Sentence examples for descriptive mode from inspiring English sources

On other occasions, as in Yangtze, she seems to stand back and trust a cooler, simpler, descriptive mode.

None of which should be taken to detract from the terrific performances of Mr. Tessier, who sang vividly in the descriptive mode, or Mr. Müller-Brachmann, who finally brought warmth to Jesus but also faded vocally toward the end, partly, perhaps, because of the overwork of the added arias.

Kevin code-shifts to a sort of breathy, near-pornographic descriptive mode: "Smooth curves," he says, a lot, "Dazzling surfaces".

However, this descriptive mode in child psychiatry was not standard at this time and many other child psychological professionals in both Britain and the USA continued to employ the concepts of autism in conjunction with autoerotism, primary narcissism and symbolic thinking to understand infantile psychopathology and problems with developing relationships.

It does not do away entirely, as was Woolf's intention, with conventional narrative structure — scenes are set with relatively familiar descriptive modes of places, objects, how people are seated — but her doubts mature into a sort of existential uncertainty.

In what follows, we will consider the coupling of two macroscopic modes of brain activity, which, in a purely descriptive fashion, we will label as cognitive and emotional modes.

Frequent leaps from descriptive to didactic mode as Dr. Ross updates the reader on various medical conditions can be jarring, like PowerPoint slides suddenly deployed in a poetry reading.

Table 4 Descriptive statistics Mean Mode Median Std.

Descriptive statistics (mean, mode, standard deviation, and sum) and frequency charts (bar charts) are used in order to give a screenshot of the sampled data.

Following the efforts by Halliday, the same descriptive orientation and mode of representation were further developed to describe the semantic unit 'message' in the early 1980s (Hasan, [1983], mimeo) which led to the development of other sys-nets, e.g., that of 'rhetorical unit' at the semantic stratum (Cloran [1994]).

Descriptive data for mode of delivery and continence status during pregnancy are presented in Table 1.