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expression
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expression (Comment), noun articulation, asseveration, cliché, communication, declaration, expressed opinion, formula, formulation, idiom, locution, maxim, mention, motto, profession, representation in language, saying, sententia, set phrase, setting forth in words, statement, verbalism, vocal embodiment of thought, voicing, vox
Associated concepts: construction, interpretation
Foreign phrases: Expressio unius est exclusio alterius.The expression of one thing is the exclusion of another.
expression (Manifestation), noun appearance, disclosure, display, emergence, evidence, exhibit, exhibition, exposition, exposure, illustration, indication, instance, mark, presentation, presentment, revelation, show, showing, sign, token, uncovering
See also: admission, assertion, call, comment, connotation, creation, declaration, demeanor, disclosure, inflection, language, manifestation, maxim, mention, parlance, phraseology, pronouncement, reference, remark, rhetoric, speech, style, testimony, title, token

EXPRESSION. The term or use of language employed to explain a thing.
     2. It is a general rule, that expressions shall be construed, when they are capable of several significations, so as to give operation to the agreement, act, or will, if it can be done; and an expression is always to be understood in the sense most agreeable to the nature of the contract. Vide Clause; Construction; Equivocal; Interpretation; Words.



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The second film finds a redheaded gallery employee, Karon Hepburn, wearing mourning black and gazing expressionlessly through a window before descending a flight of stairs.
So, too, do Thomas Struth's photographs of Peru, Hans Hamid Rasmussen's funky embroideries, Jorge Pardo's architectural fantasy, Yin Xiuzhen's colorful, toylike urban landscape, made by seamstresses during the course of the exhibition, and Aernout Mik's video installation Pulverous, 2003, which contemplates with dry hilarity a group of people slowly, meticulously, and expressionlessly destroying the contents of a large grocery store.
Simpson's telecast trial into a candy-colored, flatly rendered animated cartoon, Tim Lee (of Vancouver) expressionlessly recites Beastie Boys lyrics, while fellow Vancouverite Althea Thauberger's aspiring female singer-songwriters lip-synch against the beautiful Canadian landscape, and the Bay Area's Trisha Donnelly uses a trampoline to help herself achieve Iggy Pop's famous contortions.
 
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