Certainly many good jazz improvisers have a personal vocabulary of musical 'gestures' which they use every day.

All had an individual stamp, but many shared an attraction to African dance movement that they stylized and absorbed into a personal vocabulary.

He preferred his own personal vocabulary to the traditional one.

The word was beginning to loom depressingly large in his personal vocabulary.

"I think modern dance is really about finding a personal vocabulary, then finding it in an emotional way," she said.

This is a personal vocabulary, even though he has exerted himself to depersonalize it.

In his personal vocabulary, there was no greater condemnation.

I still feel open to different ways of moving, to images taken from high and low culture, but they're secondary to my concern to find a personal vocabulary.

So many people stole Martha's unique personal vocabulary, consciously or unconsciously, and performed it in concerts.

Glorious was another important word in his personal vocabulary, like honour.