Young people do it best and, as everything migrates into the digital world, teenagers are quietly becoming expert at modifying everything that falls into their laps.
Voted the "catch-all superlative" of last year by the American Dialect Society, weapons-grade has been used to modify everything from a Toyota's torque output to Elvis Presley's charisma.
Miller's favorite word is "exactly"—it's the adverb that modifies everything, so that a hypothesis is "exactly right," or an experiment was "exactly done"—and that emphasis on precision has defined his career.
To his son, he was "a two-bit czar," a blowhard with "the insane belief that he must pass on (approve or modify) everything the other person is doing".
Miller's favorite word is "exactly" — it's the adverb that modifies everything, so that a hypothesis is "exactly right," or an experiment was "exactly done" — and that emphasis on precision has defined his career.
The arrival of what is now just called "digital" — an all-purpose noun and an adjective modifying everything — has thrown the movie world into a state of linguistic confusion that mirrors the general sense of disarray and existential doubt.
In other words, to keep healthy and cancer-free, even survivors of cancer must modify everything: their eating, resting, recreation, along with their emotional outlook, positive attitude, and exposure to anything that causes cancer to grow (smoking, high stress, asbestos exposure, and so forth).
Of those, 13 succeeded, and one attack based in China gained complete access to Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) systems — read, write, delete, add and delete users, modify logs, everything.
"He's really modified his style, everything, even his — he's thinner now," Ms. Fleiss said.
Whether a drag-racing bully with a supercharger bursting through its hood or a Trans-Am racerracer, modified Camaros embody everything a fast car should.
