Sentence examples for is prescriptive from inspiring English sources
adjective
Of or pertaining to prescribing or enjoining, especially an action or behavior based on a norm or standard.
Where once he was mainly descriptive, now he is prescriptive too.
Professor Arrow's theory is prescriptive; it describes how people should behave.
One is prescriptive: "hone in" is an error for "home in".
There seems to be a widespread presumption that writing is prescriptive (or proscriptive) rather than simply observational or meditative.
His writing style is prescriptive and proscriptive — lots of advice about what to do and not do: "Reflect, Then Decide," "Underpromise and Overdeliver," "Be Your Own Man".
Virtually nothing in the play is prescriptive; Strindberg provides no conclusions whatsoever about the morality in either struggle, no final judgment on feminism or class hatred, despite what he may have stated to the contrary in his essays.
Those shows are prescriptive.
We don't want to be prescriptive".
This list is not meant to be prescriptive.
But he said it was not his job to be prescriptive.
