Sentence examples for too prescriptive to from inspiring English sources

Of course, he says, Britten's music describes this sea and this sky, "but it's too prescriptive to say he's talking just about these people and this village".

PCPs did not always feel it was appropriate to use this type of questions, and that the training was too prescriptive on how to ask this.

Was this the year that food books became too prescriptive and joyless to get excited about?

To be too prescriptive about the recipe would be to miss the point of its generous nature.

The panel, chaired by the former England captain Mike Brearely, also concluded no set guidelines are required, stating that "to try to be too prescriptive by listing banned substances would be counterproductive".

Although we try not to be too prescriptive because language evolves and you don't want to sound like you're from 1890 saying you can't start a sentence with a conjunction, because that's not true.

"We've all said and done things that can be misconstrued," says Swain. "But most staff are very sensible and pragmatic about using social media and we don't want to be too prescriptive".

While some think it should be 0.7 or above, others consider such an absolute threshold to be too prescriptive [32].

KB: Yeah part of the reason that we set up Tezos the way we did — and we could have been way more prescriptive with the initial governance model — the reason we chose a vanilla two-phase vote was because we didn't want to be too prescriptive.

Dr. Gottlieb opposes the administration's proposals, calling them too prescriptive, too expensive, and too open to eventual increased rationing.

OPCS codes at the 3-character level were used for pragmatic reasons as well as to avoid being too prescriptive in our definitions.