Alone, concentrating on making an impression with her lovely instrument, she limited its expressive abilities precisely through the use of force.

The project aims to promote the development of expressive ability amongst children through the use of construction, creativity, music and dance.

The time he had spent in Paris for over eleven years had enriched and "oriented his expressive abilities".

The woman, on the other hand, had a surprising depth of understanding with a fine grasp of nuance; and a clear and expressive ability to communicate.

The next time I visited, her left arm had grown weaker as well; a week after that, the left side of her face began to lose its expressive ability.

Large orchestras rose in popularity and, in parallel, the composers determined to produce entire orchestral scores that made use of the expressive abilities of modern instruments.

His body was heavier than the typical dancer, more like that of an average person, yet his technical and expressive abilities outstripped those of most of his contemporaries.

"First with the baton, then with pen and voice, he piqued the establishment, using as weapons his impeccable musical credentials and exceptional expressive abilities," Ms. Yourke writes.

Although he would continue in the same style for a few years it was quickly realized, by all parties involved, that his singing technique and expressive abilities were too good to be contained within the rebetiko idiom.

The high register lines that Eldridge employed were one of many prominent features of his playing, and Eldridge expressed a penchant for the expressive ability of the instrument's highest notes, frequently incorporating them into his solos.

One approach is to make a truly "fine" electronic piano - one that has all the expressive abilities of the traditional (now called "acoustic") instrument, but without its limitations; it would be cheaper to make, never need tuning, be easy to record.

Ms. Walsh, a fine, solid pianist, will also perform a Chopin Nocturne and Barcarolle, as well as Schubert's great final Sonata in B flat, plumbing her expressive abilities as well as her virtuosity.

A six-minute piece in a traditional suite form, "Portal" moves from a robust opening through a slow, haunting middle section to an intense, extroverted finale, all in a Spartan language that proved a good test of Ms. Frank's expressive abilities.

Born in the ancient Roman papal suburb of Borgo Pio, painter by vocation, Frumenti exhibited artistic and expressive ability since his boyhood, when for pure fun he used to build some small marionette theatres (subsequently to appear in his works), taking care of set and scenography.