Sentence examples for essentially descriptive from inspiring English sources

Unlike The Siege, which was essentially descriptive, The Betrayal relies for its effects on the characters and story Dunmore has made up.

In 1892 he published The Grammar of Science, in which he argued that the scientific method is essentially descriptive rather than explanatory.

Two of the studies were "well-designed, with robust results" but were essentially descriptive studies, that is, that they did not test one remedy against another or against a placebo, as would happen in a clinical trial.

Efforts to map the sites of the brain's various functions and its interconnections are all very well, but without exploring such fundamental questions, can we expect that these essentially descriptive efforts will yield much useful insight?

Analyses presented here are essentially descriptive.

But the fact remains that both sides in the dispute see logic as essentially descriptive (for Husserl, see Gethmann 1989, 197; for Frege, see Baker and Hacker: 1989, 88 90).

First, it allows a priori hypotheses to be tested, unlike factor analysis which is essentially a descriptive method.

It is essentially a descriptive (rather than critical/analytic) article, that would primarily be of interest to those involved in orphan disease policymaking.

At present, the available postnatal longitudinal growth charts for preterm infants are essentially a descriptive reference, accounting for the physiologic postnatal water loss, but influenced by nutrition practices contemporary to the construction of the charts, possibly outdated, as the 1999 Ehrenkranz chart [ 8].

The report has essentially a descriptive value, and should be viewed as a contribution towards quantification, in a well surveilled population of the West-central part of Europe, of the proportional distribution of digestive neoplasms by morphological type, and corresponding incidence and survival rates.

For four decades, Jowitt's coverage of the New York dance scene had been almost unequalled in its breadth and detail, yet the Voice decided her descriptive, essentially non-judgmental style was no longer suited to the times; most readers now want and expect star-rated verdicts on every show.