Sentence examples for prescriptive mode from inspiring English sources

She may fall short in her quest to articulate a prescriptive mode of living, but she fluently describes "the lump in the throat behind everything beautiful in life": the power of the natural world, familial love and heartbreak, grace after loss.

Based on these insights a nonlinear pedagogy is proposed in which the role of coaches or trainers alters from a more traditional, prescriptive stance to the mode of manipulating key interacting task constraints including information, space and equipment to facilitate learning.

It's a prescriptive right of way.

He is also uncomfortable at being thought of as evangelical (one magazine called him "America's high priest of food"); his mode is investigative, not prescriptive.

Furthermore, judgment must be aesthetic insofar as it does not produce denotative knowledge about a determinable state of affairs, but refers to the way our faculties interact with each other as we move from one mode of phrasing to another, i.e. the denotative, the prescriptive, the performative, the political, the cognitive, the artistic, etc.

Those shows are prescriptive.

They're not prescriptive.

They're too prescriptive.

They are prescriptive.

This story isn't prescriptive.

It wasn't prescriptive either.