Sentence examples for descriptive said from inspiring English sources

The journal "was very descriptive," said Dennis Murphy, a spokesman for the United States Customs Service.

"The structure is both too elusive and too descriptive," said the postmodernist Doug Varone, adding, "It doesn't allow me to be improvisational".

"People tend to be quite descriptive," says Barker.

"These names are descriptive," says surnames expert John Mackie, "such as Winston Churchill - a church on a hill - or Clement Attlee, which means 'at the field'.

"What we're not looking for is studies that are purely descriptive," says Heather Van Epps, executive editor of The Journal of Experimental Medicine.

"Somali is a very rich and colourful language, and Somalis are very descriptive," says Yusuf, explaining they chose writer and performer Elmi Ali to discuss this in the film.

The other benefit of using associative names: "They are much more protectable as trademarks than purely descriptive names," said Tipping.

"There's nothing in the predictive analytics model that our workforce doesn't already have access to in the descriptive way," said Erin Dalton, a human services official who's spearheading the predictive analytics work for Allegheny County.

"Anything descriptive," Stradlater says.

Mr Rasmussen, the author of The Shakespeare First Folios: A Descriptive Catalogue, says that the discovery adds to the disjointed evidence that Shakespeare had links with the Catholic resistance in Elizabethan and Jacobean England.

While it is tempting to be descriptive, he says it is important to recognise that "the people you need to persuade are not necessarily education professionals but governors who have a wide variety of interests and who really want to know what you are going to do to move this particular school on".