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Expansively

adverb
1.
In an impressively expansive manner.
2.
In an ebullient manner.  Synonyms: ebulliently, exuberantly.





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"Expansively" Quotes from Famous Books



... the man come in and invoke living, breathing, moving men and women out of his canvas! Sometimes he is ranting and exaggerated, as are all men of great genius who wrestle with Nature so boldly. No doubt his heroines are more expansively endowed than would be thought genteel in our country, where cryptogams are so much in fashion, nevertheless there is always something very tremendous about him, and very often much that is sublime, pathetic, and moving. I defy any one of the average amount of imagination and ...
— Memoir of John Lothrop Motley, Complete • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
... stopped in front of a cool-looking bungalow, a "comfortable-looking" colored "mammy" came to the door smiling expansively. ...
— The Outdoor Girls in Florida - Or, Wintering in the Sunny South • Laura Lee Hope
... to go to an art-school, and had carried out his threat so far as to set fire to a bale of cotton-goods in the cellar, Mr. Knight yielded to the whim for the sake of peace and a low temperature. He expansively predicted ultimate disaster for Tom. But at the age of eighteen and a half, Tom, with his habit of inconvenience, simply fell into a post as designer to a firm of wholesale stationers. His task was to design covers for coloured boxes of fancy notepaper, and his pay was ...
— A Great Man - A Frolic • Arnold Bennett


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