A musician's attempt to summarize his or her work leads to all this prescriptive chatter, or what I call the Modifier's Madness. A lot of adjectives working overtime.
Most writers sow adjectives almost unconsciously into the soil of their prose to make it more lush and pretty. The sentences become longer and longer as they fill up with stately elms and graceful boughs and frisky kittens and sleepy lagoons.
To speak today of a famous novelist is like speaking of a famous cabinetmaker or speedboat designer. Adjective is inappropriate to noun.
Cuisine has become too complicated - this is about subject, verb, adjective: duck, turnips, sauce.
I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.
As to the adjective: when in doubt, strike it out.
I'm self-centered, inconsiderate, and what was the third adjective? Oh, yes, and I have this infantile fantasy that one day I'll amount to something as an actress.
Over-certified adjectives are the mark of most best-seller writing
I've once gotten in trouble with certain gay activists because I'm not gay enough! I am a morose homosexual. I'm melancholy. Gay is the last adjective I would use to describe myself. The idea of being gay, like a little sparkler, never occurs to me. So if you ask me if I'm gay, I say no.
Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.
When we put words together - adjective with noun, noun with verb, verb with object - we start to talk to each other.
Frankly I've never really subscribed to these adjectives tagging me as an 'icon', 'superstar', etc. I've always thought of myself as an actor doing his job to the best of his ability.
Purity of action guided Janis's behavior. If she was going to be good, she was very, very good. If she was going to be bad, she let all the stops out. Anything less than full commitment to an idea of activity was 'hypocritical', the worst adjective anyone could hurl at another.
I think 'ambitious' is one of those adjectives used for women in a derogatory way.
Eschew all those beastly adjectives.
My goal in life is to become an adjective.
I'm proud of the two adjectives, superficial and frivolous.
The word heterosexual is an adjective, the word homosexual is an adjective. They describe an activity. Of course there's a homosexual activity; of course there's a heterosexual activity. But there's no homosexual person. There's no heterosexual person. Everybody is everything.
I know I look good. The regular adjectives that come my way - sexy, hot, dusky, bong bombshell I love them.
They've a temper, some of them - particularly verbs, they're the proudest - adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs.