prescriptive

How To Use prescriptive In A Sentence

• But as a prescriptive call for eloquence and discursiveness, I wonder. “The Cure of Poetry in an Age of Prose” : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
• Only in the 1680s was any serious attempt made to challenge the prescriptive rights of rural and urban elites to exercise power.
• I do not intend to turn this into a prescriptive handbook.
• How immensely impertinent is the prejudice that forbids so natural a use of money! why should the better half of a man's actions be always under the dominion of some prescriptive slavery; 'Tis hideous to think of. Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
• The Puritan paradox, to name it such, was that a rigorous defense of the absoluteness of Scripture as an objective, prescriptive code, could not be made without a critical analysis of the contents of Scripture itself.
• It was not possible to be prescriptive about the nature of the benefits which a school had to provide to the poor nor the extent of them. Times, Sunday Times
• I'm generally supportive of Higgs, but I don't like the prescriptive nature of it.
• I can see how the functional-notional approach can be seen as prescriptive, in the sense of several decontextualised culturally specific sentences “this is how we apologise, this is how we complain etc.” S is for “Strategies” « An A-Z of ELT
• As elsewhere in the book these suggestions are not intended to be prescriptive but, rather, a stimulus for ideas.
• In practice, dictionaries take a middle course between wholehearted descriptivism and prescriptive edicts.