The phrase "a sort of indicative" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing something that serves as an indication or example of a particular quality or characteristic.
Example: "The results of the survey were a sort of indicative of the general sentiment among the population."
Alternatives: "a kind of indication" or "a type of sign".
"And if you watch 'Singin' in the Rain,' too, it's sort of indicative of these movies that there's a fantastic rich blue suit in just about every one of them.
It's sort of indicative of what's wrong with the world today - so many anonymous voices getting to say what they want.
Not just the mental side of it, but just seeing him was sort of indicative of the person that he's become.
The fact that she didn't respond at all to calls of anti-Semitism is just sort of indicative of the way this issue is brushed under the carpet".
Daryoush Haj-Najafi, a senior editor at Complex UK, thinks it's indicative of a sort of inverse snobbery, one that "dictates that carrier bags make you look like less of a good wage slave".
This is merely anecdotal evidence, not social science, but I believe that it is indicative of a sort of infection spreading in our collective brain, one that whispers to the American subconscious: "The young men are in decline".
Robert C. Hill, the head of the commission, said the "foot-dragging" by Congress and the Clinton administration on birth certificate reform was "indicative of a sort of attitude of neglect for overall reform" that would prevent unauthorized employment of immigrants.
The point is that curve (2) is not chemically minimized, although it is very often assumed to be in the DFT invoked by the chemical reactivity literature [13, 26 29]; however, the curve cannot be considered indicative of a sort of ground state (neither reactive nor critical states of Figure 1).
As a result, considering the fact that atherosclerosis is both an actively regulated and progressive process, we might speculate that high sclerostin levels might be indicative of a sort of defensive mechanism that may attenuate the upregulation of the canonical Wnt pathway [ 30, 31] and lead to the restoration of quiescent Wnt signalling observed under healthy conditions.
Torgler (2007) suggested that the habit of consulting horoscopes may be indicative of a tendency to believe in a sort of institutionalized superstition that, however, has no scientific basis.
