descriptive bibliography

She avoids an exhaustively descriptive definition because she opposes condemning all novels based on the flaws of some novels.
The Birth of the Novel|Nick Romeo|November 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
When you mail it in or bring it back, you include descriptive words that would lead a consumer to your work.
Blurred Lines at NY Sketchbook Museum|Daniel Genis|November 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
And so we are all supposed to denote something from “working mother” as a descriptive adjective.
The New Right-Wing Idol: Working Moms|Tim Teeman|July 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The name is descriptive: they are extremely intense bursts of gamma rays, the highest energy form of light.
The Gamma-Ray Burst That Wasn’t|Matthew R. Francis|June 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST

It was descriptive, prescriptive, and exemplary in its clarity.
Why Is Malaysia Hiding Its Report on MH370?|Clive Irving|April 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
His Characters, in imitation of Theophrastus, is a work of established excellence, and descriptive of the manners of that age.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|Joel Munsell
As Mrs. Armine looked at him she remembered the descriptive phrase that set him apart from all the people of Luxor.
Bella Donna|Robert Hichens
In one of them, descriptive of antediluvial history, is a painting of Lamech shooting Cain with a bow and arrow.
Notes and Queries, Number 178, March 26, 1853|Various
These things are beyond my knowledge, which it would perhaps be more descriptive to call ignorance.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25)|Robert Louis Stevenson
For full bibliography (to 1904) see Ulysse Chevalier, Rpertoire des sources hist.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3|Various

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