descriptive

Examples of descriptively

descriptively
As humanists, we understood that the category and object of study, urban icons, needed defining and shaping to make it both descriptively and analytically meaningful.
Descriptively used negations, like descriptively used positives, are often followed by a clause which provides evidence for the belief expressed in uttering the first clause.
This denotes moments when physical features of a location are designated descriptively, crowded with spatial detail, or as flatly as possible.
Descriptively, we would be correct in saying that increments in levels of marital distress are associated with increments in levels of child antisocial behavior.
In other cases, the choice of unfamiliar and sometimes verbose terminology appears to be descriptively motivated.
The difficulty lies in the formulation of conditions that are theoretically and descriptively adequate.
But there is no logical reason that both cannot be descriptively correct in identifying two distinct options.
Thus, stable patterns of dyadic interactions are identified, and the trajectories toward these patterns can be analyzed descriptively.
Preference reversals are often considered evidence that expected utility theory is descriptively inadequate, and that irrationality is systematic and widespread.
The marked examples here can only be understood descriptively and, as a result, they are ruled out because they are contradictory.
She suggests that, apart from that (and the inelegant disjunction), this definition of explicature ' is descriptively adequate and reasonably clear ' (p. 124).
These data are presented descriptively; the small number of errors of each type per child precludes statistical analysis.
Farmer perceptions are also analyzed descriptively and numerically.
Additional information, as required for unusual epicardial courses of the arteries, can be provided descriptively, as we have suggested on page 44 of this issue.
Now it has no such derogatory meaning, but is used merely descriptively in a religious or ethnic sense that should cause offence to no one.
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