Steven Spielberg

This whole thing about reality television to me is really indicative of America saying we're not satisfied just watching television, we want to star in our own TV shows. We want you to discover us and put us in your own TV show, and we want television to be about us, finally.

American Director

Bill Dixon

I have no distributor... it is indicative to me that there are these pockets of players and collectors all over. You should see the correspondence I get from over the world letting me know how significant they think I am. I know that wherever I go, I am well received.

American Musician

Mike Colter

You can have all the intentions you want and try and guide the narrative, but the narrative is irrelevant because it's how the public digests it that will be indicative of what the series will ultimately be.

American Actor

Junichiro Koizumi

Did you know that the word 'tsunami,' which is now being used worldwide, is a Japanese word? This is indicative of the extent to which Japan has been subject to frequent tsunami disasters in the past.

Japanese Statesman

IronE Singleton

IronE' stands for an eagle in flight with an unbroken spirit. I coined that term because it is indicative of my life story and the fact that I'm out of the inner city.

Betty Wright

Pain' is more indicative of what I like to do. I'm lyric-conscious. I like to tell stories, give advice. Instead of writing a 'Dear Abby' column, I do it on records.

Nazanin Boniadi

Clothes are a big part of a free society, I think, and what you wear is so indicative of the political climate you're living in.

British Actress

Imtiaz Ali

The physical journey in my films is indicative of the internal journey that my characters take.

Indian Director

Leighton Meester

If you get a wrinkle, I don't feel that's indicative of your losing ground. That's ridiculous.

American Actress

Miguel

I think your conversations are indicative of your tastes - even your diction.

Look for phrases or words that 'indicative' often pairs with to signal a conclusion or inference.

Signal Clues

Remember 'indicative' suggests a likelihood but does not prove anything definitively.

Not Proof

'Indicative' is a neutral word, so it doesn't carry positive or negative feelings by itself.

Neutral Tone

Use 'indicative mood' to present facts or ask questions about the present or future.

Present Facts

Distinguish 'indicative' from 'subjunctive', which is for hypothetical or wished-for situations.

Fact vs. Fiction

'Indicative' verbs can express actions or events that are continuous or habitual.

Actions Over Time

 was an alarm calling is generally indicative of that it's actually seen him yeah and it is a very sassy and Polly you write him a bit of swag to that impalas kind of shot sitting on and it's like well I'm just going to stroll off I don't care what you think about life so interesting to kind of see you

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 And the results were so good that the Rwandan government has now agreed to adopt the model for the entire country, and has strongly supported and put the full resources of the government behind it. I'll tell you a little bit about our team because it's indicative of what we do.

Bill Clinton: TED Prize...

 the accumulation of material possessions or the attainment of position of power prestige or something of that sort worthy accomplishments perhaps but in my opinion not necessarily indicative of success so I want to come up something of my own and I recall that I was raised

True success - John...

 So essentially what it's doing is putting these fish to work to help it find food. And that's often indicative of intelligence. It's these social interactions which can be used to harness. and for us to be able to understand just how smart these animals are.

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 Culture is indicative of an intelligent species, and archeological evidence suggests that neanderthals had a relatively sophisticated culture. They built shelters, made and wore clothing, and created advanced tools. In fact, they were the first human species

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 substrate yeah so um we just put the the same live them in here we've got a check but it's almost like we can only see the outside of it there and very indicative of of an Impala track we said that they walk on the rims or on the edges of the

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 tree this is have a look at it it is so characteristic and this bark of the lid wood or the cambree tum' in burb and lid wood being very indicative of how heavy the woods and dense the wood is these trees can live for hundreds if

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 be able to do it wouldn't break my life so much easier knowing what I know and how we track animals etc but this back to this little plant also quite indicative here it looks like it's got poor mite palmate leaves because I was

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 quite as tiny as you might expect it to be a big girl if you have a look at this elephants you can see the deep indentations around her forward that's indicative of age in an elephant like this so she's quite an old female you

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 yes you do a good boy you're a good boy well done thank you in those gorgeous brown eyes deep deep deep in color not the light-colored eyes of a lipid or lion that of course a indicative of a