Sentence examples for mere descriptive from inspiring English sources

The real change has been the movement from the mere descriptive to the analytical.

"One no longer finds specialists on molybdenum decrying the periodic table's sweeping superficiality, nor advocates of the periodic table scorning mere descriptive studies of individual elements".

But the problem cannot be resolved by such a choice, if only, first of all, because extramusical referents can vary in complexity from a mere descriptive title to the convolutions of the Wagnerian leitmotif, in which a particular musical phrase is consistently associated with a particular person, place, or thing.

In so doing, the poet becomes more than a mere descriptive versifier, transposing into poetic form an already existent reality; he becomes a veritable God, creating something from nothing, conjuring up for the reader, as Mallarmé himself put it, "l'absente de tous bouquets"—the ideal flower that is absent from all real bouquets.

According to Ricoeur, these spiritual narratives possess their own persuasive power, which differs substantially from mere descriptive statements.

However, without further investigation of the paths to farm performance, these observations would be of mere descriptive value.

According to Weber's theses, social research cannot be fully inductive or descriptive, because understanding some phenomenon implies that the researcher must go beyond mere description and interpret it; interpretation requires classification according to abstract "ideal (pure) types".

As in the Quinean case, the Replacement Naturalist must maintain that without rational determinacy, normative theories of adjudication are banal, mere exercises in descriptive sociology.

If one were to devise a formal or informal semantics for the view that theoretical entities are mere fictions, a purely descriptive account seems most promising.

Mr. Hamelin finds the word "virtuoso," which is invariably applied to his playing, a somewhat derogatory descriptive that implies mere showmanship, he said during a recent interview in a practice room at Mannes.

Kripke, for example, argues that proper names function like mere tags in that they have no descriptive content (Kripke 1972/80).