descriptive

Example Sentences

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Steven was very descriptive about the shot or angle he needed.

From Los Angeles Times

So he wrote another draft that was 50% longer and more descriptive.

From Los Angeles Times

Readers of “The Marble Faun” will find Hawthorne at the height of his descriptive abilities, particularly in his accounts of Roman masterworks, which qualify as artworks themselves.

From The Wall Street Journal

Skilled descriptive touches conjure the textures of the scene.

From The Wall Street Journal

In their fiction—mostly novels for Woolf, short stories for Mansfield—they experimented by replacing linear narrative and descriptive detail with suggestion and symbolism.

From The Wall Street Journal