Expressiveness

Expressiveness of language makes a big difference.

Ruby Matters: Language Beauty Part 1 Neal Ford 2007

“Expressiveness of Speech, etc., in the Origin of Language,”

Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences Marchant, James 1916

Fortnightly Review, and reprinted it with a few further corrections in my 'Studies,' under the title 'The Expressiveness of Speech or Mouth-Gesture as a Factor in the Origin of Language.'

Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences Marchant, James 1916

Expressiveness is thus the power given by experience to any image to call up others in the mind; and this expressiveness becomes an aesthetic value, that is, becomes expression, when the value involved in the associations thus awakened are incorporated in the present object.

The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory George Santayana 1907

Expressiveness may be found in any one thing that suggests another, or draws from association with that other any of its emotional colouring.

The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory George Santayana 1907

Expressiveness is often sterile; but it is sometimes fertile and capable of reproducing in representation the experience from which it sprang.

The Life of Reason George Santayana 1907

Expressiveness in the former case is dead, like that of a fossil; in the latter it is living and efficacious, recreating its original.

The Life of Reason George Santayana 1907

Expressiveness at all costs and music a servant, a slave to attitudes — this is the end.

The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872

Expressiveness at all costs, which is what the Wagnerian ideal — the ideal of decadence — demands, is hardly compatible with talent.

The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872

Sincerity and Candor or Expressiveness also add much to the capacity for attaining truth; and Liberality, between

Buchanan's Journal of Man, November 1887 Volume 1, Number 10 1856