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adjectives chemicals describe general media needs public understand
One needs only to look at the adjectives used by the media to describe chemicals to understand why the general public is frightened: toxic, killer, lethal, deadly, Robert Hendrickson
adjective compound noun phrase straw wizard
The noun phrase straw man, now used as a compound adjective as in 'straw-man device, technique or issue,' was popularized in American culture by 'The Wizard of Oz.' William Safire
adjectives anger angry couple describe lewis mild naturally people taken
If there are a couple of adjectives people use to describe me, anger is usually in there. I've never taken that as criticism. It's the way I naturally communicate. But I'm not faux-angry, like Lewis Black, or angry like a gun-toting crazy person. I'm just angry in a mild way - it's not like I'm going to do anything about it. David Cross
adjectives bear brought history hundred imagine learn learned past school
The history of the past, a hundred years from now, won't be the history of the past that we learned in school because much more will have been revealed, and adjectives we can't even imagine will have been brought to bear on what we did learn in school. William Gibson
adjectives almost biggest brings brother describe eye great promoters talking tear tyler
Tyler has been one of the biggest promoters of Seth. It almost brings a tear to my eye just talking about it. He's been like a big brother to him. I don't have enough adjectives to describe how great Tyler has been this year.
adjective call fit harsh remained
You may call me selfish if you will, conservative or reactionary, or use any other harsh adjective you see fit to apply, but an American I was born, an American I have remained all my life. Henry Cabot Lodge
adjective baseball figuring help learning pitchers understanding verb
Understanding the use of an adjective or an adverb and figuring out verb tenses won't help you play baseball in the States. It's all about learning pitchers and teammates. Bobby Valentine
adjectives proud way
I have been called 'Bongshell' the day I stepped into showbiz. So, any adjective coming my way, I take it positively. Sometimes it's also entertaining, but I don't feel bad about it. I'm a proud woman. Bipasha Basu
adjectives built inaccurate nouns pull tight weak
Write with nouns and verbs, not with adjectives and adverbs. The adjective hasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place.
compound gap miss somebody tackle turns
So it's compound problems, ... Somebody is not in their gap and then you miss the tackle and it turns into big plays. Mike Brown
compound mistake month playing
We are playing so different than we were a month ago. When we make a mistake now, we don?t compound it by making another or getting that deer-in-the-headlights look. We just keep playing.
compound elements goes plays primitive suggest
What does that suggest when a compound this simple plays such an important role? To me it suggests that nitric oxide is one of the most primitive elements of cellular signaling, that it goes way back into evolution.
compound double helped mistake outfield runs
I think we helped them in the first inning with the double error. That inning is over with no runs if we make the play on that, but then we compound things with the mistake in the outfield as well.
compound hitting spots
Evans pitched great. He was hitting his spots and to compound that we weren't making adjustments (at the plate).
compound corruption disconnect feels issue itself police problems public reputation
There's a credibility issue that is manifesting itself in New Orleans. Part of that is the disconnect the public feels with the police department. The reputation of corruption lingers, and the new problems compound it.
compound drain friday hours next night refill starting sufficient time within
Everything had to be dismantled within 24 hours starting at 11 p.m. Friday night. To compound matters, there wasn't sufficient time to drain the basin and refill it for the next day. Mark McGrath
compound damning inclined mind morality sins
Compound for sins they are inclined to by damning those they have no mind to. Samuel Butler
compound deity dirt inspired mind mixed sensuality soaring
What an antithetical mind! -- tenderness, roughness -- delicacy, coarseness -- sentiment, sensuality -- soaring and groveling, dirt and deity -- all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay! Lord Byron
nouns ifs objects
At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I'll retract it. Janis Joplin
nouns blame
We all have some proper noun to blame. Chuck Palahniuk
nouns
Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages.
nouns disease adjectives
diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives. Florence Nightingale
nouns obsessed clear
The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns. Fiona Shaw
nouns adjectives verbs
I do so like all-encompassing words. Verb, adjective, noun. Yes, you are shitted. Kim Harrison
nouns statistics verbs
God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper. R. Buckminster Fuller
nouns earth verbs
I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.
nouns verbs theater
Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place. Martha Graham
phrase possibly reality speak synonymous words
In this culture, the phrase 'black woman' is not synonymous with 'tender,' or 'gentle.' It's as if those words couldn't possibly speak to the reality of black females. bell hooks
phrases fit educated
I have been, as the phrase is, liberally educated, and am fit for nothing. Charles Dickens
phrases uncertain temper
…a lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper --a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable.
phrase
We're not about to let them take the phrase
phrases used wells
Well I've never used that phrase before, but yes she is bootylicious. Ben Affleck
phrases may said
You may be right,' she said, a phrase which here meant 'I’m wrong, but I don’t have the courage to say so. Daniel Handler
phrases idle truce
A truce to idle phrases! Aristophanes
phrases world ugly
World domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer to call it world optimisation. Eliezer Yudkowsky
phrases repetition again-and-again
a meaningless phrase repeated again and again begins to resemble truth. Barbara Kingsolver
straws
Oft stumbles at a straw. Edmund Spenser
wizard
I did my first show in second grade. I was a munchkin in 'The Wizard of Oz.' Laura Osnes
wizardry witchery capable
Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of. Charles de Lint
wizards belief
To the wizard death is merely a belief. Deepak Chopra
wizards shows convince
I'm on a show called Wizards of Wavery Place, and I like it, but I'm unable to convince my Tivo that I wouldn't also like iCarly. Andy Kindler
wizards said
It was like the Wizard of Oz had spoken, and what he said was too ludicrous to take seriously. Anthony Kiedis
wizard
'The Wizard of Oz' is my favorite movie. It was the first movie I can ever remember watching. Ezra Miller
wizards hagrid said
Ah, go boil yer heads, both of yeh", said Hagrid. “Harry — yer a wizard. J. K. Rowling
wizards lines sticks
Professor Flitwick had dried himself off and set Seamus lines ("I am a wizard not a baboon brandishing a stick")
wizards
You're a wizard, Harry.