The phrase "a descriptive phrase" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a phrase that provides detailed information or characteristics about a subject.
Example: "In her essay, she included a descriptive phrase that vividly illustrated the beauty of the sunset."
Alternatives: "an illustrative phrase" or "a detailed phrase".
He was just using a descriptive phrase to indicate that you looked like something less than human".
By Fred Packard The New Yorker, January 12 , 1946P. 83 Description of a man who takes a multiple word, splits it in two and juggles it around a bit to turn it into a descriptive phrase.
No longer can its styles be summed up in a descriptive phrase or two, like plush, concentrated cabernet sauvignon; lush, jammy pinot noir; buttery oak-bomb chardonnay; or extravagantly ripe, blockbuster zinfandel.
"He diligently supervised its multiple adventures its brief spiralling rise, its determined fall (like a sycamore seed, a helicopter blade, an injured grouse on the wing), its eventual splash-landing, its half-hearted floating, its gradual submerging, with a strong, with a wicked, with a powerful sense of satisfaction".Why settle for a descriptive phrase when a whole prose-poem will do?
Montague proposed the denotation of a descriptive phrase to be a set of properties.
Each trait is constructed from three items in which the respondent assesses how well a descriptive phrase applies to them (Table 2) using a 7-point Likert scale.
On the contrary, they may coexist in a single (artificial) linguistic form or a single descriptive phrase.
I was trying to come up with a better descriptive phrase than "piece of shit", but that's really the best way to describe it.
So I thought "System D" was a much more descriptive phrase than "informal economy".
Planck, for instance, calls the body English that shifts early in the viewing of a VR film the "moment of surrender," a wonderfully descriptive phrase--and one that's useful, since different users might experience theirs at different points.
Her ability to evoke a scene in a few short descriptive phrases, even within a Victorian narration, moves the story along and keeps the action front and center.
