Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
I've got an adjective that just fits you.
I like that 'Mad Men' is now an adjective I use to describe clothing when I'm shopping: 'I like this top. It's very 'Mad Men. ''
Genius, throughout history, has been found difficult to classify because it varies in amount: It's rare to find a genius in the context of the noun, but most people, if not all, have a bit of genius in them in the context of the adjective.
My goal in life is to become an adjective.
Christian' makes a poor adjective
Hyacinth,” Lady Bridgerton said in a vaguely disapproving voice, “do try to speak in complete sentences. ” Hyacinth looked at her mother with a surprised expression. “Biscuits. Are. Good. ” She cocked her head to the side. “Noun. Verb. Adjective. ” “Hyacinth. ” “Noun. Verb. Adjective. ” Colin said, wiping a crumb from his grinning face. “Sentence. Is. Correct.
Rather, very, little, pretty - these are the leeches that infest the pond of prose, sucking the blood of words. The constant use of the adjective little (except to indicate size) is particularly debilitating; we should all try to do a little better, we should all be very watchful of this rule, for it is a rather important one, and we are pretty sure to violate it now and then.
I was a little excited but mostly blorft. "Blorft" is an adjective I just made up that means 'Completely overwhelmed but proceeding as if everything is fine and reacting to the stress with the torpor of a possum. ' I have been blorft every day for the past seven years.
The emergence of a new term to describe a certain phenomenon, of a new adjective to designate a certain quality, is always of interest, both linguistically and from the point of view of the history of human thought.
Acting, to me, has been many things: It's a business, and it's a craft, and it's a political act - it's whatever adjective is most applicable.
Every adjective and adverb is worth five cents. Every verb is worth fifty cents.
Good is a noun rather than an adjective.
The beginning of sense, not to say wisdom, is to realize that 'doing an action,' as used in philosophy, is a highly abstract expression--it is a stand-in used in the place of any (or almost any?) verb with a personal subject, in the same sort of way that 'thing' is a stand-in for anynoun substantive, and 'quality' a stand-in for the adjective.
What we really have to do is stop the adjective before the job title—whether it's 'black actor,' a 'gay actor' or 'anything actor,' Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that's not where equality comes from. Equality comes from treating everybody the same regardless of who they are. I hope the media and the press catches on to that because it's time to move out of 1992.
The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.
If the noun is good and the verb is strong, you almost never need an adjective.
Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
There's always an adjective before my name, and it's never a nice one.
I do so like all-encompassing words. Verb, adjective, noun. Yes, you are shitted.
