It begins with a silhouette of a boy or a girl and a collection
of adjectives on slips of paper.
You are no doubt
all of those adjectives on other days when your eyeliner is on point and your heart is functioning normally.
Not exact matches
A Year
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of what makes a woman «biblical» and the danger
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adjective.
On the other hand, the temporalist stresses that the word «time» is qualified by the
adjective «physical,» and suggests that the quotation is compatible with the claim that the phases
of concrescence are in some sort
of nonphysical time.
When the stress is
on the role
of the occasions constituting the psyche in relation to the other occasions transpiring in the organism, then the
adjective «dominant» is sometimes placed before «occasion
of experience.»
While the percipient centers attention
on a, he may also pay secondary attention to b, pick out its location with a degree
of definiteness by its relatedness to a. and begin to cognize it by
adjective (e.g., while watching a buzzing fly, I become aware
of its proximity to a fragile goblet).
In taking profiles
on perceptual objects, the percipient may be cognizant
of his own body by relationship to an attended object and vaguely by
adjective, e.g., when focusing my attention
on a fly while trying to swat it.
The word is a 19thC construction first made by Henry More, but is based
on the use
of the
adjective «
of knowledge», (Greek γνωστικός) by Irenaeus (c. 185 AD) to describe the school
of Valentinus.
I could go
on and
on here: The
adjectives used to describe women in leadership roles versus the ones used to describe men in similar jobs, the previous arrest record
of black people involved in a law enforcement shooting and yet never the officer's misconduct record, the average amount
of lines given to male characters over female.
We chose the term because it was not defined, and we wanted to find a way to convey with an
adjective the fundamentally missionary nature
of the church (which is the wording in Vatican II
on which we were building).
This «whole» view
of human existence — I use the
adjective whole to indicate an inclusive understanding
of human nature — has become increasingly attractive to those working in the many different branches
of science that have a bearing
on human existence.
The panel agreed
on several
adjectives: chocolately (including cocoa and bittersweet chocolate), slightly woodsy (especially the aroma
of the beans) and full - bodied.
These are usually
adjectives that we use to describe what we wish our hair looked like
on a daily basis (see Blake Lively for a real life example) but in this instance I experienced all three
of these lovely words in conjunction with a muffin and it appears I owe it all to FAGE Greek Yogurt.
But using such negative
adjectives on a man that refused the lure
of money to serve you when things were bad is not good enough.
His article
on the Legends
of Golf (Where Life Begins at 50, May 5) exemplifies Jenkins» unique and humorous style, not to mention the single largest collection
of adjectives ever found in a weekly sports magazine.
We mentioned it earlier
on Sunday, and many were calling it the shot
of the 2010 Masters as soon as the ball bounced down
on the green, but it's worth directing our attention to it once more: Phil Mickelson's shot
on the 13th truly was remarkable, amazing, gutsy, and about a 17 other
adjectives.
The
adjectives to describe SportStars Magazine's NorCal Football Player
of the Year Mason Hurst are as plentiful as the skills that he possesses
on and off the football field.
From there
on he delivered a streak
of golf that well deserves that overworked
adjective of the game — sizzling.
He might have some good insights
on the BJJ aspects
of the fight, but his striking analysis only consists
of adjectives with little to no insight into the mechanics / tactics / strategies.
Those
adjectives are doing a lot
of work, which was pretty much what Edmonton's Cam Talbot meant telling reporters that the lack
of standard was «f ----- ridiculous»
on Feb. 17.
For each story they have a list
of nouns, verbs, and
adjectives to choose from based
on the symbol shown in the blank.
The
adjective «emotional» can and has been used to describe everything from nationalist outbursts, sentiment reflected in polls, and even the personal attitudes
of policymakers
on both sides.
Justice Holmes argued against the majority opinion by adding two
adjectives to his test: «imminent» and «forthwith» as a better indicator
of violation and called the leaflets «poor and puny anonymities,» and that any charge should be «the most nominal punishment» based
on their radical views (Lewis 29).
It seems Cameron agrees: though his report is now published, and the days
of (to use that favourite
adjective of Eric Pickles) clipboard wielding health and safety officials are numbered, he tells me he'll be staying
on.
He argues that prebendalism is the most appropriate conceptual notion for explaining Nigeria's politicians intense and persistent struggle to control and exploit the offices
of the state and defines prebendalism in terms
of «the historical association
of the term «prebend» with the offices
of certain feudal states which could be obtained through services rendered to a lord or monarch or through outright purchase by supplicants... the
adjective «prebendal» will refer to patterns
of political behaviour which rest
on the justifying principle that such offices should be competed for and then utilised for the personal benefit
of office holders as well as their reference or support group.
The issue: The
adjective that lawmakers, business owners and upstate residents have hung
on the lack
of ride - hailing services outside
of New York City is «embarrassing.»
The cognitive model has been validated using a database
of about 1500 input sentences, based
on literature
on early language development, and has responded by producing a total
of about 500 sentences in output, containing nouns, verbs,
adjectives, pronouns, and other word classes, demonstrating the ability to express a wide range
of capabilities in human language processing.
On Dogpile, terms describing age are the most frequent type
of adjective in sexual searches, appearing in one out
of every six
of them.
Multiple charismatic
adjectives were assessed
on a Likert scale
of agreement by a French audience.
For example, they were asked to rate how angry, annoyed and furious (among other
adjectives) they felt
on a scale
of 1 to 5.
The English summary
of an article
on problems
of the legs and pelvis in a Russian medical magazine I once saw had taken «thyroid» to be an
adjective of the word «thigh»!
Examples
of utterances were «come sicuramente hai visto la vecchia sbarra la porta» where, depending
on meaning, «vecchia» can be the subject
of the main verb (sbarrare, to block) or an
adjective qualifying the subject (sbarra, bar)(«As you for sure have seen the old lady blocks the door» versus «As you for sure have seen the old bar carries it»).
Re the issue
of vitamin deficiencies, there are plenty
of reports
of nutrient deficiencies
on clinical ketogenic diets, thus Dr Phinney's need to include the
adjective «well - formulated» before ketogenic diets.
I'm not going to go all women's lib
on you, but that is a great combination
of adjectives.
I was
on board til that last
adjective — last year I bought the Lily Legging Jeans by Level 99 and those things stretch out so much over the course
of the day that I had to bring a belt to keep them
on for the second half
of my workday.
If you asked most people I know to describe me, I would put money
on the fact that «confident» would be one
of the
adjectives most
of them used.
Ask a few
of your close friends or family members to throw some
adjectives out about how they would describe you to someone if they were setting you up
on a blind date.
If you want to go back, I started with a whole series
of articles
on how not to write your profile:
adjectives, anger, cliches and factoids.
Based
on these
adjective groupings, Pierson found that there are five basic types
of eHarmony daters: The Romeos (passionate), the Spocks (intelligent, rational), the Snow Whites (sweet, quiet), the Teddy Roosevelts (optimistic and energetic), and the Hufflepuffs (hard working and loyal).
Leave the negative
adjectives out
of your profile and focus
on more positive statements.
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1987's other Allen film was the strenuously dramatic September, and the question
of influence versus the merely derivative arose again: «Chekhovian» was how Richard Schickel described the «humourlessness,» echoed pejoratively by Vincent Canby at The New York Times («neo-Chekhovian») and all the way down to Premiere magazine journalist Marcelle Clements, who predicted this fixation
on a single
adjective before the movie was released — «You can bet your boots that the word «Chekhovian» will be uttered at least once by everyone at the table».
L.A. - based Everything Is Terrible inflicts
on its audience a melange
of some
of the best (OK, «worst» is probably the better
adjective) video clips from more than 2,000 awful horror movies («horror, satanic panic, and singing Christian duck VHS tapes» is how the group puts it), presented live at the Niarchos Foundation Parkway, 5 W. North Ave. 8 p.m. Wednesday.
When, as a guest
on «Inside The Actors Studio,» Gabriel Byrne was prompted for his favorite phrases, he chose prolix, an
adjective connoting a superfluity
of words, and bollocks, the Hibernian slang for testicles that can mean claptrap, rubbish, a series
of lies, an idiotic person, or, in active form, the feat
of fouling something up.
The term «hotshot» is spoken repeatedly in Only The Brave, and it takes some adjustment to realize it's not a nickname or an
adjective but an official designation for teams trained to work
on the front lines
of wildfires — often literally fighting fire with fire.
I stand by my choice
of adjective: «pitch» refers to «tone», and it was the tone and feel and portrayal
of the themes that was dead -
on in this particular film.
Lastly, the presence
of much - overlooked late - December release Police,
Adjective (# 21) suggests that Video
On Demand — savvy cinephiles are doin» it for themselves.
But the idea
of the
adjective becoming a catch - all term divorced from economics or patronage — something that would also encompass an aesthetic, a sensibility, a community and a dozen different D.I.Y. subgenres, the cinematic equivalent
of «college rock» — was not
on anybody's minds.
With fairly cursory critical discussions, perpetual plot synopses, and
adjective - driven lauding («an acidulous commentary
on class» or «a masterclass in film acting,» to name a couple) in place
of detail - driven social criticism, Forshaw has placed himself between a Brighton Rock (1947) and a Kill List (2011), casting his historical net too wide for anything more than introductory textual assessment.
Moving, touching, endearing, and all those other
adjectives that describe how a movie affects us profoundly apply to this post-traumatic stresser about a family dynamic put
on hold after the horrific events
of 9/11.