These are the moments that carry the novel.Mr Cunningham is a disciplined writer, leery of adjectives and capable of suffusing the most quotidian scene reading the paper in bed, say with a portent of dread.
Like Dan Brown, Greenfield is fatally drawn to adjectives and capable of sentences that simply boggle the mind: "Fred looked far away, then visibly jerked himself back to me"; "The moment can fatten, swell, bloated with the reliving of recent times with Fred, looking and listening to that creased smiling face"; "The sudden thud of silence was heavy and suffocating".
Bündnis means "alliance, compact, league"; the adjective f* hig means "capable of doing"; and the addition of keit gives us the compound noun Bündnisf* higkeit, "the capability of being an ally".
Some callers, like Glen from Forest, Louisiana, are capable of earning all three adjectives.
'Dumb,' if somebody sounds dumb". Some callers, like Glen from Forest, Louisiana, are capable of earning all three adjectives.
He has been friendly, flexible, open and very conservative -- though no reporter seems to be capable of typing those four adjectives in one sentence.
The counter-expectation property of affixal negation extends even to contradictory, middle-excluding adjectives like alive/dead; nothing can be both and nothing capable of being either can be "in between".
Moral as an adjective can be defined as relating to, dealing with or capable of distinguishing between right and wrong.
To see that someone I admired so much was capable of spending a full hour arguing over an adjective, or testing, aloud, the naturalness of a line, was an unexpected luxury.
She is capable of capturing an art masterpiece or a person with a single adjective.
