You may be afraid of showing your true feelings and are unlikely to be overly demonstrative in public. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
Denis had never been outwardly demonstrative towards his father. From Wordnik.com. [Grey Town An Australian Story] Reference
An affectionate and demonstrative family. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
"He is very impulsive and demonstrative, that is all.". From Wordnik.com. [Macaria] Reference
After a few days, he had all but exhausted the thesaurus when it came to fresh ways of terming his demonstrative - or. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference
Sonics were ejected for being quite "demonstrative" towards referee Bob Delaney. From Wordnik.com. [USATODAY.com] Reference
"demonstrative" use of language, to point out some feature in the present environment. From Wordnik.com. [The Analysis of Mind] Reference
Even toward Celia Joel had never been demonstrative. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
The crowd had been gayly demonstrative through the first two races. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
It is true that she is not demonstrative, not a hugger or a cuddler. From Wordnik.com. [Mother And Queen] Reference
Djokovic is always rather demonstrative, and Saturday was no different. From Wordnik.com. [Federer LOSES, Djokovic Moves To U.S. Open 2010 Finals] Reference
The least demonstrative of all those interested in the event was Giselle. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
I exclaimed, for Claudia was not demonstrative, and this meant something. From Wordnik.com. [Ideala] Reference
The audience by this time had become restless and somewhat demonstrative. From Wordnik.com. [A Pirate of Parts] Reference
It is the Anglo-Saxon demonstrative pronoun used in an instrumental sense. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
A father is a father always; and Mr. Schuyler was not a demonstrative man. From Wordnik.com. [Marcia Schuyler] Reference
"I assure you, my friends, we feel flattered by this demonstrative welcome.". From Wordnik.com. [Peggy-Alone] Reference
Thus, before Jeanne, he made Micheline behave in a less demonstrative manner. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Most of us, however, were too full of emotion to become wildly demonstrative. From Wordnik.com. [In the Flash Ranging Service Observations of an American Soldier During His Service With the A.E.F. in France] Reference
These ladies called each other, with demonstrative fondness, "Ma précieuse.". From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
Eastern people are much more emotional and demonstrative than Western people. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature] Reference
Her sister was more demonstrative, and wailed as one lost to all hope and life. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Sinnet was more demonstrative than anybody, lifting up hands and eyes, and ending with. From Wordnik.com. [Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868)] Reference
Van, though demonstrative eventually, was reticent and little given to verbal flattery. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference
This summer the population's resistance to U.N. authority has become more demonstrative. From Wordnik.com. [Trying To Tame The Serbs] Reference
They were seldom demonstrative to this extent save in his home-comings and leave-takings. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
It is not in the woodsman to be demonstrative at any time, but here was work demanding attention. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
I come from a very strong and demonstrative lineage, as well as coming from the land of the ice and snow. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Plant: Starting Over After Led Zeppelin] Reference
The band played so long that the town element among the audience became somewhat unwelcomely demonstrative. From Wordnik.com. [A Pirate of Parts] Reference
And it is one reason his memory resonates in the emotional, demonstrative, in-touch-with-your-feelings '90s. From Wordnik.com. [What If Rfk Had Survived?] Reference
He was not at all demonstrative, and, as long as he knew they were safe, did not trouble himself farther about them. From Wordnik.com. [Rataplan, a rogue elephant; and other stories] Reference
Them is the objective case of the personal pronoun and cannot be used adjectively like the demonstrative adjective pronoun. From Wordnik.com. [How to Speak and Write Correctly] Reference
Helena should have been more 'demonstrative' than she appeared in Italy, to secure the 'new modulation' with Walter. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846] Reference
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