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He took the linear, enumerative style of early American effigy painting and made it peculiarly grand--not through rhetoric, as in the "grand manner," but through the candor of its curiosity.

From Time Magazine Archive

Our task is not to concentrate an enumerative attention on each individual factor; we should never get away from them, the weight would be too heavy.

From A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson by Benson, Vincent

The copulative or enumerative conjunctions, have only two degrees.

From Delsarte System of Oratory by Various

Descriptive passages such as this are not, indeed, common, because, as Lessing clearly pointed out, the poet depends more upon action and its effect than on mere enumerative description.

From Religion and Art in Ancient Greece by Gardner, Ernest Arthur

Her account as given was functional, not at all enumerative as in the usual childish fashion.

From Pathology of Lying, accusation, and swindling: a study in forensic psychology by Healy, William