What is "programmatic"

Usage examples of "programmatic".

Where once men and women sought communion in sexual love, innocent of the need for programmatic valuation, they now deploy themselves across a level of existence composed of silences and daunted withdrawals.

Clearly, in the programmatic literalness of its kind, the demon from the web had determined that having early seen them, it must early kill them as well.

The X-33 was to be the first demonstrator of this program but there were technical and programmatic issues that caused the program to be canceled a few years back.

She might have been speaking to a professional colleague about programmatic languages.

For after too many campaigns and too many position papers that were forgotten after the election, I cling to the stubborn belief that these minor programmatic disputes reveal little about how any of these Democrats would govern as president.

Any kind of programmatic music will have a tendency to allow for the creation of the same kind of world.

This generality of biopolitical production makes clear a second programmatic political demand of the multitude: a social wage and a guaranteed income for all.

That had throbbed in the silent room with finality, a sound such as a programmatic composer, say Tchaikovsky, might have used as a tonal symbol for the breaking of a heart.

The symphonic poem, whether or not it originates in the overtures of Beethoven, is mainly your handiwork, since although you yourself were not sufficiently free of the classic formulas to create a symphonic form entirely programmatic, as Strauss has subsequently done, you nevertheless gave him the hint whereby he has profited most.

Although he strove continually for classic form, his works nevertheless reveal their programmatic origin.

Musical modernity and the programmatic form had come to seem inseparable.

The actual mating, to be sure, would be voluntary and legalized by marriage (at least in the pilot experiment): the whole operation would amount to no more than a sophisticated and programmatic Courtship Counseling, already in its simpler form a popular WESCAC service, and should tend towards improvements in the student body of a sort no right-minded person could object to: better physical and mental health, higher IQ's, intellectual earnestness, Enochian humility, and the like.