"declarative" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You might use it to refer to a statement or to a style of writing or speaking. Example: The speaker used a declarative tone when making the announcement.
So loud and so raucous and so declarative of life is this chorus that nothing anywhere in the world can prepare you for it.
This led Dr Milner to propose a distinction between procedural memory (memory for a skill) and declarative memory (conscious recall of having used that skill), and to suggest that the two are stored in different places.
Those short, declarative sentences, he wrote once, had a suicide's dread in their silences: dread that "at any instant, by any failure in magic, by a mean defeat, or by a moment of cowardice, Hemingway could be thrust back again into the agonising demands of his courage".
It will take a generation of youngsters, raised on the likes of UML, before such "declarative" languages pose a significant threat to "imperative" ones.
Entry into the working memory is also a prerequisite for something to be learnt permanently as part of declarative memory the stuff a person knows explicitly, like the dates of famous battles, rather than what he knows implicitly, like how to ride a bicycle.Since Dr Farah's discovery, Gary Evans and Michelle Schamberg of Cornell University have studied the phenomenon in more detail.
In 2006 Ms Shloss filed for declarative relief to use the material under the scholarship provisions of fair-use doctrine.
Byzantine mosaicists from Kiev to Venice brought to their work a forthright, declarative quality that has never been recovered since.This was also one of the great ages of the illustrated book, to which no aspect of life was regarded as alien.
or just plain condescending ("Half of rearing a girl was scaring her into not crossing the perilous line between popular girl and loose, sex being the line itself").. Simple language can be elegant, and deceptively plain declarative syntax is capable of hinting at a rich emotional complexity teeming underneath.
- the obligation to respect the constitutional order – essentially a formal provision of declarative nature, found in most European countries, allowing action to be taken, for instance, if armed attacks are promoted against democratic institutions.
After receiving a complaint from the Beastie Boys' representatives, GoldieBlox filed a lawsuit commonly used in fair-use proceedings asking for a declarative judgment against the Beastie Boys, to affirm the advertisement's status as a parody.
He would no longer insist on a declarative end of the conflict.
