian show their talent and enthusiasm at Phillips 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z

Three objects that introduce the exhibition, all dating from around the 8th century A.D., suggest the formal and expressive range of what lies ahead. Can Art Ever Be Innocent? 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z

Mr. Lewis worked with terse melodic shapes and the occasional expressive indulgence, like a nubby, muttering tirade played with one palm covering his mute. Review: A New-Music Concert by the Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z

Mr. Suzuki drew focused sound and clear textures from the ensemble, allowing Bach’s piercing harmonies to penetrate without expressive excess. In a Mass, a Cradle of Consolation for Japan 2011-03-23T22:27:34Z

He has long supported the work of Mr. Eifman, an expressive Russian choreographer who inspires strong feelings in audiences, love or hate and little in between. Meet the Impresario Who Makes Dance Happen 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

It can be startling to realize just how many roads lead back to Vertov, who straddled the expressive peak of silent cinema and the inchoate excitement of the early sound era. Machine Age Poet, Born in Revolution, Stifled Under Stalin 2011-04-10T01:03:01Z

Harding wears a billowing blouse with a pilgrim collar and a stovepipe-shaped straw hat, stiffly shimmying her shoulders and making a series of awkwardly expressive faces. Aldous Harding’s Gloriously Peculiar World of Songs 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z

But it is possible to enjoy the expressive potential of makeup and also to wonder if both fortunes rely on female panic, a pursuit of uncatchable perfection. Lip service: what Kylie Jenner really sells us is a brush with fame 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z

Her artwork is immensely engaging — filled with expressive, appealing faces and a wide variety of body shapes and sizes. Hanging With the Mythbusters at Mount Olympus Junior High 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z

“But I was instantly struck by their intelligence and motivation. They are dedicated and passionate, with good musical skills. Together we explore the expressive potential of music.” 6 spring community orchestra concerts 2014-05-01T18:12:10Z

A central component of the Italian style calls for singers to shape phrases with expressive freedom. Toscanini and Giulini Put Their Mark on ?Traviata? 2010-04-04T21:37:00Z

De Lavallade was hungry to explore a new expressive vocabulary, and her dancing became richer after she delved into acting. Carmen de Lavallade is 86 and still the best dancer in the room 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

He challenges the musicians to be minutely attuned to each other and to him, and to pay close, expressive attention to every musical phrase. Seattle Symphony picks Thomas Dausgaard to succeed Ludovic Morlot as music director 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z

Her dimples were more prominent, her eyes looked brighter and more expressive. 'I just want to see the person I always saw in my head': the story of a face 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z

Ms. Akhavan, who from certain angles resembles Hilary Swank, has a face so expressive that you can hardly avert your eyes once she appears; every few seconds, a little storm passes across her features. Desiree Akhavan’s ‘Appropriate Behavior’ 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

“As best man, I really wanted to contribute something memorable and expressive,” he said. How to Give Guests an Active Role in Your Virtual Wedding 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z

Also true to form, she took great expressive liberties with her singing — sometimes prolonging, sometimes rushing phrases — liberties that the conductor Marco Armiliato was too willing to accommodate. Music Review | 'La Boh?me: The Gang?s All Here: Mimi, Rodolfo and Zeffirelli 2010-02-22T06:01:00Z

Because the medium allows such freedom to create expressive images, it often renders words superfluous. Movie Review | 'How to Train Your Dragon': A 3-D Adventure Based on a Book by Cressida Cowell 2010-03-25T23:13:00Z

"If you like beautiful things, authors put words together that are really beautiful and expressive," she says. Is deep reading becoming a thing of the past? 2011-01-10T16:46:04Z

In effect, Hayes is taking poetry into new expressive terrain. Meet MacArthur's new 'genius grant' winners 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

What never wavered was the suave beauty of the sound, fine-grained and elegant, and effortlessly expressive. Apekisheva/Goldner Quartet – review 2013-05-02T17:14:25Z

Working mostly in rural areas, they designed richly expressive pots, some of which were functional, others not, and made them as one-offs or in limited runs. Opening of Ceramics Center Coincides With Crafts Revival 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

For his part, Mr. Roberts said he was mesmerized by the barefoot, uninhibited Ms. Logan: “I had never seen a teacher like that, so expressive and open.” An Ailey Dancer Loyal to His Miami Roots and Mentor 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z

"The big shock, when I began to read Kenneth's journals, was the extraordinary and expressive variety of handwriting," Stevens said. Kenneth Williams: secret loves behind the life of a tormented man 2010-10-09T23:08:00Z

This quintet illustrates that new ideal, with spare and brief movements that are both acerbic and expressive. Music Review: The Folkways That Led to Dvorak and Bartok 2010-10-20T21:18:00Z

His focused sound sometimes seemed thin, but was always expressive. Francesco Demuro Steps In to Save Met’s ‘La Traviata’ 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

Remarks, pauses and fluid facial expressions are so minutely expressive that you often feel that you are observing real people in real time. | 'Harvest': The Family That Stays Together Frays Together 2011-05-06T05:30:05Z

Context changes everything, and the expressive coincidences of “No Man of Her Own” come to seem mere contrivances played against the Paris locations of “Bedevilled.” DVD: Mitchell Leisen?s ?No Man of Her Own? and ?Bedevilled? on DVD 2012-04-08T03:13:01Z

She knows the style intimately but is an impassioned artist prone to boldly expressive singing. Music Review: In Revival of Verdi, a New Note of Drama 2010-03-30T21:48:00Z

In conversation, she laughs easily, and her face is hugely expressive, eyes widening, then narrowing, as she parses a question. Kaitlyn Dever on Becoming a Face of Addiction in ‘Dopesick’ 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z

That the design is more expressive than the actors’ bodies in that instant is one of the snags that keep this “Gem” in the category of very good, but not flawless. Review | August Wilson’s titanic ‘Gem of the Ocean’ sets sail at Round House 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

This swiveling, a currently fashionable device in nonfiction, is more cumbersome than expressive. Books of The Times: ?Forgotten Land? by Max Egremont - Review 2011-12-28T22:10:01Z

With its huge expressive range and chiselled melodic lines, the solo writing hardly pauses for breath for the whole 28 minutes. Jörg Widmann: Violin Concerto; Antiphon; Insel der Sirenen – review 2013-05-23T20:50:01Z

She's played by the singer Pixie Lott, who's less expressive than her biblical ancestor after being turned into a pillar of salt in Sodom. Fred: the Movie - review 2010-12-19T00:05:57Z

The Joyce’s season also features, through Wednesday, the eminent Flamenco dancer Israel Galván, who is equally expressive and inventive in using his body as a vessel of sound and meaning. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

Everyone was outfitted in simple, earth-tone outfits, minimalism also reflected in the choreography: Deceptively simple movements, like deconstructed Motown routines, crescendoed into expressive explosions of emotion. Solange sings like she means it at the Kennedy Center 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z

Rachel was maybe the best Bachelorette ever — super smart, mature, gorgeous, game, emotionally expressive. A ‘Bachelorette’ Finale, Served With a Dash of Humiliation 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z

It’s a knockout sequence: brutal, expressive, vital, the colors hot, then cool, sounds and visuals making fighting and beauty harmonize. 'Do the Right Thing' at Twenty-five 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z

For this Jazz at Lincoln Center engagement — her first in more than a decade — Ms. Schneider leads her pinpoint-precise and flowingly expressive big band, in a balance of older and newer pieces. Jazz Listings for March 14-20 2014-03-13T22:45:44Z

Being both a class outsider as well as a sexual predator seems to have drawn her to Wells, who fell in love with her "dark, expressive troubled eyes" and "big, soft mouth". West's World: The Extraordinary Life of Dame Rebecca West by Lorna Gibb – review 2013-04-07T08:01:02Z

She does all of this tastefully, though, so the result is expressive, not excessive. Anne Sofie von Otter has chosen to be a singer who is expressive, not excessive 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

That sense of expressive, unrestrained spontaneity is, of course, a crucial component of Mr. Eggleston’s quickly shot, uncontrived photographs as well. William Eggleston, at 78, in a New Key 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z

In the routine role, Ms. Dudley works up an expressive arsenal of gestural detail and shades of mood that are worth watching amid the film’s rigmarole of satanic possession. Review: In ‘The Vatican Tapes,’ the Sinister Stare of Possession 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

On one viewing, I’m by no means sure what expressive coherence “Diversions” has, or how satisfying it would be as a structure on repeated viewings. Dance Review: Ballet Memphis and Ballet Arizona at Kennedy Center 2010-06-18T22:15:00Z

The conductor Michael Schonwandt is alert to the score’s expressive beauty while allowing wide latitude to its emotional turbulence. REVIEW: Gripping New 'Katya' Is a Bright Achievement for Collaborators 2010-05-25T13:00:00Z

Working with a Brazilian guitarist, he learned to fill empty musical spaces with expressive improvisations. Al Jarreau, seven-time Grammy-winning singer, dies at 76 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z

Embellishments were played uniformly quickly, regardless of their expressive context, and a tendency to play from beat to beat, rather than from phrase to phrase, grew tiresome in these light-footed dances. A promising piano program but a flawed execution at the Phillips 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z

These stolid, expressive little figurines are star draws in the museums that possess them. Bones of contention 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

The title role is a rare opportunity for a prima ballerina at the apex of both her technique and her expressive beauty. Critic’s Notebook: In American Ballet Theater’s ‘Sylvia,’ Stars Shine 2013-06-28T21:40:45Z

Trained as an architect, Leisen got his start in movies as a set and costume designer for Cecil B. DeMille, and his work is always particularly alive to the expressive qualities of space and décor. DVD: Mitchell Leisen?s ?No Man of Her Own? and ?Bedevilled? on DVD 2012-04-08T03:13:01Z

Applying his rangy voice and expressive acumen to Porter’s “Night and Day,” which he began in a hesitant, vulnerable croon that widened into passionate declamation, he sent chills down my spine. Music Review: ‘Tribute to Bobby Short’ at Lincoln Center 2013-05-16T19:53:55Z

More important, Ms. Hall seems to dissolve her lithe frame and fresh, freckled face into the roles she plays, while Mr. Spector seems to mold each one around his expressive grin and brawny physique. Rebecca Hall and Morgan Spector: Together, Onstage and Off 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

The Sarasota company’s meticulous, juicy performance makes Ashton’s “Enigma” newly expressive. Review: Sarasota Ballet Blends Oddity and Englishness in a Double Bill 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z

"I told the artists to be dangerous, to be expressive, not to be careful, to act like they were painting," said makeup director Gordon Espinet. Vivienne Westwood thrills fans with eclectic show 2010-09-19T23:16:00Z

About this time, baroque instruments — the harpsichord and the viola da gamba among them — evolved into instruments that had more oomph, and more expressive possibilities. How ‘A Mad Love’ of Opera Has Played Out From 17th-Century Mantua to 21st-Century New York 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

What the dancers are doing is rhythmically expressive and inventive at a high level, and if fancy lighting helps focus attention on that, then fancy lighting is fine. Dance Review: Compa??a Rafaela Carrasco at Flamenco Festival 2012 2012-03-05T23:48:22Z

That voice is both dramatic and poetic, informational and expressive, collecting shards of observations and reminiscences, pushing unrelieved tensions to the fore and turning his story into a crisis of consciousness. “Ad Astra,” Reviewed: James Gray’s Masterwork of Personal Film in an Alien Setting 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

His willingness to hold space for her fears, how expressive he is with his love for her, these are things that Jackelina cites as what initially draws her to him. From "Rye Lane" to "Love Is Blind," much-needed safe spaces for Black male vulnerability are on TV 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

Mr. Perry conveyed the full emotional scope of the work, poignantly expressive while recalling the abuse of slaves, funny while describing his forest life and womanizing, and feisty when describing the Cuban revolutionaries. Music Review: ?El Cimarr?n? Is Revived at the Theater at St. Catherine of Siena 2010-06-11T22:16:00Z

Monk’s trademark is extended vocal technique, mining the voice for expressive possibilities not contained within the established conventions of Western notation. Perspective | The top 35 female composers in classical music 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z

Mr. Cohen played an expressive introduction, pointing his horn into the chassis of the piano to produce sympathetic vibrations; Mr. Akinmusire backed him deferentially, slurring his pitch. Music Review: Jazz With Updates on the Past and Eyes on the Future 2010-10-26T22:32:00Z

“He starts with the most extraordinary instrument for a stage actor, that incredibly expressive voice,” he said. Career Zigzag, Changing Coasts And Galaxies 2010-10-22T08:06:00Z

The first movement of the Sonata No. 2 was a tumultuous conflict of darkness and light, and Yundi’s expressive shading in the second movement was persuasive. Music Review: Yundi Plays Chopin at Carnegie Hall 2010-05-21T23:56:00Z

She went on to sing a program of Holiday-associated songs, many of which she and her phenomenal band infused with an epic sense of expressive possibility. Music Review | Dee Dee Bridgewater: A Woman and Her Band Commune With a Legend 2010-02-19T06:19:00Z

And where does a drama die-hard go to explore the expressive powers of language but across the pond to study Shakespeare? ‘Where We Belong’ Review: A Performer Wonders, What’s in a Name? 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z

Unfortunately, most of the rest of the songs are fragments, reprises or ensemble numbers so spliced with dialogue and served up in small bits as to nullify their expressive value. Review: In ‘Almost Famous,’ the Heart of Rock ’n’ Roll Flatlines 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z

Impressed by the expressive possibilities of clay, he began making landscape-like floor works. Stephen De Staebler, Sculptor of Bronze and Clay, Dies at 78 2011-05-25T02:59:32Z

After securing his gift, Rauschenberg proceeded, over the period of a month, to carefully erase all traces of the expressive pencil, charcoal and crayon drawing that de Kooning had put to paper. Banksy and the tradition of destroying art 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

Sorrell is an expressive leader who drew sharply etched counterpoint from the chorus and created some lovely colors balancing the varied forces. Early-music expert leads NSO in fresh but uneven interpretation of Handel’s ‘Messiah’ 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z

Baryshnikov, possessed of such expressive grace, conveys all of this unshowily. ‘The Hunting Gun’ Review: Letters to Burn After Reading 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z

Seemingly contorting its muscular limbs, Arp’s abstract “Homage” is expressive, tightly wound—Rodinesque—evoking, in form and spirit, Rodin’s crouching figures, entwined lovers and clasping hands. ‘The Nature of Arp’ Review: Revolutionary Forms 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

I mean, my parents were highly creative and found all kinds of expressive outlets — decorating, collecting art and antiques, acting, playing the piano, reading. ArtsBeat: Alison Bechdel Talks About Drawing, Writing, Family and Shame 2012-05-10T15:27:03Z

Evocative as the visual element often was with its grainy texture and nostalgic feel, it was Gilchrist's immaculate shaping of the phrases and Tilbrook's expressive detail that brought a lump to the throat. Cheltenham festival opening – review 2012-07-06T15:16:29Z

He encouraged his son to be emotionally expressive. The Tear-Stained Confessions of Sam Smith 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z

This kind of partnering, which would have seemed too acrobatic in Petipa’s day, has now become expressive; Aurora and her Prince look superb but not flashy. Meet Aurora of ‘The Sleeping Beauty’: Her Native Language Is Classical Ballet 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z

When she shaped a phrase with expressive liberties, she maintained eloquence and direction and never wallowed in excessive vibrato. Review: At the Philharmonic, a Major Return Played Safe 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

This wine was intense and polished in the modern style, yet complex and balanced, with earthy, expressive flavors. Finding Harmony in Ribera del Duero 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

Wheeler's lower-range long notes are tremulous but expressive, and his shapely double-time playing, afterthought-like resolving notes and trademark plaintive squeal still add up to an inimitable improvising style that explores an equally unique compositional vision. Kenny Wheeler/John Taylor/Steve Swallow: One of Many - review 2011-03-24T22:10:00Z

How is this scene expressive of that intention? "Cyrano" director on what Peter Dinklage brings to this enchanting retelling of a classic 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z

Wolf, who serves as the narrator, is a simple but expressive puppet made of wood, cardboard and papier-mâché in this probing and playful exploration of family by Hansol Jung. ‘Wolf Play’ Review: What Keeps a Family From Falling to Pieces? 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z

As a guitarist, he was intense without being dramatic; as a singer, he was expressive without shouting; as a performer, he was, by choice, not much of a showman. Jimmy Dawkins, Fast-Fingered Blues Guitarist, Dies at 76 2013-04-19T03:05:41Z

Maneri is an expressive microtonal player fascinated by the spaces between western music's usual pitches, and he seamlessly segues jazz phrasing with the delicacies of chamber music. A$AP Rocky, Rokia Traoré, The Handsome Family: this week's new live music 2013-05-18T05:00:11Z

With his splendidly expressive, delightfully scrunchable face, he makes Jim a human spectacle of awkwardness and alarm yet also imbues the character with intelligence and warmth. Theater Review: ‘A Respectable Widow,’ About an Unusual Friendship 2014-04-13T21:06:55Z

Much of that expressive energy comes out not as spectacle but as graphic pantomime. Street Dancers Tackle a Ballet Project and the Armory Stage 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z

Instead of a reduction of the original, Odyr’s imagined barnyard world adds to the depth of the characters: His pigs, horses, sheep and hens have expressive faces and postures, revealing both sweetness and malevolence. The Graphic Novel Versions of Literary Classics Used to Seem Lowbrow. No More. 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z

Kenny is an animated, intensely expressive woman in her late 30s, with striking pale eyes and an unruly mane of dark curly hair. Review: 'Sick' is a scary plunge into a tale of misdiagnosis and recovery 2011-04-15T00:33:49Z

In a play like Jordan Harrison’s “Marjorie Prime,” it is: The structure and the content are independently expressive. Review: Self, Meet Your Future, in ‘A Parallelogram’ 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z

Indians are more expressive and emotional in real life, and gritty realism should incorporate that. ‘Masaan’ and Other Indian Films Steer Away From Bollywood Escapism 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z

His singing is clear and piercing, often wonderfully expressive. Playlist: New Albums: Neil Young, Thelonious Monk and Shelby Lynne 2013-12-06T21:53:11Z

His wrinkling lips were as expressive as many actors’ eyes. Alan Rickman’s Diaries: Bread Crumbs of a Fast-Moving Life 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z

Some of it expressive of our fears; some of it an antidote to them. Perspective | Chanel, what has become of you? Paris Fashion Week ends with a bust and then a bang. 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

The Seattle Symphony, led by guest conductor Jason Weinberger, added depth and breadth to exquisitely arranged songs featuring Carlile's powerfully expressive vocals. Brandi Carlile and Seattle Symphony offer a stirring, lush delight 2012-11-24T20:32:14Z

“Fedora” has endured in part because of its rich and expressive score. Met Opera Takes On ‘Fedora,’ Neglected Tale of Murder and Love 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z

In the fourth movement, he wanted my playing to be more expressive, which is something I'm rarely told. Elliott Carter remembered: 'Music seemed to erupt from his very being' 2012-11-06T18:41:42Z

His model was Martha Graham, and both his choreography and his teaching were founded on her dance technique: weighted, expressive, driven by the spine and pelvis. Step-by-step guide to dance: Robert Cohan 2010-05-18T10:57:00Z

That 1972 book, which celebrated advertising and apparently arbitrary decoration as legitimately expressive parts of architecture, thereby leading the way into postmodernism, grew, in part, out of a seminar held in Ruscha’s studio. Ed Ruscha’s stunning Sunset Strip art project lets you tour its full length, east to west — and back in time 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

His recordings with Szell remain benchmarks for their clarity, precision and sheer expressive musicality; Brahms’s first piano concerto was a touchstone. Leon Fleisher, sublime pianist undaunted by mysterious hand malady, dies at 92 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z

The expressive illustrations do their job brilliantly, bringing the baby chimp and his emotions to life and providing lots within the pages to talk about with your child. David Melling's top 10 books featuring hugs 2013-01-21T09:00:00Z

Now he and Ms. Lane make them expressive, musical, exciting. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Nutcracker’ Dancers in This Season’s Performances 2013-12-31T20:45:44Z

Monday’s dancers paid terrific attention to taxing details of rapid footwork and charming posture while passing casually over matters like line, dynamic contrasts, expressive phrasing. Dance Review: A Classic Comedy Upended: Changing Female to Male, and Old to Young 2011-03-29T22:06:43Z

Latex and water, she argues, also have an expressive range: “They ask us to view them in different ways depending on the sounds that they produce, the atmospheres of light and movement around them.” Chains Clink, Water Splashes: A Composer’s Beautiful Noise 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

And so I’ve found that that voice is a little more neutral, a little less performative, less emotionally expressive than it would be if I were acting or playing a character.” And so it goes: James Franco narrates ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’ 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z

Ms. Sen, seldom showing her teeth, has the fuller and more expressive lips, and eyes that show a range of emotion from delight to pain. Odissi Stars at a Dance Festival in Chennai, India 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z

His, he explained, is “more pensive and lyrical — very introspective. It’s not in any way showy, but it’s expressive and definitely has something deeper and important to say.” Alexei Ratmansky Has Russian Poetry and an American Pulse 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

But one U.S. woman is demonstrating that in Northern Ireland, peace and reconciliation can also be fostered in more personal and expressive ways. Conflict survivors find healing in theatre group performance 2013-02-06T15:26:02Z

Eschenbach is an eminently expressive conductor, but he set off on this piece at such a glacial pace that it was almost impossible to enliven it, even though the orchestra pitched in willingly. NSO offers chestnuts, and Lang Lang, in enjoyable evening 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

Increasingly, the popularity of Ms. Sangalo, a former model with dark, expressive eyes; a husky voice; and an effervescent personality, extends beyond the stage and recordings. Ivete Sangalo, a Brazilian Belter, Extends Her Reach 2013-08-16T20:36:28Z

I wanted a little more poignancy and melting power in the richly expressive passages that sound like an extension of Brahms, Mahler and Strauss. Review: The Searing Beauty of Kentridge’s ‘Wozzeck’ at the Met 2019-12-29T05:00:00Z

Moment to moment, the playing he drew from the orchestra was impassioned and expressive, especially during a well-paced, sweeping account of the finale. Music Review: Los Angeles Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall 2014-03-18T20:43:32Z

He sang the three Opus 45 songs, which Barber wrote at the end of his career while suffering from depression and alcoholism, with expressive care. Music Review: Thomas Hampson Sings Schumann, Uncut, at Alice Tully 2010-04-12T22:36:00Z

Poetry it's not, but the immediate connection between words and music – words written as the music takes shape, words written by the person who will sing them – generates a special expressive power. Rivers of babble on: how word became the servant to music 2013-06-28T17:59:00Z

“Pope’s modest, restrained classicism conveys a sense of permanence and respectability while allowing for the display of iconography expressive of the aims and progress of the pharmaceutical profession,” Allen said. The curious story of the National Mall’s lone privately owned plot 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z

Schubert’s gravely beautiful “Death and the Maiden” sounded Mahlerian and starkly ominous, with Mr. Goerne, his voice dark and expressive, backed by a string quartet and bass instead of a piano. Review: A Baritone Ends His Residency With a Poetic Homage 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z

In contrast, Lithgow is like a dancer, expressive movements, quieter in his flourishes here. 'Love Is Strange' and profound with Lithgow, Molina paired 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

So Levin instead uses the operatic expressive range of his chosen instrument to imbue the sonatas with visceral drama. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

Some filmmakers guide our attention to faces; others direct our attention to postures and gestures or even away from faces toward other expressive elements. Film: David Bordwell, Film Historian, Focuses on Movie Blog 2010-04-24T02:36:00Z

It is directed by Aruna Mohanty, the company’s most petite and remarkable performer, who dances its main solos and proves compellingly expressive. Dance Review: Orissa Dance Academy at Ailey Studios 2013-05-26T19:38:43Z

Evans’ expressive drawings show each child’s face change from worry to understanding as they digest what they hear from loved ones. Taye Diggs writes a children’s book about racial injustice 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z

His insightful and expressive interpretations of music from Byrd to Stravinsky shone new light on familiar repertoire and opened up works unheard for centuries to choral singers across the world. Richard Marlow 2013-07-02T12:04:53Z

The increasingly elaborate occult games include fitful alchemical conjurings replete with bursts of flame, and the actors’ performances—and the cinematography, by Bernard Daillencourt—match their expressive flash. A Lost Masterwork Is Found: Thomas White's “Who's Crazy?” 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z

Those who are more expressive and don’t care about the content may choose to sort the books by color, starting with red and going through the spectrum to violet, creating a rainbow of book spines. You love books. Here’s how to happily coexist with them.

A movement titled “Beneath the Shell,” obviously inspired by Duke Ellington, elicited a breathy, evocatively slurred tenor saxophone interlude by Chris Speed, followed by a neat, expressive cornet essay by Kirk Knuffke. Review: Delivering a Touch of Big Band Through a Jazz Collective 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

It is a nicely poised work that, despite its expressive modesty, is thrilling to hear when played with this kind of precision and sensitivity. PLG Young Artists ? review 2011-01-11T23:30:01Z

Mr. Nézet-Séguin is one of the more physically expressive conductors, perhaps, he said, because of his small stature. Breaking Conductors? Down by Gesture and Body Part 2012-04-06T12:00:28Z

The expressive set, designed by Daniel Ettinger, features a narrow trailer home, tricked out with beer posters, kitschy figurines, bumper stickers, a clown painting, plasticky furniture, all testifying to Maude’s limited finances and populist taste. A potential Jackson Pollock painting sparks an exaggerated class war 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z

“Zahn has a very expressive face, and a beautiful way of communicating a lot without saying anything,” said Roland, the “Dark Winds” creator. Zahn McClarnon Sets His Thousand-Yard Stare on the Lead 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z

His singing with its strong Scottish burr may be far from beautiful, but it is bluntly expressive. Music Review: Alan Cumming at Feinstein?s at Loews Regency 2010-04-28T20:31:00Z

In the few performances shown, the Stones are in full, astounding flower: Mr. Jagger still moves as sinuously as ever; Mr. Richards still coaxes rock’s most expressive yawps and howls from his guitar. Review: ‘The Rolling Stones Olé, Olé, Olé!’ Captures Tour Euphoria in Latin America 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

Reached by email, the usually expressive Montiel said succinctly that Williams' death was "just terribly heartbreaking." Robin Williams' image won't fade from multiplexes soon 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z

It’s just wonderful to see a child so expressive. 'Room''s Emma Donoghue Explains Why the Movie Is Not Horrifying 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z

During the concerto, he instinctively moved with choreographic grace that complemented his expressive playing. Review: A Mostly Mozart Milestone, and an Immersive Lineup 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z

To see clothes take flight on the back of a dancer is to see both the dancer and the garment at their most expansive and expressive. The World of Dance in Letters, Locations and Clothes 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z

The work takes the form of several short reflections on the theme of fresh starts, all grounded in her emotionally expressive style. Dance Listings for March 13-19 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

But it's the instinctive manner in which he handles his material in the score that gives the piece its visceral, expressive power. A guide to Thomas Adès's music 2012-10-01T15:19:00Z

Freestyle, direct address and a varied assortment of orange balloons are just a few of the expressive means deployed in “Misty,” which opened on Thursday at the Shed. Review: In ‘Misty,’ a Restless Artist Grapples With a Gentrifying City 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z

“Its color ranges from a darkly resonant chest register to a brilliantly focused top with a middle register that she makes velvet soft or reedy according to her expressive intent.” Maureen Forrester, Canadian Contralto, Dies at 79 2010-06-18T03:55:00Z

And after various failed uprisings, they questioned art’s expressive or symbolic value. Art Review: ‘Requiem for the Sun: Art of Mono-ha’ at Gladstone Gallery 2012-07-19T22:34:06Z

One well-studied method, called expressive writing, involves writing for 20 minutes for four consecutive days about one or several topics that are troubling you. ‘I started crying uncontrollably’: Dealing with mixed emotions over the pullout from Afghanistan 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z

That means finding allies in the world of poetry and the expressive arts. Stifled poet in India 2013-01-08T01:00:00Z

Once you start looking for those links, you risk limiting the very thing the artists have sought to preserve: The individuality and sui generis expressive content of each work. Review | They’re women, they’re black and they don’t make art about that 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z

“Anything that has death in it,” Mr. Fancher says, “and wants to live beyond its limits — that is expressive and crazy — that has duende.” Review: ‘Escapes’ Recounts a Hollywood Storyteller’s Inventive Life 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z

All are filmed with an expressive clarity and simplicity that highlights their haunting mystery. “The Curse of La Llorona” Exemplifies the Problem with Genre 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z

“I think my mom gets more expressive, if she’s more annoyed with me,” he said. A Photographer Frames His Own American South 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z

With her long, hennaed hair, expressive voice and contagious energy, Manny is clearly the forward thrust of the Bear Creek engine. Family-owned Bear Creek Studio makes music and magic 2013-04-23T23:24:08Z

Yet, in every measure, you sense a composer who has sweated over the details to make each element expressive and true. Review: In ‘Written on Skin,’ George Benjamin Creates an Unusual Love Triangle 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z

Much of the folk-inspired character and spice of Copland’s “El Salón México” was lost with the lavish application of an overly expressive rubato. Review | Pianist-composer Michael Brown celebrates Bernstein 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z

And, no, that does not look like Mrs. Obama's beautiful and expressive face. Obama Portraits Blend Paint and Politics, and Fact and Fiction 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z

Where that miniseries told the story of an emotionally reserved woman in rural Maine, The Slap focuses on emotionally expressive, affluent cityfolk in Brooklyn. Review: The Slap Beats Its Viewers Over the Head 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z

Ms. de Niese, though strained at times, sang with fullness and richly expressive shadings. Review: ‘Eurydice,’ a New Opera, Looks Back All Too Tamely 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z

The yearning seems a hideous irony — a torturer’s job, after all, is both to ruin a body and render it “expressive” — but in Mark Doten’s prodigious, provocative debut, “The Infernal,” it’s more. Rumsfeld, Rice and Gonzales make cameos in a dark, comedic novel 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z

This interplay between Gomez and machine is fluid, practiced and as expressive as a Charlie Chaplin pantomime. Dal Grano review: The fresh new face of pasta in McLean 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

As it is, the effort to keep the emotional and ideological stories in balance, like opposing parties that demand equal time, leaves both elements cramped and insufficiently expressive. Review: At ‘Camp Siegfried,’ a Nazi Summer of Love on Long Island 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z

Yet you can’t help wanting him to stay in one spot with one company around the year and mold its dancers fully as expressive instruments. Dance Review: ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ With National Ballet of Canada, in London 2013-04-22T21:36:14Z

Seeing her trademark expressive sketchiness reproduced in embroidery makes you recognise it as just that: a trademark. Tracey Emin should have had more fun at the seaside 2012-05-25T15:16:36Z

Mason is as suave as he is tormented; Garland gives one of the most freely expressive, explosive performances anywhere in classic Hollywood; both actors burst onto the screen in moments of agonizing observational intimacy. What to Stream This Weekend: The Best Version of “A Star Is Born” 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

While we are quick to dismiss all things expressive of a Las Vegas aesthetic as fake and phony, the beauty that technology offers is similarly ephemeral, fleeting and false. Upended assumptions in "Augment This" at Cherry and Martin Gallery 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z

Yet what atmospheric richness, what dramatic intensity — in the best moments — and what an outpouring of meaningful expressive discoveries about the human body this company offered. Review | Dutch masters of dance: Rebellious perfection 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z

“But what does that mean? Is he Lenny Bruce? Is he Jack E. Leonard? Is he Don Rickles?” he said, pausing before his expressive face made a signature expression that evoked a shrug. How Robert De Niro Learned to Become ‘The Comedian’ 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z

The motifs he employs are powerfully expressive: trains, motorcycles, pool halls and the all-important communal table, in its endless permutations, appear throughout his cinematic landscape, at once lyrical and fraught with narrative intensity. Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien captures life's big, small moments 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z

“Her face photographs with expressive qualities quite similar to a cartoon, and she brings the same kind of irrepressible buoyant spirit, expressiveness, that is so captivating about the character,” Ms. Dennis said. Feiffer?s Dancer Returns to Leap Ever So Seriously 2011-07-06T22:01:16Z

Since “Mank” now feels like a best-picture also-ran, I expect this award will go to the front-runner, “Nomadland,” with its expressive collection of cool dawns and warm sunsets in the American West. Oscars 2021 Predictions: Who Will Win Best Picture, Actor and Actress? 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

Taste it immediately, then every 10 minutes for an hour, and see if it doesn’t improve and become more expressive. Austrian Rieslings Set a High, Dry Standard 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

Splendidly expansive, he makes you realize how important expressive hands and fingers can be: In “Apollo,” they radiated with a wholeness that made you sense their interior force. At American Ballet Theater, New Romantics Can’t Beat a Greek God 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

Similarly, the 2008 Trio for horn, violin and piano, despite its more rambunctious surface and wide expressive range, is oddly diffident. Huw Watkins Day – review 2013-02-12T17:38:44Z

Working well with his limited budget, Whannell also makes expressive use of Adrian’s cold, self-flattering modernist lair with its walls of glass and sharp angles. ‘The Invisible Man’ Review: Gaslight Nation, Domestic Edition 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

His marvelously expressive face includes big open eyes and a softly rounded mouth that might be emitting a moan, or maybe singing or chanting. Some Favorite Things Not Hanging on a Wall 2011-12-30T00:11:48Z

She sees her role less as another teacher offering technical advice and more as a mentor who helps them to find expressive freedom. With some big opera names behind it, Young Artist Program aims even higher 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z

The appeals court also said free speech concerns warranted “caution” before approving an injunction that “restrains the viewing of an expressive work prior to its public availability.” Injunction blocking Lynyrd Skynyrd movie is overturned 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z

Johnson winds up the session with a reminder of what a precise but expressive bassist he is, on a haunting solo rendition of Shenandoah. Marc Johnson/Eliane Elias: Swept Away – review 2013-01-03T23:00:03Z

But Lea’s personality is as lacking in expressive detail as her bland house and cramped world, and she rarely comes persuasively alive and then not for long, which might be interesting if it seemed intentional. ‘Palm Trees and Power Lines’ Review: A Teen’s Cautionary Tale 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

From the 1970s until her death in 2022, Jennifer Bartlett melded the expressive tics of painting with the rigid grids of Conceptual Art. Art Gallery Shows to See in February 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z

But it is nice to get a little bit loud and expressive and volatile, not to censor yourself, to live fully and without being self-conscious in any way. "You want a big mountain to climb": "The Bear" star on why Cousin Richie is so satisfying to play 2023-07-11T04:00:00Z

With one string providing a drone, everything else rides on a single string of the tanbour, and in Mr. Moradi’s hands, that string encompasses an expressive universe. Review: Ali Akbar Moradi in Concert at Elebash Recital Hall 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

Why Seattle Opera is presenting it now: According to general manager Speight Jenkins, “The Consul” is “both opera theater and a theatrical opera. It is a play with gripping music, tuneful, memorable, and expressive.” 5 things to know about Seattle Opera’s ‘The Consul’ 2014-02-12T20:32:09Z

Brubaker’s approach is unusual in that he applies some of the traditional expressive devices of 19th-century piano playing to Glass’s bracingly modern sound. Taking Philip Glass to a place he need not go 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z

Then in 1949 she moved to Paris and became something else: an expressive geometrician. 10 Galleries to Visit on the Upper East Side 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

Beguiling and human describe the rest of “The Other Side,” which is often as visually expressive and narratively engrossing as the faux art film is visually florid yet stultifying. Review: ‘The Other Side of the Wind’ Is Orson Welles’s Haunted Hall of Mirrors 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

Yet this setting of poems by AE Housman embraced a different expressive tone, often heartbreaking with Atar Arad's viola lines plaintively echoing the vocal line. Mark Padmore/Prussia Cove 2010-10-01T21:00:00Z

“Whether a person portrayed in one of these expressive works is a world-renowned film star, ‘a living legend,’ or a person no one knows, she or he does not own history.” Olivia de Havilland's 'Feud' lawsuit against FX Networks thrown out 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z

His pliant, expressive face and rubbery limbs are in virtually nonstop motion for two acts and almost two and a half hours. | 'Ghetto Klown': A Queens Guy Toughs It Out in Hollywood 2011-03-23T02:01:03Z

He has all the gifts and skills he needs, starting with a genuinely expressive voice that encompasses an ardent croon, a melting falsetto and quick, singsong declamation that puts him at the border of rapping. Review: Usher’s ‘Hard II Love’ Uses Regret as a Selling Point 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

Her character, known as The Rancher, has very little dialogue, but viewers always knew what she was thinking because of how expressive Gladstone was. Best women: The 10 best actresses of 2016 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z

What links Jafa’s art across mediums is the idea that items brought out of context and juxtaposed, whether metal pipes or appropriated YouTube clips, can develop expressive power beyond their original employ. At His Moment of Triumph, Arthur Jafa Is Looking for Trouble 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

Still, with more than 70 roles in TV, theatre, and film to her name, her face – angular, expressive, punctuated by thick, dark eyebrows – will be familiar to many. Shirley Henderson: I'm every woman 2011-04-03T20:46:01Z

The music reaches its expressive apex in the section called "Asturianada," in which Rami Solomonow's eloquent viola suggested the mournful intensity of Shostakovich's string quartet writing. Frank's energetic chamber works reveal multi-cultural roots 2011-01-19T16:19:49Z

The 2011 was richly flavored and expressive, with great aging potential. The Wines of Irouléguy, in French Basque Country 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z

Casals was nothing if not expressive — to a fault, at times. Paying homage to a man and his instrument 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z

Mr. Znaider, who plays with a big, glowing tone, offered a powerfully wrought cadenza and deeply expressive slow section, although he sounded rushed in the final movement. Music Review | Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra: Hurtling Through Beethoven, With Grace 2010-03-02T22:19:00Z

But Mahler is at his most gripping — and offers a singer the greatest expressive opportunities — in songs of soul-wrenching conflict or pained resignation. Music Review: Just a Voice, a Piano and Mahler Lieder 2010-12-01T22:32:00Z

He adds: “There’s something incredibly expressive about Nakhane, a way in which what’s going on, on the inside, pours out of him. He has a translucency that I knew could work on camera.” Nakhane: 'For as long as I need to, I'm going to talk about being a gay artist' 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

The dramatic scenes are shot in chiaroscuro and in warm, expressive light so the character is always the focal point of lighting and photography. "Like photographing sculpture": Cinematographer reveals what makes "Creed III" look so good 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z

The concerto was certainly a program highlight: the Russian-born Gluzman plays with a big, powerful tone of tremendous intensity and great expressive range. Vadim Gluzman delivers power and passion with SSO | Classical review 2013-03-15T16:59:25Z

But while the quartet colored beautifully within the lines, its interpretation was a little self-effacing in its reticence to shape expressive lines and lean into Mozart’s dissonances and agitated rhythms. Dover Quartet boasts young stars in the making 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z

I developed an early distaste for vibrato, of which Menuhin was an expressive master. 'The Menuhin Century' is now: Why the violin master is still the sound of hope and peace 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

Ms. Jones summoned all her expressive power for this album, with all the strength, longing, hurt and improvisational command that were still hers. Sharon Jones Says Farewell With ‘Soul of a Woman’ 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z

Penetrating and resonant, she shot out burst-like phrases with nearly mechanical exactitude and endurance, but was also expressive within the discipline. Review: The Met’s ‘Akhnaten’ Takes a Post-Grammys Victory Lap 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z

Her clean, mellow voice isn’t rangy or expressive — she speaks the songs as much as sings them — but it’s perfectly suited to the deadpan lyrics and cuts easily through the band’s amiable indie-rock grooves. | 'We?re Gonna Die': Amid Catchy Choruses, Personal Tales of Life?s Brutal Verities 2011-04-10T21:32:33Z

None of this is expressed in the usual way, through pointed, self-enclosed scenes or bouts of expressive, expository dialogue. The Oscars: A. O. Scott on the Musical Movement of ?The Tree of Life? 2011-12-31T02:20:50Z

The landscapes on view feature the expressive brushstrokes common to the Southern School of Chinese painting, in a show that “defies casual perusal” but “rewards close looking.” Essential Arts & Culture: Kanye West's not-for-sale sculpture at Blum & Poe 2016-09-03T04:00:00Z

As expressive as these images were, they could do nothing to prevent the reign of terror visited on the Kongo world by Belgian colonial rule beginning in the 1870s. Review: ‘Kongo: Power and Majesty’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

Sensuous, confrontational and drenched with unapologetic rage and beauty, this was an example of visual language at its most fluent and expressive. The best movies of 2016: ‘Moonlight,’ ‘Manchester by the Sea’ and ‘Southside With You’ make the top 10 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

What’s interesting about the “oyster knife” comment, read in context — it appeared in her 1928 essay “How It Feels to Be Colored Me” — is how expressive it is of her political views, which were heterodox. In Zora Neale Hurston’s Essays, the Nonfiction of a Nonconformist 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z

The Pulitzer committee described Mr. Zhou’s work as “a deeply expressive opera that draws on a Chinese folk tale to blend the musical traditions of the East and the West.” 2011 Pulitzer Prizes for Letters, Drama and Music 2011-04-22T17:12:05Z

“It spans a vast emotional range and is constantly inventive,” Satterwhite said in a statement, “but always toward an expressive end, never for the sake of novelty.” Music Inspired by Notre-Dame Fire Wins a Top Prize 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z

It's a street sound, rising and falling, expressive of humanity's most desperate and hopeless longings. Dublin dance festival 2013: Stravinsky Evening – review 2013-05-18T23:05:46Z

Ms. Fuchs, an insightful musician, showed elegant phrasing throughout and expressive poise in the F sharp minor Adagio. Philippe Entremont Conducts; Simone Dinnerstein Performs; Music by Ezequiel Vi?ao 2012-02-03T23:02:08Z

El Greco probably had more influence on the 20th century’s most expressive artists than any other Old Master. Perspective | Best visual art of 2020: Sublime Degas, spellbinding El Greco, Dorothea Lange and a defining video for our time 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z

Leaning hard into their specific styles, he mined their expressive potential in songs that could hardly be improved and never sounded alike. ‘Here We Are’ Review: The Last Sondheim, Cool and Impossibly Chic 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z

Today, when asked whose advice she sought in the hopes of navigating her way through such unsteady waters, Ms. Silverstone wrinkled her expressive brow. Alicia Silverstone, With a New TV Show, Proves She’s Not Clueless 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

Schick conducted excerpts from the 45-minute "Dérive 2," which will end the festival Sunday, with breathtaking rhythmic emphasis but less attuned to the kind of expressive elegance that Boulez's own performances emphasize. Ojai Music Festival celebrates icon Pierre Boulez's 90th birthday 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

And how's this for an account of Scottish funeral manners – "All the women are crying and the headstones are more expressive than the men." Maggie and Me by Damian Barr – review 2013-04-25T09:00:12Z

The innate conservatism of this federal architecture, its austerity and expressive reserve, calls out for subversion and tweaking, which Oehme and van Sweden supplied with their unruly sweeps of ornamental grasses. Wild gardens that grew out from Washington 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z

Bittersweet, heartfelt and rendered in an eccentric, expressive style, the movie seems poised to draw dog-loving moviegoers like beagles to bacon. Film: Computer Animation, Made by Hand 2010-08-29T02:23:00Z

Americans really are more emotionally expressive than Brits—at least if our authors are representative of our respective cultures. Literature isn’t as “moody” as it used to be 2013-03-21T21:45:00Z

One, of a baldheaded man giving a sideways look, is so expressive, despite its simplicity, that I almost said hello. Portraits of Elvis and Dreamlike Visions at the 31st Outsider Art Fair 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z

These contagious signals complete a film’s expressive circuit. Perspective | As theaters reopen, a crucial cinematic ingredient is back: The audience 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z

Andrews, fresh from her Broadway debut in My Fair Lady, is a rather mature but expressive and winning Cinderella. Cinderella Then and Now: Revisiting Rodgers and Hammerstein 2013-03-13T11:00:32Z

Mr. Coppola took expressive liberties in his supple, colorful performance of the piece, but always with taste and elegance. Review: Mozart, a Little Bit Symphony, a Little Bit Opera 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z

“In Burgundy, young wine is not very expressive, but here — voilà!” Carlton is redefining Willamette Valley wine country with high-quality grapes and extensive renovations 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z

Nearby, in a less violent but still biting form of critique, Honoré Daumier’s expressive caricature busts ridicule members of King Louis-Philippe’s court. Review: ‘The Critique of Reason’ Revisits What Romantic Art Means 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

The singers have mastered the music so completely that many of them glanced only occasionally at their scores, focusing instead on Cleobury’s expressive hands and clear indications. In Seattle concert, King’s College Choir shows why it’s been a hit for 5 centuries 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z

At its best, her singing was tender and expressive, though occasionally marred by pitch inconsistencies. Music Review: City Opera Returns With Jonathan Miller?s ?Traviata? 2012-02-13T23:38:27Z

With a guest conductor at its helm, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra presented an energetic and elegantly expressive concert of two perennial favorites Thursday evening at the Music Center at Strathmore. Energetic, expressive BSO performance at Strathmore 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z

Nicki Minaj, whose profoundly expressive rap style and magnetic delivery are so infectious that producers and rappers for the past year have lined up to get her on tape. Grammys: 5 races to watch -- besides Adele's 2012-02-12T18:29:00Z

She developed a vocabulary of linear forms so small that they feel like a secret language — as if geometric abstraction had been converted into some kind of private expressive code. Art Review | 'Constructive Spirit': History Lesson in Abstraction, Cutting Across the Americas 2010-02-19T05:50:00Z

But it also allows him to access an expressive flexibility his robotic costume doesn't easily allow. Paramount unmasks "Halo" for a perfect launch to the long-awaited video game adaptation 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

But in the movie, she’s also funny and expressive and centered, not sapped of agency as it seemed she might be, not the timid, self-sacrificing mouse of so many melodramas of this ilk. What Critics Are Saying About Fifty Shades of Grey 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z

Kitchen is a deceptively expressive actor, and his performance as Foyle is a master class in the power of subtlety. Lamenting the end of 'Foyle's War,' a TV masterpiece 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

"My first impression is that they are hard to understand, but once I get the context of it, it's very expressive as an art form," said Tokyo resident Manato Kato. Japan artist says latest sticker graffiti aimed at Trump 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z

The firm’s dedication to innovation and the expressive use of engineering led to the most traumatic events in its history. In Their Words: Remembering I.M. Pei 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z

Weber makes extraordinarily agile and expressive use of the camera, with jolting angles and shifts in perspective, and also editing and effects. Lois Weber’s Vital Films of the Early Silent Era 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

Here Rossi’s music revealed him to be part of — and sometimes leading — a wider group of composers who were testing the limits of harmony and expressive effects. Music Review: Clarion Music Society at the Five Borough Music Festival 2012-11-27T22:51:16Z

As well as giving the music a strangely poignant effect, it allows it to shift instantly and infallibly to a more expressive vein. On the art of variation: why Paganini's theme is so popular 2013-07-05T10:36:51Z

It is in popular songs that Mr. Bocelli excels, his warm, expressive voice eliciting an emotional response from listeners on Wednesday. Music Review: Andrea Bocelli at Barclays Center 2013-12-12T23:13:30Z

She was always drawn, she said, to soft, expressive movements, and grew up imitating the dances of Madhuri Dixit, 54, a Bollywood film star who was trained in the north Indian classical dance genre kathak. A Graceful Place Where Bhangra and Bollywood Meet 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z

Ayad is tall, with wavy black hair and huge, expressive eyes. On Samos, Aesop’s Fabled Isle, a Mix of Greeks, Migrants and Tourists 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z

The solo album is partly a showcase for Mr. Delbecq’s piano preparations: manual tweaks to the instrument, using erasers and pieces of wood, that put a range of expressive timbre at his fingertips. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-10-17T22:25:00Z

But the motion-capture work and facial animations are expressive, detailed and impressively emotive. Video Game Review | Heavy Rain: Murderer?s Young Prey; A Father?s Torment 2010-02-27T00:34:00Z

The lower, gridded layer shows the influence of Mondrian’s severe geometry while black silhouetted shapes suggest a more expressive and playful attitude. Art Review: ?Soto: Paris and Beyond, 1950-1970? at N.Y.U. - Review 2012-01-13T16:11:35Z

Her invisibility solidified her reputation as the great sphinx of modern R&B, but "Soldier of Love" stands as Sade's most expressive album. Sade breaks her silence and drops her guard 2011-08-11T21:02:04Z

“You’re like: ‘What, me?’” chimes in Ali, her expressive eyes widening. Rocks stars: meet the teenage cast of the hot new British film 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z

He is a natural extrovert, expressive and energetic, as friendly as a Labrador retriever with a bit of bulldog stubbornness mixed in. ‘A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood’ Review: You Are My Friend 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

Davis’s eyes, limpid and expressive, flash from wariness to sorrow, then back. Mackenzie Davis Catches Fire 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z

This regularity was a testament to her commercial potential but also expressive of her cavalier approach to the album as a format. Rihanna’s Anti-Album 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z

Some of the bloom is gone from Veronica Cangemi’s voice, but her expressive singing conveys the essence of Antigone’s plight. Muisc: Rare Glimpses of Traetta's 'Antigona' and Strauss's 'Danae' 2011-02-01T12:30:03Z

With programme notes as insightful as her playing, MacGregor revelled in the dances' extraordinary variety and expressive colour, their pained nostalgia as well as their earthiness. Weir Untangled/MacGregor 2010-06-08T20:44:00Z

Compared with his straitjacketed studio recording, his concert performance was more freely expressive, with greater liberties of tempo and more pronounced thematic contrasts. Buttoned-down pianist Murray Perahia cuts loose in Strathmore concert 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z

“Femininity, as a cultural personality, was no longer expressive for me. It was obvious that femininity, as written by men and performed by women, was the exhausted phantom that still haunted the early 21st century.” Stepping Out of Character and Starting a New Story 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z

The report argued for opening up the Thames and other post-industrial sites with public-spirited architecture of curved glass and expressive steel. High stakes 2013-02-12T07:00:01Z

His command of this daunting work, and his ear for its stingingly expressive 12-tone language, came through over and over, even when my attention was grabbed by Mr. Kentridge’s arresting imagery. Review: A Masterful ‘Lulu’ at the Met 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z

What’s missing is psychological detail, particularly from Murphy’s side of the equation, and a more expressive visual style. 'Narcos' Season 1 Finale Recap: No Surrender 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z

And when the scene changes are as expressive as the actors’ attention to every nuance of each other’s actions, staging becomes a kind of emotional choreography: thrilling, precise, impossible to pin down. Review: In ‘Between Riverside and Crazy,’ Real Estate Gets Real 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z

He described the demand for jars bearing writing by Drake — ranging from one word to short but expressive poems — as especially strong. The Enslaved Artist Whose Pottery Was an Act of Resistance 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z

The same expressive eyebrows a director once instructed her to control by taping them down now alternately furrowed with concern and leapt with delight. Rachael Leigh Cook Was Always Worth the Bet 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z

For a little more money, you can find deeper, more complex and expressive wines. 15 Wines Under $15: Inexpensive Bottles for Stay-at-Home Drinking 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z

The speeches in Lear were meant to be spoken not sung, and the wrought arioso of Goehr's vocal writing is no substitute for their meaning and expressive power. Promised End 2010-10-10T20:31:00Z

But at times, in drawing expressive nuances from Schubert’s melodic lines or playing dotted-note rhythmic figures, Mr. Katsaris displayed a freedom that verged on casualness. Music Review: Cyprien Katsaris at the International Keyboard Festival 2012-07-17T22:20:52Z

Robert Frank, one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century, whose visually raw and personally expressive style was pivotal in changing the course of documentary photography, died on Monday in Inverness, Nova Scotia. Robert Frank Dies; Pivotal Documentary Photographer Was 94 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

What I admire most about your performances in these two films is how expressive you are — your eyes, your body language, your smile. "My grandmother went through this hell and I am playing it" 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

Her face, lightly made up, is beautiful and expressive. Transparent's Judith Light: 'Botox doesn't work on me. I'm serious. I've tried it' 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

Conductor Pavel Bubelnikov kept the expressive musicians in perfect sync with the dancers, so that the score and performer reinforced one another. Mikhailovsky Ballet's 'Flames of Paris' makes rousing West Coast debut 2014-11-29T05:00:00Z

It has become traditional for sopranos to take expressive liberties here. Toscanini and Giulini Put Their Mark on ?Traviata? 2010-04-04T21:37:00Z

No expressive device, from startling fortissimos to time-stopping pauses, is given short shrift. CD reviews: Harnoncourt’s last Beethoven 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

But the dark colorings and expressive inflections of their sounds are strikingly close. Classical Recordings: Two CDs of Beethoven?s ?Fidelio,? From 1960 and Today 2011-10-02T02:55:23Z

If this production lacked scenery and costumes, it offered expressive singing from a gifted cast. Review: Bellini’s ‘La Sonnambula,’ Sung by Promising Young Voices 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z

“Even though it’s obviously very human music, highly expressive music, it’s sort of like removing the human body from it. In a sense, we’re moving the biological clock and putting you on a celestial clock.” Perspective | As time loses its meaning, the music of Morton Feldman gains new resonance 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z

But her powerful, gleaming and richly expressive voice was ideal for the music. Review: Met Opera’s Next Music Director Captains a Blazing ‘Dutchman’ 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

But pop makes the rough spots some of the most expressive moments. Ren?e Fleming, Opera Star, Tries a Rock Album. 2010-05-31T21:58:00Z

The subtle vocal and expressive nuances she brought to Blanche's two "credo" arias made one eager to hear the rest of Previn's opera. A diva with many hats, Fleming delights fans 2010-12-14T16:19:34Z

The bass section is clearly a major element in the orchestra's expressive personality. Review: Israel Philharmonic plays familiar Mahler with unfamiliar lightness 2011-02-27T20:30:05Z

It will be fascinating — possibly powerful and moving — to hear what emerges from the joining of separate musical trajectories from an agile, expressive voice, cello and guitar. Helen Pridmore and friends to perform the experimental music of John Cage and Earle Brown 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

Problems of vocal production, ensemble, even pitch seemed to impede the singers, preventing the full expressive impact of the arias and precluding stylistic niceties. Review | Conductor Matthew Dirst leads Washington Bach Consort in St. John Passion 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z

The expressive, emotive features on this album create a real response in the listener, from familiarity to icy discomfort. David Lynch's Crazy Clown Time Is Just as Creepy As You Thought It Would Be 2011-11-08T10:00:41Z

In a moving piece from Porta's forgotten Ifigenia in Aulide, Clytemnestra's daughter said farewell to her mother in music whose naked simplicity the singer made profoundly expressive. Joyce DiDonato – review 2013-02-07T15:19:37Z

The Guardian said of "From Here to Eternity" that until its final 10 minutes, evoking the raid on Pearl Harbour, "the overriding sense is of a musical based on skilled professionalism rather than expressive need". Lloyd Webber, Rice lose their touch in London as musicals close early 2014-02-26T19:03:15Z

With her bright, throbbing voice, Ms. Sampson brings expressive phrasing and feisty impetuousness to her performance. Review: A Good-Enough ‘La Fanciulla del West’ at New York City Opera 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

The cooking is deeply expressive — expressive of the season and of Mr. Seeger’s focused, disciplined style. At Günter Seeger NY, a Star Chef Resurfaces, Confidence Intact 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z

Here, in a sprawling and rapturous concert during Coltrane's divisive late period, he set aside his "classic quartet" for fiery and expressive free playing, setting a new course for avant-garde jazz. Coltrane's live 'Offering' shakes the room 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z

He allowed the cast plenty of expressive leeway in the arias so well known to opera lovers. Seattle Opera offers an action-packed ‘Barber of Seville’ 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z

He then proceeded to play this warmly expressive piece superbly, with tone that ranged from a meaningful whisper to a positively overwhelming grandeur, and with a considerable variety of timbre in the music’s frequent pizzicatos. At chamber-music fest, program and performance in harmony 2013-01-22T18:54:33Z

A recent review of the scientific literature found that expressive writing can ease symptoms of depression, anxiety and other disorders; increase psychological well-being; and support resilience and recovery from trauma. Feeling Anxious? Journaling Might Help. 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

The animals’ faces are highly expressive: The two in the center almost appear to be chatting about their predicament. ‘Mutiny: Works by Géricault’ Review: Equine Passions and Anxieties 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z

The sequence takes a banal part of the modern landscape -- sliding elevator doors -- and makes them expressive.  "The Good Wife's" exquisite season finale 2011-05-18T13:19:00Z

Baltacigil’s joy in the music was reflected in his expressive face, which frequently wore the expression of a World Cup player who has just scored the winning goal. The audience was ready for Dvorák, and SSO’s cellist delivered 2014-03-28T16:07:36Z

Still, her voice is a sturdier and more finely expressive instrument than it was on her early records. Pop Is Obsessed With What’s Next. So U.S. Girls Revisited Her Past. 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z

It’s striking, but still not as potently expressive as the title track, a somber theme handled with the freest sort of care. New Music: New Albums From VCMG, Brad Mehldau Trio and Henry Cole 2012-03-12T22:32:55Z

Joshua Blue’s expressive tenor was a perfect match for the complexity of Sardanapalo’s character. Review | Franz Liszt’s unfinished ‘Sardanapalo’ opera makes its U.S. premiere at Library of Congress 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z

Ms. Futral inhabits this role and sings this demanding work with a mesmerizing combination of vocal elegance and expressive ferocity. Music Review: Kaija Saariaho’s ‘Émilie’ at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater 2012-07-20T23:33:07Z

Martone’s depiction of crime is at once expressive and economic, a world of danger boiled down to pregnant pauses and minute gestures. ‘Nostalgia’ Review: Leave Now and Never Come Back 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z

What will remain are the artistic possibilities “when anyone can assume the identity of someone else, even just for a second, as an expressive tool.” An A.I. Hit of Fake ‘Drake’ and ‘The Weeknd’ Rattles the Music World 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

After a few minutes in their company, you become quite mesmerised by their expressive movements. Zachary Quinto: 'Playing Spock was about cultivating an inner life' 2013-05-04T17:00:02Z

Or is there some less-definable expressive quality that turns the banal into the beautiful? Riff: On (Digital) Photography: Sontag, 34 Years Later 2011-05-08T05:30:17Z

This personally expressive style of documentary photography was something new. Robert Frank Revealed the Truth of Postwar America 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z

Besides being a wonderful actor, and having a face as expressive and pliable as warm clay, Lithgow has that special 'it' quality of warmth and likeabiliy. John Lithgow, on Barnstorming His Way to Broadway 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z

His voice, a hound-dog baritone with odd breaks and hollows, can be an acquired taste, but it’s striking and expressive. New Music from Gucci Mane and Waka Flocka Flame 2011-08-08T22:27:29Z

But in the United States, a growing number of musicians are drawn to the heightened expressive potential of period instruments. More Musicians Are Trying Period Instruments 2013-08-30T19:44:02Z

“The expressive act of making a mark and hanging it in space is always political,” he said in a 2018 interview with José da Silva in The Art Newspaper. Sam Gilliam, Abstract Artist of Drape Paintings, Dies at 88 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z

There can be a great beauty to expressive violence, and the organ has it in vast amounts. Manchester International Festival 2013: Cameron Carpenter's organised noise 2013-06-10T11:25:27Z

Mr. Loueke has never had a problem conveying warmth, but his expressive gifts have rarely been marshaled as smartly as they are here, on an album that upholds groove as the ultimate truth. New Music: Music From Yeasayer, Tamia, Lionel Loueke and Divine Fits 2012-08-27T21:53:22Z

That vocal quality came through strongly in Derya Turkan’s soulful improvisation — which included the same languid oscillation of pitch that had struck me as so oddly expressive in the Pomo d’Oro concert. A Musical Handshake Spanning Centuries: Venice in New York 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

It's a visceral, expressive process that's sometimes just barely contained within the ambiguous architectural forms that he chooses. Artists build a skillful 'Architectural View' at Prographica 2011-11-10T22:23:09Z

The creators chose to go with puppets instead of animation because of their expressive nature. New kids’ TV show emerges from the Mister Rogers universe 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z

Those efforts include floppy female half-figures from the “Bunny Gets Snookered” series and the abstract, coiled knots of the strikingly expressive “NUD” pieces, which can suggest entangled couples, malformed fists or Matisse sculptures. Sarah Lucas, Unmasked: From Perverse to Profound 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z

It does not really pay to compare De Keyser's fields of colour, or his expressive strokes and splashes, too closely with their American counterparts. Raoul de Keyser obituary 2012-10-14T15:40:33Z

In three paintings from 1901, she turns lone birch trunks, seen up close, into expressive figural presences. Paula Modersohn-Becker and Her Thwarted Ambitions 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

They begin with boyish optimism and end next to despair, but being manly Edwardian chaps, they all narrate with expressive reticence. Ten of the best women writing as men 2010-03-20T00:07:00Z

On occasion he arches his body, in profile to the audience, like a bow ready to shoot; that kind of expressive tension is a crucial part of his style. Flamenco by Israel Galv?n - Review 2011-09-22T15:59:55Z

When it comes to Kyle Chander — he played the coach in “Friday Night Lights” — she nails “the expressive restraint of his smoldering gaze and his squinted grin of chagrin.” In Lorrie Moore’s Nonfiction, the Sounds of an Intellectual Having a Good Time 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z

His choirs were renowned for their purity of tone, immaculate tuning, dynamic variety, expressive range and musical elegance. Richard Marlow 2013-07-02T12:04:53Z

The performance, aided by good concert-hall acoustics in the conservatory, was wide-ranging and deeply expressive. ‘A Suite Ride Through NYC,’ Featuring Paul Dwyer 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z

Stutzmann, who holds orchestral posts in Ireland and Norway, proved an attentive and expressive conductor. Review: Violinist Augustin Hadelich’s Halloween night concert with Seattle Symphony was all treats, no tricks 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z

She feeds EO and gives him affection, and the donkey is wonderfully expressive even as the camera follows him trotting along. "EO" is the gorgeously hypnotic drama about a donkey whose journey will break your heart 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z

Wanamaker has the expressive features of a natural comic. Passion Play – review 2013-05-07T22:00:01Z

It’s an abstract tour de force among Mr. Taylor’s more emotionally expressive dances. Dance in NYC This Week 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

Her catalog of hairstyles, including Afros and undercuts along with more classically Western fades, lines and partings, was designed for a generation of expressive Britons who refuse to be groomed in a binary fashion. Cropped Cuts for Everyone 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z

Enter “girl gaze” makeup, a new middle ground that’s expressive yet still simple in its application and, most important, wearable. A New Look for a New World 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

James, nevertheless, does a good job with expressive close-ups, conveying insights slowly dawning on him. 'The Last Ride': Hank Williams takes back seat to young driver 2012-08-23T20:57:09Z

‘DON CARLOS’ It has long been a favorite at the Met in Italian, with over 200 performances as “Don Carlo,” but the company has until now never done Verdi’s work in its expressive original French. Finally, a Lot of Classical Music and Opera to Hear This Season 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

On stage, she married diamond technique to vibrant lyricism, aided by huge, expressive eyes. Rachel Cameron obituary 2011-04-07T17:23:37Z

Some of the most expressive playing unfolded just moments after the recital began in the opening movement of Beethoven’s forward-looking Piano Sonata No. 28. Review | With fleet fingers, pianist Dénes Várjon brings German classics to life 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z

But it is often said, and it is true, that her work is less glamorous and more human and frankly expressive than theirs. Art Review: Rineke Dijkstra at the Guggenheim Museum 2012-07-05T14:00:00Z

Studying them closely, James pays tribute to the artist’s expressive power: “Meager, primitive, undeveloped, he is yet immeasurably strong” — a judgment still valid today. Tuscany as Henry James Knew It 2010-06-24T20:43:00Z

Melrose, giving the performance of a lifetime, charts Wozzeck's disintegration with unflinching veracity and an extraordinary expressive range that veers from lyrical intensity to snarl or eerie falsetto. Wozzeck – review 2013-05-12T13:50:43Z

In his small-scale works, Gardner captured the nameless, expressive nuances of American faces in that terrible time. The lighting designer: First, do no harm 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

They are tame in cut, frequently expressive in pattern. This is our pajama moment 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z

The color palette she draws from these modest forces is varied and expressive — and brilliantly rendered by a fine roster of performers. Classical Playlist: Puccini, Messiaen, Schubert and More 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

Negga’s expressive performance drew raves at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, where “Loving” was earmarked as a possible Best Picture nominee. The Oscars might not be #SoWhite in 2017: These buzz-worthy performances could be game-changers 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z

He can draw a bun along with a set of eyelashes to die for, but the delicate, expressive fingers are astonishing: They complete the movement. 5 Dance Picture Books 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z

It adds the finishing touches to the sense of an artist who never doubted the expressive power of fired clay and who has only gotten better. Art Review | Josef Albers and Ken Price: Josef Albers and Ken Price: Bauhaus Meets Venice Beach 2010-03-18T22:29:00Z

Hazel Clarke’s choreography evokes Bennett’s original work — sharp and angular yet fluidly expressive — while going its own way. They put it all on the line — 'A Chorus Line' — at the Chance Theater 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

Try to be expressive when the music asks for it.” ArtsBeat: Lucerne Easter Festival: Haitink Holds Up a Mirror for Promising Maestros 2011-04-18T15:00:28Z

Fortunately “Pieces of Me,” the album, shrugs off this burden, leaving Ledisi to revel in longing, pride and exhortation — and of course in her voice, a big, expressive instrument that stops just shy of strident. New Music 2011-06-13T22:00:32Z

The wines can be hit or miss, but when they hit, they can be beautifully expressive of their place or grape variety. For a chance at a gem, get to know some wine importers 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

Child’s writing seems unusually expressive in this novel, possibly because of its intimate subject matter. Cold Cases and Hot Emotions: Marilyn Stasio’s Crime Column 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

At concerts, Mr. Baker encouraged audiences to be expressive, often urging them to snap their fingers and clap their hands to the music. David Baker, jazz scholar, composer and conductor, dies at 84 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z

Heifetz touched audiences with the expressive intensity of his playing, purity of tone and almost superhuman perfection, his aristocratic elegance and authority. Jascha Heifetz's vast recorded legacy lives on 2011-06-08T13:53:00Z

Both Cunningham and Mr. Taylor danced with Graham, who based her vocabulary on the body’s expressive reach as it originated in the pelvis. Graham, Taylor, Cunningham: Three Titans. One Stage. One Night. 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

In the first concert, presented on Monday evening, the dynamic young Ebène Quartet showed an expressive range in keeping with WQXR’s diverse initiatives and bold ambitions. Classical-Music Station Sponsors a Week of Chamber Works, On and Off the Air 2011-04-06T21:30:07Z

These are 11 paintings with muted but expressive colors, in the manner of Edvard Munch, who was a big influence on Childish. Art We Saw This Winter 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z

There is a stillness, precision and conservative restraint to Jhabvala’s narratives that runs counter to the explosive, expressive and liquid energy of later Indian Booker Prize winners, including Salman Rushdie and Arundhati Roy. Review | Ruth Prawar Jhabvala’s stories capture an India that no longer exists 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

It's not long before you begin to long for a chromatic inflection, for something to supply an expressive tweak, and to find an equivalent for the expressive power of the words. Prom 19: Sondheim at 80 2010-08-01T20:31:00Z

On Wednesday evening, the Lincoln Center Festival offered a mesmerizing concert of new music that explored resonance as a central expressive device. Review: Yarn/Wire Mesmerizes at Lincoln Center Festival 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

I thought it was so intriguing that you showed Ali's kind of probing of the myths around white supremacy and that conditioning, alongside his growing and expressive confidence. Telling Muhammad Ali's story in full: "What really struck me the most was how much humility he had" 2019-05-05T04:00:00Z

But there was expressive sincerity in every solo as well as keen attention to the dramatic charges of the biblical texts. Music Review: Trinity Wall Street’s ‘Messiah’ 2013-12-08T22:27:39Z

In a Knechtel painting, a vortex of expressive yellow swirls might inhale a Renaissance dome along with a wrestler riding a pink high heel. 'The Vermeer of Los Angeles'? Slow-art champion Tom Knechtel lets us in the studio 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

In the Romance, the violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter was as warmly expressive as always, with precise articulation that didn’t waver even in passages of precarious double-stops. Review: Carnegie Hall’s Season Opens With Two Faces of Cleveland 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z

Chalifour played the violin solo with wonderful clarity and expressive detail, showing no signs of fatigue.  Long-neglected music gets a fresh L.A. Phil spin at the Hollywood Bowl 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z

Bourne’s excellent dancers imbue their characters with subtle, expressive mannerisms that tell us about their backgrounds and points of view. Perspective | Storytelling is the key ingredient in the year’s best dance works 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

But it is one of myriad passages, fiercely economical yet perfectly expressive, that, if executed well, convey a world of novelistic density in just 90 minutes. When the Orchestra Is the Star of the Opera 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z

The quartet of soloists are led by Lisa Milne, suitably ecstatic, and by Christopher Maltman, intense and expressive as always. Haydn: The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross 2011-02-10T22:15:00Z

It routinely undercuts the power of Schoenker's personal history, when his expressive voice and emotion give plenty already. Holocaust survivor a moving storyteller in 'Touch of an Angel' 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

A dancer kicks a leg up and circles it around in a high, controlled arc, and it’s as expressive as a beckoning arm gesture. Lou Harrison and Mark Morris: a grand partnership of music and movement 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z

At one of these, he meets Maxandra — she goes by Max, and is played with regal insouciance by Salma Hayek Pinault — who discovers his background in expressive dance and hires him for a private performance. ‘Magic Mike’s Last Dance’ Review: Stripping Down to Bare Essentials 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z

He was, in addition, revered for his expressive calligraphy. Asia Week Art in Manhattan Galleries 2010-03-25T22:02:00Z

But to entirely ignore the essential interplay of dark and light, interior and exterior, and public and private space is to deprive the opera of expressive tools essential to its impact. Review | Pared down and dumbed down, ‘Don Carlo’ still dazzles at the Kennedy Center 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z

“The place that a player is expressive in ‘Firewatch’ is with what they say and when they say it, and what they withhold,” he added. Video Games Where Hearts, Not Guns, Drive the Action 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z

An Indian girl in the cast – she was a dancer; just 16 – had told me she was convinced that I was thwarted in some way; that I should be more expressive as a performer. Brian Cox on his first RSC performance, Titus Andronicus 2013-01-01T17:00:12Z

As an encore Mr. Szot sang a lovely, deeply expressive rendition of “This Nearly Was Mine” from “South Pacific.” Music Review: Paulo Szot With the New York Philharmonic 2013-06-05T21:14:17Z

The song was “Hostage,” written with Nick Valensi of the Strokes, and its message — feeling powerless to break free of a lover’s mistreatment — was a fine match for the expressive bigness of her voice. Music Review: A Big-Voiced Singer Takes Off In Several Directions at Once 2011-07-28T22:09:05Z

“With sloping eyes and long fingers expressive of exceptional reach, they speak as messengers from an Afrofuturist-inflected otherworld,” Nancy Princenthal wrote in the Times. Met Museum Acquires Two Sculptures by Wangechi Mutu 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z

Sculptors in Spain went for more perishable media, like wood and ceramic, and for expressive realism, the more naturalistically detailed and colorful the better. With Splendor and Saints, Hispanic Society Shows Its Treasures 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

Of multiethnic heritage that includes Egyptian and Spanish, she is olive-complected, with a long braid of dark hair and expressive brown eyes. Laukaitis is engaged to a U.S. Deep in the heart of TrumpLand — even Texans want our national nightmare to be over 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z

Rather than a representation of the artist’s dynamic and expressive self, which was the norm in blustery American art after World War II, this work is an implacable object made to be experienced. The exhibition that has art fans in a fury: Our critic's take on MOCA's Carl Andre retrospective 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

Of all the things I am – tall, loud, almost aggressively expressive – black is the one people see first. My dad said I wasn’t black enough. At last, I know what he meant | Raven Smith 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z

But every one of the principals is allowed at least one similar moment, in a number that is as specifically expressive as handwriting. Review: ‘She Loves Me’ Is a Daydream of the Ordinary 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

I like that she is a dancer, and he is a sign language interpreter, so both characters have "expressive" careers. "Slow" director on creating an intimate, asexual romance: "We wanted this film to be very corporeal" 2023-01-21T05:00:00Z

In his solo the choreographer was virtuosic, elastically tying himself in knots, yet that virtuosity was made expressive of frustration. Dance Review: Contemporary Dance Showcase at Japan Society 2013-01-16T17:52:03Z

Mr. Farinacci plays beautifully, with expressive control, throughout a program of love-haunted standards and compatible originals, including his yearning title track. New Music: Fountains of Wayne, Now With Less Smirking 2011-08-01T23:00:34Z

Modern living forced me to grab a movement or two at a time of my randomly chosen recording, made 40 years ago by the vibrant, deeply expressive Alban Berg Quartet. 17 Works, 9 Hours, 10 Days: My Beethoven Quartet Marathon 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

Basile is a big man with expressive features, and in conversation, he often appears near tears. Love and inheritance: Celeste Holm's family feud 2011-07-04T02:09:04Z

At 14 he was taken out of school and spent three years sequestered in Scotland with a teacher who inculcated the basics of his immaculately expressive style; he then studied at the Oberlin conservatory. String fellow 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

But the little dance playlets Pita devised to show us the stories in the songs seldom left any room for deeply expressive performances. BodyTraffic brings a light touch — perhaps too light — to the Broad Stage 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z

“Music from the past is just as expressive, vital and human as music from what used to be considered the Western canon, which was a pretty narrow view.” It’s choral early-music season in Seattle 2013-12-04T21:34:29Z

And commercial genres gain in vitality and expressive force by learning from what jazz has to offer. ‘Heaven and Earth’ by Kamasi Washington Review: Musical Miracle Worker? 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z

Loving consideration of Schumann’s expressive gestures resulted in a gripping, emotionally cohesive performance. Review | Calidore String Quartet keeps audience on the edge of their seats for new Caroline Shaw piece 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z

Crowe is outstanding in this expressive music, especially as the soloist in the first lesson. CD reviews: Joyce DiDonato looks at war, peace and the Baroque 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

Designers today are encouraged to be expressive, but not then. Design: Gio Ponti, Designer of a Thousand Talents 2011-06-19T18:00:05Z

In the Adagio, in which Mr. Ax sometimes took expressive liberties with the tempo, the young players showed themselves wonderfully responsive, molding their phrasing and sound to that of the piano. Review: New York String Orchestra Offers Youthful Energy and a Lush Sound 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z

And although it ends with a wonderfully expressive dance for 63-year-old Mercy, the second half accomplishes little beyond reprising the themes of the first. Zoi Dimitriou Company; Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch – review 2012-06-16T23:05:44Z

Pink, as Ms. Steele writes, was perceived in those days as a pretty color expressive of delicacy and playful high spirits. A Big Bold Show Wants You to Rethink Pink 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z

Her “gesticulatory repertoire” depends on loose limbs, expressive wrists and good timing. ‘Maggie Smith’ review: The person behind the ‘Downton Abbey’ star 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z

A fascination with sound and its expressive and alienating properties informs their works. Critic’s Notebook: George Benjamin’s ‘Written on Skin’ Caps Tanglewood Festival 2013-08-13T21:39:43Z

Though her voice may not be glamorous, it is warm, humane and poignantly expressive. Music Review: In ?Wozzeck? at the Met, the Night Belonged to Levine 2011-04-07T12:58:54Z

He brought expressive muscle to both Brahms scores, emphasizing rich low string sonorities and spectacular brassiness. In Costa Mesa, the New York Philharmonic runs through the routine 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

The intense inflection of these images, and the expressive work that they do to convey Ozu’s desired tone, are shifted in his sound films, in two directions—to the voice and to the drama. Movie of the Week: “Dragnet Girl” 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z

Certainly he is the most expressive performer onstage, what with the platoon of puppeteers and voice artists bringing him to life. Review: ‘King Kong’ Is the Mess That Roared 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

The idea is to fold her sought-after, signature sculpture practice into her larger, explicitly expressive body of work. Turning Trash Into Poetry 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z

His comedy was full of killing and evocations of the Devil, but his expressive face had an endearing goofy warmth at odds with his severe jokes. Bill Hicks, Revived on Video to Jar Viewers Out of Apathy 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z

Among the soloists, the alto Timothy Parsons was particularly expressive, singing with pure, free tone. Music Review: Manhattan School of Music in ‘King David’ and Stravinsky’s Mass 2014-04-07T20:32:11Z

“He and the director of photography, Sharone Meir, give ‘Whiplash’ the brooding, spooky look of a horror movie, turning the New York streets and the school hallways into a realm of deep, expressive shadows.” What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Puffs’ and ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

In the mid-register, he crafted an uncommonly slow vibrato, showing as much technical control as expressive restraint. Saxophonist Pat Mallinger gets a moment of glory 2011-03-06T15:54:00Z

Making sculpture dance may seem a difficult task, but that was not the case here because of the deeply expressive, uninhibited and acrobatic freedoms employed by choreographer Boris Eifman, the company’s artistic director. Eifman Ballet’s ‘Rodin’: Love and lust leap off the pedestal 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z

We should see his fear and his sadness, and here animation was really handy because it could be a lot more expressive. "Flee" director on protecting a refugee's identity through animation: "He is always having to hide" 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z

She reacted strongly against people being particularly expressive with it. She Wrote for the Piano’s Extremes: Bronfman on Ustvolskaya 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

If, on occasion, Cohan allowed tempos to drag, doubtless in an effort to do full justice to the expressive flute line, his colleagues cheerfully buoyed them up without harm to the overall impression. Review | Chamber quartet dips into pleasingly unknown territory 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z

We need to retain profanity’s expressive power, which is so profound and versatile that I was driven to write a book about it, “In Praise of Profanity.” Don’t you f**king dare stop cursing: Why using swear words is natural and even healthy 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z

Anticipating the 20th-century fashion for cutting up and reconstructing the human body, he treated the figure as a repertory company of separate expressive instruments, each to be played as loudly as possible. Rodin From Every Angle: A Cornucopia of Shows for the Holidays 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

As minimalist as these touches are, they don't stop the figures from being eloquently expressive. Boxers, weathered heads, politics ? all in ceramics at IMA Gallery 2012-03-22T20:12:04Z

Graham’s expressive modern dance wasn’t to Ms. Childs’s taste — she was really there to study with the avant-garde choreographer Merce Cunningham — but what dancer would turn down such an experience? Lucinda Childs Gets Off the Floor in New Work for the Graham Company 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z

The subject of this encomium was visibly moved, and there were more expressions of mutual admiration before Mr. Palmieri approached the piano to deliver an expressive dramatic monologue. Music Review: 2013 N.E.A. Jazz Masters Are Honored 2013-01-15T22:24:48Z

Still, on Wednesday her singing, with its cool glow, was penetrating and expressive. Review: In ‘Daphne,’ the Cleveland Orchestra Takes on a Difficult Strauss Opera 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

As on those records, what you noticed first about Ms. Ibragimova’s playing here was a bowing technique that approached the supernatural in its expressive variety. Music in Review 2011-03-21T22:54:38Z

So I went in the opposite direction and took this music by Brahms and did this very passionate, very sentimental, very physically expressive dance. Lar Lubovitch: Confessions of a Former Go-Go Dancer 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

Her voice is richly colored, ample and expressive. Music Review: Mozart’s ‘Nozze di Figaro’ at the Metropolitan Opera 2012-10-28T21:12:53Z

It was an achievement in scale and energy, sharpness of definition, originality and expressive power unmatched by any of his contemporaries, and unparalleled in modern British art. John Hoyland obituary 2011-08-01T19:14:31Z

Bassett, a balding man with expressive eyes that seem to go from blue to green, has long had one goal: Get the government to admit that it has been covering up proof of alien visits. UFO truthers want to make Roswell an issue for 2016. Meet their lobbyist. 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z

The vocal line shifts from stretches of elegiac lyricism to bursts of Expressionist anguish, which Ms. Fleming sang with an alluring blend of plush colorings and expressive restraint. Music Review: Expectations Are Made to Be Upended 2011-01-12T22:00:01Z

Mr. Angel sang with a clear, light and appealing voice, although not always with enough expressive conviction. Music Review: Sacred Vivaldi, Somber and Elegant 2011-04-22T21:57:36Z

So let’s say you started further back, with “Live at Bradley’s,” a study in expressive, idiomatic hard-bop, made with the pianist James Williams and the bassist Robert Hurst. Kevin Eubanks Begins Life After ?The Tonight Show? 2010-05-30T21:03:00Z

“His recent performance of the piano concerto ‘to an utterance’ was brilliant, and I found it deeply expressive,” she wrote. A Pianist Adapts to Life With Parkinson’s Disease 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z

Dylan was as postmodernist as Charles Olson, the never-ending tour his expressive manifesto of poetry as contingent and hopelessly derivative and unself-sufficing. Bob Dylan’s prophecy: The kryptonite we need against Trumpism 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z

The band’s third album, “You’ve Been Watching Me,” is notable not only for its expressive authority but also the presence of another member, the electric guitarist Ryan Ferriera, who rejoins the group here. Jazz Listings for April 17-22 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

Poems are “turbulently alive with the disorder that plagues or exalts us,” and when we order our words, we create an expressive but stable structure. Review | Everything you ever wanted to know about poetry (but were afraid to ask) 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z

In a flash, his expressive palms flick as if tossing a basketball. A Flamenco Star’s Percussive Mastery and Insouciant Subversions 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z

Yet if only he could make the central breakthrough to expressive seriousness! Dance: Premieres by Christopher Wheeldon and Alexei Ratmansky 2010-07-02T22:14:00Z

But despite the elaborate Gothic architecture that divides them, Crivelli’s highly individualized and expressive figures relate to one another in complex ways, creating a dynamic sense of continuity and wholeness. Review: Once Scattered, Crivelli Is Back in Milan 2010-03-21T14:40:00Z

The expressive weight comes from Berg, with the extreme compression of the Four Pieces for clarinet and piano, acerbically played by Joanna Patton, balanced by the trio arrangement of the Adagio from his Chamber Concerto. Illuminating Britten – review 2013-04-16T17:04:24Z

Throughout, Wennäkoski balances extended technique and expressive lyricism, sometimes layering the two, but bringing the instruments together for affecting silences. One Night, Several String Quartet Premieres 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z

Her broad and expressive body language evoked a diva proudly spreading her wings. Review: Vivian Reed, Serenading With Theatrical Power and Spirituality 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z

In 1940, Menzies received a special Oscar for his mastery of Technicolor, a nascent process that achieved new expressive heights in the film. William Cameron Menzies’s film work brought aesthetic to screen 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

And 20 years ago, a study undertaken at the Wigmore Hall, London, suggested that beta-blockers, which many musicians take, might help with nerves but can lead to less expressive performances. Melvyn Tan turns guinea pig: are musicians like athletes? 2012-07-03T17:01:01Z

But it reminded us that this was still a symphony concert, and Barnatan’s playing was lively and wonderfully expressive. A symphony for Los Angeles, just one otherworldly delight at L.A. Phil's Mozart and Pärt festival 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z

The colors changed constantly, mercurial and expressive, as the action unfolded. Review: Revisiting a Kaija Saariaho Opera Days After Her Death 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z

Here Gould tried to rid the piano part of orchestral thickness and purge the music of blatant expressive contrasts. For Glenn Gould, Form Followed Fingers 2010-09-25T21:04:00Z

The repetition of identical elements would be foundational to Minimalism, but Ms. Thomas was less strict and more expressive. New York Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z

There was his father, his face eagerly expressive, so unlike his own. David Henry Hwang, the Man Who Can Make Bruce Lee Talk 2012-11-10T14:39:45Z

Mr. Blumberg proved the strongest of the soloists, with his attractive, expressive baritone. Music Review: Mirror Visions Ensemble at Merkin Concert Hall 2012-05-23T21:48:10Z

He emerged when the use of expressive rubato and Romantic liberties in Chopin was rampant. Music Critics? Picks for Chopin Bicentennial 2010-05-27T21:03:00Z

Much of the opera’s shifting character also relies on Radvanovsky as Medea, who in McVicar’s staging is portrayed with expressive physicality. The Met Opera Takes on ‘Medea’ in the Shadow of Maria Callas 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z

From his Chelsea flat, he would paint his view of the river, capturing boats with a few swift brushstrokes and injecting light with some expressive daubs of paint. A river runs through it 2014-05-08T04:00:00Z

His expressive features and cocky charm made him one of Europe's most famous faces. Cannes pays tribute to actor Jean-Paul Belmondo 2011-05-17T19:19:10Z

As for the new song, Billboard reports that after all this time, she’s still got her “signature expressive, slightly raspy delivery” as she pointedly sings, ” I would say I’m sorry if I really meant it.” JoJo returns: “I ate 500 calories a day. It was the most unhealthy thing I’ve ever done.” 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

Ever wanted to know why gloomy indie bands from rainy towns have something in common with the expressive ritual cycles of Northwest Coast Indians? Sleeve Notes: The Mercury prize gets the temperature rising 2010-07-23T14:48:00Z

With almost no preparatory studies, he translated his subjects onto the canvas in a flurry of expressive colour. With brush and eye 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

He might have been a much more expressive character like Elon Musk. Mark Rylance on ‘Jerusalem’ and the Golf Comedy ‘Phantom of the Open’ 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z

He is especially expressive when depicting Nairobi, a city that enraptured him. A Provocative Satirist Left a Pervasive Legacy, Influencing African Writing 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z

Jurowski conducted a pungent account of the First Chamber Symphony, underlining the way the music makes an expressive virtue of the confines of its single-movement form, and an equally deft one of Pierrot Lunaire. LPO/Jurowski 2010-06-16T21:00:00Z

I'd like to see the directors using the camera as an expressive tool more often, rather than treating it as a recording device that captures performances and sets. How "Game of Thrones" slew all comers 2011-06-17T18:01:00Z

The sequence found an imaginative, expressive way to get into Kurt's head and show the world as he felt it. The genius of Chris Colfer 2011-04-27T14:28:00Z

Ms. Masilo’s choreography to that music is novel in its continual switch-hitting between bits of ballet and African dance, but apart from the comedy of seeming incongruity, the jumbling isn’t particularly expressive. Review: Dada Masilo’s ‘Swan Lake’ Offers Ill-Fated Love With a Twist 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z

Gregory Clarke provides an expressive soundscape: the rasp of a window being thrown open; creaks from an upstairs room; a piano playing German music. No Quarter; The Silence of the Sea; Not Until We Are Lost – review 2013-01-20T00:06:10Z

“His biggest impact was just having the courage to write such deeply heartfelt and expressive music in the electronic realm.” Ingram Marshall, Minimalist Composer of Mystical Sounds, Dies at 80 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z

Blessedly immune from what English conductor Adrian Boult used to call "the Grecian vase effect," Chagnard eschews counterproductive doubling of gesture in favor of due emphasis on expressive nuance and molding of phrases. Review: Northwest Sinfonietta kicks off 20th year with Austro-German classics 2010-10-02T19:29:00Z

Its theatrically expressive heart is a dramatic atrium billowing upward from the second floor, where book lovers will delight in a vista of the vast circulating collection of up to 400,000 volumes. A Glowing Shrine to the Printed Word 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z

But while Pecis’s work is lush and expressive, Suss’s is drier and more prim, and the differences are enough, when you encounter them one after the other, to set up an entrancing visual dissonance. Teaching a New Inclusiveness at The School 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z

It is astonishing how expressive toes can be. Give Them a Hand: Puppet Artists Are Having a Moment 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z

"It's what we think the car should be — more fun, more colorful, more expressive." Drivers, art your engines: Show for odd autos comes to Fremont 2010-06-19T04:09:00Z

“Starved for Help” is marred by the same technical rough edges seen in the first episode, but it compensates with strong voice acting, expressive animation and terrific writing. Video Game Review: The Walking Dead, a Zombie Game from Telltale 2012-07-10T22:57:17Z

His music also initially received a hostile welcome, deemed too expressive for the postwar avant-garde but too thorny for general consumption. Music Review: ?El Cimarr?n? Is Revived at the Theater at St. Catherine of Siena 2010-06-11T22:16:00Z

As we see it today, “Nude, Green Leaves and Bust” is, down to exquisite detail, exactly what it is because of Picasso’s skill and expressive power. Can Art Be 'Priceless' in Rocky Times? 2010-05-23T23:00:00Z

How expressive can an actor’s eyes be to someone sitting in Row S? Willy Loman’s Legacy: Broadway’s Soaring Prices 2012-06-06T10:45:11Z

Cornell — whose career lasted decades and was noteworthy for his expressive vocals and range — was beloved by many in the rock community. Watch Chris Cornell's Young Daughter Sing a Moving Tribute 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z

“She raged through her big aria with power, precision and expressive intensity that left no doubt as to the Queen of the Night’s character,” Allen Hughes wrote in The New York Times. Rita Shane, a Met Soprano Known for Range and Intensity, Dies at 78 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Kubey urged Medugno to be more expressive when conveying Keller’s bewildered reactions to the vibrations and smells of a Washington train station. ‘Visible Language’ captures the historic dispute in D.C. over how to teach the deaf

The exhibition will rightly cement her position as one of the most important abstract artists of the modern era, showing how adept she was at making expressive, strong statements in the most delicate of ways. Tate Modern Unveils A Major Agnes Martin Retrospective 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z

The influence of Philip Glass could be heard here and in two songs by Mr. Muhly, given richly expressive performances by the soprano Jennifer Zetlan, who will sing in “Two Boys” at the Met. Music Review: Nico Muhly Previews His ‘Two Boys’ at Le Poisson Rouge 2013-05-15T20:05:23Z

On Wednesday night, Sotheby’s sale confirmed that expressive art, with strong outlines easily recognized and an impact that does not require sustained attention, fascinates present-day bidders. The Winning Card at Auction: Expressiveness 2010-05-07T11:30:00Z

His drawings of his mother are especially hilarious; her mouth an expressive O, she leaps across the page, like the dancer she’d hoped to be. A Charming, Poignant Middle-Grade Memoir of Soviet Russia 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

The production is touching, expressive with tables used in interesting ways. Review: A Welsh Family Clings to Native Soil in ‘The Good Earth’ 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z

Dancer Robin Dingemans asked 28 ordinary people to turn choreographer for a day, and to use him and his body as a form of expressive plasticine. Not What I Had in Mind 2010-04-20T21:00:00Z

Local architects rebuilt the city with colleagues from both sides of the Iron Curtain, including Japanese architects like Kenzo Tange who were exploring the expressive capabilities of concrete building in a language they called Metabolism. When Yugoslavia’s Bright Future Was Fashioned in Concrete 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

It’s the opposite of an insistent, expressive self, which characterized male-dominated Abstract Expressionism. Yayoi Kusama at the Broad: Lots of mirrors, not so much artistic reflection 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z

The world collapsed on that voice and those expressive eyes.  Cold Specks surveys the ages during confident Echo set 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

As with the portrait of the queen, power is the subject of this new work, controlled exuberance is the expressive method; and celebration and reproach are hard to distinguish. The Eyes Have It in Hew Locke’s Power-Challenging Show 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z

Her face seems to be in thoughtful, expressive, flickering motion even in repose—the wheels are turning, the heart is trembling and reaching. The Accurate Erotics of “Fifty Shades of Grey” 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

It pauses to consider what modes of communication can tell us about the working of the brain, its role in communal violence in India and whether some languages are genuinely richer, more expressive or efficient. ‘Don’t Believe a Word,’ a Look at Language and Power (and Why Dolphins Have Accents) 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z

But let me correct myself: There’s actually plenty of dancing, in the expressive full-body movements of the conductor who’s clearly enjoying letting this glorious music wash over him. Why Tchaikovsky’s ‘The Nutcracker’ is the sound of the holidays for so many of us 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z

The textures are plush rather than muscular, the rhythms not always as tightly sprung as they might be, though the final Apotheosis is wonderfully expressive. Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring; Symphonies of Wind Instruments; etc – review 2013-03-21T16:09:17Z

Luckily, the major vocal role in the Requiem belongs to the chorus, and the Symphony Chorale sang it with tenderness, the sound beautiful, prayerful and expressive. Violinist Salerno-Sonnenberg is still a Seattle favorite, and still delivers 2012-05-19T18:25:04Z

But scenes of extended, almost absurd, relaxation are no less expressive of his temperament. Howard Hawks, Hollywood's finest practitioner of everyday chivalry 2011-01-15T00:05:49Z

The expressive paintings will leave readers wanting to cuddle them all. NW books | Four books for kids ages 1-14 2013-12-09T22:20:38Z

Though he sang a little cautiously, Mr. Peake has the tenor goods, and he brought a warm, ringing and expressive voice to arias from Verdi’s “Macbeth” and Meyerbeer’s “Africaine.” Music Review | Grand Finals Concert of the Metropolitan Opera?s National Council Auditions: A Chance to Listen to the Future at the Met 2010-03-15T21:54:00Z

Mifune might not have been working with his favorite director, but watching these, it’s clear that he still brought his expressive physicality, his quicksilver emotion and his unparalleled charisma to the set every day. Mifune’s Transcendent Films, With and Without Kurosawa 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

I liked how Dash complicated the big Americana narrative of the show, and placed Lowe within the African Diaspora and part of those vibrant expressive Black cultures that predate the United States. The Multi-Layered Movie of American Fashion 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z

He had a wide forehead that could balance his hair and wide-set eyes with the expressive ferocity of a Greek chorus. Perspective | Little Richard would have been the first to say his style was fabulous. He was right. 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z

Indians are a very passionate people, they're extremely expressive, they don't keep their feelings to themselves. Nirpal Dhaliwal: My Bollywood bit part 2011-02-10T21:59:00Z

The result is an incredibly expressive yet unsentimental film that vividly captures the terrible process of a woman’s dehumanization. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z

The sharp edges of the fugue are preceded by the haunting Cavatina, one of the most beautiful movements in the chamber repertory, performed here with heartfelt poise and expressive commitment. Music Review: Emerson String Quartet at Alice Tully Hall 2012-04-06T00:35:05Z

It’s also pleasurable because Ms. Moss is rapidly emerging as one of the most exciting actresses in American movies, and there’s great joy in just watching this intensely expressive, empathetic performer. ‘Listen Up Philip,’ With Jason Schwartzman 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

Suspensions were a favorite expressive device in the Baroque era, created when one of two voices moves a step, creating a temporary dissonance that is resolved when the other voice follows suit, restoring consonance. A Pulse-Slowing Playlist for an Unmoored Time 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z

She said that working on the film, seeing herself in Jobu’s various costumes and hearing responses from fans of the movie also gave her the confidence to unlock a more expressive mode of dressing. Dressing for the Multiverse 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

“Imagine,” he dreams, a “fully expressive body, not this burnt and ruined thing.” Rumsfeld, Rice and Gonzales make cameos in a dark, comedic novel 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z

The comment suggests that it doesn’t occur to Mr. Lang that maintaining the essential contour, flow and character of a wistful melody like this one might actually enhance the expressive impact of the music. Lang Lang: The Pianist Who Plays Too Muchly 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z

In the B-flat major’s concerto’s Allegretto, Altstaedt trades expressive elegance with frenetic bowing, as if furiously scraping an old house, flakes of paint flying everywhere. CD reviews: Early music on the cutting edge 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

She incorporated American folk tunes and material from the African American religious tradition in her native South in expressive, accomplished works. Perspective | The top 35 female composers in classical music 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z

He’s not very expressive, though — he moves between troubled and puzzled, without many stops in between. Review: ‘Into the Badlands,’ Drama With Martial Arts on AMC 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

Yet he was working in a long tradition of art that investigates the expressive potential of the human face. Face value: expressions bring 4D ultrasound scans to life 2013-06-06T14:37:56Z

The African-American church is more visceral, they are more expressive and there is a powerful passion to their prayers.” Onward Christian soldiers: War Room triumphs at the box office 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z

Distinguished by abhinaya, or expressive mime, Kuchipudi is a theatrical style, which, as she explained in an email, “is all about the dancer carrying grace.” ‘To Master Grace Is Not at All an Easy Task’: Inside Indian Dance 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z

Often Verdi’s accompaniments look deceptively simple, but Mr. Muti carefully polishes each one, stressing proper articulation, intonation and rhythmic definition while always insisting on expressive, singing tone. ?Attila? and Muti in Debuts at the Met 2010-02-19T18:03:00Z

Mr. Haber used the soulful lower register of the viola to expressive effect, and its higher register to create intriguing timbres. At the Stone, the Flux Quartet Flexes Its Muscles 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

The final dance to the death was not an abandoned, expressive frenzy, but a chilly, robotic repetition of unpredictable patterns, mirroring the fractured rhythms of the music – a pagan ritual of the machine age. The Rest Is Noise festival: the third instalment – Paris 2013-02-08T16:32:00Z

Her expressive hands shaped the music and made her intentions abundantly clear to the orchestra, which followed her closely all evening. Pianist Simon Trpceski, conductor Susanna M?lkki light up SSO 2012-04-20T18:24:04Z

Oehlen’s big, vaporous, suavely gestural canvases and Wool’s big, bluntly stenciled word-paintings use very different means to similar ends: Traditional artistic modes of expressive communication are interrupted. New Marciano foundation proves the potential and the pitfalls of a vanity art museum 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z

When a mouth hangs ajar, when eyelids lift a fraction, these things register powerfully — often their faces look like tragic masks — amid physicality that is invariably charged with a sense of expressive gesture. Dance Review: Into the Pool, Slowly but With Feeling 2011-07-31T22:14:39Z

Emoji, he said, allow for an expressive, human way of translating the spoken word into text, with the goofy symbols providing a texter or tweeter with the means to convey tone. Should Grown Men Use Emoji? 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

Small in stature, he’s got a comedian’s outsized expressive features, all wide-eyed looks and a gloriously mischievous mouth. Aziz Ansari: ‘Being funny is like having a superpower’ 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z

“What we end up with doesn’t at first glance look like the wonderfully expressive sketches of Beethoven,” he said. When Classical Musicians Go Digital 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

It's an expressive message that is simple, yet strong. Review: Etana packs a punch on 'Better Tomorrow' 2013-02-25T17:53:08Z

Owens gave a solemnly expressive account of Wotan’s farewell from “Die Walküre.” Glimmerglass Creates Magic in Its Own Backyard 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z

Draw Like a Child explores the expressive and imaginative capacities of children and how they create art. How Childhood Inspires Artists and Their Art 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

As a conductor, he is partial to fast tempos and a kinetic, expressive presence on the podium. Philadelphia Orchestra?s New Leader 2010-06-13T15:42:00Z

But what about the profoundly autistic, those without the means — expressive or intellectual — to tell their own stories? A Singer Lends Her Voice to a Conversation About Autism 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

In both, expressive equanimity and buoyant spirit helped to compensate for untidy intonation. Music Review: Old Hand and a New One Crossing Paths in Harmony 2011-04-05T20:56:47Z

Mr. Slattery projected that spirit vividly, and Mr. Clark’s lightly dissonant, expressive quartet writing amplified it. Music Review: Manhattan Chamber Orchestra at Symphony Space 2012-06-28T21:08:15Z

It’s hard to look at Bruno’s expressive yellow eyeballs and not laugh. New Picture Books Bring Dogs and Cats to Life, Hilariously 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z

On his own, though, in his diaries and sound collages, he used the expressive tools at his disposal to achieve a kind of heightened truth — art, in other words. How 'Montage of Heck' takes viewers inside Kurt Cobain's troubled mind 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z

But at its less grandiose moments, the combination of expressive acting and kinetic action pays off in ways that are likely to satisfy both novices and adepts in martial-arts fandom. Movie Review: ‘Dragon (Wu Xia),’ Directed by Peter Ho-Sun Chan 2012-11-29T23:01:20Z

Folksy and ingratiating, the music aptly showcased the quartet’s warm, secure sound and expressive unity, and revealed Ms. Bodner in particular as an especially soulful soloist. Music Review: Practice Gets Group Back to Carnegie 2010-10-25T22:58:00Z

Culbreath’s dance of grief, though a touch maudlin in its miming, uses the expressive potential of b-boy steps, the way he spirals and windmills on his back, to intensely moving effect. Review: Rennie Harris’s Hip-Hop Dance Mixtape 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z

Judith Jamison, Ailey’s departing artistic director, must take the main responsibility for both sides of the company: the marvelous dancerliness and the expressive banality. Dance Review: A Physical Choreography, Turning Women Into Targets 2010-12-16T23:06:06Z

And if it was sheer opulence of sound you wanted, the marvelous pianist Martin Katz was there to provide it as an expressive and supportive partner. Two exquisite, artistic concerts hosted at the Kennedy Center on Sunday 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z

Mr. Charbonneau’s voice, though expressive and warm, is light, and sometimes his singing sounded pushed. Music Review: ‘David et Jonathas,’ at Brooklyn Academy of Music 2013-04-18T21:56:57Z

But it is the variety he brings to that sound, vividly responsive to the expressive dictates of the music, that kindles the magic of his playing. Review | Emmanuel Pahud dazzles at Kennedy Center 2018-02-18T05:00:00Z

His idea of an expressive sign is one that simply says “Cold Beer,” without elaboration. In the galleries: Two photographers, two perspectives 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

The expressive potential of these ballets blooms only when there are remarkable technical control and musical sensitivity. Stars’ Variety Shines in City Ballet Balanchine Program 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z

His statements about violence and ego are powerful, and Abraham met them with impressive restraint that was no less distinctive; the harrowing and deeply expressive movements are seared in memory. Perspective | Storytelling is the key ingredient in the year’s best dance works 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

Though our eyes are expressive, our ears are simply trumpets. Walter Murch: searching for the sound of the God particle 2013-06-20T16:00:02Z

Defying Fields, Ms. Wohl has chosen not only to work with children but also to depend on them as expressive actors. Review: In ‘Make Believe,’ Four Children Meet Their Inner Adults 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

Where Frankenheimer is concerned with placing the actors within an articulated, expressive space, Bass is more focused on bold compositions, quick cutting and other forms of immediate visual gratification. Video : Start Your High-Def Engines 2011-05-22T00:53:01Z

From the outset, Bryan’s work proved thrilling in its polish and expressive range. Review: The Philharmonic Departs From Business as Usual 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z

Charismatic and expressive, he took up the work like a Romantic hero while Honeck maintained a modest, if indistinct, accompaniment in the orchestra. Review: The New York Philharmonic Brings Back the Standards 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

False eyelashes are also an effective option, she said, to make you look more expressive, especially on Zoom. Time to Break Out the Lipstick 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z

He told me things about the work I'd never heard before, saying he'd wanted to make use of the cello's incredible expressive possibilities. Elliott Carter remembered: 'Music seemed to erupt from his very being' 2012-11-06T18:41:42Z

She no longer pushes Andy to talk, keenly aware that he’s most expressive when she leaves room for silence. Six ways parents can stay connected with their teen sons 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z

Even after mask mandates lift again, designers are betting that people will continue to reach for expressive options. Hold on to Your Masks 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z

Though these theatrical episodes were musically effective, I liked the opera best when Mr. Lang’s music turned more overtly expressive. Review: ‘Anatomy Theater,’ an Opera, Puts Convicts Under the Knife 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z

"My parents were both very expressive people, and exposure to American humor broadened their world," she says. Sundance 2015: 'Brooklyn' hits home for Irish actress Saoirse Ronan 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

His expressive demeanor invokes the bravado, paranoia and flaws that fluctuate within Solness. Review: Spirited, sexy version of 'Master Builder' 2013-05-20T23:43:09Z

Stewart shuffled rather than danced, and disappeared several times to catch his breath, but the gravelly pipes are still expressive. Rod Stewart 2010-05-31T21:01:00Z

“They’re surprising, touching and thoroughly delightful company distinguished by witty vocalizations, expressive eccentricities and too many heartbreaking markers of abuse.” What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Isle of Dogs’ and ‘Remember the Night’ 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z

She expands her large, expressive eyes into saucers of shock or disbelief, and, while dancing, she rolls them around, exaggeratedly, as if to say, “Aren’t I such a lady?” Julie Benko Was the ‘Funny Girl’ No One Had Heard of, Until Now 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z

The woodwinds were cleaner and more expressive than the brass, with a particularly limpid clarinet. Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra offers enthusiasm, but program is lacking

The musicians' response was electric, with the players apparently inspired by the swoop of the baton and the conductor's expressive phrase-shaping left hand. Cellist Baltacigil delights Seattle Symphony audience 2012-10-05T18:56:04Z

Using sampling techniques to create multiple layers of static and shifting sounds, she created a shimmering construct of disembodied, but fully expressive, voices. Music Review: ‘The Story of Babar the Elephant’ at Le Poisson Rouge 2012-11-21T22:50:07Z

And it's expressive – I think the voice is more expressive than anything else. Tom Jones: 'Spiritual songs are natural to me' 2010-07-01T20:30:00Z

Beneath the real brilliance of Mr. Wheeldon’s choreographic constructions lie expressive hollowness and callowness. Dance Review: Mercurial Dramas, Vertical and Horizontal 2011-06-02T22:00:35Z

Mr. Villazón’s singing was ardent, textured and expressive, though curiously lacking in carrying power. Critic’s Notebook: Musical Chairs at the Met 2013-12-06T22:52:05Z

To see him succumb to despair is affecting and is the most expressive moment in this otherwise subdued documentary. Review: ‘Foreign Land’ Sees a Better Past Than Future for the Middle East 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

The expressive illustrations by Tony Fucile provide lots of comic relief as the two friends grapple with issues like compromise and the need for personal space. Books that get beginning readers off to a good start 2011-02-12T02:26:03Z

“When I first started talking to my designers about how I wanted Bumblebee to be very expressive, they started adding more and more detail to the face,” he said. ‘Bumblebee’ Through the Eyes of an Animator 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z

Mr. Lévy is a public intellectual with wavy hair and expressive eyebrows; he wears white shirts unbuttoned halfway down his chest and is so famous in France that he’s known by his initials: BHL. Books of The Times: Throwing Mud and Calling It Beautiful 2011-01-11T22:06:40Z

She is incredibly expressive through all of her natural forms — and now in words, too. The story behind Stella, the first ‘talking’ dog. It’s not as far-fetched as it sounds. 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z

Some people are very expressive, and other people are not. Reality hosts lay it on the line: naked photos, ugly cry face and all 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

The sounds in the last four lines become particularly evocative and lightly alliterative, with the unromantic "sandwiched" nicely echoed by the expressive Welsh word "cwtched". Poem of the week: Fruition by Rhian Edwards 2012-06-18T11:24:52Z

There is experimentation with found-object percussion, and recent Glass touches including colorful texture, expressive shifts in harmony and soundtrack-like tone painting. Review: Philip Glass and the Meaning of Life 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z

Her voice, if not a precision instrument, is an expressive one. Marlene Dietrich’s extraordinary rise from obscurity to stardom 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

Eye blinks are part of a film’s expressive style, and movies are about style, not just stories. Film: David Bordwell, Film Historian, Focuses on Movie Blog 2010-04-24T02:36:00Z

A searing alto saxophonist and master flutist, Dolphy transformed the bass clarinet from a marginal instrument into a highly expressive vehicle for improvisation. Pianist Geri Allen brings her Tribute to Eric Dolphy to Seattle's Jazz Alley 2010-09-16T22:22:00Z

And without veering into explicit narrative he aims to create a multilayered expressive texture that sets optimism against anguish, light against dark and high energy choreography against contemplative stillness. This week's new dance 2011-03-19T00:06:51Z

From the Nocturne's snaking opening statement, Batiashvili chained herself to the writhing melody, her expressive style seamlessly matched to the collision between public and private emotion at the heart of the work. Prom 44: Batiashvili/Philharmonia/Salonen ? review 2011-08-18T10:35:10Z

Clyde is an exemplar of clarity and reason in a wrongheaded world, and the character works because of the inherent trustworthiness of Driver’s face — he’s expressive even when he’s deadpan. Review: 'Logan Lucky' Is a Magnificent Movie Disguised as a Modest One 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z

“I tried to make my sounds as expressive as possible.” Perspective | Turnstile, Tinashe, Fay Victor, 42 Dugg — the fall concert season is here 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z

And for expressive ends, Mr. Hinterhäuser was sometimes very free in his articulation of rhythmic details or the expansion of an embellished melodic phrase. Matthias Goerne Sings Kentridge’s Version of ‘Winterreise’ 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z

"This was Murillo at the height of his career with a very loose style of painting – colourful, expressive and new as well, very different to anything else," added Bray. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo exhibition to examine 'loose style' of later years 2012-11-29T22:18:42Z

With dark, expressive eyes and a rich, versatile voice, Mr. Hashemi is a compelling presence, ably suggesting a man haunted by the agonizing tale he must recount. Theater Review: ‘Hamlet, Prince of Grief’ at the Public Theater 2013-01-14T21:58:50Z

And he was fastidious to a fault in the Debussy, not taking expressive advantage of the glissandos notated by the composer. Yuja Wang, Leonidas Kavakos team up triumphantly at Strathmore 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z

Mr. Langevin performed with a lovely tone and expressive phrasing, aptly accompanied by Ms. Allen’s elegant playing. Music Review: New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall - Review 2011-10-16T19:53:31Z

Mr. Muti’s singalong, though not often pretty or intended to be, is always expressive, his accentuations infusing Italian style, while his bodily movements keep things going. Critic?s Notebook: More Drama for an Opera, Not All of It From the Singers 2011-04-14T22:02:56Z

The honeyed timbre of his voice proved alluring throughout his wide range, as did his liquid, expressive phrasing. Review: Max Emanuel Cencic and Il Pomo D’Oro Bring Baroque to the Met 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z

The show is structured as a series of epiphanies, as Molly takes her journey of self-discovery and learns how the little people think; Rudolph, with her extraordinarily expressive features, makes us feel every new revelation. ‘Loot’ Review: Maya Rudolph Among the .001 Percent 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z

Matching the gently soaring violin solo of leader David Adams, soprano soloist Lisa Milne was at her most expressive in Beim Schlafengehen, drifting into Strauss's sweet sleep of oblivion where all questioning is past. Orchestra of WNO/Koenigs 2010-05-10T21:05:00Z

In his readings, Schiff ensured that no musical thought went without comment and that no expressive point was missed by the audience. Review | Andras Schiff graces the faithful with a recital akin to a religious experience 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

Despite his relative obscurity today, Sant’Angelo was widely considered a visionary in his time, known for his expressive, avant-garde designs and stretchy fabrics that revealed the natural form. T Magazine: Sant'Angelo Raises Arizona 2011-09-23T16:15:32Z

Yet, despite the absence of mere surface logic, the music achieves an expressive continuity that satisfies on a deeper, less facilely explicable level. SSO with Emanuel Ax: mastery coupled with humanity 2012-11-16T17:48:31Z

Her deep-set green eyes and broad cheekbones were perfect for the stage, visible from the upper balconies, expressive. Patricia McBride, passing on Balanchine’s torch with joy at Charlotte Ballet

Were there an award for best supporting body of water in a play, this highly expressive pool would be a shoo-in. Review: This ‘Daddy’ Has Issues. A Pool and Alan Cumming, Too. 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

Sculptors from Zimbabwe’s Shona ethnic group use basic tools to carve deeply expressive art into heavy blocks of stone, that often weigh several tonnes. Zimbabwean artist's dynamic stone sculptures find global acclaim 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z

When you have that many words and you can be so expressive, virtuosity is a natural byproduct. At 150, Rachmaninoff and His Music Are ‘Here to Stay’ 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z

The limestone walls on the Irish island of Inis Meain are unusually expressive with different shapes and sizes of stones positioned to create exquisite patterns. Design: Dazzling Ingenuity of the Dry Stone Wall 2011-10-09T12:48:09Z

Mr. Kim studied art in South Korea and was part of the Korean Informel, a movement that originated in France and favored vigorous, expressive abstraction. What to See Right Now in New York Art Galleries 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z

The judges cited Keefe for the range of his work and a cartooning style that employs a "loose, expressive style to send strong, witty messages." Details on the 2011 Pulitzer Prize winners 2011-04-19T00:29:08Z

In so doing, he joined a vanguard of California producers who were making the case for balanced, expressive wines that belonged at the table. In Deepest Mendocino, Rebuilding a Life in Wine 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

Coming to film from literature, Pasolini viewed cinema as an expressive and flexible form, a language that, as he put it, “writes reality with reality.” Pasolini’s Legacy: A Sprawl of Brutality 2012-12-26T23:04:57Z

Mr. Childish’s canvases, with forceful brushwork evoking the psychologically loaded landscapes of Vincent van Gogh, and his no less expressive portraiture nodding to Edvard Munch, certainly fit that bill. In Seoul, the Art World Gets Back to Business 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z

Inspector Pulse gains inspiration when the players perform expressive, romantic pieces. Spare Times for Children for May 9-15 2014-05-08T21:59:09Z

And as he proved on tour with Kanye West a couple of years back, he’s at his most expressive when he has to share the stage with another superstar. Review: Beyoncé and Jay Z’s ‘On the Run’ stop in Baltimore is worth roaring for

A dashing, ponytailed figure, Sinkovsky galvanized the audience with his expressive violin as he moved about the stage, facing the Symphony musicians first and then the audience. Ponytail with passion: violinist, conductor and countertenor Dmitry Sinkovsky plays Benaroya Hall 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z

As Irene, the spiritual leader of the Christians and Theodora’s confidante, the mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly sang with power and dignity, supported by the fiery, expressive playing of the English Concert. Music Review: ‘Theodora’ at Carnegie Hall 2014-02-03T07:29:53Z

The choreography by Scott Graham and Steven Hoggett for Frantic Assembly isn’t as sharp as it was in London or New York, but it’s marvelously expressive of Christopher’s mode of perception. The 'Curious Incident' of a young detective set loose to find life's truths 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z

Vespolina is a red grape that produces a light, aromatic and expressive wine. An exciting new Virginia wine is ripe for the tasting 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z

Her sweet-toned, expressive playing and the polished, buoyant sound of the Festival Strings Lucerne renders that concerto and the Violin Concertos Nos. Classical Playlist: Schumann, Mozart, Brahms and More 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z

Their lovely timbres blended well and with a power that was sometimes missing from the first two lessons, where their individual voices, expressive as they were, sounded a shade too small for the large space. Music Review: Tenet Performs Couperin?s Lessons for Lent 2012-03-11T22:13:39Z

She has tamped down the lush bloom of her voice to suggest the withered state of Holiday’s instrument during the last years of her career, but the sound remains tangy, expressive and rich. Theater Review: Audra McDonald in ‘Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill’ 2014-04-14T02:00:01Z

But it’s also vibrant and expressive, an unmistakable voice. New Albums From Sirens, Zaleski and Miller 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

She sang three Mozart arias beautifully, facing the audience and using slightly exaggerated expressive gestures to cue the players, but she also knew when to leave well enough alone or to the concertmaster. In Lucerne, Andris Nelsons Is a Rising Star 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z

I like blurring those lines and creating this fleet, physically expressive world. "Cyrano" director on what Peter Dinklage brings to this enchanting retelling of a classic 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z

But across four decades, Murray has always held onto multiple forces at once while finding an expressive balance. David Murray: A jazz innovator leads from the center to the edge 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

Stephen Pier and Maya Sakai danced their own choreography, with Mr. Pier taking a more modern, expressive approach in the outer movements, and Ms. Sakai dancing in a more traditional style. Music Review | Music From Japan: Interplay of Antiquity With Some Modernity 2010-02-22T08:25:00Z

“If, for instance, a thumbnail has somebody crying or somebody overly expressive, or zooms into a face, it’s going to do better.” The Moral Philosopher of YouTube 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z

“Cool was and is an expressive matrix of transition — it was an emotional mode based on ‘keeping it together.’” Boldly Saddling Up 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

Her voice was not particularly powerful, but it was extremely expressive. Lena Horne helped integrate Hollywood 2010-05-10T05:06:00Z

“It was about having all that to produce the right expressive quality.” Closing Up, but Not Sitting Down 2010-12-11T17:18:00Z

It drives home a point we already intuit: the dialogue is incidental when the dancing is this expressive. ‘Rise’ Review: Step, Repeat, Recover 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z

Within the band’s expressive mode, its front line modeled a handy contrast. Music Review: Matt Wilson Leads His Jazz Band at Iridium 2010-05-20T22:12:00Z

While praised for her technique and expressive power, she was also sometimes criticized for the unevenness of her voice. Rita Shane, a Met Soprano Known for Range and Intensity, Dies at 78 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z

He added that seeing all of the works together provides ample evidence for "moving this previously marginalized group of panels back to the center of a discussion about Rembrandt's theology, spirituality and expressive power." 'Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus' in Philadelphia 2011-08-02T15:29:13Z

Ruders, a prolific composer with a dazzling musical mind, sometimes writes works whose expressive ends can seem dilatory and obscure. Revisiting “The Handmaid’s Tale,” the Opera 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z

Mr. Howe, who died in 1983, was a pioneer of contemporary Native American art whose style combines abstraction with passionate, expressive dynamism. Warhol Foundation Overturns 8-Year Smithsonian Funding Ban 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z

He supplies a generous chapter on the German Enlightenment, connecting threads of the 1770s and ’80s, opposing currents of rationalism and expressive release: Schiller, Kant, Goethe, the American Revolution. ‘Beethoven,’ by Jan Swafford 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

He inflects the most juggernaut step with expressive detail – his eyes pooling depths of anguish or hope, his body tugging against captivity. The Bolshoi Ballet: Spartacus 2010-07-20T13:45:00Z

Phrase after lovely phrase didn’t seem to develop in a cohesive artistic statement; expressive opportunities were lost as important transitions and resolutions marched past without much distinction or characterization. SCMS fest, night 2: Jazzy Martinu, eloquent Tchaikovsky 2013-07-02T16:06:06Z

“Nijinska’s work embraced the past yet hailed the future,” Garafola said in a recent interview, adding that its expressive freedom “allowed her to forge a powerful woman’s voice.” Why Is Bronislava Nijinska Still Waiting in the Wings? 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z

Mr. Johnson’s gossamer touch and impeccable musicianship here and throughout provided fine support for Ms. Coote’s expressive singing, her silvery voice conveying myriad shades of yearning. Music Review: Alice Coote Presents an Evening of French Art Songs 2014-01-31T21:25:00Z

Alan Gilbert, the orchestra’s music director, praised what he described as her unique, expressive voice. Philharmonic Chooses Anna Thorvaldsdottir for Emerging Composer Program 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

Powder originated as an answer to a practical need in the days when bathing was less frequent, but it quickly became an expressive luxury. | The Poetry of Powder 2014-04-03T15:09:37Z

“It’s expressive, emotional street photography,” said the veteran dealer Howard Greenberg, who is giving Ms. Lange a show of the Highway 61 images from Nov. 21 to Jan. 18 in his New York gallery. Highway 61 Revisited, With Jessica Lange 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z

Reviewing it for The New York Times, Charles Isherwood wrote of Mr. Leguizamo, “His pliant, expressive face and rubbery limbs are in virtually nonstop motion for two acts and almost two and a half hours.” James Brown and Al Pacino, Salsa Added 2011-04-10T00:51:52Z

Ms. Cachay’s response was, as usual, full of encouragement, humor and expressive punctuation. Death at Soho House 2011-02-04T23:13:13Z

“Certain people will wear a hat that looks like mine or something, but I get much more excited about people being really expressive as to who they are,” he said. The Colorful Mozart of Gen Z 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z

From his eloquent shaping of the Lutheran chorale “Ein feste Burg” at the outset, Mr. Minkowski seeks out the music’s expressive potential. Music: 'Les Hugenots,' Making Operatic History Again 2011-06-21T11:21:41Z

Buck had straw-colored hair and expressive gray-green eyes — “wild-beast eyes,” she called them. Books of The Times: ?Pearl Buck in China,? by Hilary Spurling 2010-06-09T00:02:00Z

It’s a question he answered long ago by showing how narratively expressive hip-hop’s dance vocabulary could be. Review: Rennie Harris’s Hip-Hop Dance Mixtape 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z

The challenge with Gerda was how outwardly expressive in her emotions she is. Alicia Vikander on Pale Makeup and Other Film Surprises 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z

He describes her music as “expressive and beautiful and communicative and fresh and inventive.” Jennifer Higdon Basks In Her Music Pulitzer 2010-04-21T22:25:00Z

The left is particularly the province of the solemn and the self-important – at least on the right there are expressive oddballs. No laughing matter: Comedians from Italy to the US are reforming politics 2013-03-04T16:09:27Z

At its most expressive, Ms. Kent’s singing embodies saudade: pert and happy on the surface, wistful underneath. Music Review: Stacey Kent at Birdland 2013-12-06T22:21:03Z

Watching Eighth Blackbird in action during Missy Mazzoli’s “Still Life With Avalanche,” you envied a composer’s opportunity to challenge these versatile, expressive performers. Music Review: Look & Listen?s Informal Feel at Chelsea Art Museum 2010-05-09T22:21:00Z

The ghosts were back, too, and Mr. Coleman’s broad, expressive face was uncharacteristically blank, registering less the shock of Tyreese’s dire situation than exhaustion with everything. 'The Walking Dead' Recap: Another Road Trip, Another Surprising Turn 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z

Weilerstein, one of the busiest solo cellists in the world, confounds traditionalists with her unorthodox positioning of both hands, and yet the results are pinpoint accurate and often richly expressive. Three singular artists present an engaging program at the Kennedy Center 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z

Guest pianist Cédric Tiberghien, 37, born in France and winner of multiple international awards, will take on the piece’s expressive grandeur. Romance and Romanticism in Valentine’s Day concerts 2013-02-07T23:24:23Z

“It’s the best way for me to get out of my shell and be expressive in a very personal way.” Gender Is a Construct. Christine and the Queens Built a Bulldozer. 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

Unfortunately, in the process, the character herself was rendered about as expressive as a clothes hanger. On Broadway Stages, the Beautiful Rooms Are Empty 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z

There are more than 50 works in this exhibition, mostly relatively small etchings or engravings, drawn from two private collections; the works are chock-full of expressive line and anguished detail. Art review: Prints at SAM are disturbing, funny, moving 2010-04-15T20:49:00Z

Berg relates the tale with brutal honesty, and this ultimately makes the opera a humane work, a quality conveyed by this grimly expressive performance. Music Review: Vienna State Opera Presents ‘Wozzeck’ and ‘Salome’ 2014-03-02T17:51:50Z

Witty, gregarious and intellectually inquisitive, Bass executed each project in a seemingly simple, yet expressive style that reflected his fascination with constructivism, modernism and surrealism. Design: Saul Bass Made the Title Sequence Into a Film Star 2011-11-06T14:09:04Z

“I was having problems feeling connected to the idea of the expressive gesture, that anything that motivated a mark on a canvas would come from something within me.” How the dense grids of artist Charles Gaines took the ego out of art 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z

And though the sprightly “Ständchen” would seem to be right in her expressive wheelhouse, she couldn’t deliver, vocally, on this light song’s deceptively weighty climax. Review | Likability is one thing. Artistic communication is another. 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z

With his expressive, flexible approach to tempo and dynamics, Furtwängler breathed the structure of a whole piece into each of its measures, while making each measure sound as if improvised. A Conductor’s Impossible Legacy 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z

I thought the best course of action in going toe to toe with Maggie would be a sense of American expressive feeling. Shirley MacLaine on ‘Downton Abbey’ 2013-01-03T12:55:00Z

The other wing images, the ones that are an organic part of the Crucifixion, come from a different expressive world. A Hans Memling Show Is More Than the Sum of Its Divine Parts 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

The actors now take turns reading from letters, transcripts and news accounts without milking the expressive techniques so gaily demonstrated in the first half of the play. Review: Peter Brook Asks the Ultimate Question in ‘Why?’ 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

Both the forest settings and post-apocalyptic San Francisco are rich in detail and atmosphere, the action sequences are thrilling without being flashy, and the apes themselves are uncannily expressive, particularly their eyes. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: a primate scream - first look review 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z

I just was not as expressive about it outwardly as my character was, but my inner monologue was staying up at night wondering what the f**k am I doing? "Every Day in Kaimuki" filmmakers on questioning contentment: "Are you happy or is this just easy?" 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z

To be able to maintain an ironical approach to life means avoiding a more passionately committed or passionately expressive one. The English Fetishization of Irony 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z

Beloved for their old-fashioned charm, small mosaic tiles are resonating with homeowners who want floors that are uniquely patterned and boldly expressive. Tiny tiles are back in a big way 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z

Highly percussive and deeply expressive, nearly every sound on “Fetch the Bolt Cutters” was either struck or sung into physical existence, resulting in a 21st century Gesamtkunstwerk of tactile thwacks and la-la-la. Perspective | Fiona Apple’s new album is a physical jolt in a digital world 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z

Yet she's never the most expressive of dancers, and here delivers only the basic tragic outline of her character's story. Swan Lake 2010-06-13T21:00:00Z

It’s such an expressive part of myself — natural and powerful and magical.” ‘Cirque de la Symphonie’ brings spectacle to Benaroya 2013-07-10T22:03:55Z

Mr. Lewis’s astute ear for expressive and unusual sounds and his command of structured improvisation brought forth music that was evocative, atmospheric and — potentially — pregnant with psychological nuance. Review: ‘Afterword, the AACM (as) Opera’ Lends a Voice to Stories of Black History 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z

Yet much of the resulting chamber music is exquisitely ethereal, made up of delicate, transparent textures that hum with expressive tension. Review: Matthew Welch Offers Ethereal Chamber Music at the Stone 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

The solo for Mr. Weinert is too long, but it’s the evening’s most startling and successfully expressive dance. Dance Review: Christopher Williams Works at Dance New Amsterdam 2010-06-09T00:18:00Z

So much flinging of arms and flicking of wrists that aims for expressive depths but too often misses. Review: Five Contemporary Ballets, Zero Female Choreographers 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

But I was always drawn to poets who were interested in expressive resources of English that are not always at play in everyday American speech. Garth Greenwell on writing sex in his novel 'What Belongs to You' and the queer literary tradition 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

Here, the choreography places more emphasis on lengthening and stretching the body than on expressive dancing in space, and the unambitious partnering mainly featured women in supported turns. Joyce Ballet Festival Spotlights Women, but Only One Dance Stands Out 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z

“When I feel safe is when I can be fully expressive and completely free,” she said. ‘Fosse/Verdon’ Has Magic to Do. And Undo. 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

"I knew straight away," recalls Jo, a vivacious 33-year-old who talks in a rapid, expressive stream, gesticulating to emphasise each word. The strange life of Tim Guest 2010-03-28T00:05:00Z

He is now trying to argue that he is not rude – he’s just, well, French, and French culture “tends to be more direct and expressive”. Vive l’indifférence: why rude French waiters should be celebrated 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z

The women Toulouse-Lautrec painted step out of the paintings to the surprise of the painter, conceived as an expressive puppet designed by James Ortiz and worked by company member Ryan Lisa. Looking from the outside in, ‘Voyeur’ reimagines the life of Toulouse-Lautrec 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z

His diction crisp, his tone dark and burnished, with an exciting undercurrent of muscular force, he needs to add only greater expressive detail: both more bitterness and more tenderness. Review: New York Philharmonic Honors Boulez, Though With Composers He Snubbed 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z

It's a work whose tensile rigour and utterly compelling musical momentum couldn't have happened without Bennett's structural thinking, but that also sings and stomps with expressive and stylistic freedom. A guide to Richard Rodney Bennett's music 2012-07-02T13:32:00Z

Like all compelling information design programs, theirs combined intellectual rigor, in the research and interpretation of the data, with expressive imagery. Design: Universal Symbols That Tell the Story 2011-02-13T19:30:05Z

Out in the countryside, Barnes also noticed people’s "expressive" sculptures, mailboxes and birdhouses on their property. New York man biking across US 'literally feels' Alabama's rich history: 'You get the shivers' 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z

And though the plays are performed in Japanese, with English supertitles, the expressive, sui generis physicality of the actors requires no translation. Theater Review: Toshiki Okada?s Under the Radar Entry at Japan Society - Review 2012-01-07T00:33:21Z

Lawrence Jones was an impressive tenor, but the baritone Jesse Blumberg stole the show with his bass arias, strong yet deeply expressive and smartly modulated. Cobbling Together a Christmas Music Marathon 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

Her expressive eyes and nuanced body language work well for the character; she can put across a major change in attitude just by shifting a hip. Review: In ‘Proud Mary,’ Taraji P. Henson Is a Hit Woman With a Soft Spot 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

He was the perfect fit for the group at that time: passionately committed to new music but expressive and imaginative in standard repertoire as well. A changed sound is heard in Juilliard Quartet’s concert at Library of Congress 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z

Which of these elements dominate and to what expressive end are what forms a style. Remembering Jack Beeson, Composer and Teacher 2010-07-09T22:50:00Z

Watts is a supremely expressive actress and, like Astaire, a full-body performer. ‘Infinite Storm’ Review: Climb Every Mountain, Ford Every Extreme 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

Several of Tawney’s dimensional textiles were being prepared for hanging, some rigorously woven, others slack and expressive, at times intimating the female form. Rescuing Artists of Vision 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

The jazz bassist Mark Dresser has a long and serious track record in the avant-garde, with special distinction in the area of extended technique: harmonics, multiphonics, various other nonstandard expressive modes. The Playlist: AlunaGeorge Says No and Radiohead Says Goodnight 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

A repertoire staple, this quartet is jampacked with expressive possibilities. Review: Despite being interrupted by cellphones — twice! — Seattle Chamber Music Society’s Summer Festival kicked off its second half with a remarkable concert 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z

The room is lined with figurative paintings stitched together with expressive black thread, as well as rough-cut wooden forms used to support three-dimensional works in progress. An Artist on Paying Homage to Harlem, and Using Found Fabrics in Paintings 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z

It’s a material, he says, that naturally lends itself to expressive gestures, inviting spontaneous experimentation. William J. O'Brien Transforms Artisanal Crafts into Abstract Art 2013-12-11T05:00:00Z

Mr. Gilbert led an expressive and structurally coherent interpretation, revealing the Nordic grandeur of the symphony, often thought to be Sibelius’s expression of the Finnish struggle for independence from Russia in the early 20th century. 2010-02-15T01:23:00Z

Like the original, this Dumbo doesn’t speak, which perhaps is why Burton focuses on his unnaturally large, expressive eyes. Review: ‘Dumbo’ Goes Bonkers in Dreamland 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z

Vibrato, though not banished altogether, was applied very sparingly, for fleeting expressive touches. Music Review | 'Beethoven Then and Now': Beethoven Across the Years at Lincoln Center 2010-03-29T06:39:00Z

The payoff, for him, is wines that are both subtle and expressive. From Ontario, Cool-Climate Wines of Beauty and Vision 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z

He was an amazingly gifted technician, capable of defining the human face in passages of seemingly quick, vivacious brush strokes that convey both physical solidity and expressive fluidity. Art Review: Faces Still Alive, Centuries Later 2011-07-28T22:44:45Z

Cochlear implants are reducing the number of deaf people, a complicated issue for those among them who prize sign language as an expressive form. Books of The Times: ‘Far From the Tree,’ by Andrew Solomon 2012-11-13T13:00:24Z

It’s remarkable that, when Ms. Yerbabuena dropped Expressionism and became musically complex in “Llanto,” she also became a far more seriously expressive artist. Dance Review: Eva Yerbabuena Stars in Flamenco Festival 2014-03-10T21:17:14Z

Although Mr. Burton’s talents can make him seem more like a production designer than a director, in his strongest films his visual style can be thrillingly expressive. Movie Review: Johnny Depp Stars in Tim Burton?s ?Dark Shadows? 2012-05-10T12:00:01Z

Drawing on early modern theories of the human body, the movements assigned to different body parts represented different expressive aspects, Ms. Turocy said. Critic’s Notebook: Catherine Turocy’s Lessons Unlock Early Music’s Meaning 2013-09-03T21:51:27Z

He has full cheeks and warm, expressive eyes that are often hidden behind sunglasses. Who Says Old-Fashioned Street Photography Is Dead? 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z

In the Wednesday performance, conducted by George Manahan, even the pruned score retained the portentous, seething lushness of the music in a Douglas Sirk melodrama, with expressive touches of dissonance. Review: ‘The Dangerous Liaisons,’ Lush Music of Malice 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

Giustini maximized the expressive potential of the piano and its ability to produce contrasts in dynamics, an element lacking on the harpsichord, its predecessor. Music Review: Olivier Cavé Plays Bach and Others at the Frick Collection 2014-03-17T22:13:54Z

The simple serenity of Hurlin’s face, framed by cascading curls, is riveting, as is the daring amplitude of her expressive, singular dancing. Review: How Deep Is Your Love? A Ratmansky Ballet Dives In 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z

He reverses the third and fourth movements, and thereby completely changes the expressive nature of the piece. Setting the Tempo With One Eye on the Stage 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z

Through the use of gestures, sound-painting, expressive melodies, spoken word and percussive effects, the three instrumentalists and Ms. Shelton revealed the ritualistic origins of poetry. Music Review: Dolce Suono Ensemble and Lucy Shelton at Roulette 2013-12-10T18:21:41Z

In a program celebrating her centennial from Sokolow Theater/Dance Ensemble, which opened on Thursday night at the Joyce SoHo, that expressive nature was on display. Dance Review: Sokolow Theater/Dance Ensemble at Joyce SoHo 2010-04-23T22:16:00Z

Also intensely expressive was Shulamit Ran’s “Silent Voices,” which received its American premiere. Music Review: Talk Frames Performance of Recent Works 2011-06-21T21:12:01Z

As Wiktor and Irena silently watch, conveying much through expressive silence, Kaczmarek tries to stir up the quiet crowd of applicants. ‘Cold War’ Review: Love Without Borders 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

His articulate, expressive harmonica has been an intense inspiration for me. Toots Thielemans, Who Won Jazz Renown With the Harmonica, Dies at 94 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z

A singer’s expressive turns cannot all be planned in advance. Music Review: In Revival of Verdi, a New Note of Drama 2010-03-30T21:48:00Z

These early works often feel fussy and mannered, with a nervous energy that hasn’t yet been incorporated into the expressive freedom of his later works. El Greco is focus of two U.S. shows on 400th anniversary of his death

Then she paid tribute to André Previn, who died recently, by singing a deeply expressive account of final aria from the opera he wrote for her, “A Streetcar Named Desire.” Thomas Adès Brings Fresh Wildness to the Boston Symphony 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

Once the BFG brings Sophie to his cave, the décor takes over and the story is overwhelmed by the eye-catching, rigidly expressive details that the action is forced to acknowledge. Steven Spielberg’s “The BFG” Is a Forced March of Fun 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z

He embraced a more overtly expressive, immediate approach to music, rich with historical allusion, beholden to no system. Music Review: Salzburg Festival Features Wolfgang Rihm 2010-07-30T22:59:00Z

How much more Beatles-like could a story be than of love freed from repression, and of a ferociously expressive artist getting ready to change everything? 'Nowhere Boy': A fab film about John Lennon's early years 2010-10-14T20:36:00Z

The 26-year-old whose expressive works are rich in color, form and subject are all the more remarkable because he was born with Down syndrome.The neighborhood already is home to about a dozen galleries. Harlem burgeons as an art gallery district 2016-07-30T04:00:00Z

With a regal presence and large, expressive eyes, she recited lines from a poetically spare script by novelist Marguerite Duras, as she mused on love, war and memory. Emmanuelle Riva, oldest lead actress to be nominated for Academy Award, dies at 89 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z

Book, son and father merge into "the vernacular, unpoetic and expressive and pointblank, with all the vernacular's glaring limitations, and all its durable force". Andre Gerard's top 10 father memoirs 2013-06-12T15:11:54Z

“Dogman” has a strong chance at the Oscars because of Fonte’s expressive performance; he won the Best Actor prize at Cannes. Six new films that could be Oscar contenders for Best Foreign Language Film 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

From the quiet plucked opening onward he sounded more in his element in Shostakovich’s Viola Sonata, in which his reedy, slender tone better served the work’s austerely expressive purpose. Music Review: A Viola and a Piano in Search of Common Ground 2011-05-01T21:13:51Z

To me, it's a big difference between just playing a keyboard and playing it with pitch-bending and vibrato so that it's expressive. Robert Moog: 'I wouldn't call this music' – a classic interview to mark a Google doodle 2012-05-23T10:54:12Z

The faces on her dolls, she explains, are expressive and wise. Dr. Ruth made ‘orgasm’ a household word. But her real passion? Dollhouses. 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

Bostridge uses vibrato as an expressive device, not as a constant, and he’s a very active performer with a wide range. Seattle Symphony and tenor Ian Bostridge in top form for Berlioz concert 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z

This Snowdonian clock has lovely paintings of peacocks on its face – but the mechanism inside must have seemed just as expressive. The art of time-keeping 2011-03-23T14:48:36Z

True character pieces, the Bagatelles are charged with intriguing opportunities to saunter through quickly changing expressive episodes. John O’Conor performs at Catholic University for International Piano Festival

And it is personally expressive, though in ways hard to pin down. At MoMA, Women at Play in the Fields of Abstraction 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

The musical rhetoric sounded clipped and uncertain, and she so often used her expressive device of not playing the hands exactly together that it became tiresome. Filipina pianist Cécile Licad in recital at Dumbarton Oaks

Maybe it’s the group context, with its voluble personalities, but I’ve never seen her formal assurance and expressive serenity look so commanding. Art in Review: ?STARGAZERS?: ?Elizabeth Catlett in Conversation With 21 Contemporary Artists? 2011-04-14T20:26:17Z

The expressive possibilities of ballet are increasingly constricted today by the way it hinges on the dichotomy of gender. Arts & Leisure Preview: Story Ballets, Still Romantically Inclined 2010-08-04T22:16:00Z

And for good reason: His canvases were expressive explosions of color and light at a time when many paintings were still pretty darn literal. Datebook: J.M.W. Turner's late work, African portraiture, lowbrow pin-ups 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

“It’s loud and expressive enough to do that.” The Sydney Opera House Goes Quiet. Finally. 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z

“Women tend to be more overtly expressive in language,” he said. Should Grown Men Use Emoji? 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

Heffington’s concept took a sharp left turn from the glitzier direction of most popular music videos: He bridged pop music with the symbolic, theatrical and expressive language of modern dance. The crazy, joyful, uninhibited moves of the choreographer who is changing how we see dance 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

Class Clown As a child, Ms. Watanabe would study television skits with Ken Shimura, a Japanese comedian known for his expressive faces. Popular Japanese Comedian Wants to Bring Her Plus-Size Fashion to the U.S. 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

They worry about their children; they text their wives; they search fruitlessly for ginger ale; they have “good feet, expressive of proper values.” Two Novels About Frustrated White Men, Thirty-five Years Apart 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z

Majors immediately identified with Mont, a sensitive, expressive, impassioned young artist, “a viewer of the world.” 2019 Breakthrough Entertainer: A star-making year for Majors 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

The blood clot was in the language centre of her brain, and caused her to experience a two-day bout of expressive aphasia, where she essentially forgot how to talk. Aubrey Plaza: from 'sarcastic, eye-rolling weirdo’ to lustful zombie 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

Alfred Brendel wrote in his recent book for piano aficionados, “A Pianist’s A-Z” — aptly describing music whose depth prompts even the most expressive virtuosos to delay performing it, saying, “I’m not ready.” Musicians Grapple With Beethoven 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

And the two central performances, rich in subtle gestures and expressive detail, are beyond reproach. Amour – review 2012-11-18T00:06:00Z

Mr. Gardiner is an expressive conductor, shaping phrases with expansive arm gestures and the occasional sideways flick of a hip. Music Review: John Eliot Gardiner Leads Ensembles at Carnegie Hall 2012-11-19T22:57:38Z

The woodwinds were polished and expressive, David Gordon’s trumpet sallies were brilliantly projected and Mark Robbins contributed some uncommonly delicate horn solos. Mahler’s challenge triumphantly met at SSO | Classical review 2012-11-30T19:07:07Z

Lim’s expressive writing takes on more power with the addition of more instruments. Review: A Portrait Reveals a Composer With a Dramatic Edge 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z

Leonard Bernstein was one of the most physically expressive conductors in modern times, which sometimes earned him the scorn of critics. Breaking Conductors? Down by Gesture and Body Part 2012-04-06T12:00:28Z

All of this is conveyed through the shifting geometry of Brun’s patrician features and the weather of her almost scarily expressive eyes. ‘The Heiresses’ Review: A Surprising Drama of Status and Sexuality 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z

The final shot of Gabin, that most expressive of hyper-masculine actors, lingers, and lingers some more — just as long as it needs to. Jean Grémillon Retrospective at Museum of the Moving Image 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

The soprano Ah Young Hong, a frequent collaborator, delivered the eerie texts of “a breath upward” with expressive intensity, although she sometimes had to sing in such a high range that the text wasn’t audible. Review: A Dark, Haunting Work by Michael Hersch Gets a Premiere 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z

Director Max Nichols in his first feature shows a flair for knowing when to get in close, letting director of photography Bobby Bukowski spend plenty of time on his stars' expressive faces. 'Two Night Stand' a one-act sex comedy that grows cold too soon 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

In the Shostakovich, especially the finale, Mr. Zander is a stickler for the composer’s tempo markings and note values as indicative of the expressive intent. Music Review: Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2013-12-10T22:14:02Z

With each, Diamond directed, his expressive eyebrows scrunched in concentration or wagging in delight, his left hand etching symphonies in the spotlight. Concert review: Neil Diamond at United Center 2012-07-07T05:45:00Z

“Yesterday” and “tomorrow” are always in flux, which is why that five-painting suite is so expressive: It both freezes and multiplies the ideal instant of memory or anticipation. In the galleries: Blasts from the past 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

But for others, the pole remains more an expressive than a competitive space. Pole Dancing Without Nudity or G-Strings. Just Express Yourself. 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z

The singing is warm and temperate, emotionally expressive without any sign of strain. New Albums by My Bloody Valentine, Josh Groban and Tim McGraw 2013-02-04T23:42:25Z

Lloyd-Pack's expressive face and sense of timing was best seen in his reaction in the famous scene where David Jason falls through an open bar hatch. Obituary: Roger Lloyd-Pack 2014-01-16T12:27:05Z

Five deeply expressive songs culminated in the last Schubert wrote, “Die Taubenpost,” a song about a carrier pigeon, “the messenger of a devoted heart,” sung with delicate but ineluctable pathos. Review | Baritone Holger Falk makes outstanding Washington debut 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z

Tetzlaff was at his expressive best in the immensely moving Adagio. Tetzlaff/Vogt – review 2013-01-22T13:31:59Z

But the finale's spiraling descent into despair, the expressive fulcrum of the symphony, amounted to very little. Sizzling debut by violinist Renaud Capucon lifts CSO concert out of the ordinary 2011-01-14T17:38:01Z

She said he had been open and expressive to her about his feelings, even if he didn’t take all of her editorial notes. Billy Crystal on His New Book and His Later Years 2013-09-05T12:00:01Z

His portamento was applied more as graceful decoration than expressive swoon, his rubato more as sculpted detail than extravagance. Long-neglected music gets a fresh L.A. Phil spin at the Hollywood Bowl 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z

The expressive way she contorts her face in these videos, to emphasize her shock as she marvels over the splendors of a “fancy” date, drove her to meme status. Quinta Brunson’s Viral Fame Knows No Bounds 2021-06-13T04:00:00Z

Another stunning extra is the stuttering, urgently expressive solo on “Resolution” by Ward, who was playing with Brazil in the band that opened for Coltrane. How John Coltrane’s Seattle recording of ‘A Love Supreme’ was found, thanks to 2 local saxophonists 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z

The film portrays the meeting of innocence and knowledge, of course, but so much more as well, and displays one of the most expressive uses of black-and-white cinematography in the history of the medium. The Ten Best Movies of 2014 2014-12-13T05:00:00Z

Any one of these bars, by itself, could hold your attention as an expressive gesture. New York Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

She will be watched for lessons in how to speak for certain values, in how to behave, in how to live a meaningful and expressive and nondull life. Review: ‘The Meaning of Michelle,’ a First Lady Unlike Any Other 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

Ms. Rivera has always been better known for her expressive gams than for silken vocalizing. Theater Review: ‘The Mystery of Edwin Drood,’ Revived by Roundabout Theater 2012-11-14T03:30:07Z

Tragic or not, the music is certainly personal, passionate and intensely expressive, none of which qualities Mr. Muti conveyed in this dutiful performance. Music Review: The New York Philharmonic With Riccardo Muti and Carter Brey 2010-04-15T22:16:00Z

And the Barber performance was tender, subtly expressive and glowing. The Surprise of Jaap van Zweden’s Philharmonic Tenure? Surprise 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

The deficit may boil down chiefly to a portrait of Marley that feels excessively internalized — or to an actor more vocally than dramatically expressive. ‘Marley’ at Baltimore’s Center Stage offers up the music but not the man 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

I think the bandoneón is the most expressive instrument ever created.” In New Works, J. P. Jofre Celebrates the Bandoneón 2013-06-23T20:54:48Z

Throughout, his approach was distinguished by expressive and idiosyncratic touches and judicious use of rubato. Music Review: From a Chair, Not a Bench, Exploring Brahms?s Poetry 2011-01-23T22:51:13Z

Like jazz, Korean traditional flute music can be highly expressive, rhythmically jagged, richly colored — and improvised. Korean traditional flute as expressive and exciting as jazz 2011-05-11T19:25:04Z

Jackson has regrets, and expresses fear in a particularly vulnerable moment, but he may be most expressive in the best scene with that final tracking shot. "Jockey" star Clifton Collins Jr. on "catching the magic" working with horses despite phantom pains 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z

From her superb Stradivarius violin, Faust drew a honeyed tone with depth as she played this beautiful concerto with guts where needed and an expressive, singing tone. Danish conductor wows Benaroya crowd 2011-11-04T17:40:05Z

He writes clear, expressive vocal lines in which words and sentiments are easily understood. Long Beach Opera's 'Fallujah' tackles the Iraq war with authentic anguish 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z

Except for one red-haired little girl, the human faces are averted, but each body is wonderfully expressive. Photographing Life as It’s Seen, Not Staged 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z

Bach wrote some of his most stirringly expressive music in the form of dances, like the keyboard suites and his Partitas for solo violin, which are full of Sarabandes, Gigues, Passepieds, Gavottes and Bourrées. Critic’s Notebook: Catherine Turocy’s Lessons Unlock Early Music’s Meaning 2013-09-03T21:51:27Z

The slowness and the spareness, the visible effort, become expressive. Review: Raphael Xavier, Breaking Out of Boxes, Barely 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z

As did Satie's whimsical, expressive, beautifully calligraphic letters. Erik and Me: Alistair McGowan on Satie 2013-07-12T17:30:08Z

It’s a work for 12 dancers to whom she’s drawn, she said, for their “expressive virtuosity.” A Choreographer Who Connects With Stones and Trees 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z

Though “Madeline’s Madeline” runs barely an hour and a half, it packs an epic’s worth of expressive detail, imaginative incident, emotional variety and intensity, and aesthetic invention. “Madeline’s Madeline,” Reviewed: Josephine Decker’s New Film Features One of the Great Teen Performances in Film History 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

The wonderfully expressive duet she sings with Edmund is jarred by her declaration, midway through, that she loves him, not Artur, which takes him by surprise. Opera Review: Caught Between Two Men 2011-02-15T12:00:07Z

Kilmer’s tone is raw and reflective as he weaves poems into his expressive prose. Review | Val Kilmer’s ‘I’m Your Huckleberry’ offers a scatterbrained journey into his idiosyncratic head space 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z

“It’s a work that represents a face, and it’s very expressive,” she said. Picasso heirs launch digital art piece to ride ‘crypto’ wave 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z

The walls are covered in 32,000-year-old, surprisingly expressive and sophisticated charcoal paintings by Cro-Magnon artists of animal species abundant in Western Europe during the last Ice Age. 'Cave of Forgotten Dreams': Werner Herzog's priceless look at 32,000-year-old art 2011-05-05T23:52:06Z

Like any other literary effect, the present tense is an expressive device; but expression works by contrast. Philip Pullman calls time on the present tense 2010-09-17T23:06:00Z

Mr. Mead made an equally strong impression with his luminous voice, impeccable control and expressive phrasing. Music Review: ‘Messiah,’ From New York Philharmonic 2012-12-19T21:39:18Z

Her voice is deep and expressive, with a jaunty swagger. Patton Oswalt, Morgan Murphy and Others Have Comedy Specials 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z

Here, Blank makes the city and its promise her own from the first scene to a last expressive burst of rapturous color. At Sundance, a Glorious Diversity of Voices Breaks Through 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

I got into this business because it is more challenging and more creative and more expressive. MTV renovates House of Style, looks behind scenes 2012-11-28T21:27:09Z

Yet that expressive roofline has since inspired countless cultural centers in cities around the world, conceived not just to serve their skylines but to transform them. The 25 Most Significant Works of Postwar Architecture 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z

Twitter is Trump’s default expressive mode—more than that, one might argue, it’s the fundamental unit of his thought, and the outer limit of his attention span. The Politicians Who Love “Ulysses” 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z

His sound is slightly nasal, but in an expressive way: more a vocal characteristic than a flaw. Review: A New, Abstract ‘Guillaume Tell’ at the Met Opera 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

The bone-dry acoustics of the Theater Lab require extra effort to create sonority, but the violin pizzicati in the ­Webern simply vanished, chords went unvibrated, and there was not enough projection in expressive passages. Shaw’s terrific ‘Blueprint’ felt too short 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z

Ms. Bishé, a wonderfully expressive actress, showed without words that Donna was really connecting with her lost friend. How Failure Made ‘Halt and Catch Fire’ Great 2017-10-14T04:00:00Z

The releases reveal an artist who explored San Francisco’s sexual vanguard for a decade and, exploiting an expressive new palette of synthesized sound, articulated his findings — even as the scene hurtled toward oblivion. Waking the Spirit of a Disco Innovator 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

That creative journey encompasses some of the richest music of the 20th century, and reveals an imaginative world of dizzying variety and expressive power. A guide to György Ligeti's music 2012-08-27T12:11:24Z

“The record supports defendants’ contention that there are many more opportunities for expressive matter vending than food and souvenir vending in the designated city parks,” Kapnick wrote. New York City can limit art vendors in popular parks: appeals court 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z

Listeners who overlooked Mr. Babbitt’s philosophical abstractions and thorny analyses — who simply sat back and listened, rather than trying to understand his harmonies and structural processes — often discovered works of great expressive variety. Milton Babbitt, Composer, Dies at 94 2011-01-30T03:00:14Z

But she articulated the more expressive moments with a clarity which, in turn, gave the wonderful clamour of the ending extra vigour. CBSO/Litton – review 2012-05-29T16:37:51Z

So does a certain grotesque quality that Schulhoff courts even in the expressive markings of some of his movements. Review: Summoning Erwin Schulhoff’s Zest for Life 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

Little Ben, who starts it all off with his mouse, is mouse-like himself, with his thatch of blond hair and expressive nose. Mouse Bird Snake Wolf by David Almond and Dave McKean – review 2013-06-21T17:45:01Z

Her style is so lyrical, expressive and visceral: I can feel the wind, the smells, the sun, the house of her family. Booksmart director Olivia Wilde: ‘Being young is the most painful, most hilarious experience’ 2019-05-26T04:00:00Z

Verdi is telling the tenor to take expressive freedom. Toscanini and Giulini Put Their Mark on ?Traviata? 2010-04-04T21:37:00Z

Today, the loss of some high notes to age hasn't diminished the drama in his singing; if anything, his voice, even with a slightly smaller range, has grown only more expressive. Johnny Mathis — time for a full-scale comeback? 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

Comedy is supposed to be expressive and organic, and sometimes it can stray into dangerous territory. Patton Oswalt says comics have a social responsibility: We can’t just ‘talk about dating or airline food anymore’ 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z

Technical prowess is a fine thing for a chef to have, but it’s no guarantee of memorable, expressive cooking, just as a big vocabulary doesn’t necessarily mean an author will write books worth reading. Restaurant Review: Bâtard in TriBeCa 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z

And Mr. Jackson does sublimely expressive things with the album’s lead single, “So You Don’t Have to Love Me Anymore,” a fine, old-fashioned tear-jerker that captures a distinctly masculine blend of gallantry, taciturnity and martyrdom. New Music: New Releases From the Beach Boys and Alan Jackson 2012-06-04T22:19:12Z

There’s a clean versatility to the staging that suggests the efficiency of a clinical exercise, if not an especially expressive or aesthetic one. Review: In ‘Queen,’ the Numbers Don’t Always Add Up 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z

I’m impressed by the expressive artwork of Pete Woods, particularly on the cover. ArtsBeat Blog: Rating the No. 1's: 'Batwoman,' 'Demon Knights' and More 2011-09-15T20:32:58Z

The most powerful performances focused on songs whose lyrics Ms. LuPone took to their expressive limits. Patti LuPone Goes Iconoclastic at 54 Below 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z

The faces are far more expressive, and many, perhaps almost half, of the passersby look directly at the photographer. Walker Evans’s Typology of the American Worker 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z

You both have incredibly expressive faces, transmitting complex feelings in a nonverbal way. How to Come of Age Onscreen? Saoirse Ronan and Timothée Chalamet Know 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z

And in the “Deportees” song, the way Marina Lopez, here barefoot, slowly used the whole of a musical phrase to extend an arm gesture was a perfect image of expressive grace. Dance Review: Downtown Dance Festival at Battery Park 2012-08-17T23:55:17Z

His RoTel dip — diced tomatoes, cream cheese or Velveeta, breakfast sausage — is basic Southern fare, and he hoisted one expressive eyebrow in disbelief at this reporter’s Northern ignorance. The Prancing Elites Dance Their Way Up 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z

The movie’s expressive moments—and there are many—are largely uprooted, decontextualized, and dematerialized, planted like index cards rather than allowed to unfold and to develop. Pedro Almodóvar’s Stifled “Pain and Glory” 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

Much like their forebears, these are young black artists expressing their individuality, and their anguish with expressive spontaneity. The thrill is gone. So is B.B. King. Now what happens to blues music? 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

The overview of urban motion is expressive one way, but even at 8 a.m., it is a fabric of innumerable stories, each apparent in an instant. The Art of Summer: Art of Summer: Grand Central?s Fluid Human Dance 2011-08-31T12:02:00Z

Balance and phrasing were impeccable, dynamics expressive, technique excellent at all times; light, crisp and clean in the very fast scherzo movement. St. Petersburg String Quartet makes accomplished Seattle debut 2014-02-24T19:45:19Z

Both documentaries lean on reminiscences, their own and those of their subjects, and make expressive use of archival images, including some wonderful home movies. New York Film Festival Is a Feast for True Believers 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z

But the reined-in pacing allowed the orchestra to play with fresh detail and expressive depth. Music Review: ‘Figaro,’ From Budapest Orchestra, Has Silly Touches 2013-08-12T22:01:58Z

And as a singer, he moved fluidly from Motown pop to hard funk to Brazilian bossa nova, with a voice that was sure, expressive and flush with poignancy and drama. George Michael Preferred Music to Fame. The Doc He Made Does, Too. 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z

With the sharp contrast of light and dark colors and the expressive rendition of the president, this portrait is one of a kind. Obama Portraits ‘Push Us to Think More,’ Readers Say 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z

The staging concept seemed to inspire the players to give a commanding, deeply expressive account of an unusual modernist masterpiece. Review: Cantata Profana Revives a Henze Cycle Inspired by German Poems 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z

Ms. Farmiga’s greatest asset as a director may be her own face, a remarkably subtle and expressive instrument. | 'Higher Ground': ?Higher Ground,? Directed by and Starring Vera Farmiga 2011-08-25T22:13:02Z

“The simple serenity of Hurlin’s face, framed by cascading curls, is riveting, as is the daring amplitude of her expressive, singular dancing,” Kourlas wrote. Ballet Theater Promotes Several Dancers, Including 3 to Principal 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z

That kind of expressive diversity and sensitivity to the instruments, forms and traditions for which he is writing is rooted in Widmann's unique musical life as a composer and world-class clarinettist. A guide to Jörg Widmann's music 2012-10-08T14:22:33Z

Ms. Bell, singing in Russian, soared over keening harmonies by the Yehudim singers and expressive embellishments from Andrea Lee, a cellist. Music Review: Skipping Through Russia, Lingering in a Biblical Age 2011-03-04T21:18:36Z

This was certainly a deeply spiritual performance, personal and soaringly expressive. Music Review: Sergey Khachatryan in Concert at Alice Tully Hall 2012-05-24T21:49:03Z

But Harris also shows a tenderly expressive and lyrical side. Review | 60 years on, Alvin Ailey’s dancers take the stage — and prove why the company is unlike any other 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z

They are distinctive, expressive of both the terroir and the winemaker’s style, which is minimalist. 5 wines to round out your summer and bring on Labor Day 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z

Her score was built on small musical motifs, some, like the exotically spiced opening motif in the violin, deeply expressive. Kronos Quartet Plays Laurie Anderson’s ‘Landfall’ at BAM 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z

This technique rendered D'Rone's ballad singing extraordinarily expressive, as in his slow, silken, a cappella opening on "Stella by Starlight." Frank D'Rone: Still a king of swing 2011-02-18T15:35:00Z

The melody of horse-head fiddle, the rhythm of heavy drum, the echo of Mongolian throat singing and the distortion of guitar all create an expressive scene of pagan culture. February's best music from across the MAP 2013-02-15T09:17:22Z

Early on, Riefenstahl aspired to be a starlet in the world of “expressive dance.” ‘Dietrich & Riefenstahl’ review: Two women who made fateful choices 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z

If the production recalls any prior work, it's Terence Davies' adaptation of "The House of Mirth," which was about as visually expressive as an adaptation of a period novel could be while remaining earthbound.  "Mildred Pierce" is a quiet, heartbreaking masterpiece 2011-03-24T14:43:00Z

Saito is one of those silent film actors who is able to be at once subtle and expressive, conveying nuances of worry, wounded pride and gentle decency through unmistakable and emphatic gestures and facial contortions. | 'I Was Born, but...': Yasujiro Ozu?s Silent Tale of New Kids on the Block 2010-06-24T23:03:00Z

Hamilton, who also produced the album, believes that having two recorded versions available will serve both to guide future performers and to illustrate the potential for expressive freedom. A Spy Opera (or Is It?) Returns to the Stage 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

She took up singing full-time while studying in Boston in the early eighties, drawing notice first for her precisely expressive accounts of Bach cantatas at Emmanuel Church, under the direction of Craig Smith. Alex Ross on Lorraine Hunt Lieberson 2013-05-28T06:00:00Z

Kerr also illustrated the books, and her pictures, like her language, are more expressive for their simplicity. Mog the Cat, and the Mysteries of Animal Subjectivity 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z

It becomes more expressive with food, especially shellfish. For a chance at a gem, get to know some wine importers 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

James Poniewozik, the chief television critic for The New York Times, called her “a phenomenon, expressive and captivating.” ‘The Sopranos’ and Nina Simone Sustain ‘Unorthodox’ Star 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z

She also confirms her position as one of the most exquisitely expressive stars in musical theater. Theater Review: ‘Bridges of Madison County’ Brings Iowa to Broadway 2014-02-21T03:00:02Z

But Mr. Berthot’s surfaces were differentiated by their expressive texture and their suggestions of space and atmosphere. Jake Berthot, a Painter Inspired by the Natural World, Dies at 75 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

Of course, the relationship between idea and expressive vehicle is looser, if not quite nonexistent, in other arts, especially the visual ones—often excitingly so. What Makes an Essay American 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z

Billy Bang, a violinist whose gritty, expressive and spirited playing earned admiration in contemporary jazz circles, died on Monday at his home in Harlem. Billy Bang, Jazz Violinist Inspired by Vietnam Experience, Dies at 63 2011-04-14T02:43:25Z

Known for her large, bright voice and expressive acting, Ms. Ginsberg was most closely associated with the spinto repertory. Frances Ginsberg, American Soprano, Dies at 55 2010-12-29T04:21:11Z

But the most expressive works are two collage-paintings that conjure glacial geography. In the galleries: Deconstruction that’s carefully constructed 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

I think the fact he made his work so expressive in all sorts of ways, without it becoming expressionist. Knockout. Hero. Genius: Cy Twombly 2011-07-06T20:30:03Z

Wolf is primarily remembered for his myriad art songs, deeply expressive and succinctly assembled miniatures. Music Review: Devoted to Echoes of a Composer?s Brief Career 2011-03-27T23:07:15Z

There are some Bourne choreographic devices — characters crossing their arms at the elbow as if winding them, moving the torso and pelvis in figure-eight patterns — that here have no expressive purpose. Critic’s Notebook: Dominic Walsh and Others at the Joyce Theater 2013-08-11T22:38:15Z

Constable, who is known for his expressive brushwork, often done with a palette knife, and for mixing colors on the canvas, is now viewed as a precursor to Impressionism. With Misattributed Constable Masterpiece, a Rare Look Into the Imprecise World of Art Identification 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z

This densely hung exhibition of new work revisits several series that Ms. Benglis developed in the 1970s and ’80s, including her knots, columns and torsos, giving them a new expressive power. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

More practically, it works as an expressive emblem to go along with Mason Sr.’s absences, his careless parenting, on-and-off facial hair and earnest bohemian rhapsodies. Movie Review: Linklater’s ‘Boyhood’ Is a Model of Cinematic Realism 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

The first thing that struck me was her personality — she had such strength, she seemed like such a contained lady physically, yet so expressive and full of energy!” T Magazine: The Real Housewife of Paris 2011-02-25T21:00:47Z

Moshe Gershuni's expressive, historically loaded art, which places symbols of the Holocaust in a religious setting and seeks to polarize opinion about current Israeli society, seems unlikely to reward the casual viewer. Israeli artist depicts pain of rootless Jews in Berlin exhibition 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z

Just one look at the expressive cover — a pouting Lily who seems about to explode into a tantrum — will give you a sense of Hughes' story. Medalists produce two instant children's book classics 2011-01-08T00:49:41Z

While I admire the way Troon farms and its empirical attitude, the proof is in the wines, which are invariably fresh, lively and expressive. The Applegate Valley Offers Oregon Winemakers a Quiet Place to Experiment 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

Working with a boxy aspect ratio and making expressive use of long shots that can turn travelers into specks, Palmason underscores the grandeur of this place and the puniness of those traversing it. ‘Godland’ Review: Another of God’s Lonely Men Goes Amok (Spiritually) 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z

That there’s more to him than primitive strength is inevitable in movies like this one, which tries to complicate an archetypal Sensitive Brute with melodrama, expressive cinematography and a sense of grace. ‘The Shadow of Violence’ Review: Behold, the Bad Man (Again) 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z

The weeping trills sounded beautiful in her expressive rendition of the lamentlike No. 6. Music Review: Rachel Barton Pine Performs at Rockefeller University 2012-03-22T21:02:22Z

Hirsch's eyes are often wide and dart around quickly; he is very expressive, even if it becomes clear that his mind is almost as blank as the room. The intriguing, well-acted "Immaculate Room" isolates a couple for 50 days as a test of resolve 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z

Theremin virtuoso Lydia Kavina, 48, will mine its uniquely expressive powers Monday, June 20, as part of the Seattle Symphony’s Tuning Up! concert series. The theremin brings good vibes to Seattle 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

And the tama, or talking drums, whose expressive pitch modulations, in the hands of a practiced player, evoke the sound of a human voice. Building David Byrne’s ‘Utopia,’ One Gray Suit at a Time 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

Eastman’s contribution was to expand hardcore process-oriented Minimalism, finding ways to fit in expressive dissonances, improvisation and elements of African American music, including its spirituality. The resurrection of Julius Eastman: gay, black and brilliant 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z

Yet the music is full of traps for a conductor, especially when it comes to pacing and rhythmic freedom; give singers too much expressive leeway, and things can easily turn flaccid. Review: In Her Met Debut, a Conductor Leads a Fresh ‘La Bohème’ 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

However, "This Land" features the same striking papier-mâché puppets of rural Americans in the Dust Bowl era, their faces creased and weather-beaten from the hard climes and times they've endured, their faces static yet expressive. Seattle troupe brings back Woody Guthrie tribute, with marionettes and song 2012-09-19T17:56:03Z

Recently, on Henry Street in Brooklyn, a few blocks from the theatre, Walter cupped her hands, which are large and expressive, with unvarnished nails and without rings, around an americano. Gender-Bending Shakespeare and Rough Magic in “The Tempest” 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z

The curators make the point that animation is ubiquitous because it’s so expressive. Unpacking and Decoding the World of Animation 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z

The theme of her expressive trilogy, inspired by the notion of shakti, which means “woman” or “strength,” was more ambitious though, at times, not as enthralling. Dance Review: Indian Dance Forms of Odissi and Kathak Are Showcased 2013-08-22T21:53:28Z

The poetry and tension of Stuart Stratford's conducting is admirable, while the singing is consistently refined, precise and expressive. Lucia di Lammermoor – review 2012-06-08T17:03:40Z

Where others might choose more physically expressive performances, these actors find power in stillness. Actress Ann Dowd is a revelation away from the ensemble pack 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z

The trouble is the “wildly expressive” movement failed to register significantly or intensify over the length of this singularly aimless dance. Hubbard Street Dance Chicago: great dancers, mixed double bill 2013-02-11T17:29:35Z

Her cadenza toward the close of the first movement was a feat of control and abandon, a stunning balance of the explosive and expressive — especially its soft landing. Review | My spirits needed a lift. Violinist Hilary Hahn and the NSO delivered, in D major. 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z

Vajra, vibrant and expressive with a touch of welcome bitterness as the other flavors faded away. For a Sweet 2020, Look to the Bitter in Wine 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z

His tools included an almost singularly expressive face, one that with age came to be defined by a rutted forehead and baggy, hooded eyes. John Hurt, British actor who played desperate, eccentric characters, dies at 77 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

Last month, Eighth Blackbird organized its first summer training camp for composers and chamber ensembles eager to expand the expressive dimensions of a performance. Concert Choreography: When Musicians Get Up and Move 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z

Experimenting with many forms, Dalí fell in with a circle of Surrealists in Montparnasse whose members were probing the Freudian depths of their psyches for what they regarded as a new expressive frontier. Decoding Woody Allen?s ?Midnight in Paris? 2011-05-27T23:03:11Z

Zapata was inspired by arpilleras, narrative quilted tapestries created by communities of Peruvian and Chilean craftswomen as acts of political resistance and expressive agency. The Textile Artist Employing Centuries-Old Practices and Pop Culture Imagery 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z

A onetime child radio star in Philadelphia, Ms. Kallen grew into a singer who evinced an expressive style on both sweet and bluesy numbers. Kitty Kallen, silken-voiced pop singer of ‘Little Things Mean a Lot,’ dies at 94 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

The daughter is outgoing and profane; the son silent, with expressive eyes. Movie Review: ?The Hunter,? an Australian Odyssey With Willem Dafoe 2012-04-05T22:10:03Z

Wong Howe’s images are sublime, his expressive interplay of light and shadow summoning moral conflicts out of thin air. James Wong Howe: A Gutsy Cinematographer Finally Gets His Due 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z

Chlumsky is a master of expressive silences, which serves her well in her comedy turns. "Inventing Anna" takes a good story, imprisons it in unnecessary excess and robs of us our time 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z

His clarinet playing is, as always, sprightly and controlled, expressive but never shrill. Critics' Choice: New Music by Justin Bieber and Dum Dum Girls 2010-03-21T20:58:00Z

For many in the audience, though, all “Swan Lake” needs to be momentous is a stylish corps de ballet, an expressive ballerina and a princely hero. Critic?s Notebook: One Classic Ballet, Many Interpretations 2011-07-05T00:25:11Z

Decorative patterning, considered a minor mode in the West, is major here, an insistent, expressive end in itself. Art Review: Shows at Asia Society and N.Y.U. Grey Art Gallery 2013-09-05T21:50:26Z

The irony was always there and is central to Polsky’s film: a rigid, oppressive system, at both national and team levels, created the freest, most expressive hockey there ever was. Cold War Puck: The Beauties of Russian Hockey 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

“It was always rich boy meets poor girl, or the other way around, but with Indian elements, such as expressive song or dance.” From vibrators to gay kisses, how Bollywood embraced the taboo 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

The parade’s founders wanted to refute that idea by displaying style after style of unequivocally expressive dance. Dance Parade: Where 100 Styles Fit Into 20 City Blocks 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z

Zobel caught the sensation of waters lapping around gondolas, while DiDonato lightened her rich mezzo timbre to suit the expressive situation. Mezzo Joyce DiDonato dazzles in sold-out song recital at U. of C. 2011-02-19T21:07:00Z

I just wanted to be what I was — a raw, expressive force. Juliette Lewis' career reboot in full swing 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z

An extraordinary flute solo near the end had the expressive flavor of ancient Japanese court music, stopping time for an important few seconds. National Youth Orchestra is sensational at Disney Hall 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z

She navigated the coloratura hurdles with ease throughout, her shading, dynamic control and expressive nuance rendering the confession scene particularly potent. Review: In ‘Maria Stuarda,’ Sondra Radvanovsky Makes a Vivid Impact 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z

Similarly, Preljocaj's intensely expressive movement opens under pressure of driven, primitive dynamics, gradually spreading out into a limpid, meditative fin. This week's new theatre and dance 2012-08-10T23:05:36Z

Yet she develops the expressive resonance of that delicacy through a musicality that's entirely her own. The Mikhailovsky Ballet and a tale of two Giselles 2013-03-25T15:15:16Z

In the film, Pierce explains her desire to explore the nuances of how women connect, as well as the technical and expressive possibilities of two women in pointe shoes. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z

It was about an insecure boy from California who grows up to be an expressive designer whose work brings our dreams and fears into the light. Perspective | At the Paris shows, disparate points of view beautifully coexist 2020-02-29T05:00:00Z

A vibrant, expressive singer, Ms. Brueggergosman conjured childlike innocence and haunting dread. Music Review: Soloists Take or Share the Spotlight as Needed 2010-12-05T22:13:00Z

“Origami Harvest” is about more than naming injustice; it’s an expressive document, a testimony to lives lived freely while under state suspicion. Ambrose Akinmusire’s Trumpet Takes a Back Seat to His Pen on ‘Origami Harvest’ 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z

At several points, technology is used to recycle music or words after a few seconds; the repetition becomes psychologically expressive of thoughts, memories and feelings that keep returning to haunt. Review: Making Eloquent Theater From Bleak Facts 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z

Her coyotes are expressive and comical, a convincing mix of animal and people. The best children’s books for February 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

On loan from the Vatican Museums, it’s one of the most rawly expressive images in Leonardo’s canon. 20 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

Indian classical music has a drone and no harmony, allowing expressive engagement with a single pitch melody. Jeff Beck: The unorthodox techniques that made him such a unique guitarist 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z

In one expressive sequence, the ensemble members wear creepy white masks, advancing menacingly down through the raked aisles of the theater during a series of staccato blackouts. A hotel of horrors 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

A tiny, red creature made of yarn, Yarny is quite the expressive little critter. Ten games that made a lasting impression at E3 2015 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

Buniatishvili says her expressive style of playing is partly inspired by the “free approach” and rich complexity of Georgian folk music she grew up hearing. Khatia Buniatishvili brings Chopin program to UW 2013-02-28T23:50:09Z

But Campbell molded Ash into a hero for the average guy by tempering the story’s adrenaline-spiking frights and nausea-inducing gore with a performance steeped in expressive slapstick. In Ash we trust: “Ash vs Evil Dead” returns in our darkest hour to save us 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z

The most expressive body parts are the arms. Dance Review: ?Bacchae? From Morphoses at the Joyce - Review 2011-10-27T00:12:35Z

Her method is to suggest both sides of the guttural back-and-forth in one voice; it would be expressive, she warned — so much so that audiences often wonder if she is in pain. Big Ears Festival Stars the Avant-Garde 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z

But the performance, which was rapturously received, was a powerful reminder of this singer’s total commitment, resilience, and expressive power, and of the fact that, in Russia, the Verdi tradition runs deep. The Metropolitan Opera Celebrates Itself 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

Best of all, it had Sim himself, whose magnificently expressive face could, as needed, explode toward heaven or sag to the very pits of hell. 2009-12-25T01:45:00Z

The duo offered committed performances of three Mozart sonatas, with Mr. Wosner’s singing tone and expressive musicality complementing Ms. Koh’s insightful, richly hued playing. Music Review: Jennifer Koh and Shai Wosner at Lincoln Center - Review 2011-08-25T23:15:11Z

So then, I became afraid to be expressive, even of art. Wrongfully convicted. 21 years in prison. Pardoned by Obama. Mr. Wash reflects on a remarkable life 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

The program ended with a sumptuous, limpidly molded account of Mozart’s popular Piano Concerto No. 21 in C, with Sonia Rubinsky as the expressive soloist. Music Review: New York Women?s Ensemble at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-12-01T23:46:05Z

This was represented by the piano, which is a very expressive and precise instrument. Hans Zimmer's 'Interstellar' music and other scores vie for Oscar 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z

Mr. Lea is more traditionally handsome and sharper-featured than either, his face less naturally expressive. ‘The Curious Incident’ Is on the Grid With a New Christopher 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z

Always impressive for the sheer volume of his top notes, Mr. Aronica grew in warmth and expressive ardor on Friday, culminating in a deeply affecting rendition of “E lucevan le stelle.” Review: ‘Tosca’ Returns to Metropolitan Opera With a Rotating Lineup 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z

The strings were warm and expressive and, as usual with this orchestra, the woodwinds were especially fine, most notably another oboist, Matthew Dine, in the earlier Mozart symphony. Review: Matthias Goerne Captures the Mood at the Mostly Mozart Festival 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z

In these three works, the message and medium are out of alignment, and the expressive power of dance is diminished, neglected. Review: A Los Angeles Troupe in Search of Choreographic Vision 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z

But Wiesenthal was experimenting with the extremes of the waltz’s expressive potential. Dancing by Herself: When the Waltz Went Solo 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z

There are pleasures to be had in the convoluted British thriller “Closed Circuit”: Rebecca Hall’s expressive face; Jim Broadbent chewing his role like it’s taffy; a courtroom scene in which the judge says, “Wigs off.” ‘Closed Circuit’: Legal thriller doesn’t make a case for itself 2013-08-28T04:46:15Z

In the English Suite No. 3, she played with ample clarity and brilliance but took expressive liberties with her pedaling, phrasing and dynamic shading. Music Review: Mourning, Bach and a 9/11 Theme 2011-06-07T21:27:25Z

For Millepied, a tightly condensed narrative is the motor for an expressive, emotive physicality. Love and Death in Paris, With an Assist From Star-Crossed Verona 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z

“Tap is new for me. It’s a very expressive medium.” Bursting Into Dance: Gentlemen, Assume the Superhero Stance! 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z

The characters are completely relatable and so visually expressive that the words are almost redundant. Graphic Novels, From Batgirl to ‘Wrinkle in Time’ 2012-11-22T20:50:49Z

The dark, murky canvases and expressive abstract bronzes are drawn partly from Mr. Kirkeby’s studies in the 1960s, when he traveled in Greenland and the Arctic while working on a master’s degree in geology. 10 Galleries to Visit Now on the Upper East Side 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

His big, expressive eyes bulge as he relates his bewildered disgust with human behavior. For comedian Sebastian Maniscalco, being bothered is serious business 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z

“In Oregon, the wine is much more expressive than in Burgundy,” Large said. Carlton is redefining Willamette Valley wine country with high-quality grapes and extensive renovations 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z

He presents Mr. Pryor, however, without editorial filters, as a moving body, and an expressive one. Refracting Race Through the Comic Lens of Richard Pryor 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

His playing in that work and Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in F was notable both for its flair and languid, sultry expressive gestures. Review: 92nd Street Y Opens Season With Jazz Pianist Ted Rosenthal 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z

While Schiele’s earlier landscapes are “very flat, very two-dimensional” and thinly painted, in this case the paint is “more thickly applied and built up in very expressive layers,” Ms. Kallir noted. A Schiele Townscape in Decline Will be Restored With TEFAF Funds 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

The expressive power of language is undiminished, but human communication is in constant flux and ought to be understood, this book argues, as “a snapshot” of a time, place and particular community of speakers. ‘Don’t Believe a Word,’ a Look at Language and Power (and Why Dolphins Have Accents) 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z

Davis' expressive performance welcomes the audience to flinch as she yanks between baseline honesty and the overwrought pep forcing Nella to chirp whenever Vera flings a task at her. "The Other Black Girl" peeks into the hidden horrors of being the only person of color at the office 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z

Pairing the Interludes with the Planets suite was a smart move, as it enabled us to appreciate how much Britten had absorbed from the expressive tone-painting of Holst. National Youth Orchestra – review 2013-01-07T18:25:30Z

It also requires that opera performers, who are used to being expressive on stage, synchronize their voices to the movie. L.A. Opera to revive 1961 Italian cult film 'Hercules' at the Chandler 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z

We call expressive complaints venting, kvetching, griping or a number of other names. How to Complain at a Restaurant? Just Ask Our Critic 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z

The piece capitalizes on the cello’s expressive potential while pushing it into sometimes uncomfortable territory, resulting in high, anguished outcries. Review: The Cellist Leonard Elschenbroich Played at the Frick 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z

But perhaps most emblematic, the show’s frequent fistfights were accompanied by graphics — expressive exclamations printed on the screen in comic-book style: Krunch! Lorenzo Semple Jr., Creator of TV’s ‘Batman,’ Dies at 91 2014-04-01T04:02:29Z

But the most expressive moment is the hymnlike title track, played alone on piano as an elegy. New Music From the Mountain Goats, Joey Calderazzo, Becca Stevens Band and More 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z

Adam Rothenberg's face is particularly expressive and the tension between the lovers is well played. Review: In ‘The Layover,’ Strangers on a Plane and Missed Connections 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

Yefim Bronfman, who played Brahms’s Piano Quintet with the Emerson String Quartet last week at Carnegie Hall, performed with his customary power and expressive conviction. Music Review: Lorin Maazel Leads Philharmonic in Sibelius and Brahms 2013-01-17T21:34:32Z

“It’s emotional, expressive — how the voice snakes up and pulls back.” For Sia, Dance Is Where the Human and the Weird Intersect 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z

Ms. Anderson, Mr. Reed and Mr. Zorn’s set focused on Mr. Zorn’s eloquent and expressive alto saxophone playing, which shifted from mournfulness to lurid rage. Music Review: Strum, Pluck, Rescue, Rebuild 2011-04-11T21:45:04Z

It was a string band attentive to his every expressive fluctuation of tempo, or to a silent pause before words like “torment” and “suffering.” Music Review: Caman? Sings Fado at BAM in Next Wave Festival - Review 2011-12-04T23:16:02Z

As my classroom anecdote above may indicate, this generation is far less committed to untrammeled expressive liberty than their elders. Will Smith and the function of a slap – what it means for comedy and comedians 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z

The movie finds most of its thrills and drama in Franco's gaunt, expressive face. Danny Boyle's 127 Hours: An Existential Great Escape 2010-09-15T18:45:00Z

“The older he gets, the more expressive he gets, the more violent he gets.” Seeing Miró’s Majorca Studio, Just the Way He Kept It 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z

Even though Ms. Muller’s message is blatantly clear — power corrupts — little about it, despite, or because of, her penchant for such an expressive dance language, rises to a visceral level. Dance Review: Virgins, Pimps and Other Facts of life 2011-06-24T21:35:03Z

Dafoe is particularly expressive when Van Gogh is painting or not saying anything. Willem Dafoe on painting Van Gogh’s shoes: “It’s his attempt to paint the soul of something” 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

The four singers breathed life into this 700-year-old music, making it — if not exactly familiar — rich, expressive and well worth the listen. Breathing life into 700-year-old music 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z

A lithe blonde with dark eyes and long, expressive arms, Benali moved with softness and precision, from the little one saw of her. Moroccan dance ‘Identity/Identite’ is bold and liberating, but its intentions aren’t clear

Both versions are stunningly good, setting two different stages for Yoakam's expressive tenor as he instills a lonesome yearning into lyrics about the ongoing search to fulfill one's dreams and goals. Review: Yoakam shows how it's done on '3 Pears' 2012-09-17T16:10:09Z

Maltman's wide expressive range allowed him to embrace the Songbook's power as well as its subtlety. Maltman/Drake – review 2013-06-02T16:00:02Z

But apart from a few wayward tempos on this occasion, he elicited committed, expressive and polished playing from the Philharmonic musicians. Review: Baiba Skride Wrestles Bartok’s Art of Darkness 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z

Colman, who just won an Oscar as the rather more expressive Queen Anne in “The Favourite,” is more restrained than Foy, but no less spectacular. Review: ‘The Crown’ and the Burdens of a No-Drama Queen 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z

At the press conference that follows, the commissioner stands before the media with drugs and money in front of him and declares in the language of classic expressive retributivism: “The Wire” is right about everything: David Simon nailed the police, media, politicians 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z

The title of the exhibition refers to the essential innovation of Hellenistic artists, the extension of sculpture from a limited repertoire of ideal bodies to a more expressive, naturalistic and individualized language. National Gallery of Art offers rare chance to see ancient Greek bronzes 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z

Their account did complete justice to the work’s nobility and expressive appeal. Music Review: Emerson String Quartet at Alice Tully Hall 2010-05-10T22:14:00Z

The bareness of much early music — its lack of dynamic or expressive indications — drove Mr. Heras-Casado’s musical development. Pablo Heras-Casado, With Orchestra of St. Luke’s 2012-08-03T18:26:47Z

“Never be aggressive, but shape the notes with the most expressive legato you can possibly manage.” ?Attila? and Muti in Debuts at the Met 2010-02-19T18:03:00Z

Both feature a solo violist whose phrases — sometimes halting, sometimes expressive — exist in something like a duet of duets. Review: At Rothko Chapel, a Composer Is Haunted by a Hero 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z

The challenge is to support the singers, allowing them expressive freedom to bend lyrical phrases while maintaining an undulant gait. Music Review: In Revival of Verdi, a New Note of Drama 2010-03-30T21:48:00Z

Unfolding in simple yet wonderfully expressive hand-drawn frames, the film’s unsparingly observant plot depicts the slide into senility with empathy and imagination. ‘Wrinkles,’ an Animated Depiction of Nursing Home Lives 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

Describing his affinity for Yiddish verse recently, the pianist Evgeny Kissin closed his eyes, bowed his head slightly and in a mellifluous, expressive baritone began to recite a poem from memory. Evgeny Kissin Will Indulge His Love of Yiddish Poetry at Carnegie Hall 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z

While drawing colorful, textured sound from the orchestra, building stealthily to chilling climaxes, he was sensitive to the expressive subtleties of Ms. Goerke’s singing. Review: Boston Symphony Orchestra Delivers Electric ‘Elektra’ 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z

Given time, it becomes expressive of bing cherry and woodsy aromas of autumn leaves. One grape, 4 ways to enjoy it 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z

Heller’s images are simple and poised, lucid but weighty—they vibrate with the expressive force that they condense and contain. “Can You Ever Forgive Me?,” Reviewed: Melissa McCarthy Finally Gets the Dramatic Role She Deserves 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

The mechanical painter of commissioned portraits comes under the influence of the man whose house he’s living in, and is moved to make works with real expressive power. In Haruki Murakami’s New Novel, a Painter’s Inspiration Is Supernatural 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

Boulez's music is a fascinatingly complex world of expressive logic. Feeling the sonic rush at the Ojai Music Festival 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

And he left you feeling that the connections — expressive as well as technical — between the contemporary scores and the Beethoven were both solid and logical. Music Review: Peter Serkin at 92nd Street Y - Review 2011-12-11T22:25:52Z

Piranesi pushed etching and engraving to unsurpassed limits, transforming them from what had been predominantly tools of illustration and reproduction into expressive art forms on a par with painting and sculpture. Review: Piranesi's Elevated Etchings 2010-10-20T11:22:00Z

In an aisle seat nearby, a third conductor was at work, accompanying the music with liquid hand gestures so small and instinctively expressive as to appear like extensions of an inner thought process. Peter Eotvos Prepares the Opera ‘Senza Sangue’ 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

Despite Ingres’s willful distortions and expressive color, he was understood to be the embodiment of the rational draftsman-painter; whereas Delacroix was believed to be an emotive and dramatic colorist—a painter, not a draftsman. ‘Devotion to Drawing: The Karen B. Cohen Collection of Eugène Delacroix’ Review: A Master off the Canvas 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z

There is something strikingly interesting about the notion that grief unfurled, sans narrative or some other expressive instrument, might be basis enough for a worthwhile pact between performer and audience. Review: 'Cancer: The Musical' suffers from unappealing treatment of its subject 2010-06-10T20:54:00Z

While Walter sometimes pushed his landscapes to the brink of jewel-toned abstractions, Dunkley aligned the expressive powers of natural form and painted textures into a recognizable but uncanny, highly symbolic world. John Dunkley, an Outsider Artist Deep in the Heart of Jamaica 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

It was rather magical, and not at all jarring, to shift from the musical realm of English Baroque style to Ms. Saariaho’s hazy, diaphanous and quizzical modern music, as in the intensely expressive “Miranda’s Lament.” Review: ‘The Tempest Songbook’ Closes Gotham Chamber Opera’s Season 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z

And I laugh when I read things like a recent New Yorker capsule review of the musical Newsies, praising star Jeremy Jordan for his “clean voice and dark, expressive eyes.” Willy Loman’s Legacy: Broadway’s Soaring Prices 2012-06-06T10:45:11Z

Though the tenor Paul Groves captured the questioning earnestness and, later, the shell-shocked torment of Oedipus in his expressive singing, his voice was sometimes strained. Music Review: A Stravinksy Program With Ancient Inspiration 2011-05-04T18:58:03Z

Here, everything was paired to its expressive essentials, with the little funeral motet Versa Est in Luctum at its emotional core. Prom 28: Tallis Scholars/Phillips ? review 2011-08-05T10:34:24Z

“He was not afraid of being very direct and expressive,” said Libby Van Cleve, an oboist who directs Yale’s Oral History of American Music, and for whom Mr. Marshall wrote three pieces. Ingram Marshall, Minimalist Composer of Mystical Sounds, Dies at 80 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z

Without someone as expressive as Ms. Moss, “The Handmaid’s Tale” might not pull off its balancing acts: to be morally urgent but not didactic, harrowing but with flickers of hope and grace. Review: ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Season 2 Moves Into a Dark Future 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z

Mr. Sharma’s food is quietly expressive, nodding to the flavors he grew up eating in Mumbai without chaining itself to tradition. An Indian Food Writer Breaks Free From Tradition 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z

We might be watching “Cold Case” or “Criminal Minds,” but with better sound design and more expressive visual techniques. | 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo': ?The Girl With Dragon Tattoo? ? Movie Review 2011-12-19T18:19:04Z

There were appealing moments scattered throughout the piece, with some expressive playing from Mr. Laredo. Music Review | Leon Fleisher and Friends: An Evening of Brahms Becomes a Memorial 2010-03-04T22:42:00Z

A number of her works focus on hands, which are, after all, the most expressive part of the body after the face. Oils that are different, yet complementary, at Prographica 2014-04-03T20:49:48Z

The most expressive part of a camel, it’s been suggested, is its back end. Téa Obreht Follows Up an Acclaimed Debut With a Visit to the Old West 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z

The theatre is one of the most expressive and useful instruments for building up a country, it is the barometer of its greatest or decline. Do theatres have to close down before the government acts on the arts? 2012-12-12T17:38:27Z

It’s cool now, she maintained, expressive of a sociocultural shift that’s been years in the making. Rocking It on Prom Night, African Style 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z

Beneath hats that vaguely suggest menacing birds ready to peck, Mr. Bedford’s expressive face manages to twist itself into any number of memorable grimaces. | 'The Importance of Being Earnest': A Stylish Monster Conquers at a Glance 2011-01-14T03:00:01Z

Subtle speeding and slowing of the pulse, growing louder or softer, and drawing back to prepare a shift in harmony are expressive devices that make a Chopin nocturne, for instance, live and breathe. Taking Philip Glass to a place he need not go 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z

Such tired formal tics suggest an impoverishment of expressive means within contemporary radical aesthetics, but Mr. Berger himself exhibits no such lack. Review: ‘The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger’ Lauds a Renaissance Man 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z

Ms. Vishneva was in fine form in that solo part, with her sinuously expressive long arms, but there is little to the Béjart work here besides a passing frisson. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Iolanta’ at the New Mariinsky II in Russia 2013-05-05T19:20:13Z

“The fingers are the most expressive part of the portrait. Each is articulated differently: fully extended, half bent, fully bent. If asked to guess the man’s profession blind, we might think him a virtuoso pianist.” Julian Barnes, Playing Against Character, Writes About a Character of Action and Appetite 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

But somewhere between childhood and adulthood, those screams cool into shouts, cheers and other forms of hollering we see more commonly in the expressive crowd. Beatlemaniacs, Beliebers, Directioners — why do they scream?

The soprano Elizabeth Futral sang beautifully throughout but reserved her most expressive work for a setting of Apollinaire’s “Salomé.” Music Review: Contact!, New York Philharmonic Series at Met Museum 2012-12-26T22:31:15Z

Soloway felt relieved of “a whole aspect of performance.… If I’m not wearing female clothes I feel much more intellectually expressive.” Jill Soloway and Eileen Myles talk creativity, 'queer' art and the end of their relationship 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

Wong is slightly stiff with his dialogue in a largely English-speaking part, but he’s still wonderfully expressive; his sidelong glances and numb stares bear the whole weight of the world. Review: Hong Kong Tourist-Noir in Amazon’s ‘White Dragon’ 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z

Although I was greatly helped by Lubalin’s ethos of “expressive typography,” once I gained some confidence, I soon moved away from him to more radical voices — Dutch design, Cranbrook, Emigre, 8vo and others. Designer for the age of austerity 2012-06-25T00:00:00Z

The changeup was expressive, she said, “of a palpable shift to a more personal, chaotic look,” a festive nod to full-on Gypsy chic. Joining the Caravan: The Gypsy Aesthetic Gains in Popularity on Runways and Streets 2012-07-11T21:27:14Z

Nocturnal, burrowing, bottom-heavy and just about a foot tall, they waddled with a hunched determination, flapping their expressive little wings. The Season of the Skulls 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z

Preternaturally serene and imposingly tall — roughly seven feet high — with sloping eyes and long fingers expressive of exceptional reach, they speak as messengers from an Afrofuturist-inflected otherworld that all her work invokes. Wangechi Mutu: A New Face for the Met 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

I never thought of Money as a book about the 80s, except for the royal wedding and the rioting, the bunting and the barricade – that was very expressive of the time. The BBC were on the Money 2010-05-25T19:00:00Z

The six singers appeared perfectly at ease with the unusual demands made on their voices; even passages of rhythmic panting were delivered with expressive elegance. Music Review: Oscar Bianchi’s ‘Matra’ Debuts at the MATA Festival 2014-04-20T20:25:50Z

“There’s an attempt to put a straitjacket on this expressive force,” he told reporters at the Berlin Film Festival, known as the Berlinale. Berlinale study of slavery unearths the roots of modern Brazil 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z

Absorbing in scope and expressive in detail, the piece offered compelling evidence of Mr. Lewis’s prodigious imagination and persuasive skill. Music Review: George Lewis, Composer Portrait, at Miller Theater - Review 2011-11-13T23:12:08Z

Mr. Fowler, who has cerebral palsy, is lively and expressive, making JJ into a distinct character with a few quick scenes. Review: In ‘Speechless,’ Balancing Family Needs With Special Needs 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z

Santa and the animals are adorably expressive, revealing a childlike innocence. Perspective | 10 great holiday-season books to enjoy with your little ones 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

That said, the entire evening proved a winner, the singers sustaining vocal energy, unfailing technique and expressive nuances throughout three vastly different works. Chamber chorus Third Practice is a winner 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

The expressive effect is still distanced, though – the texts examined rather than inhabited, the words left to fend for themselves. EIC/Boulez; Zehetmair/Aimard 2010-06-29T21:00:00Z

Jealous and treacherous, but with a seed of good, he is an animated Rorschach test whose remarkably expressive features register more shades of ambiguity than I can recall encountering in a Hollywood animated character. Movie Review: ?Puss in Boots? With Antonio Banderas - Review 2011-10-27T21:48:54Z

There’s this tendency to think that things that are intellectual are not that expressive. ‘There’s Nothing Quite as Distressing as This Piece’ 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z

Referential use of a mark within an expressive work would, according to most courts, not even qualify for a dilution claim. HBO's Ballers: Touchdown or Legal Fumble? 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z

Franch-Ballester pushes the relatively narrow expressive range of his instrument to its limit. Despite the disconnect, clarinetist and pianist put on an enjoyable recital 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z

And I like an expressive face, but the performance started to feel all about eyebrows and forehead. Review: In ‘The Layover,’ Strangers on a Plane and Missed Connections 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

Still, he was indeed a master, a probing musician incapable of expressive indulgence, a pianist with a brilliant and admirably unflashy technique. Classical Playlist: Bruckner, Igor Kamenz and More 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z

Tapestry, which he said “enables literally hundreds of knots per square inch,” offered vastly more expressive potential, one reason that the medium was as highly regarded during the Renaissance as painting. 2010-01-23T04:36:00Z

It was the poetic high point of an afternoon mostly marked by expressive containment and fluidity. Andsnes adds a bit of emotion to his repertoire 2011-04-04T17:07:00Z

Gillian Murphy’s exceptional virtuosity has never appeared to such subtly expressive effect as in his “Nutcracker.” Critic?s Notebook: A Galaxy of Ballet Stars Spinning in a Flickering Universe 2011-06-05T22:25:36Z

For a master like Harris, the choreography is a little short on expressive groupings and stage patterning. Review: Rennie Harris’s Hip-Hop Dance Mixtape 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z

But the tediously earnest book and lyrics lack narrative clarity and impetus, and the production never finds a way to match the impressionistic restless quality of the score with something as visually expressive. I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky 2010-07-08T21:46:00Z

When Caesar scowls, as he increasingly does, you don’t see just digital wizardry at its most expressive; you also see a plausible, angry, thinking character. Looking Apocalypse in the Eye 2011-08-04T14:59:55Z

A compact man with an expressive face, Bringuier, whose eyes appear to glow with each passing note, made an impression on the L.A. Lionel Bringuier kicks off Hollywood Bowl season with L.A. Phil 'family' 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z

“When Graham created ‘Imperial Gesture,’ the work was in response to many factors including the rise of fascism in Europe, workers’ rights, and the emergence of American expressive dance,” she said. How Do You Reconstruct Lost Choreography? 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z

While giving singers expressive leeway, he maintained shape and direction and favored slightly brisker than usual pacing. Review: ‘Tosca’ Catches Fire at the Met Opera 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z

As Jesus, Charles Wesley Evans sang with an elegant, mellifluous and expressive baritone. Critic?s Notebook: Two ?Passions,? With Two Very Different Effects 2011-04-17T22:14:02Z

Her presence was expressive but restrained, nearly as deliberate as the tempos of the songs. Review: Björk at Carnegie Hall, Heartbreak and Pathos 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z

They do, however, exhaust their own expressive range; and this is their greatest limitation. Dance Review: Tao Dance Theater at Alice Tully Hall 2012-07-26T21:24:32Z

Her virtuosity is extraordinary, but even more extraordinary is her expressive power. Violinist Leila Josefowicz is a powerful storyteller in John Adams' 'Scheherazade.2' 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z

But the bigger problem is that the two halves — one bombastic and expressive and the other, quieter, cooler and brighter — never quite form a whole. Review: Sasha Waltz’s ‘Continu,’ Dances of Contrasting Moods 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z

But perhaps the most sensational pieces are Dingle’s “Blindfold Paintings,” in which she renders her demonic little girls in broad expressive brushstrokes while wearing a blindfold. How Ed Sullivan, girls gone wild, a manicured alligator and blind painting shaped the art of Kim Dingle 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

But with its wealth of inventive and expressive movement, it is an entirely visceral experience that draws you into the characters’ feelings. Washington Ballet’s ‘Hamlet’: Madness without method in it 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z

“Color is tied to our way of seeing, of perceiving the world,” he explained, while the abstraction of black and white “offers an additional expressive possibility.” A Look Back on a Life’s Work Capturing Conflict 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

Through the ’60s he couldn’t get out from under the gestural style of de Kooning and Lewis, characterized by expressive brush strokes emphasizing the sweep of the painter’s arm or movement of the hand. Revealing Jack Whitten’s Secret Self 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z

The passage is marked “calmer and very expressive,” but this was deeper than that, a peace which passeth all understanding. Music Review: Georg Friedrich Haas’s ‘dark dreams,’ at Berlin Philharmonic 2014-02-23T18:48:18Z

“Using my clients’ artistic sense and directives, I help them create a comfortable and expressive environment. 2009-11-01T04:00:00Z

Where Rivera used a deliberately overblown technique to cover huge surfaces, his wife Frida Kahlo made small paintings that were intensely expressive of the private self. Mexican modernism and the politics of painting 2013-06-29T07:59:01Z

Beethoven was one of the biggest admirers of Clementi, whose compositional achievements included an expressive use of legato. Music Review: Olivier Cavé Plays Bach and Others at the Frick Collection 2014-03-17T22:13:54Z

His abstraction was personal and specific, the result of a lifelong quest for a language sufficiently expressive to capture the nuances of the little patch of the world he called home. Perspective | I grew up in Upstate New York. It took the art of Charles Burchfield to help me rediscover the beauty of its winters. 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z

With a wide, expressive smile, she said that theater was just fun until she reached 13. Nina Arianda, Actor 2010-02-17T18:47:00Z

The other huge factor is color, which is a complete wild card and, within the system that determines the paintings, an expressive loophole. Art Review: Damien Hirst Spot Paintings at Gagosian in 8 Cities - Review 2012-01-12T20:22:52Z

An urge toward flowing line and expressive gesture is easily detected among the work’s heady leaps and whorls. Music Review: Tobias Picker at the Miller Theater - Review 2011-10-09T21:55:17Z

She’s in high expressive form and at peak curls, playing Hillary Kramer, a fragrance mogul forced to sell her company after her accountant runs off with all her money. Barbra Streisand Is Ready to Tell All. Pull Up a Seat. 2023-11-07T05:00:00Z

James Dillon, composer of some of the boldest and most expressive orchestral, chamber and theatre works around. A Guide to James Dillon's music 2013-02-04T15:50:00Z

Yet she is a vocal artist with keen sensitivity to the expressive nuances of music and the texts she sings. ArtsBeat: Classical Playlist: Stephanie Blythe, Eva-Maria Houben, Nicholas Phillips and More 2014-03-05T17:18:59Z

This is because of, in part, her preference for painting, which was relatively unpopular at the time, and her particular style, which imbued abstractions with a cartoon-based, expressive spirit. Elizabeth Murray Estate Moves to Gladstone Gallery 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z

Hrusa, in fact, was impressive throughout the evening for his impeccable control, expressive interpretations, and colorful, detailed approach to the four works on the program. Review: Expressive conductor plus exuberant soloist equals stirring evening 2011-05-06T17:10:05Z

The occasional signs of fragility in his tone at this period are exploited as an expressive device rather than apologised for as a fault. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau: a guide in clips 2012-05-18T16:16:00Z

“Flowers’s loose, expressive line is a little messy, a little scribbly, with both cursive and all-caps text floating through the images,” Hillary Chute notes in her Graphic Content column. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

They look exposed, as naked in the light as disembowelments, and as choreographed and expressive as a solo dance. Sarah Lucas: tights, melons and concrete pies 2012-07-18T17:30:03Z

The consistent features include the egg-shaped head; the cap-like hair; the emphasis on details of clothing; and an unreadable expressive content. They Suffered for Their Cézanne Portraits 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z

The expressive variations Mr. Lawrence extracts from a few basic visual props — staircases, windows, walls, beds, massed figures — is astonishing. Review: ‘One-Way Ticket’ at MoMA Reunites Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Paintings 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

Tight and tender, this small family drama is so visually expressive that listening is always subordinate to looking. 2010-01-21T04:46:00Z

Colin Firth's performance is extraordinary: it's marvellous how his face manages to be at once so immobile and so expressive. Readers' reviews 2011-01-13T22:17:00Z

Still, it was a bracing hour of expressive music, linked together with interludes from “Vespers,” a longer work in which recorded voices waved through the electronics like thick smoke. Review | Music by female composers uplifts the art form, in two strong concerts 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z

Winds are particularly expressive in the opening movement, where nature awakens in a haze of ethereal strings and chirps from oboes and clarinets before picking up the jaunty melody to one of Mahler’s own songs. CD reviews: Mullova shines in Prokofiev 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

This thriller, featuring Grace Kelly and Robert Cummings and originally filmed in 3-D, is especially gripping in the hands of Alfred Hitchcock, whose filmmaking is a master class in expressive camerawork. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘New Girl’ and ‘Mistress America’ 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z

It was an atypical move for a musician who shies away from expressive extravagance. Review: Aaron Weinstein, Wunderkind as Highbrow Dandy 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

His alluring tenor, with its baritonal timbre and expressive shadings, is heard to rewarding effect in selections including Siegmund’s “Sword Monologue.” Critics Name Their Favorite Wagner Recordings 2013-08-22T20:50:13Z

But the Assembly’s “That Poor Dream,” an expressive, uneven update of Charles Dickens’s “Great Expectations,” is set on twistier rails; call it the flashback line. 'That Poor Dream,' an Update of 'Great Expectations' 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

As the deacon, the bass Philip Cutlip was wonderfully solid and, in a properly understated way, expressive. Clarion Choir Delves Into the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, a Rachmaninoff Rarity 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z

The Brahms performance had lots of expressive details and dynamic contrasts, as well as the surging romanticism that infuses this score. Review: Violinist Augustin Hadelich’s Halloween night concert with Seattle Symphony was all treats, no tricks 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z

As such, it clarifies the tapestry-making process while also revealing the expressive power and stylistic consistency possible in works made by scores of hands other than the artist’s. ‘Grand Design’ Showcases Pieter Coecke Tapestries at the Met 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

Kelly is one of the world's most expressive and economical songwriters, one of the world's best, period. Review: Paul Kelly's song cycle of love 2012-11-20T20:46:05Z

The actor, whose TV appearances include fantasy series Being Human and sitcom Him & Her, admits his "expressive face" lends itself to comedy, but says he is now looking for other kinds of roles. McGovern on story behind Banished 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

While there is traditional singing, pitches are not always tuned to a rigorous tempered scale but allow for expressive microtonality, something true of the marimbas as well. Isango Ensemble's 'uCarmen' exerts overwhelming feminine power and vibrant musicality 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

He also was known as Bollywood’s only Method actor for his expressive performances identifying a character’s emotions. Dilip Kumar, Bollywood’s great ‘Tragedy King,’ dies at 98 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z

Mr. van Zweden drew taut, lucid, richly expressive playing from the Philharmonic in both scores. Review: The Philharmonic Shines Through Two Dark Operas 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

Appleton’s interest in electronic music was on the side of electro-acoustic, “as a way to extend the expressive possibilities and potential of acoustic musical instruments and the human voice,” Levin said. Pioneer in electronic and electro-acoustic music dies 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z

Most followed Gershon's expressive conducting closely but rarely engaged with the orchestra or the audience. L.A. Master Chorale brings sense of community to 'St. Matthew' Passion 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

Her hands are eloquent, her face mobile and expressive. The hearing world 2010-05-29T23:02:00Z

The opera’s only other character, whose role is sung in Gaelic by the magnificently expressive Irish folk singer Iarla O Lionaird, is a nameless famine victim who sends arching laments and prayers toward heaven. Review: An Unsatisfying Opera (or Is It a Lecture?) 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z

The women are at their most physically expressive in this private world, but then life and death come calling and spin that world right off its axis. Critic?s Notebook: Awkward Embraces, Assured Directors 2011-03-27T21:52:50Z

That is, until you hear one of his solo records or catch him live, when you suddenly realize he's a formidably expressive guitarist, and no slouch in the singer/songwriter department, either. Daniel Lanois' Black Dub takes off in many directions 2011-06-11T14:28:00Z

Ms. Netrebko’s approach is to sing coloratura as an expressive elaboration of the vocal line, as she did affectingly as Anna. The Metropolitan Opera Performs Donizetti?s ?Anna Bolena? 2011-09-27T12:51:23Z

In this most expressive of neighborhoods, the marquees and sandwich boards captured in these photos write their own biography: Buy Black; Jim Crow Must Go; Michael Jackson Is Dead. T Magazine: Harlem Revisited 2011-02-04T14:00:12Z

Concentrate instead on the purity of sound, the emotionally expressive yet restrained performance by all and the impeccable attention to text of the soloists. Bach: St John Passion – review 2013-03-03T00:05:57Z

The production is touching, expressive with tables used in interesting... Review: A Welsh Family Clings to Native Soil in ‘The Good Earth’ 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z

“It is most like the human voice,” he said in the 1996 interview, “and has the most expressive potential in a more expressive range than other instruments.” Thomas Stacy, Master of the English Horn, Dies at 84 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z

Her vibrato is a conscious expressive choice rather than a tic. Review | Tetzlaff-Tetzlaff-Vogt Trio’s combined musical voice impresses at Library of Congress 2019-05-05T04:00:00Z

But if they are lucky enough to hear Young Sub Lee, they will realize that "traditional music" can also be exciting, expressive and very much in the moment. Korean traditional flute as expressive and exciting as jazz 2011-05-11T19:25:04Z

A playful breed with an oddly expressive, almost human face, this breed spurs baby fever in the most callous of hearts. The 5 Most Popular Dogs on Instagram 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z

But that we have become a more open, more emotionally expressive people than we ever were is hard to deny. What's typically British now? Tears, tents and no spiders 2012-06-01T19:30:01Z

Playing both E flat and B flat clarinets, Mr. Green showed a firm grasp of a klezmer clarinetist’s voicelike phrasing and expressive slurs and bends. Music Review: Jewish Themes, and Mendelssohn, at Bargemusic 2010-06-27T21:03:00Z

The most dramatic and seductive demonstration of this was the performance by Ariadne Greif, who possesses a luminous, expressive voice and an uncanny ability to imitate bird song. Music Review: Resonant Bodies Festival at ShapeShifter Lab in Brooklyn 2013-09-06T22:26:20Z

In 1885, the widowed, 44-year-old Monet was struggling financially, frustrated artistically and traveling around France in search of a place that would allow him to be both marketable and expressive of his creative vision. Seattle Art Museum has a new Monet exhibition. Is it needed? 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z

Huston, as he’s followed in Ross’s lenses, is exuberant and expressive, but, like many complex artists, he is also a figure of elusive, iridescent ambiguity. Lillian Ross’s Brilliant Chronicle of the Power Struggle Behind a John Huston Film 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z

“I think that the voice is probably the most expressive and vulnerable instrument,” Banks says. Eric Banks: Esoterics founder an explorer of new vocal worlds 2013-05-04T14:34:47Z

Though, to Vázquez’s credit, the contrast between the film’s grim subject matter and its bubbly, expressive 2D animation style is a big part of what makes the film so creepy. ‘Unicorn Wars’ Review: Teddy Bears in Battle 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z

His is not a massive voice, but handsomely expressive. Review: A ‘Eugene Onegin’ That Fills In Tchaikovsky’s Blanks 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z

Anselm Kiefer, Gateshead Another strand of the Anthony d'Offay Artist Rooms touring programme, a collection of paintings, sculptures and installations showing the full range of one of the most dramatically expressive living artists. Exhibitionist: The week's art shows in pictures 2010-10-08T13:45:00Z

In a catalog that accompanied “Drawing Now: 1955-1975,” her 1976 landmark exhibition at MoMA, she wrote that drawing had become “a major and independent medium with distinctive expressive possibilities altogether its own.” Bernice Rose, Curator Who Elevated the Art of Drawing, Dies at 87 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z

“Stupendously bold and expressive,” said The Wall Street Journal. Lauren Ridloff’s Quiet Power: ‘My Life Has Changed in Every Way’ 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z

His names are a little bit more expressive than I would want. ArtsBeat: A String of Antiheroes: Martin Amis Talks About His Novels 2012-10-03T12:59:28Z

The Moshier-Lebrun Collective opened with a series of earlier works, each showing glints of melodic beauty but all quite limited in expressive range. The spirit of Studs Terkel expressed in jazz 2011-01-25T15:10:16Z

And somehow, music pours forth — precisely coordinated and emotionally expressive — in response to this mysterious podium dance. Breaking Conductors? Down by Gesture and Body Part 2012-04-06T12:00:28Z

In the 2014 Whitney Biennial, she further expanded on this method of expressive, highly individualized curating by combining art owned and borrowed. Julie Ault at Galerie Buchholz, the Curator as Artist 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

The string writing looks back to Brahms, and there are some particularly expressive autumnal passages for the viola, but this performance emphasised the unease that haunts the music from its opening bars. Hough/Endellion Quartet – review 2012-06-07T17:15:01Z

“I operate more with fragments,” she said, before her expressive face flattened: “I just don’t know what the show is.” Kate Berlant Can’t Hide Any Longer 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z