Adjective : a prescriptive letter from an anxious father. From Dictionary.com.
I will do doctorish things, like prescriptively read and reduce charts. From Wordnik.com. [Here] Reference
I don't think you can connect those dots prescriptively or descriptively. From Wordnik.com. [TPM Election Central | Talking Points Memo |] Reference
That's natural in a descriptive sense, but should it also apply prescriptively?. From Wordnik.com. [Philip N. Cohen: How Much Have You Got to Spend?] Reference
Oh and for what it's worth I agree with hari descriptively but not prescriptively. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
More prescriptively, they have unprecedented tools for empowerment at their disposal. From Wordnik.com. [Jared Cohen: Digital Age Has Ushered in an Opportunity for Unprecedented Global Collaboration] Reference
Clifford, there is often a difference between what is natural and what is prescriptively correct. From Wordnik.com. [One Story] Reference
“Anyone” is not prescriptively single, any more than other indefinite pronouns like “none.”. From Wordnik.com. [National Grammar Day 2009: Ten Common Grammar Myths, Debunked « Motivated Grammar] Reference
I think that we are more inclined to get prescriptively judgmental mothers should do this, should not do that. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-01-28] Reference
– I think that we are more inclined to get prescriptively judgmental (mothers should do this, should not do that). From Wordnik.com. [I Was Drinking When I Wrote This | Her Bad Mother] Reference
Thus, a statement may be used prescriptively, while having a descriptive, factual content (˜In this classroom we raise our hands before speaking™). From Wordnik.com. [The Normativity of Meaning and Content] Reference
After your numerous prescriptivist v. descriptivist posts, I find it incredulous that you can claim unilaterally prescriptively that homosexual is nonpejorative. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Another Word I Will Gladly Continue To Use:] Reference
However, I am now thinking that Sir Thomas Legg is working in the public's interest more than he is prescriptively following a rulebook that is decades out of date. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-10-01] Reference
Josh Marshall: There's several points I wanted to touch on, and a number of these -- if you can answer them descriptively, or prescriptively I'd be interested in both. From Wordnik.com. [TPM Election Central | Talking Points Memo |] Reference
As for teachers, Avalon's educators have been able to expand their skills in ways not possible at other schools where duties are more clearly defined and actions more prescriptively limited. From Wordnik.com. [Inder Sidhu: Education Reform: Where Lower Teacher Pay and Reduced Job Security Have Produced Surprising Results] Reference
One thing is certain: it is not possible to explain good authorial usage by prescriptively insisting on a single principle and making people feel guilty when they instinctively feel the need to depart from it. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference
Among the questions asked of both thought leaders interviewed and executive survey respondents was: Imagine an organization transformed by better ways to collect, analyze and be prescriptively guided by information. From Wordnik.com. [10 Insights: A First Look At The New Intelligent Enterprise Survey] Reference
My main point is this: in prescriptively judging each other, in insisting upon certain sanctities in the realm of motherhood and the family, we risk enclosing ourselves much more securely than any Roman ever imagined. From Wordnik.com. [I Was Drinking When I Wrote This | Her Bad Mother] Reference
One question asked them to assess where their organization is along the journey to an ideal state: an organization that has been "transformed by better ways to collect, analyze and be prescriptively guided by information.". From Wordnik.com. [Ten Data Points: Information And Analytics At Work] Reference
As for whether there is a feminism that can unite women across racial, class, or cultural divides, I think feminism suffers from the same problem as classical Marxism: it is descriptively correct, but prescriptively incorrect. From Wordnik.com. [Is The Oppression of Women The Root Of All Oppressions?] Reference
He's writing prescriptively, but I believe he caught exactly the vague feeling in my heart (the thought was far beyond my reach) as I drove through the Texas brush country with my father, painting the word "love" into my notebook. From Wordnik.com. [Glenn W. Smith: Summers of Love: What the Media is Missing About the Summer of Love] Reference
It's possible to apply that framework prescriptively, or as a filter, and only be talking about Science Fiction and Fantasy, but this unduly neglects the vast bulk of seminal works like Roadmarks or Dhalgren that are at odds with that model. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Debate] Reference
This is precisely where a plethora of fiction which is conventionally labelled fantasy by readers, writers, agents, editors and publishers is wrongly excluded from the model in order for that model to function accurately (and prescriptively). From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference
Still, however, the master and the slave remained; the divinely granted or prescriptively composed sets of ideas and rules were the acknowledged rulers, but the actual rulers were those who mandated to the general populaces what those rules meant. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » VIDEO: Bush Agrees Current Iraq Violence May Be ‘Jihadist Equivalent Of The Tet Offensive’] Reference
To be clear: theirs was neither strictly biographical criticism nor prescriptively moral criticism, and nothing they wrote was reducible to the childish formulations "only good men write good books" or "one must know a man's life to understand his work". From Wordnik.com. [Style in Fiction] Reference
As for his formal and nominal studentship in the Inns of Court, that merely serves prescriptively to qualify him for his call to the bar. From Wordnik.com. [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 461 Volume 18, New Series, October 30, 1852] Reference
IANA chemist but i'd probably just go for righty, prescriptively updating technical jargons to avoid obfuscation seems against human nature. From Wordnik.com. [elzr] Reference
The details of these wings are very carefully and, I may add, prescriptively worked out, so that almost every line, curve, or zigzag is important. From Wordnik.com. [Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744] Reference
Applying a Content Strategy not only brings order to content chaos, it prescriptively orchestrates through the clutter to realize new sources of value. From Wordnik.com. [CMSWire.com - All News] Reference
There's a strong emotional component to Catholicism, and even what one might term an aesthetic element (as in Gerard Manley Hopkins) that isn't rational (using the word neutrally, not prescriptively). From Wordnik.com. [GetReligion] Reference
The definition alone suggests manipulation and charlatanry, particularly if one is prescriptively inclined - and most who study macroeconomics are prescriptively inclined, and therein lies the dismal problem. From Wordnik.com. [Mises Institute Daily Articles (Full-text version)] Reference
As well as the descriptive form, it can be used prescriptively: so if any poster does mention the Nazis in a discussion thread, Godwin's Law can be invoked, they instantly lose the argument and the thread can be ended. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Using this system we hope to speed production and better meet customer needs by sourcing fruit prescriptively.". From Wordnik.com. [The Apple of an Electronic Eye] Reference
"self-evident," since become awkward of acceptance, were ever thus pettifogged out of the path, and fundamental principles have in this way prescriptively been tampered with. From Wordnik.com. ["Imperialism" and "The Tracks of Our Forefathers"] Reference
Again, either descriptively or prescriptively. From Wordnik.com. [TPM Election Central | Talking Points Memo |] Reference
So I can answer both questions prescriptively. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » The Danger of Unverified Prescriptivist Complaints:] Reference
Revelation,’ has prescriptively occupied a considerable space in the field of theological literature, especially as cultivated in England. From Wordnik.com. [Essays and Reviews: The Education of the World, Bunsen's Biblical Researches, On the Study of the Evidences of Christianity; Seances Historiques de Gen��ve; On the Mosaic Cosmogony; Tendencies of Religious Thought in England, 1688-1750; On the Interpretation of Scripture.] Reference
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