Sentence examples for explanatory quality from inspiring English sources

But for all its ingenuity and ambition, the film has a plodding, explanatory quality, and falls short of rising to the mind-blowing grandeur it so clearly intends.

The coda contained the kind of soaring moral language — about human rights, American values, sacrifice, freedom — that Obama has generally avoided in his foreign-policy speeches, and it was so at odds with the uninflected explanatory quality of the rest of the speech that it seemed added on as an afterthought: hold on, this is war — I need to inspire people, too!

Finally, mechanists argue that the intertheoretic model of reduction fails to capture an important dimension of explanatory quality: depth.

The story titles have this mythlike explanatory quality: "How the Animals Lost Their Tails and Got Them Back Traveling from Philadelphia to Medicine Hat" or "How the Hat Ashes Shovel Helped Snoo Foo" or "How Gimme the Ax Found Out About the Zigzag Railroad and Who Made It Zigzag".

Redundancy analysis (RDA) indicated influent UV254 was the most explanatory water quality parameter for GAC contactors' treatment performance, and a high load of UV254 would result in significantly reduced removals of UV254 and SUVA254.

George Washington University isn't a hearth, but today's speech had some of the explanatory, narrative qualities of F.D.R.'s fireside chats.

We compared the explanatory and predictive quality of the expanded model for park use with the general model of TPB and a model operationalizing the theory of reasoned action (TRA).

The other 8 items of the THI-12 are items without any significant explanatory value on quality of life.

A Chinese study reported that emotional distress was the most important explanatory factor for quality of life which amounted to 28.7 53.8%% of the total variance [ 88].

In order to avoid using the same environmental feature as response and explanatory variable, the quality of the previous-season territory was expressed in terms of territory occupancy (Sergio and Newton 2003; Zając et al. 2008a), that is, the number of years during which a given territory was occupied by a breeding male.

Perhaps the lack of explanatory value of quality of relationships, attitudes and aspirations indicates that young people's sexual behaviour is influenced far more by background socio-cultural factors that they have little influence over, although there is a tension between the evidence at this group level and that at individual level (Table 2).