strings\ of\ epithets

strings\ of\ epithets
цепочки эпитетов
present a group of homogeneous attributes varying in number from three up to sometimes twenty and even more

You're a scolding, unjust, abusive, aggravating, bad old creature. (Ch.Dickens)

He's a proud, haughty, consequential, turned-nosed peacock. (Ch.Dickens)

And then in a nice, old-fashioned, lady-like, maiden-lady way, she blushed. (A.Christie)

And the eyes watchful, waiting, perceiving, indifferent. (T.S.Eliot)

See: epithet

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