Sentence examples for be descriptive rather than from inspiring English sources
According to the BBC, the PM will now be descriptive, rather than proscriptive, saying that people are paying off their credit card bills, rather than that they should.
My book was aiming to be descriptive rather than prescriptive; to describe how history has alternated between tight money regimes (favoured by creditors) and loose regimes (favoured by debtors).
As we argued above, most research studies yielding causal inferences in the social sciences tends to be descriptive rather than explanatory.
Framework documents tended to be descriptive rather than explanatory.
Therefore, the study was designed to be descriptive rather than hypothesis testing.
This study was intended to be descriptive rather than statistically significant.
After carefully studying the booklet, though, I realized that it was descriptive rather than prescriptive.
From the beginning, Bishop's work was descriptive rather than assertive, conversational rather than rhetorical and discreet rather than confessional.
(About its name: Ms. Dormer prefers titles that are descriptive rather than sentimental.
Actually, Aristotle's observations on tragedy are descriptive rather than prescriptive, and he emphasizes only one unity, that of plot, or action.
It's descriptive rather than programmatic music, though in placing the most famous of the pieces, The Swan of Tuonela, second in the sequence, Ashkenazy did strengthen its sense of narrative.
