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1  It was vividly and dramatically expressed.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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2  "No," answered his mother with a placid expression in her face.
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3  His romantic, olive-coloured face and worn expression interested him.
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4  But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins.
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5  When he entered, she looked at him, and an expression of infinite joy came over her.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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6  "I will tell you," said Hallward; but an expression of perplexity came over his face.
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7  I felt all that you have said, but somehow I was afraid of it, and I could not express it to myself.
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8  Now, the value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
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9  Why, my dear Basil, he is a Narcissus, and you--well, of course you have an intellectual expression and all that.
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10  I don't know what Harry has been saying to you, but he has certainly made you have the most wonderful expression.
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11  If a personality fascinates me, whatever mode of expression that personality selects is absolutely delightful to me.
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12  I won't tell you that I am dissatisfied with what I have done of him, or that his beauty is such that art cannot express it.
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13  There is nothing that art cannot express, and I know that the work I have done, since I met Dorian Gray, is good work, is the best work of my life.
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14  Because, without intending it, I have put into it some expression of all this curious artistic idolatry, of which, of course, I have never cared to speak to him.
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15  Considerable sympathy was expressed for the mother of the deceased, who was greatly affected during the giving of her own evidence, and that of Dr. Birrell, who had made the post-mortem examination of the deceased.
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16  The style in which it was written was that curious jewelled style, vivid and obscure at once, full of argot and of archaisms, of technical expressions and of elaborate paraphrases, that characterizes the work of some of the finest artists of the French school of Symbolistes.
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17  He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when we are stirred by some new emotion for which we cannot find expression, or when some thought that terrifies us lays sudden siege to the brain and calls on us to yield.
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