In the AT&T decision John Roberts, the chief justice, devoted a lot of effort to demonstrating that "personal" is more than an adjectival offshoot of "person": when a company's boss asks his finance director a "personal" question he is not likely to be asking about the company's balance-sheet.
Leaving aside the argument over whether this phrasing is as logical as, say, "somewhat pregnant" or "moderately devoted to global warming," I note that such adjectival editorialising is not applied to other, less favoured movements.Perhaps in the future The Economist may see fit to extend this apologetic regime to other groups.
If they lose their investors' money, they will be punished for forgetting the adjectival part of "creative destruction".
His parallel send-up of television news coverage, including the bathetic voyeurism surrounding the death of John F. Kennedy, Jr. in 1999, is more chidingly adjectival than properly parodic: "The self-seriousness of the commentator was perfectly matched to the speciousness of his principal assertion".
He looked resolutely forward, delighting in the fact that his son and daughter, as well as the dozens of interns who had weathered his bright-eyed brashness at the Public Interest, had all become good conservatives "without adjectival modification".
As soon as a noun enters the domain of metaphor, as one modern scholar has pointed out, it clamours for extension; and satura (which had no verbal, adverbial, or adjectival forms) was immediately broadened by appropriation from the Greek satyros and its derivatives.
Much work on trait structure and impression formation has concerned adjectival words that describe traits, and the fact that these studies have been carried out principally in the United States and western Europe has led some anthropologists, such as the American Robert LeVine, to remark that modern personality trait theory is ethnocentric.
The adjectival form of the specific is the dominant place-name type in English.
Adding the suffix *- a t- to an early Semitic nominal or adjectival stem produced a secondary feminine stem, as in Arabic kātib-at-un 'writer' (feminine) versus kātib-un (masculine).
The term also is used in an adjectival sense, such as oölitic limestone or oölitic chert.
As it was first used in the late 16th century, the word Lesbian was the capitalized adjectival term referring to the Greek island of Lesbos.
