Definition of Descriptive

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Definition of Descriptive
	Descriptive Tending to describe; having the quality of representing; containing description; as, a descriptive figure; a descriptive phrase; a descriptive narration; a story descriptive of the age. Related Definitions: Age, As, Containing, Describe, Description, Descriptive, Figure, Having, Narration, Of, Phrase, Quality, Story, Tending, The, To

Descriptive Quotations

At the descriptive level, certainly, you would expect different cultures to develop different sorts of ethics and obviously they have; that doesn't mean that you can't think of overarching ethical principles you would want people to follow in all kinds of places.
Peter Singer

The ideal of a pure phenomenology will be perfected only by answering this question; pure phenomenology is to be separated sharply from psychology at large and, specifically, from the descriptive psychology of the phenomena of consciousness.
Edmund Husserl

Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative.
Marilyn Hacker

The general statement that the mental faculties are class concepts, belonging to descriptive psychology, relieves us of the necessity of discussing them and their significance at the present stage of our inquiry.
Wilhelm Wundt

Like an apparently strict musical form it breaks the five minute whole into its structural parts - a descriptive preamble, the action of taking the cards, the development of the cards' manipulation and the revelation of what has been achieved.
Gavin Bryars

So to me, fat just seems to be right to the point and the most descriptive way to say it.
Camryn Manheim

I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
Camryn Manheim

If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary.
Robert Delaunay

Animation scripts tend to be much more descriptive and are lighter on dialogue.
Douglas Wood

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.
Louise Brooks

Descriptive Translations

descriptive in German is beschreibend

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