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For decades, the names of the company's hair-coloring formulas were simply descriptive, such as Natural Extra Light Blonde (still Clairol's best-selling color).
Nor were they simply descriptive: we do not see beliefs, after all — we conjecture that they are there based on how a person is behaving.
"The Clintons" used to be a Republican trope, calculated to make one or the other half of the couple look like a puppet or a victim or a co-conspirator; now it is simply descriptive.
It is a revealing word, more narrative than simply descriptive: it hints at some larger backstory, some plot twist in a longer saga about our claims and the water's counterclaims to the earth.
But this reductionism works less well in theatre than in film because of the punning presence of an alternative meaning of the word "play", which means that such theatre titles as Doris Lessing's Play with a Tiger (1962) and Martin Crimp's Play with Repeats (1989) are not just simply descriptive.
Readers responded to the original, "Loyal Opposition," with a resounding, "Huh?" After much introspection (not that much introspection we stopped short of hiring a firm to study the issue and make recommendations in Power Point), we decided to rename the blog something more simply descriptive.
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In particular, such positivists might claim that facts about what legal obligations we have simply are descriptive facts about what the law holds that we ought to do—not normative facts about what we really ought to do (Shapiro 2011, 188; see also Hart 1994, 110).
The below video is simply called "location data simulation" with no other descriptive info attached but appears to be a visual representation of what the company does for the layman.
In addition, Shortz wrote, "JEWFRO is simply a portmanteau of 'Jewish' and 'Afro.' The word is purely descriptive.
"It was narrative and descriptive.
So descriptive.
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