Sentence examples for a functional directive from inspiring English sources

Laura Oswald, author of Marketing Semiotics: Signs, Strategies, and Brand Value explains that "the stores are taking a functional directive and turning it into a metaphor or a hyperbole; it's a rhetorical style and a poetic use of language".

A functional family vacation.

This is a functional job.

A functional government.

It's not a functional family.

A functional health system needs cooperative doctors".

Student operas also serve a functional purpose.

The bags have a functional purpose too.

We would never condemn a functional church.

Is it a functional form of depression?

"What is a functional family?" he asked.