I described them earlier as "key" votes, but I'm not sure that adjective is really merited.
And it was exciting — electrifying even (although the Oxford English Dictionary says that adjective wasn't used outside science until 1807).
As for bloodthirsty, that adjective applies only to vampire bats, which are found in South America and nip farm animals more often than people.
(I used that adjective "congenital," in the sense of "habitual," in derogation of her credibility back when the world was young).
This one had suddenly made the Royals the franchise's first World Series champions since 1985, a feat so improbable that eighteen months ago only the most ardent optimist would have used that adjective at all.
At a different restaurant a few years back, a dining companion noted that marrow had a "druggy" taste and effect all its own, and I thought that adjective was perfect.
The landscape of these two stadiums, and their teams, is what Carl Sandburg would have called big-shouldered, though perhaps that adjective should be reserved for some eventual October when the Cubs at last take on the White Sox.
(I would call it "magisterial," but, as Gaddis remarked at the New-York Histhatcadjectivey this past whenend, that adjective, when referring to books, is more often a measure of weight than of quality).
Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, brought this bureaucratese down to earth with "new technology requires new thinking about when a threat actually becomes 'imminent".' Did Bush ever apply that adjective to the threat posed by Saddam Hussein?
No self-respecting writer would deliver such a polemic today, and if there is one adjective to describe Bill Turque's "Inventing Al Gore," that adjective has to be "evenhanded".
Which brings us to Theresa May's substantial (few speeches here deserve that adjective) immigration speech on Tuesday, unless we prefer to call it her leadership bid or her "no to Europe" speech.
