(37) In the conventional use
of the adjective as the modifier of a noun, the carefully selected adjective can strengthen (or reduce) the world view called forth by the noun, as is «The Lord is a very great God, a God above all gods.»
The device is straightforward and customizable, and now it can add «colorful» to its roster
of adjectives as well.
Not exact matches
I must say it was easy to dismiss the survey
as a load
of hooey — and glancing down the list
of adjectives did little to allay my skepticism.
«Trump tried to get
as much newspaper coverage
as possible [early in his career], always pushing his Trump [brand] and the
adjective «billionaire» attached to his name or «successful real estate developer» and «rich,»» says Gwenda Blair, author
of «The Trumps: Three Generations
of Builders and a President.»
Edwards added that he believes the recession is now here (hence his «ultimate»
adjective), «just
as it was in the fall
of 2011 until global coordinated easing injected trillions and masked its impact, and will manifest itself unless the global central banks step up far more aggressively and tune out reality once again.»
As a side note, the word «intrepid» (adjective: resolutely fearless; dauntless) in the context of fertilizer is strangely reminiscent of the late - 1960's «Go - Go» market, when dull little companies gave themselves exciting names to divert investors attention from the fact that they were, in fact, dull little companies - as when Minnie Pearl's Fried Chicken renamed itself «Performance Systems.&raqu
As a side note, the word «intrepid» (
adjective: resolutely fearless; dauntless) in the context
of fertilizer is strangely reminiscent
of the late - 1960's «Go - Go» market, when dull little companies gave themselves exciting names to divert investors attention from the fact that they were, in fact, dull little companies -
as when Minnie Pearl's Fried Chicken renamed itself «Performance Systems.&raqu
as when Minnie Pearl's Fried Chicken renamed itself «Performance Systems.»
Lots
of adjectives whose meaning is incomprehensibly subjective, such
as «wetter» bass.
(Was «vintage» even used
as an
adjective before the advent
of Martha's enterprise?)
The degree to which the U.S. press has become complicit in this deadly war
of images is revealed by how frequently articles or news reports in the mainstream television and print media describe Nicaragua by using
adjectives such
as «Marxist,» «Cuban - backed,» «Marxist - Leninist,» «leftist,» «Soviet - backed,» and «totalitarian.»
What those
adjectives point to is utter devastation —
of the natural world in which we live,
of the ties that bind us to others,
of the innerness
of spiritually sensitive personality,
as we have seen in earlier chapters.
It would seem that the nontemporalist ignores the
adjective «physical» in the quotation, and reads it
as saying that the phases
of concrescence are not in time.
I can't count the number
of times I repeated «objective» and «subjective»
as adjectives to «correctness» or «wrong» when arguing with truthfollower recently.
Nor is it «rational,» strictly speaking, an
adjective Artigas frequently attaches to it,
as though it were a deliverance
of natural science.
Instead, they should be treated
as adjectives describing the character
of how God
as a whole functions in relation to the world and to the eternal objects.
Using an orderly arrangement, it has all the crucial paradigms for nouns, pronouns,
adjectives, verbs, and participles,
as well
as helpful lists
of prepositions, irregular verbs, and other details frequently needed for Greek translation.
He is also fond
of stereotyped expressions such
as «a great voice» (twenty times), «the kings
of the earth» (ten times), the Lord God, the Almighty» (nine times), the
adjective «true» («alethinos») with «faithful», «holy», or «righteous» (nine times), «tribe and language and people and nation» (six times; cf. Dan.
Many scholars (see the WBC and NIGNT for example) see the
adjective as being a description
of the origin or source
of Scripture.
In a later chapter we shall have occasion to point out that all preaching worthy
of the name must be theological, by which I mean that it must be,
as the very
adjective indicates, «a word about God» and hence about God's decisive action for humankind in the event we name when we say «Jesus Christ.»
Overhearing conversations, while walking the streets
of New York, it struck me a few years ago that I couldn't get to the office or back without hearing, usually several times, the F - word used
as noun,
adjective, adverb, and ways grammatically unspecifiable.
This concept can not mean anything close to «unique coherence» which would undermine his pluralism, though he occasionally sneaks in other
adjectives like «simplicity», «elegance», and «most satisfying» (p. 79)
as well
as implying a uniqueness to the «meaningfulness»
of Christian living (p. 204).
And then my friend might hear the
adjective «Catholic»
as a form
of respect rather than dismissal.
The Leibnizian view stumbles in viewing self - identity
as merely numerical oneness, with at most a plurality
of qualities, a single noun with many
adjectives (LP 120).
The word comes from the Greek
adjective eschatos, meaning «last,» frequently used in the New Testament (
as in II Timothy3: 1,»... in the last days there will come times
of stress,» but also in such familiar usage
as Matthew 19:30: «But many that are first will be last, and the last first»).
For your information Arabic, written
as Arabi is not a noun but an
adjective, it means 20/20 according to the will
of deity, Holy Quran is in language
of truth and it is none other than Latin, language
of Adam and eve and corrupted by hindu's, pagans
as Sanskrit to hind, fool humanity.
What is their deduction
of metaphysical attributes but a shuffling and matching
of pedantic dictionary -
adjectives, aloof from morals, aloof from human needs, something that might be worked out from the mere word «God» by one
of those logical machines
of wood and brass which recent ingenuity has contrived
as well
as by a man
of flesh and blood.
Doubtless he can find isolated phrases somewhere in the Old Testament to justify each
of these
adjectives, but can this tirade, in any honestly objective way, summarise the Old Testament
as a whole?
Kent — the term religious is being used
as a noun, not an
adjective, and represents people who have taken orders (orders meaning having joined a specific religeous organization in order to live in that organization for the rest
of their lives).
I don't know how you get «ineffective» or «useless»
as a definition for «dead» http://www.biblestudytools.com/lexicons/greek/kjv/nekros.html nek - ros»
Adjective Definition properly one that has breathed his last, lifeless deceased, departed, one whose soul is in heaven or hell destitute
of life, without life, inanimate metaph.
We can never look directly at them, for they are bodiless and featureless and footless, but we grasp all other things by their means, and in handling the real world we should be stricken with helplessness in just so far forth
as we might lose these mental objects, these
adjectives and adverbs and predicates and heads
of classification and conception.
In knowing my past (or present) objects I never include or embrace them; they are, insofar
as they are objects
of my experience, «
adjectives» without the word «merely» attached (cf. quotation from Hartshorne, above).
As you probably know form English, there are numerous ways
of using
adjectives.
This presupposition is strengthened by the
adjective «elementary,» for an «element» means a final, not further divisible constituent, it being not further divisible not because it is impossible to divide it but because further division would result in its ceasing to be a «part,» that is,
of the same kind
as, that
of which it is a part.
Those bothered by reckless
as an
adjective for God seem to take the word out
of context.
The media has consistently characterized his approach to a variety
of issues
as «nuanced,» a description that employs the
adjective form
of «nuance» — a word which, according to Webster, means «a subtle difference or distinction in expression, meaning, responses, etc.» Synonyms include «subtlety,» «hint,» and «refinement.»
The reason for this is that it is usual, even natural (to use here the question - begging
adjective), for human sexual expression to be with others precisely because (
as I have argued) human existence is a social existence, where sociality is the correlative
of personality.
When one's view
of God is developed from reading scripture this way, he has to contend with many incongruous statements about God, and the only way to make sense
of these is to view them
as adjectives.
I would be happier to push him in the other direction, which is suggested when he talks
of objects
as «Aristotelian
adjectives»
of events.
This meaningfulness to the observer is at the root
of all descriptions
of an object, including
adjectives such
as objective, publicly compelling, predictable, etc..
Even so, the use
of the
adjective sustainable
as a modifier
of growth has had some effect.
In unfolding it, in order to show his own cleverness and reading, and satisfy itching ears, he proceeded with a new method, expounding letters, syllables and proposition, the harmony
of noun and verb, and that
of noun substantive, and noun
adjective... At last he... demonstrated the whole Trinity to be represented by these first rudiments
of grammar,
as clearly and plainly
as it was possible for a mathematician to draw a triangle in the sand.»
To talk
of substance is to suggest (however different may have been the meaning
of that word in the classical and medieval period) something that exists in and for and
of itself alone, without any necessary dependence upon that which is not itself: while to put the
adjective individual before substance is to talk
as if this substance could be seen primarily
as a particular instance
of a more general class.
It is fruitful to think
of the closeness
of Whitehead to Aristotle in thinking
of categories
as adverbial interrogatives, accompanying verbs, rather than
as nouns and
adjectives.
I'm still
as much
of a planner
as ever, but when life hands you beautiful brown eyes and a smile belonging to someone who is smart, witty, caring, and a continuation
of adjectives that will never do the real person justice, you embrace the welcome detour that takes you from Point A, to B, to C, rather than the original journey from Point A to C, and never look back.
But then I thought
of this and realized that it's just
as Fourth -
of - July - y (that's a real
adjective, I just made it up)
as any RWB food you got.
I don't have a waffle maker, but I'm gonna have to try this
as a pancake GiselleR @ Diary
of an ExSloth recently posted... 5
Adjectives to Avoid when Eating Out
I like to think
of amazeballs
as just an
adjective!
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.
You must take yourself very seriously when you throw
adjectives such
as «despicable» around after we lose a game
of football.
He is one
of those defenders often referred to
as uncompromising, although I could think
of other
adjectives to describe his methods.