Literary notes about Expressed (AI summary)
The word “expressed” serves as a multifaceted tool in literature, conveying everything from a character’s inner sentiment to a formal presentation of facts or intentions. In narrative discourse, it can reveal subtle emotional nuances, such as a look that “expressed not gladness, but wonder” [1] or a face that “expressed nothing but the most intense anxiety” [2]. At the same time, it functions to denote explicit articulation of thoughts or opinions, whether in the measured diction of social commentary [3] or even within the technical confines of grammatical exposition [4, 5]. Thus, “expressed” becomes a bridge between internal experience and external communication, enriching both descriptive detail and precise argumentation [6, 7].
- Catching a sound of skirts and light steps at the door, she looked round, and her care-worn face unconsciously expressed not gladness, but wonder.
— from Anna Karenina by graf Leo Tolstoy - His face was eager and expectant—it expressed nothing but the most intense anxiety to hear her next words.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins - Scrooge’s niece’s sisters, and all the other ladies, expressed the same opinion.
— from A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas by Charles Dickens - The verb of thinking or saying is often not distinctly expressed, but only implied in the context ( 1725 ).
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane - nom., 1571 ; expressed by fut., 1624 ; introduced by proinde , proin , 2157 ; verbs of, case with, 1181-1185 ; subjv.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane - The condition of the existence of the good is falsehood: or, otherwise expressed, the refusal at any price to see how reality is actually constituted.
— from Ecce Homo by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - If any phase of man's nature has found true expression, it is worth preserving—it may be cast aside only if not expressed truly.
— from My Reminiscences by Rabindranath Tagore
