His spare style, full of threatening silences, has given rise to the adjective "Pinteresque".
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The cabin seems a little ADJECTIVE, considering the out-of-place ADJECTIVE NOUN, but our heroes ignore it.
Three of us stepped forward to speak, and act out, an adjective or adverb.
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When William marries Kate in April, intimate is unlikely to be the adjective of choice.
Intrepid, though, is perhaps not a bad adjective for the long career of Bonnie Cashin.
Even in cases such as these there may well be a link between the noun and the adjective.
Well actually, this appears to be three rules, one noun and an adjective.
Yes, yes, one person's candid is another person's, there's another adjective for it.
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Meanwhile, Paula insisted Josh's greatness was beyond adjectives, and L.A. attempted to use karaoke as an adjective to describe Josh.
Tablets for lack of a better single adjective, are just plain cool.
To these women, we wondered, is power an adjective or a verb?
"Malaise" was the adjective of choice used to describe our nation's condition.
The book's adjective would emerge as "Complete" in the 18th century, and its subtitle, "The Contemplative Man's Recreation, " is indicative of Walton's nature.
We have elected officials whose vocabulary is so limited that they cannot think of a more respectable adjective to describe how they feel.
Nouns get all the good parts potato, macaca, the Appalachian Trail but this winter, in Paris, a jobbing three-syllable adjective set off a political scandal.
It could be termed "Super Thursday" but it is highly unlikely that anyone in local government would want to use that particular adjective.
What is significant is that, in ordinary usage, a noun and its adjective form may have meanings as disparate as any two unrelated words.
With that single adjective the prime minister had managed to enrage not just the Palestinians and the Lebanese, but also France's President Jacques Chirac.
An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery habit, once fastened upon a person, is as hard to get rid of as any other vice.
At BrandMixer, we have seen phrase and adjective tag clouds yield a stronger correlation to increasing long-term product sales vs. a popular meme on Twitter.
It's embittered - although the Greek adjective has only one "m".
The adjective "sole" has become a key measurement in diplomatic circles where U.S. nuclear forces have long been seen as an impediment to stopping nuclear proliferation.
One Plaid Cymru AM who would certainly not qualify for the adjective "timid" is the third placed candidate in the leadership runoff - Lord Dafydd Elis-Thomas.
Today, I encountered what seemed like a very similar attitude in an irritable (not the first adjective that comes to mind) Politico feature on the First Family.
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The devices' description column features a lone adjective, too: ultimate.
"I think he said, 'I've now gone through Wandsworth and Leyhill and I've found them fascinating', which is a surprisingly positive adjective to use about a prison, " said Aitken.
"Eventful" may be a horribly euphemistic adjective to describe the last 12 months in the stock market, rife with bailouts, bankruptcies, credit problems and collapses of major financial institutions.
Getting The Rascals The Young Rascals dropped the adjective from their name when they ditched their schoolboy outfits, knickers and knee socks back together has been a labor of love for Van Zandt.
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