Sentence examples for value instrumental from inspiring English sources

Very loosely speaking (naturally), they value instrumental improvisation over songcraft, live performance over studio recording, real smoke over the machine-made kind.

And he points out that this approach, common among the baby-boomer generation of rock critics and fans, has a weakness: a tendency to skim past purely musical value (instrumental virtuosity, innovation, production, etc) "in a search for heroes".

Lockheed Martin, Coca-Cola, Overstock.com and Sirius all describe their directors with words like "valued," "instrumental" and "experienced," and insist that their past performance was irrelevant.

Standardization measures in this study is an example of a trend towards a Taylorising type of care, operationalized by a specified amount of minutes to fragmented physical work tasks (e.g. putting on support stockings should take 5 minutes), and valuing instrumental care over affective care [ 32].

The philosophical arguments about intrinsic value versus instrumental value can get quite complicated.

But, in his world, the truth's value is instrumental, rather than intrinsic.

The adaptive value of instrumental conditioning is an area of research that has seen some fruitful collaboration among experimental psychologists, ethologists, and behavioral ecologists.

But they have no technical terms that correspond to "intrinsic value" and "instrumental value".

Nor is wisdom's value merely instrumental to discovering what is good for one.

Excessive transfer of affective value to instrumental action is thought to contribute to psychiatric disorders.

In addition, telepresence, experiential value, and instrumental value produced significant hypothesized paths with consumer response variables (attitude, willingness to purchase, and willingness to patronize).