"I need an adjective," Mr. Stern said.
"We actually started using him as an adjective," Mr. Tio said.
Korean pears are rounder, greener, crisper, sweeter, juicier ("sparkly" is another adjective Mr. Ward likes) than the more familiar varieties, and closer in texture to an apple.
In the western Pacific, where Typhoon Talas has killed scores of people this week, they use names of objects and descriptive adjectives, says Mr Heming.
"Wonderful," "excellent" and "outstanding" were among the adjectives Mr. Christie chose, a change-up from his remarks last week that Mr. Obama was "blindly walking around the White House looking for a clue".
"Untidy" has never been an adjective for Mr. Baryshnikov's dancing.
All credit to the quality mavens; they are certainly fighting the good fight, and most of them deserve every laudatory adjective in Mr. Kenney's thesaurus.
It provided rare access to the president's thinking, and was at odds with the rigid portrait of the "resolute" president, the favorite adjective of Mr. Bush's advisers, put forth by the public relations types in the West Wing.
In unscripted remarks in December Mr. Putin used a Russian adjective — "yarki" — that Mr. Trump has said means brilliant, though it can also mean colorful or flamboyant.
In "Mr. Adjective Tried for Stealing," we learn that a noun like "beauty" can be transformed into an adjective with the addition of "ful".
Clemens Hellsberg, a violinist and the orchestra's president, turns the adjective back on Mr. Haitink, though it seems an odd one for so unflamboyant a figure.
