Surprisingly, for most of the artists in this show the expressive value of materials remains subordinate to a preexisting formal idea.

On Saturday afternoon, Susan Jaffe made a stunning dramatic debut as that victim, using her strong technique to bring out the expressive value of the choreography.

This continuity has practical as well as expressive value, because it facilitates the organic style of change I mentioned a moment ago as a practical advantage.

Olga Spiegel described them as "worked with a modern sensitivity that makes use of the expressive and tactile values of the paper" and said:

Such speech still has expressive value although it is being uttered in a marketplace ordinarily regulated by the state.

Video chat adds some expressive value to communication at a heavy cost in reduced productivity.

Some terms have been subject to such routine abuse that they lose their proper meanings, reducing their expressive value.

Like Newman, Truitt was committed to the expressive value of carefully chosen color and to the significance of compositional decisions regarding the division of the rectangle.

And while it is true that Beethoven seems at times to have deliberately gone beyond what his instrument could handle, even this seeming inadequacy can have an expressive value.

As a choreographer Mr. Prokovsky knows his classical lexicon, although he is more interested in using steps conventionally than in giving them expressive value.