When you’re writing, adjectives give you the most flexibility to create a vivid picture. It’s also easy to slip into a cliche series of mundane, familiar adjectives. Describing Words helps inspire you ...

This is one of 10 essays I offer as we close 2021 that I hope will help broadcast journalists tell stronger stories in the year ahead. Mark Twain offered some writing advice about adjectives: ...

The word redoubtable signifies formidable strength and impressive ability. It is used to describe leaders, competitors, and intellectuals who command respect and sometimes fear. Journalism and ...

Ours would be an awfully dull world if we didn’t have adjectives. Adjectives, words that describe or identify a person or thing – the beautiful troll, the syrupy pizza, the purple people-eater – are ...