Sentence examples for rather than descriptive from inspiring English sources

Kierkegaard's main concern, however, was prophetic rather than descriptive.

This evidence is sufficient to rebut the presumption that the term is suggestive rather than descriptive.

Even "Isle," while somewhat pictorial, tells its tale through quality of movement, formal shapes rather than descriptive gesture.

Irish is an altogether different tongue, complicated, onomatopoeic rather than descriptive, and oblique almost to the point of mystery.

Zatarain's urges that its "Fish-Fri" mark is suggestive rather than descriptive, and our lengthy discussion in text addresses this contention fully.

He and I had worked out an editorial approach within a few issues, and that's more or less what I've continued to pursue today: strong narrative non-fiction mostly, rather than descriptive or newsy features".

Brantingham's team believed they could make the maps predictive rather than merely descriptive.

For clarity, we have provided a brief overview of the main algorithmic treatments of ChIP-seq data; however, our focus here is evaluative rather than purely descriptive.

More controversially, Donnellan (1966) argued that in the case of 'referential' uses of definite descriptions, the reference of the description, rather than the descriptive condition, is a constituent of the proposition expressed.

Evocation, rather than being descriptive or exhaustive, is the key to unlocking a subject.

It feels right an ontological word rather than a descriptive one.