How to Use expressivity in a Sentence

expressivity

noun

• As yama’s career has advanced, their thirst for expressivity has grown even stronger.
  — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 7 Mar. 2025
• Clinton is not known for the expressivity of her voice, but of course no other narrator would have sufficed.
  — Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, 13 Sep. 2017
• There was no loss of expressivity in the process; the images became all the more overwhelming when they were seen through spotless glass.
  — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2025
• The orchestra’s reading of this piece again called for more expressivity and lyricism.
  — Tim Diovanni, Dallas News, 13 June 2021
• The music’s tone, too, has a ferocious expressivity that’s on display from the very start of the concert.
  — Richard Brod, The New Yorker, 26 July 2021
• Users will also be able to configure the voice’s pace and expressivity through a variety of different accents.
  — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 8 June 2026
• Users will also be able to configure the voice’s pace and expressivity through a variety of different accents.
  — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 10 June 2026
• Grimaud played with panache — sometimes at the cost of overpowering strings — and generous expressivity.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 2 Apr. 2021
• Her hands shaped and caressed the music with generous expressivity, which also was conveyed by her facial expressions.
  — Dallas News, 30 Jan. 2023
• Most of the pieces are for women’s voices, exploring different timbres and expressivity.
  — Heidi Waleson, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2020
• An exception is an untitled plant sketch of remarkable dynamism and expressivity.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Oct. 2019
• Luisi displayed his first-rate skills as a collaborator, matching Kerr’s expressivity.
  — Dallas News, 1 Mar. 2022
• The track that Sachs uses does more than just inflect the sequence with its surprisingly extravagant expressivity.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2023
• Familiarity comes when an artist makes the emotional commitment of expressivity, and that was sometimes missing.
  — Peter Dobrin, Philly.com, 8 Jan. 2018
• Cho made a perfect foil for Dudamel’s extravagant expressivity.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2021
• The film’s performances, by some of the best actors in the business, have a generic and atemporal expressivity that suggests neither the society of the nineteen-forties nor the movies of that time.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2021
• The idea that people are discovering their sexuality and their expressivity online is a beautiful thing.
  — Emil Wilbekin Shikeith Ian Bradley, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2022
• This phenomenon, called variable expressivity, arises from differences in the secondary variants a person has.
  — Santhosh Girirajan, The Conversation, 7 Oct. 2025
• She’s persuasively matched and reflected by newcomer Bonsu, who grows in stature and expressivity as Ama opens herself to the outside world.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 27 Jan. 2023
• The baritone Luke Sutliff, a former Santa Fe apprentice, stepped in, finding keen expressivity at the top of his range.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023
• Rather, the terminology, assumptions, and mode of expressivity were all geared toward a very specific audience.
  — Bruce Sterling, WIRED, 6 Feb. 2007
• Cellists tend to seek, with powerful expressivity, a theatrical narrative.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2022
• The risk of stretching music — especially to the degree that a sense of pulse becomes weak — is that the shape of a phrase, a passage or an entire section becomes entirely lost in a profusion of expressivity.
  — Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2020
• The movie’s two hours were barely enough to tell the story; to tell it in about two-and-a-half, while leaving room for those 17 new songs, everything else has been cut to the bone, with no room for subtlety, let alone expressivity.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 3 Aug. 2023
• Users will be able to adjust the pace and expressivity of Siri AI’s conversational experience.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 8 June 2026
• The bluntly declarative candor of their performances feels at once tweaked with the artifice of frank expressivity yet emotionally hyperreal.
  — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 28 May 2025
• Further customization of Siri's voice is also available, including pacing and expressivity.
  — Greta Cross, USA Today, 8 June 2026
• And his Violin Concerto in D, despite being little more than a showcase for expressivity, is entrenched in the repertoire.
  — Joshua Barone, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2020
• In a field that often fetishizes technical perfection at the inevitable expense of other virtues, Nuttall could play with daring spontaneity, unchecked expressivity, and an infectious sense of wonder.
  — Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Jan. 2023
• Now Madeline Gannon, founder of the research studio AtonAton, leads the field in her exploration of robot expressivity.
  — Sydney Skybetter, Wired, 7 Feb. 2021