No one, of course, was “repressing” Klaus or preventing him from “expressing his views,” something he does with abandon.
New York City at the time, according to McBride, attracts men and women who are exploring and expressing their sexual difference.
He always wants to find little flourishes in her wardrobe that are her way of expressing herself in a rather conservative world.
He may have done an excellent job of expressing his sympathies in an appropriate and meaningful way.
Reporting it; linking to it; commenting on it; marveling at it; expressing shock and disgust about it.
In "Lear," Shakespeare was intent on expressing his own disillusion and naked misery.
Hinde gaped at him, incapable of expressing himself with sufficient force.
Unused to expressing herself in public, she seemed to be feeling her way.
Is it necessary that I should defend myself for expressing my displeasure?
She has been expressing her anxiety that you should return in time.
late 14c., from Old French espresser "press, squeeze out; speak one's mind" (Modern French exprimer), Medieval Latin expressare, frequentative of exprimere "represent, describe," literally "to press out" (source of Italian espresso; the sense evolution here is perhaps via an intermediary sense of something like "clay that takes under pressure takes the form of an image"), from ex- "out" (see ex-) + pressare "to press, push," from Latin premere (see press (v.1)). Related: Expressed; expresses; expressing.
late 14c., from Old French expres, from Latin expressus "clearly presented," past participle of exprimere (see express (v.)). This led to the noun (first attested 1610s) meaning "special messenger." Sense of "business or system for sending money or parcels" is 1794. An express train (1841) originally ran to a certain station.
express ex·press (ĭk-sprěs')
v. ex·pressed, ex·press·ing, ex·press·es
To press or squeeze out.
To produce a phenotype. Used of a gene.
