My main point was simply that I find those kind of proscriptive statements limiting and a little self-serving, as they usually reflect the author’s own bias.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quote of the Day: Secret Reviewer Trick » Comics Worth Reading] Reference

But even with ordered lists, do we have to be so proscriptive?.    From Wordnik.com.  [OCD] Reference

I thought that the Patriot Act was more proscriptive than that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Page 2] Reference

The spirit of this reform is denunciatory, violent, and proscriptive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autographs for Freedom, Volume 2 (of 2) (1854)] Reference

The Macro-Economist oversell it predictive and proscriptive qualities.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Folly Of USGOV Stimulus packages and Keynesian Economic Theory: (On the Bailout, Part 31) « PurpleSlog – Awesomeness & Modesty Meets Sexy] Reference

As Jesurgislac correctly points out, dictionaries are not proscriptive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why are only queer rights on the chopping block?] Reference

Because the EU VAT law (full text here) seems pretty proscriptive to me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is Cameron's VAT plan legal?] Reference

Nor have they ever reported on this proscriptive anti-Palestinian policy.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Is the rule that prices trend to marginal cost a descriptive one or a proscriptive one?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » The Futile Struggle Against Free Content] Reference

What seemed open to Mr. Rumsfeld was in truth harshly proscriptive to those in the field.    From Wordnik.com.  [War and Remembrance] Reference

A good example of confusion between descriptive linguistics and proscriptive linguistics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oh, dictionary! How could you?!] Reference

So I want it understood that my intention here is descriptive more than it is proscriptive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-10-01] Reference

We should provide tools that skew the odds towards appropriation, without being proscriptive.    From Wordnik.com.  [untangling Free, Sugar and Constructionism (walter bender)] Reference

Perhaps you were being proscriptive when you suggested that conflate really means its opposite?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why are only queer rights on the chopping block?] Reference

It may assuage guilt but as ever with food, being proscriptive ends up being counter-productive.    From Wordnik.com.  [In season « BuzzMachine] Reference

They're certainly subject to increasingly proscriptive and exaggerated notions on the physical ideal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thin is in: in search of the perfect male body] Reference

Greene C. Bronson for governor as the representative of Pierce's proscriptive policy for opinion's sake.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference

Mr. MERWIN: Oh, I had to learn the catechism, but it was mostly proscriptive, the things you couldn't do.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Sirius' Poetry From New Poet Laureate W.S. Merwin] Reference

First and last, he said, all true friends of the Cause must meet this proscriptive spirit and conquer it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prudence Crandall, Woman of Courage] Reference

Would it not be wise for Congress to say at once, We reject, once and for all, proscriptive constitutions?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forty-Six Years in the Army] Reference

Just the sort of proscriptive rules that Eugene has been railing against are an integral part of this marking.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Language as Social Signal:] Reference

Indeed, the worst response to the current crisis would be a knee-jerk response and proscriptive over-regulation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Getting down to business] Reference

The over 60s had a proscriptive education up to age 16 which was fairly universal in Britannia and its colonies.    From Wordnik.com.  [[how well educated are you] conclusions] Reference

Whilst the premise of this inference is a negative evaluative statement, the conclusion is a proscriptive statement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference

When it comes to the customs of other nations, I strive to be neither prescriptive nor proscriptive, only descriptive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Welcome to Pamplona, Now Start Running « Skid Roche] Reference

A proscriptive law which is ignored by the vast majority of people is a terrible thing for the rule of law in general.    From Wordnik.com.  [Default Setting - We are sorry « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG] Reference

On one side are those who assume the literal meaning of seven proscriptive passages, especially in Leviticus and Romans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bridging the Gay-Evangelical Divide] Reference

That On Human Nature is political, that it contains prescriptive and proscriptive conclusions for social policy, is apparent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Politics of Sociobiology] Reference

Note - although I am “liberal” or “progressive” by American standards, this post is intended to be descriptive not proscriptive.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hobbit on Darwin Day - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Know-Nothing party, since it associated him throughout his long and attractive public career with proscriptive principles of which he was ashamed.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference

Madame de Genlis, had been included in the proscriptive laws against emigration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Louis Philippe Makers of History Series] Reference

It was at first unusually strict about just about everything, to the point of being more prescriptive than proscriptive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eternity Road] Reference

I know that writers have different techniques for writing, and so I wouldn't submit this as being proscriptive for everyone.    From Wordnik.com.  [feminist blogs] Reference

According to the proscriptive usage, the humiliating conditions of citizenship without the ballot, remained to the women of the Centennial.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III (of III)] Reference