descriptor
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The descriptor “brilliant” surfaces repeatedly, the verdict of his collaborators.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Holzhauer chose the descriptor “game show villain” when he returned for a champions’ tournament.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026
“Dissociative” is a decent descriptor for Isella’s music, too — disorienting, unnerving, drawing out emotions you might not understand.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2025
The book is not unnecessarily maudlin but rather sharply present, which is also simply an accurate descriptor for much of Smith’s life and work.
From Salon ● Nov. 11, 2025
Later, octave came to mean a choice of twelve notes, not eight, and we got saddled with the wrong descriptor for ever, but I’ll explain that development when it arrives.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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