Sentence examples similar to half adjective from inspiring English sources

The Jacobeans retained Tyndale's rhythm; but it was they who added that simple, brief word — to our modern ears a marvellous half-adjective and half-adverb — heavy laden.

The Jacobeans retained Tyndale's rhythm; but it was they who added that simple, brief word — to our modern ears a marvellous half-adjective and half-adverb_ — heavy_ laden.

It deserves at least half the adjectives pouring forth about it from those in the business who were scared silly about the making of it in the first place.

Jan Brewer [jan boo-uhr], noun: The peripatetic Arizona governor who might choose to select "peripatetic" as the nicest adjective half the country would use to describe her.

In terms of syntactic relations, half of these adjectives were matching, the other half mismatching to the visual noun and were always mismatching to the critical adjective of the sentence.

Granted, Hinder is probably a little nastier than it has to be to get its point across (you could nix about half the rude adjectives in the promotional copy and wind up with something just as true and more readable).

In the semantic condition, half of these acoustic adjectives were syntactically matching, the other half syntactically mismatching to both the visually presented noun and adjective of one of the sentences of Task 1.

A second dictionary-reading program offered a few hundred fits for the "blot" — ranging from "acetose" to "Ukrainian" — which Whelan whittled down to about a half-dozen likely adjectives and country names.

The first half of the name should be an adjective for the cat or a part of nature.

For each of the five categories of primes, half of the primes were followed by positive adjectives and half by negative adjectives.

(We consider carefully Mark Twain's half-serious advice: "When you catch an adjective, kill it").