Sentence examples for restrictive format from inspiring English sources

This suggests that the use of a template with a very restrictive format may also restrict creativity or change the way that recording the experiment is approached.

But in October 1967, WOR-FM decided to change to a restrictive format.

He worked almost exclusively on laptop-size sheets of paper, but despite the restrictive format, his drawings are wildly varied technically and imaginatively.

The metaphor used is the impossibility of giving due consideration to Tolstoy's epic novel War & Peace – which considers the same subject – within the restrictive format of the show itself.

The gymnasts who captivated television viewers this summer have created a national touring company that allows them to exhibit their skills in a more free-form program than the more restrictive format of Olympic-level competition.

Terrance Dicks has felt that Moonbase 3 was ultimately a failure: "The trouble was we built a too restrictive format for ourselves" and that the series "lacked a sense of wonder and outrageousness".

For Mr. Van Zandt, who at 53 still wears the loose, brightly colored garb that earned him the nickname Miami Steve, the radio show and the festival -- which he hopes to make an annual event -- represent a revival of rough, honest, beautiful garage rock as a musical form and a redemption from restrictive radio formats that rely on familiarity and market testing.

But he found the guitar/bass/drums format restrictive and the milieu repugnant ("It was rubbish," he says, "playing with hundreds of Oasis-y, laddy, pubby rock bands") and saw electronica, ambient, dance and noise as ways out.

She states that "he has a natural, playful mastery of the often restrictive weekly-manga format", notes that "interesting things [are] going on deep in the narrative structure", and recommends "sticking through to the later volumes to see just how crazy and Peter Max-y the art gets".

In a bid to escape the restrictive, reassuringly dumbed-down format of conventional TV debates, he's challenged Obama to a series of town-hall meetings with fewer rules and no moderator.

However, experience during the interviews and initial analysis suggested that this format was restrictive and superficial as participants considered certain factors to be barriers as well as facilitators depending on their presence or absence in the practice.