Sentence examples for less purposive from inspiring English sources

Others — of a trendier and less purposive bent — signified the rise of a relatively new and different institution: the aesthetic beefsteak, or what could be called the beefsteak-for-beefsteak's-sake.

4 Its manifestation includes a terrified scream followed by an intense autonomic discharge, frequently associated with motor activity that is typically stereotyped, persevering, and less purposive than that of sleepwalking.

Neveu's script goes round and round, ducking and sidestepping in ways that feel less than purposive.

Robert Nozick presents a God-centered theory that focuses less on God as purposive and more on God as infinite (Nozick 1981, ch. 6, 1989, chs. 15 16; see also Cooper 2005).

In these cases the concept of theoretical sampling and theoretical saturation and the theory behind it seem to have been lost on the way and replaced with the less theoretically sustained terms of "purposive sampling" and "data saturation" or merely "saturation".

Whether this was an instance of purposive diachronic redistribution is less clear.

With respect to purposive diachronic redistribution, matters are still less clear, since in the case at hand it is hard to determine whether or not officials in the Reagan Administration intended that their policies should have these effects.

This does not mean that we are entitled, still less required, to ascribe an intentional cause to purposive arrangements in nature, but it does allow us to think of them as standing not only in a mechanical, but also in a teleological order.

A purposive sample of 19 TCM graduates with less than 5 years of clinical experience was invited to attend three focus groups held in August and September 2007.

However, comparison with the prevalence study population (table 1) shows that the participants who were interviewed were similar to the questionnaire respondents except that, because of the purposive sampling, they were slightly younger and less likely to be of white ethnicity.

"We become so focused on becoming leaders that we see that development as an end in itself and therefore become less eager to truly get behind something and have a purposive direction in which to lead".