Sentence examples for adjective to which from inspiring English sources

I speak, needless to say, of Jeff Goldblum; a Google search of his name along with the adjective to which he is involuntarily hinged results in about 18,700 entries.

However, there are also somewhat noun-like adjectives to which case suffixes seemingly cannot be attached directly unless there is ellipsis.

This paper attacks the Implicit Reference Class Theory of gradable adjectives and proposes instead a "pluralist" approach to the semantics of gradable adjectives, according to which gradable adjectives can be governed by a variety of different types of standards, one (but only one) of which is the group-indexed standards utilized by the Implicit Reference Class Theory.

'Unexpected' is also a quite different adjective to 'needless', which is how many media reports have been explaining the death rates this week.

For each adjective, participants rate the extent to which the adjective describes them.

Another conditioning factor may be the degree to which an adjective reflects a subjective opinion rather than an objective description — therefore, subjective adjectives that are harder to quantify (boring, massive, middle-aged) tend to appear further away from the noun than more concrete ones (red, round, French).

It was saved when 15 businessmen and civic figures in the Catskills decided to move it to Liberty, an aging resort town minus the resorts to which the adjective "faded" seems permanently affixed.

No one deserves to be called "trash," even if the person in question is uneducated and has the misfortune to live in poverty (the socioeconomic group to which the adjective is most often applied).

In the following we shall make use of a convention which is often in place today, according to which the adjective "intuitionistic" refers to those set theories, such as IZF, which are impredicative, while "constructive" refers to set theories, such as CZF, which comply with a form of predicativity.

"In a weird way, we got him to rewrite the script," says Larroquette, who plays John Hemingway, an existential hero-schlemiel-alcoholic-night manager of a St . Louisbus station to which the adjective "sleazy" is a high compliment.

Participants rate the 21 adjectives according to the extent to which they 'feel this way now/in the past few minutes' on a five-point scale (1 = not at all and 5 = extremely).