Sentence examples for become prescriptive from inspiring English sources
It's all too easy for clear and consistent to become prescriptive and dogmatic – not to mention unrealistic.
Written in print in Paris Match, Trierweiler's art views would no doubt become prescriptive, even if in an informal way.
The tax code in America has become prescriptive: by creating tax breaks for "desired behavior" like getting married, procreating, giving to charity and buying houses, it creates a system of rewards and punishments for social behavior that the government should have no business creating.
Aristotle begins neutrally enough, pledging to analyse "the art of poetic composition in general and its various species", but with item three on his agenda ("how plots should be constructed if the composition is to be an artistic success"), his task begins to become prescriptive.
Therefore, maps that originate from the alleged attempt at being descriptive and reducing reality's complexity become prescriptive and establish singular meanings and interpretations that become themselves part of reality and the background for interpretation of the world (Wood 1992; Wood and Fels 2008).
Like failed sketch comedy, the gag becomes prescriptive and runs a little too long.
But the danger is when data becomes prescriptive, because that fails to acknowledge what influences trends.
Sorkin's column crossed the line and became prescriptive, as Keller said, but I think Nocera's did too.
Moss writes, "The problem with using persecution as the template for the modern world is that is becomes prescriptive" (p. 251).
The cars are a combination of fairly prescriptive regulations that have become more prescriptive every year for six seasons.
