Sentence examples for descriptive tone from inspiring English sources

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The way he describes things, in a kind of flat descriptive tone, as if he were naming things, reducing them to the status of simple nouns without accent or adjectives, stays the same.

By contrast, Foucault (2002b[1978a]: 226–7) adopts a resolutely descriptive tone in explicating the 'how' of power, seeking a 'multiplication or pluralization of causes'.

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These are less songs with piano accompaniment than duets between voice and instrument, conversations that employ not only descriptive tone-painting in response to texts but also the composer's original ideas about what counterpoint should be.

All these things are felt in the songs, but there were no "literal" descriptive words to pull from, just a tone set for each song and visual and audio transitions to bind them.

"It was narrative and descriptive.

So descriptive.

Their tone ranged from unemotional ("Our street was never plowed") to incredulous ("What is going on?????") to angry ("Just like a third-world country") to descriptive, including one account of road conditions in eastern Queens that ran to 645 words.

And a brilliant director, very descriptive.

Is it diagnostic or just descriptive?

It's not just descriptive, is it?

Here, evaluative contradicts descriptive.

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