How To Use Self-explanatory In A Sentence

  • Genre" column: the abbreviations should be self-explanatory, with "h" meaning horror genre, though we are more inclined to call it "dark fantasy". The Ultimate Guide to Modern Writers of Science Fiction and Fantasy
  • The author has used simple language and self-explanatory illustrations throughout the text.
  • For repression the most obvious and self-explanatory mechanism is steric hindrance.
  • That same Cyprian reflex would remain *minyu in Etruscan to yield Latin minium which is self-explanatory. A Minoan word for red dye
  • As we can see, a rule like this in Minoan is minor and self-explanatory if there is only /n/ allowed in syllable codae, even more so if there is no phonemic contrast between a vowel-plus-nasal sequence and a nasalized vowel, whereas the same rule in Mycenaean produces the orthographic train wreck with which specialists must struggle. Archive 2009-11-01
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  • But I had a feeling this was going to be one of those self-explanatory columns—that I was but a conduit to bring the teen idol and his fans ever slightly closer together, or at least that I was an innocent shill, a cog in the Someday perfume and matching lotion and hair spray merchandizing machinery. Some Kid Named Justin
  • “The name is self-explanatory, I would have thought.” Antony and Cleopatra
  • Schwartz and Southern also constructed four self-explanatory subtypes of cybersex addiction (i.e., male cybersex addicts, female cybersex addicts, loner cybersex addicts, paraphiliac cybersex addicts).
  • The Dutch duo return with a rather self-explanatory title.
  • The word impromptu is sufficiently self-explanatory, but it needs to be pointed out that this work of The Pianolist A Guide for Pianola Players
  • Their meaning, in whole or part, is self-explanatory.
  • The math that supports President Nicolas Sarkozy's reforms is self-explanatory: France cannot continue to devote 29.2% of its GDP to social-security spending (second only to Sweden within the OECD) with its current rate of growth of just 0.3%. Dissecting French Schizophrenia
  • Designers like Eric Ku are doing it with humor, inventing a flatpack alphabet – his Flatpack Chair is pretty self-explanatory. Lloyd Alter | Inhabitat
  • His work, which he never showed to anyone, was far from self-explanatory.
  • The author has used simple language and self-explanatory illustrations throughout the text.
  • Davies says of all the ideas he reviews: "In fact, in reviewing them they all seem to me to be either ridiculous or hopelessly inadequate: a unique universe that just happens to permit life by a fluke; a stupendous number of alternative parallel universes that exist for no reason; a preexisting God who is somehow self-explanatory; or a self-creating, self-explaining self-understanding unioverse-with-observers, entailing backward causation and teleology." page 259. A Third Choice (ID Hypothesis)
  • Stanley takes the statement at face value as self-explanatory.
  • The video controls are pretty self-explanatory.
  • The eerily Davina-like Anna Richardson presents this self-explanatory show, that this week catches the students of Putney's Elliott School before they all get signed to trendy record labels, and teaches them about pregnancy. TV highlights 09/08/2011: The Sex Education Show | Timeshift | The Hour | Undercover Boss | True Stories: Babes in Hollywood | Angry Boys
  • The Python code is quite straightforward and self-explanatory.
  • Far from being self-explanatory, it can only be understood by reference to material outside itself.
  • Most of the data fields are self-explanatory; however, explanation is required on a few.
  • Humor saturates the infosphere, for at least two reasons: First, a successful joke implies insight, and insight, especially if it's pithy and self-explanatory, is the basic currency of a high-speed information economy. Scott Brown on Stand-Up Comedy, Lingua Franca of the Wired World
  • With that in mind, the last two downloads should be self-explanatory.
  • They're self-explanatory, except that "tl" stands for timeline, which is a big timeline of computing that is still a work in progress. Muxway - Anil Dash
  • Black is self-explanatory but some black Chows have silver shadings in tail or breechings.
  • `You must recall our unscientific vocations, sir; events are not always as self-explanatory to us as they are perhaps to you. ANTI-ICE
  • Whereas some of these categories are self-explanatory, several others may require further explanation.
  • The Hot is self-explanatory, given that the most plausible explanation for the burkini was the Australian sun; Flat, because the speed of the web ensures an audience of millions, even billions, within hours for the smallest detail of someone's everyday life, and Crowded, because for a celebrity, nowhere is safe from the long reach of a paparazzi zoom lens. Nigella Lawson and the great burkini cover-up
  • The way the document reacts to these changes depends on two self-explanatory word-processor modes - Insert and Overwrite.
  • The video controls are pretty self-explanatory.
  • I tried to make it as straightforward and self-explanatory as I could but be sure to point out anything I missed or should add.
  • Most of these are self-explanatory, but a couple of them are good. The Rules of Gunfighting
  • Not much more than the name `Basin and Range,' and that's self-explanatory ," she said, gesturing toward the view. BEAUTIFUL DREAMER
  • The pleasant-looking posters on the 18 career zones are self-explanatory.
  • The tag is just as self-explanatory as date rape-if not more so.
  • Hands on hips is a rather self-explanatory gesture.
  • In some ways, the title was self-explanatory: "Toronto Community Housing Corporation - Controls Over Employee Expenses Are Ineffective. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
  • The dangers of not doing so are self-explanatory: either paying higher premiums than necessary or not getting adequate recompense if your property is under-insured.
  • Whenever I go back to Iowa, I remember how self-explanatory the landscape looks.
  • In the emerging global marketplace, the need for such streamlined validation should be self-explanatory.
  • The title is self-explanatory, the idea being that each track is based around a sample from a year between 1964 and 1995.
  • Firstly, the main task of metaphysics is to offer ultimate explanations of facts which are not self-explanatory either when taken in themselves or even when related to each other.
  • Fairly self-explanatory, the new format gives lesser-known local bands a crack at the Congress stage and the opportunity for wider exposure.
  • I think the embarrassment factor is pretty self-explanatory there.
  • More than that they take a subject which, on first blush, seems self-explanatory and reveal a host of questions about it.
  • This is a pretty straight-forward and self-explanatory clause, but it's important none the less.

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