There was a time when no one in their right minds would have applied the adjectives gentle or soothing to the latter band, but the advancing years have audibly rendered them more sedate: they play Go Buddy Go in a manner that suggests Buddy won't be going anywhere without the aid of a mobility scooter.
Even the presence of the descriptor "American" in the show's title feels like a subtle gag — a reminder that applying the adjective to almost any noun now imparts instant gravitas, an assurance that whatever is being explored can be slotted into some grand and solemn continuum.
I thought, "That young woman is going somewhere and not just on the water". 3. I have never made a distinction between men and women in applying the adjective bossy so long as I can remember.
Business writers routinely apply the adjectives "bloated" and "unwieldy" when mentioning conglomerates.
We apply the adjectives "living" and "alive" correctly to many things, and in doing so we might be said to be attributing life to them but with no meaning or reality other than that involved in their being living things.
The semantic problem is this: In the past, we applied the noun and adjective irregular to the activity of the nonstate, unofficial insurgents like gunmen, partisans and rebels who violently resist constituted authority.
The present experiment then used as stimulus materials only those self-descriptions in which at least 80% of the pretest students applied the same trait adjective to it, or a close synonym, and no pretest student indicated the wrong affective valence of the trait adjective.
For example, the comparative word more and the comparative suffix -er are both applied to the adjective loud in the phrase more louder in the sentence above.
And you could happily apply the same adjectives to the whole of Oral Fixation Vol 2. There are departments in record companies that exist primarily to stop multimillion-selling pop artists doing anything that might affect sales and profits.
