The "boyfriend" descriptor refers to the idea that the clothes should look as if you borrowed them from your boyfriend – geddit?
As I said, there's a little controversy about the president using a descriptor for Republican political philosophy which some conservatives apparently regard as beyond the pale of civilised discourse.
The racial descriptor does not seem to have originated as a pejorative, but acquired a negative connotation over time.
This isn't to say that consumers should categorically support big businesses over small ones, either; the point is just that everything has trade-offs.And if American policymakers, on balance, are inclined to support the small businesses, a more effective pitch would include some descriptor of how they benefit the consumer directly.
Thus, a better descriptor of the "location" of a solar system object is the path, called the orbit, that it follows around the Sun (or, in the case of a planetary satellite [moon], the path around its parent planet).
By the end of the 20th century, native peoples from around the world had begun to encourage others to use tribal self-names when possible (i.e., to refer to an individual as a Hopi, Xavante, or Sami) and the word indigenous when a descriptor for their shared political identity was more suitable.
For example, the word family is simply a descriptor.
Forget the word "virgin" as a descriptor for both yourself and others.
The dread descriptor "organic" is, alas, unavoidably appropriate.
Tunes such as "Atlas" and "Tonto" are wonderfully playful, too, so it seems unfair that they have sometimes attracted the somewhat derogatory descriptor "math rock".
I am the Secretary of State, who happens to be black.' Make sure you understand where you put that descriptor, because it makes a difference.
