... nothing seems completely to differentiate the poor but poverty. We find no adjectives to fit them, as a whole, only those of w...hich Want is the mother. "Miserable" covers many; "shabby" most, and I am sadly aware that, in a large majority of minds, "disagreeable" includes them all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They've a temper, some of them--paticularly verbs: they're the proudest--adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs--howev...er, I can manage the whole lot of them!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The ladies egged him on; in Eve's name, they dared him; so he made love with discreet verbs and light nouns, delicate conjunctions.... They begged; they defied him to define ... define everything.... Indecent prepositions such as in, on, up, merely made them smile, and the roundest exclamation broke upon them like a bubble's kiss, a butterfly's. Smooth and creamy adjectives enabled them to lick their lips upon the crudest story. How charmingly you speak, Reverend Furber how much you've seen of this wicked world, and how alive you are to it, they said.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simpl...e, but nourishing to the imagination. Hold the philosophy, hold the adjectives, just give us a plain subject and verb and perhaps a wholesome, nonfattening adverb or two.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Men felt a chill in their hearts; a damp in their minds. In a desperate effort to snuggle their feelings into some sort of warmth,... one subterfuge was tried after another ... sentences swelled, adjectives multiplied, lyrics became epics.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »