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- adjective Not
constructive . - adjective Not involving
construction . - adjective mathematics That proves the
existence of something without demonstrating a method of construction.
Etymologies
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Examples
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However, there is one area where I've consistently felt that you have under represented your true feelings and it feels like your general input on the topic has been mostly nonconstructive.
Brad Feld: Don't Do Marketing. Become A Thought Leader. Brad Feld 2011
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However, there is one area where I've consistently felt that you have under represented your true feelings and it feels like your general input on the topic has been mostly nonconstructive.
Brad Feld: Don't Do Marketing. Become A Thought Leader. Brad Feld 2011
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The uncomfortable, nonconstructive experience of nothing of say is anything but easy, grounded or focused.
Deborah Schoeberlein: Mindfulness and Having Nothing to Say 2010
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Of course, at other times, having nothing to say can feel uncomfortable, embarrassing and nonconstructive.
Deborah Schoeberlein: Mindfulness and Having Nothing to Say 2010
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The uncomfortable, nonconstructive experience of nothing of say is anything but easy, grounded or focused.
Deborah Schoeberlein: Mindfulness and Having Nothing to Say 2010
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Of course, at other times, having nothing to say can feel uncomfortable, embarrassing and nonconstructive.
Deborah Schoeberlein: Mindfulness and Having Nothing to Say 2010
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We refuse to believe that things have to be this complicated - the argumentation of (Bishop 1967) looks very smooth and seems to fall directly from a certain concpet of what sets, functions, etc. are, and we wish to discover a formalism which isolates the principles underlying this conception in the same way that Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory isolates the principles underlying classical (nonconstructive) mathematics.
Set Theory: Constructive and Intuitionistic ZF Crosilla, Laura 2009
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Picking at Wright about small rooms or too much wood or weird furniture is usually a nonconstructive exercise in frustration by someone who doesn't understand the principles behind the designs.
October 2007 2007
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This behavior was in contrast to that of autocratic leaders, who displayed a much greater frequency of order giving, disrupting commands, praise and approval, and nonconstructive criticism.
The Bass Handbook of Leadership Bernard M. Bass 2008
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Mapplethorp is also responsible for self-indulgent and nonconstructive such as:
Complicating and transcending institutional parameters with oblique, allegorical, uncertain sociopolitical themes... Ann Althouse 2008
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