Integrity is undergoing what C.S. Lewis, in his "Studies in Words," called "the tendency of words to become less descriptive and more evaluative... and to end up by being purely evaluative -- useless synonyms for good and bad".
Peter O'Toole had not done any Shakespeare since his Hamlet for the National in 1963, and had not taken into account the way in which Shakespearean stage design had become less descriptive and geared more towards flow and continuity of action.
As in many sciences, however, the field has become less descriptive and more quantitative as it matured.
As such agent-based models become more descriptive and driven by evidence, they become a useful tool in simulating and understanding social reality.
Since, most proteins have broader GO terms, the functional aspect of DTI network is still a work in progress and as the GO terms for the targets become more descriptive, the GO mappings will be more precise leading to better predictions.
This was a Foucault who had become resolutely descriptive, who had become analytically cool, no longer relying on implicit mythologies of oppression, nor appealing any more to a broader politics of refusal.
On one hand, I have read Introduction, the beginning of Results & Discussion (the authors lost me half through this section though as it become very descriptive and I had a hard time connecting the pieces), and Conclusions with a great interest.
He's also a "little old mummy of an Oedipus-Rex" and "an exquisite old fish-papa" and an "old, old, old, thousand-year old Tom-cat!" As the analysis takes hold, H.D. becomes more descriptive, more serious, more genuine.
Barren Island (the name was apparently a corruption of an old Dutch word indicating the presence of bears, and became aptly descriptive as an English name only in later years) was at its heart a foul and filthy industrial enterprise requiring a kind of labor and an isolation that few Americans would put up with.
