Omari Hardwick

When you start out on a project as an actor, you know, you approach the character from the standpoint of maybe writing a list - even if it's a mental list that you make - of the adjectives that the character has or that character possesses.

American Actor

Padma Lakshmi

I like me better naked. I don't mean that in a vain way... When you put clothes on, you immediately put a character on. Clothes are adjectives, they are indicators. When you don't have any clothes on, it's just you, raw, and you can't hide.

Indian Chef

H. P. Lovecraft

One cannot be too careful in the selection of adjectives for descriptions. Words or compounds which describe precisely, and which convey exactly the right suggestions to the mind of the reader, are essential.

American Novelist

Rashida Jones

My pet peeve and my goal in life is to somehow get an adjective for 'integrity' in the dictionary. 'Truthful' doesn't really cover it, or 'genuine.' It should be like 'integritus.

American Actress

Isabel Allende

I want to have an epic life. I want to tell my life with big adjectives. I want to forget all the grays in between, and remember the highlights and the dark moments.

Chilean Writer

Martin Amis

All my adult life I have been searching for the right adjective to describe my father's peculiarly aggressive comic style. I recently settled on 'defamatory.

British Author

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The supermoon is a 16-inch pizza compared with a 15-inch pizza. It's a slightly bigger moon; I ain't using the adjective 'supermoon.

American Scientist

Mark Twain

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

American Writer

Lauren Graham

Mom' isn't an adjective or a personality; they're not all the same.

Clifton Fadiman

The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.

Adjectives change meaning based on context. The same word can have different effects in different sentences.

Contextual Variety

Use adjectives to be precise in descriptions, making clear mental images or impressions.

Descriptive Precision

Adjectives often carry emotional weight, influencing how readers feel about the noun.

Emotional Impact

Some words can be adjectives or another part of speech depending on their use.

Category Flexibility

To identify adjectives, look for words that give more detail about nouns nearby.

Contextual Clues

The order of adjectives before a noun can affect the sentence's clarity and sound.

Order Matters

 and I said, hey, this is nice-- they use it halfway, and I said, can I do it all the time? They said yeah. The way I view it is, Yoda is-- This is where adjectives and nouns are switched in places-- I'm not smart enough enough to know what an adjective or a noun is. Yeah, the sentence is fully understandable but clearly

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 it's a window into a culture they otherwise would not have had exposure to. And for the military, it's the exact same. And in doing this for the past six years, I'm always reminded that acting is many things. It's a craft, it's a political act, it's a business, it's -- whatever adjective is most applicable to you.

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 been bitten by this species before I'm all adjectives the snake venom and today snake anti-venom so I'm not in a good position to get bitten here but this is the middle whopper so and and what you what you look right now is as I mentioned one of the most endangered snake in the whole world and my

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 and it's not enough to throw a couple adjectives in a sentence and call it done either. Descriptive writing is good writing, that's true. But if you want to express the feeling of slow motion in life, you have to actually take up more physical space on the page, use more film so to speak.

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 continue to resonate. Today, the adjective Dickensian often implies squalid working or living conditions. But to describe a novel as Dickensian is typically high praise, as it suggests a story in which true adventure and discovery occur in the most unexpected places.

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 happy sad neutral disgusted but it helps us tune and actually create software systems that think more smartly about the human what does it mean for artificial intelligence to be emotional like those are not two adjectives i would put together in

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 and we know instantly what it would feel like if the sky were a fabric sewn shut. They can live in adjectives, too. "Still waters run deep," we say of someone quiet and thoughtful. And the deep matters as much as the stillness and the water do.

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 all smug and satisfied with their work. How dare they? You serve no purpose in our world, and we must rid ourselves of your influence. We must replace these two words with the truth, with phrases that include adequate and sincere adjectives.

The case against "good"...

 -Watch carefully. -including objects like cups. Excellent. Well done. Well done. He even knows numbers and adjectives. But perhaps the most surprising language skill is that AZ can use verbs and commands.

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 Academics love them. So do lawyers, bureaucrats, business writers. I call them zombie nouns, because they consume the living. They cannibalize active verbs, they suck the lifeblood from adjectives,