Sentence examples for corrective character from inspiring English sources

Defeasible reasoning may also have a corrective character in that the inferences are deductive or truth-preserving while nevertheless being retractable.

Nonetheless, most of the measures available are not easy to define or execute because they rely on current emissions and have a corrective character.

In a long rhetorical slog for the most inventive invectives and corrective character assessments of the presumptive Republican Party nominee for president in 2016, no loathsome lodestone has gone unturned.

Possibly as a corrective, Theroux begins to thrust the character of Buddy forward, immersing us in his travails.

Taken in moderate doses, Hanfeizi arguably provides a needed corrective to the Confucian emphasis on character.

While Lobo himself remains a somewhat distant character, Rathbone provides a vivid corrective to the "calumnious revolutionary narrative that diminishes Cuba's past".

Canada was drawn in when Confederate desperadoes raided across the border.Rich as "A World on Fire" is in incident and character sketches, it is also a corrective to historical myths.

"There is no such thing as a holy war," Mr. Imamura's character concludes, providing a shattering humanist corrective to much of the abstract, ideological discourse that has preceded it.

(Some theorists believe that corrective justice has nothing to say about the character of these norms; others think that it helps define their scope and content).

"Seveneves offers at once [Stephenson's] most conventional science-fiction scenario and a superb exploration of his abiding fascination with systems, philosophies and the limits of technology.… Stephenson's central characters, mostly women, serve as a welcome corrective to science-fiction clichés".

As a corrective, here's a not-so-little mermaid, part of one illustrator's "Disney University" project, in which Disney characters are imagined as college students.