Sentence examples for is productive of from inspiring English sources

Furthermore, as David Foster Wallace points out in his essay "Authority and American Usage," it's not at all clear that "society's mode of expression is productive of its attitudes rather than a product of those attitudes".

Only payroll capital—"variable capital"—is productive of surplus value and consequently of profit.

In Roman Catholic theology a sacrament is an outward sign instituted by Jesus Christ that is productive of inner grace.

"The great mass of people... don't know that the miasma of an unscavenged street or impure alley is productive of cholera and disease," the English liberal economic activist Richard Cobden observed in 1853.

Or, as he puts it elsewhere, with a detachment almost like Sade's, "Little more can be said than that the idea of bodily pain, in all the modes and degrees of labour, pain, anguish, torment, is productive of the sublime; and nothing else in this sense can produce it".

The last of these four behaviors is productive of piety.

In such a state, violence can be "productive of beauty".

The Hungarian Enlightenment was more receptive to French and English ideas than it was productive of original developments.

"I don't think it would be productive of me at all to criticize the mayor's budget," Mr. Bloomberg said.

(Evidently no stranger to hangovers, Pliny elsewhere warned that wines from Pompeii are "productive of headache, which often lasts so long as the sixth hour of the next day").

These reasons (rationes, logoi) are productive of the things of which they are the reasons.