The view seems to be "not sustained" by facts.
Here is a mini-study based on the quotes of Abraham Lincoln, an emancipator of human race. This study is based on 180 quotations of his. I have examined. Out of 1000 adjectives taken for testing, he used just 20 adjectives. These too, are very simple, and yet they make a mark.
I give a list of ten such adjectives: 1- concerned ,
2- fearful ,
3- important ,
4- light ,
5- pretty ,
6- proud ,
7- public ,
8- rightful ,
9- silent ,
10- weary.
I have selected another ten adjectives for a mini quiz.
Fill in the blanks, selecting the adjectives used by him from the Choice Box.
Commonly used adjectives such as -big, small, great, little- have been left out. Fill in the blanks, selecting appropriate words from the Choice Box.
SELECTION BOX:
bloody ,
practical ,
impossible ,
quiet ,
peaceful ,
real ,
slow ,
successful ,
tall ,
valuable
QUESTION BOX:
1- This is a most ____ - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
2- Ballots are the rightful and ___ successors to bullets.,
3- The assertion that "all men are created equal" was of no ___ use in effecting our separation from Great Britain.
4- To give victory to the right, not ____ bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
5- I'm a ____ walker, but I never walk back.
6- No man has a good enough memory to be a ____ liar.
7- The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the ___ thing.
8- You have to do your own growing no matter how ___ your grandfather was.
9- The dogmas of the ___ past are inadequate to the stormy present.,
10- He who moulds the public sentiment, makes statutes and decisions possible or ____ to make.
Sentences Nos. 2 and 4 clearly show that Lincoln was a great Champion of peace. Yet, he was forced to wage a war. Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King were also lovers of peace. All the three lost their lives in the hands of this crooked humanity.
You can see the depth of the sentence No. 5, accomplished with a very short and dull-looking adjective.
SUGGESTED ANSWERS: 1- valuable ,2- peaceful ,3- practical ,4- bloody ,5- slow ,6- successful ,7- real ,8- tall ,9- quiet ,10- impossible.
