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.
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.
"War zone" became a descriptive term of choice.
They can also become less of a descriptive tool and more of a regulatory one, a method of dealing with (or dispatching) a filmmaker whose work defies established categorization or simply displeases critics.
Theoretically, through analyses of various corpora of situated language use, reasonably detailed features can become a part of the general descriptive model of context of situation – one which could apply to a range of different situations, and indeed, there is much work underway to this end [e.g. Bowcher 2007, 2014; (Butt D.: Parameters of context, unpublished); Hasan 2014].
HDL function has become an area of interest, as descriptive tests of HDL particles have provided only and sometimes marginal incremental value over HDL-C measurement.
'X app is the Tinder of Y' has become the standard descriptive shorthand for this trend (named, of course, for dating app Tinder which popularized making snap aesthetic judgements swipe style).
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.
