It doesn't matter how many spelling errors or weak adjectives you have in it.
We can suddenly see the twilit sky of a big city afresh, and the literary genius is obviously centered in the unexpected strength of the adjective "weak," which brings alive the diminishing strata of the urban night sky, overpowered by the bright lights on the ground.
The bar mitzvah may have made me a man, but when my father and I entered the forbidding, grasshopper-ridden forest by the bungalow colony and he reached into the ground to sift for the juiciest worms, I felt coursing through me the Russian word for "weak" — slabyi, an adjective that from my father's mouth could reduce me to near-zero.
A semantically significant distinction between inflected and uninflected predicate adjectives has emerged, while the difference between weak and strong adjectives, a characteristic of other Germanic languages, has effectively disappeared.
Polite discourse has a weak arsenal of adjectives to describe crimes of war.
But hold on: the Romans beat us to it, with the Latin effeminare, carrying the opposite meaning: "to make womanish". Although that verb is rarely used in English, we already have the adjective effeminate, meaning "weak and decadent" to some, plain "girlish" to others.
The adjectives "strong" and "weak" refer to the fact that the truth of a result such as equation (14) implies the truth of the corresponding version of equation (11), but not conversely.
The meditation also appeared to calm the brain circuitry associated with self-describing adjectives such as "weak" and "insecure" or "strong" and "able". The finding suggests that mindfulness meditation might make it easier for people to shift between ways of viewing themselves, Goldin said.
Adjectives had strong and weak declensions, the strong showing a mixture of noun and pronoun endings and the weak following the pattern of weak nouns.
And the poetry lies not just in what the sentence paints but in how it sounds: there is something mysteriously lovely about the rhythm of "weak violet heights," and the way the two adjectives turn into a plural noun that is really just another adjective; the sentence does indeed seem to drift away into the far distance.
