Sentence examples for straight description from inspiring English sources

In clues with containers, the definition gives you, as ever, a straight description of the word or phrase.

Somehow a line like "He takes us inside his hurt" feels more precise than a straight description of a song's musical construction or sonic effect might be.

Gellhorn's essay begins with a straight description of the conditions in the court, albeit an atmospheric, closely-observed description: "The air conditioning was too cold, and yet one sweated".

After his two co-commentators gave a fairly straight description of the first circuit and handed back to him in the grandstand, he did a journalist's job in clarifying the situation, telling millions of viewers: "Well, here's one of the greatest sensations ever in the Grand National.

In the following passage, which comes close to the end of "Slaughterhouse-Five," Vonnegut neatly sets up a similar emotional jolt, with statistics in place of Hcmingway's straight description: [O'Hare] was looking up the population of Dresden, which wasn't in the notebook, when he came across this, which he gave me to read: On an average, 324,000 new babies are born into the world every day.

Qualitative description aims to provide a straight description of phenomena in everyday language [ 28].

We used qualitative descriptive methodology for this exploratory work to develop rich, straight descriptions of a phenomenon [ 32, 33].

According to Sandelowski [ 18], qualitative descriptive is the method of choice when seeking to obtain straight descriptions of phenomena.

This method is described by Sandelowski [ 9] as being valuable when straight descriptions are required to provide answers to questions of special relevance to practitioners and policy makers.

As noted by Sandelowski [ 16], qualitative description is especially useful in obtaining straight descriptive answers to questions of special relevance to practitioners and policy makers.

He avoids psychological analysis, sticking firmly to straight, external description and letting the psychic landscape take care of itself.