expression mark

noun

1. one of a set of musical directions, usually in Italian, indicating how a piece or passage is to be performed

Example Sentences

His shorn-sided haircut and stricken expression mark him as someone Big Brother would surely have put out of circulation already.

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Alec took a step back, his face pinched with an expression Mark didn’t quite get.

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Rounded periods and classic expression mark every polished phrase.

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The lilt and sympathy of "The Robin Sings in the Apple-tree," and its unobtrusive new harmonies and novel effects, in strange accord with truth of expression, mark all the other songs, particularly the "Midsummer Lullaby," with its accompaniment as delicately tinted as summer clouds.

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And Julia stood looking up at him with an expression Mark never had won from her, her serious, beautiful little face flooded with light, her round eyes soft and luminous.

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