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How to use demonstrative in a sentence

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If imitation is a general category of artistic activity, repetition is an insistently demonstrative species of imitation.
Someone with a more demonstrative personality might have done a better job.
My mom and dad were not very demonstrative parents and seldom if ever did they tell me these kind of things.
It has been obvious in the last couple of training sessions we've had that he's more demonstrative and that can only be good news.
Her royal husband, who was not a demonstrative man, went away to a room by himself and gave orders that he was to be left alone.
British people, as a rule, still disapprove of loud or demonstrative behaviour, except in very informal situations.
With his loud voice and demonstrative personality, Weis usually sets the tone on the practice field.
In rehearsals, somehow, he digs deep and mines the heart of each scene, but not for a display of demonstrative emotion.
Elinor, whose self-control is in strong contrast to Marianne's demonstrative emotions, silently conceals her distress.
Grosseteste applies the theory in the Posterior Analytics to itself, presenting it as a demonstrative science of demonstration.
For Plato, the proper method for seeking knowledge is not observation but demonstrative proof, or perhaps some other form of a priori reasoning.
Rosenthal's account closed with details of Perez's demonstrative response to the lie-detector results.
They compared the new investigative approach against the demonstrative approach to teaching Junior Certificate science.
They should conduct demonstrative asylums in and out of the country and propagate the value and effectiveness of the systems among the people.
The best examples are the demonstrative pronouns this and that, for the reason that they are guaranteed a reference every time they are used.
His technique of completely mastering a topic before drawing it allowed for this high level of demonstrative skill.
In English, the definite article, the demonstrative and the qualification adjective are neutral as to gender variation.
Generous and warm-hearted you like to shower your loved one with affection and are very demonstrative and affectionate.
It is cruel, inhuman and plainly wrong to keep fit parents from their precious children without a compelling, demonstrative reason.
Apparently to this end, the local and temporal co-ordinates of the narrative are established with a demonstrative exactitude.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Even when the nesting ground is invaded, this phalarope is very quiet and not very demonstrative.
His reception of her had not been demonstrative, but of that she was hardly sensible.
Of all the anticipatory mourners, the most demonstrative was the sympathetic widow.
The demonstrative pronouns are this and that with their plurals these and those.
There are many prefixes to its nouns and verbs, which before the former are articles or demonstrative pronouns.
Under adjective pronouns are included demonstrative pronouns and indefinite pronouns.
Adjective pronouns are classified, according to their meaning, as demonstrative pronouns and indefinite pronouns.
Also adjectives and demonstrative pronouns have their places after the noun.
The want of more distinctions between the demonstrative pronouns is also greatly felt.
The development of a great variety of forms for personal and demonstrative pronouns.
Indeed, all, even to duckbill, would be flattered and demonstrative of pride in the alliance.
In rhetoric, they say the first part was demonstrative or encomiastic, the second deliberative, the third judicial.
Non-ideographic forms of ornament may originate in ideographic features, mnemonic, demonstrative, or symbolic.
I have said before, Malinda Jane is not of a demonstrative disposition, but thinks ponderously.
The state of the molars at this period may be regarded as demonstrative of the age of the animal.
I felt that if we had been at all demonstrative, he would have run away in a moment.
On the other hand the demonstrative pronouns vary very considerably.
Here both platforms were besieged with demonstrative crowds.
Aunt Jane, never demonstrative, cried with Rebecca as she attempted to soothe her.
And I am not demonstrative in my friendliness, like Rosie, you know.
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