Not exact matches
The excitable
adverbs in the film's opening text set the desperate, straining tone: «Based on irony free, wildly contradictory, totally
true interviews with Tonya Harding and Jeff Gillooly,» the latter the skater's ex-husband, who would serve jail time for his plotting
of the Kerrigan leg - clubbing.
But consider how much effort you put into making each
of your sentences feel right and look right, informational and tonally
true, not choking on gratuitous
adverbs or clunky prepositions.
It is
true, as John Trimble says in Writing With Style, that «the right
adverb, fresh and adroitly placed, is one
of life's finest small pleasures.»