In these works, Strauss takes realism in orchestral depiction to unprecedented lengths, widening the expressive functions of program music as well as extending its boundaries.

In glass buildings, floor slabs perform the expressive function formerly taken by walls.

Although value is ascribed to the caring expressive functions, especially those of motherhood, it is frequently of a somewhat sentimental and patronising kind.

However, Darwin agreed with Bell's emphasis on the expressive functions of the muscles of respiration.

In that tradition, it works in relation with consonance to establish tension/resolution structures, with narrative, expressive or dramatic functions.

With pop, the voice becomes material, in itself, with a voluptuous quality above and beyond its expressive function.

Clients and the market have traditionally viewed design as an expressive and production function, rather than as a strategic asset.

In general, however, ideophones tend to occur more extensively in spoken language because of their expressive or dramaturgic function.

Baroque ornamentation, with an expressive, rather than merely aesthetic function.

In terms of modern stylistics he dealt with the expressive function of signs.