Quick -- what's a five-letter adjective for someone who solves the crossword puzzle that Parnell Hall has thoughtfully tucked into his latest whodunit, LAST PUZZLE & TESTAMENT (Bantam, $23.95)?
That is what earned me the epithet 'hack.' Even so, to attach the adjective 'Kinnockite' to someone who had just completed a sympathetic biography of John Smith leaves me wondering if he knew how tense relations between the leader and ex-leader were.
Considering the history of race isolation that our country has had to deal with, is it really that draining on the energy sources to go down the list to the next descriptive adjective to pinpoint someone?
They laugh at the sound of the word and jokingly use it as an insult and then a compliment, a noun, adjective, even verb ("Abulkasem someone else").
And that the adjective "progressive" (whether describing someone who "gets things done," or not) must accurately describe a society, and its leaders, or that society is headed in precisely the wrong direction, if it's headed anywhere at all.
A new translation of the rambling chronicle reveals that such praiseworthy adjectives were directed at someone else completely – a recently deceased abbot rather than the late king.
"Someone once asked Julian Metcalfe what adjective he would use to describe Pret and he said dependable.
I doubt you would like it very much if someone put a one-word adjective to describe you".
Blootered, an adjective commonly used in Scotland to describe someone who is drunk, was added, along with Facebook, cyber bullying and floordrobe, which is defined as "a pile of clothes left on the floor of a room".
Beautiful landscaping and tall palm trees add to the Cyrus residence's feeling of peace and tranquility, a few more adjectives you wouldn't necessarily associate with someone who "came in like a wrecking ball".
