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Literary authors use "express" in multifaceted ways, weaving it into both the intimate portrayal of inner feelings and the depiction of external actions. In novels, characters confess that words fail to express the totality of their emotions or self-perceptions, highlighting the struggle to articulate the inexpressible ([1], [2], [3]). At the same time, the term is employed in more formal or technical contexts—for instance, to define explicit grammatical functions or to denote the rapid delivery of messages and transportation ([4], [5], [6]). Philosophical works also turn to "express" to denote the clear statement of abstract ideas or duties ([7], [8]), while some narratives rely on it to capture the nuances of human reactions and interpersonal exchanges ([9], [10]). This breadth of usage underscores the word’s role as a bridge between the inner workings of the mind and the precise expression of thought and action.
  1. "Have you found out who"—I did not quite know how to express myself—"who the person, who it is he's gone away with?"
    — from The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham
  2. How could you have consoled her!—I cannot express my own abhorrence of myself.
    — from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
  3. My blessed boy, words can't express my gladness.
    — from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott
  4. 4. used to sit , express by the imperfect.
    — from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson
  5. The express train had left thirty-five minutes before.
    — from Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
  6. He threatened the bishop to send an express to Rome to
    — from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova
  7. For the essence of a riddle is to express true facts under impossible combinations.
    — from The Poetics of Aristotle by Aristotle
  8. The words I ought express a species of necessity, and imply a connection with grounds which nature does not and cannot present to the mind of man.
    — from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
  9. "I am bound to confess," said Mr. Guppy, "that you express yourself, miss, with that good sense and right feeling for which I gave you credit.
    — from Bleak House by Charles Dickens
  10. All that I should express would be inadequate and feeble.
    — from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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