Sentence examples for correctives in from inspiring English sources

Furthermore, it is not to philosophy but science that we must look to resolve the relative contributions of each, for "Both tendencies will find their correctives in investigation" [Wheeler 1899, p. 284].

The French philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville worried about the possibility of Americans withdrawing from public life in a kind of selfish individualism, but noted the generous correctives in American society: the impulses to join associations and churches, to do good, to help their neighbors.

I had become adept at using one of the tools employed to assert Time's authority — what I thought of as the corrective "in fact," as in "Democrats maintain that the measure would increase unemployment.

"Basically we are a very necessary corrective in German and European politics".

There's a 10 Downing Street, which acts as a democratic corrective, in case we all start genuflecting.

Some viewed the closing as tragic, others as a necessary corrective in these newly pared-back times.

"There's an element of corrective in his writing, which says, don't assume anything about anyone".

Her creative act is part tribute to that profusion, part protest, and entirely corrective: in place of how something appears, she depicts how it appears to her.

That is always a helpful corrective in England, where the default cultural tendency has always been to look south to Italy, Greece and France – or west to the US.

Anyone who supposes that poets or scholars are by their nature moral guides as people will find a generous but unwavering corrective in "The Captive Mind".

In the era of postmodernism - which Johnson would have loathed - perhaps his emphasis on truth-telling, on saying something that matters, can provide a welcome corrective in today's atmosphere of "anything goes".