Expresses

Examples

• Mr. Bucket, satisfied, expresses high approval and awaits her coming at the door. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• It expresses, as it were, the steward of the legal mysteries, the butler of the legal cellar, of the Dedlocks. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The classic definition of geography as an account of the earth as the home of man expresses the educational reality. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The more people a party contains the less it expresses their needs. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• This fact expresses at once its strength and its weakness. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Upon this occasion I may cite the authority of an elegant writer, who expresses himself in the following manner. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Mr. Bagnet's face expresses, so far as in its wooden material lies, the highest approbation and acquiescence. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• An original creative impulse of the mind expresses itself in a certain formula; posterity mistakes the formula for the impulse. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• In some individuals, appetites naturally dominate; they are assigned to the laboring and trading class, which expresses and supplies human wants. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• A little dose of judgment or reason, as Pierre Huber expresses it, often comes into play, even with animals low in the scale of nature. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• It expresses need. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The Turkish dignitary yawns and expresses signs of weariness and idleness. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Mrs. Snagsby indignantly expresses her belief that he is a limb of the arch-fiend. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Why indeed, Mrs. Bagnet expresses with the umbrella. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The house is there in all weathers, and the house, as she expresses it, is what she looks at. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He makes social movements conscious of themselves, expresses their needs, gathers their power and then thrusts them behind the inventor and the technician in the task of actual achievement. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• He has been called by an able writer, the first of the moderns, and the phrase expresses aptly the unprejudiced detachment of his intellectual side. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• We need only note the vast interest in the subject--that it extends across class lines, and expresses itself as an immense good-will. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Labor receives only a perfunctory and largely disingenuous attention; even commerce is handled in a way that expresses neither its direction nor its public use. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Why indeed, he said, when any name will do which expresses the thought of the mind with clearness? Plato. The Republic.
• The odious Mahometan expresses himself charmed by her beauty. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• We say, in effect, that evil is a way by which desire expresses itself. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The definition expresses an essential phase of growth. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Bah, it expresses peaceful resignation! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• A vague common tradition is in the air about us--it expresses itself in journalism, in cheap novels, in the uncritical theater. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• This trivial crape expresses sensibilities which I summon Mr. Hartright to respect. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• It expresses itself by your eye at times; and again, it gives you certain tones and certain gestures that make my flesh creep. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Joseph became rich, distinguished, powerful--as the Bible expresses it, lord over all the land of Egypt. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Direction expresses the basic function, which tends at one extreme to become a guiding assistance and at another, a regulation or ruling. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• He's a wonderful man for his age; and he expresses himself beautifully. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.

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