Ernst Haas

Without touching my subject I want to come to the moment when, through pure concentration of seeing, the composed picture becomes more made than taken. Without a descriptive caption to justify its existence, it will speak for itself - less descriptive, more creative; less informative, more suggestive - less prose, more poetry.

Austrian Photographer

Richard Harmon

One of the greatest things about 'Continuum' is how great the writing is; our writing room is one of the most talented ones I've ever had. It really helps me as far as character development because they paint a very descriptive picture of who the characters are while still letting us have freedom to put in our own ideas.

Canadian Actor

Kerry James Marshall

When I started, I was aware of using the black as a rhetorical device. It's understanding that black people come in a wide range of colors, but you find instances in a lot of black literature in which the blackness is used as a metaphor. In some places, you can find an extreme blackness used as a descriptive.

American Artist

John Darnielle

Something I've learned being in this industry for so long is that if you want to work with somebody, call them up. Very few musicians have any illusions about genre boundaries. They are useful descriptive terms, but they don't really bind musicians.

American Musician

Sarah Hall

Daniel Woodrell has made a name as a master of prose with personality - a densely descriptive, gamey form of storytelling, one might say traditional storytelling - of late rather an unfashionable mode.

English Writer

Eric Gill

Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all that is purely scientific.

English Sculptor

Charlie Parker

Music is basically melody, harmony, and rhythm. But people can do much more with music than that. It can be very descriptive in all kinds of ways, all walks of life.

Noam Chomsky

Descriptive grammar is an attempt to give an account of what the current system is for either a society or an individual, whatever you happen to be studying.

American Activist

Robert Delaunay

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

French Artist

Camryn Manheim

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

American Actress

Use 'descriptive' to paint a vivid mind picture, helping readers visualize the subject.

Imagery Enhancement

Adding 'descriptive' elements can explain a complex subject more clearly.

Detail Importance

In storytelling, 'descriptive' details set the scene and mood for the reader.

Narrative Clarity

In academics, 'descriptive' often pertains to objective categorization without subjective opinion.

Academic Precision

'Descriptive' in research refers to the detailed portrayal of study findings.

Research Context

Descriptive language in academics should communicate facts, not persuade or argue.

Non-Persuasive Tone

Using 'descriptive' elements in writing can make language more engaging and memorable.

Creative Language

The term 'descriptive' itself can clarify the nature of nouns it modifies.

Clarifying Modifier

 Names, a lot of the names that we have adopted in the film were names that already existed for a lot of the characters out there. They are names that guides in the area and people had given them and most of the time they were functional, they earned their names. They were descriptive of their character

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 and it's not enough to throw a couple adjectives in a sentence and call it done either. Descriptive writing is good writing, that's true. But if you want to express the feeling of slow motion in life, you have to actually take up more physical space on the page, use more film so to speak.

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 and the home depot work by telling you exactly what the company does but these names can be a mouthful and are much harder to own and protect acronyms like ge and bp are just shorthand versions of descriptive names some acronyms are more strategic kentucky fried chicken switched to kfc

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 I'm not a bad person and I've done good things in my life. I've done good things to people of color. And so therefore I can't be racist. I'm not that. That's not my identity. But that's actually not how we should be defining racist. Racist is a descriptive term.

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 to us that makes sense so for me until the name comes along we just kind of use descriptive names like you would have heard mohawk pale blond veil dark paint male so we use these descriptive names it's really helpful because it can we can tell who's who

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 And she wrote a sort of descriptive set of what it felt like to have had this anxiety. And so what I decided to do. I said, "Okay, I'll think about it." And so quietly in the background, I started sending people this.

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 because I know they need my counsel. They need my support, because most of my friends are writers, or activists, or actors, and you're all three and a long string of other descriptive phrases,

A hilarious celebration...

 It takes a tremendous amount of courage to come forward in the name of the truth. But when we think about the term whistle-blower, we often think of some very descriptive rat, snake, traitor,

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 we are not just being descriptive. Now, I think this is totally obvious, but the very obviousness of it raises what is for me an incredibly profound question. Why, if this is so obvious,

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 So in the descriptive part up top, I said that I was an award-winning journalist and a future thinker. When I was asked about fun activities and my ideal date,