commentative

So often people who love collecting tend to file their stuff away in boxes, or stack them up like Scrooge McDuck all around their room or in some kind of storage, following some external taxonomy of value or meaning; but to put it all together, to present it in a personal, whimsical, commentative style, so that people can gasp and wonder at the sheer awe of it, is really something.

Archive 2007-12-01 Heather McDougal 2007

So often people who love collecting tend to file their stuff away in boxes, or stack them up like Scrooge McDuck all around their room or in some kind of storage, following some external taxonomy of value or meaning; but to put it all together, to present it in a personal, whimsical, commentative style, so that people can gasp and wonder at the sheer awe of it, is really something.

The Unknown Museum Heather McDougal 2007

Once enough intelligent humor has been produced along the same lines, though, those insights become more and more obvious, eventually becoming commentative and even instructive.

EP071: The Capo of Darkness 2006

Awakened by her (Alice's) grandparents to a critical attitude towards social conditions, she was undoubtedly largely responsible for the early widening of Dewey's philosophic interests from the commentative and classical to the field of contemporary life.

Pragmatist Feminism Whipps, Judy 2004

The latter was likely to be anecdotal and personal; the former was more often philosophical and commentative, ranging through a great variety of subjects scientific, political, sociological, and religious.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

The latter was likely to be anecdotal and personal; the former was more often philosophical and commentative, ranging through a great variety of subjects scientific, political, sociological, and religious.

Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume III, Part 1: 1900-1907 Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

The latter was likely to be anecdotal and personal; the former was more often philosophical and commentative, ranging through

Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

A woman who, unaided and alone, had worn the Bloomer costume for twenty years in the heart of a commentative community like Willoughby

The Minister's Charge William Dean Howells 1878

Autobiography, which was not that, in fact, but a series of remarkable chapters, reminiscent, reflective, commentative, written without any particular sequence as to time or subject-matter.

Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 5 (1901-1906) Mark Twain 1872

Autobiography, which was not that, in fact, but a series of remarkable chapters, reminiscent, reflective, commentative, written without any particular sequence as to time or subject-matter.

Complete Letters of Mark Twain Mark Twain 1872