Adjectives Revisited

In my second blog ever, 2008, I wrote about adjectives and Mark Twain's admonition to kill them all on sight, and about some exceptions to the rule.

Here are a couple more exceptions I found in James Crumley's The Last Good Kiss. In the first one, at page 35, he is describing a guy snoring:

He was sleeping like a grizzly gone under for the winter ... spitting out snores that seemed to curse his sleep, great phlegm-strangled, whiskey-soaked, cigar-smoked, window-rattling roars.

 In the second example, at page 47, he is a little more restrained when describing a lawyer.

And he had dressed for the occasion. A dark-blue, expensively tailored, vested, pin-striped suit and a silk tie.|