Hans Brix! Oh No!
By J Norman Marsh“We will write you a letter, telling you how angry we are.”
Defense Secretary Robert Gates called the North Korean nuclear test “supercilious and jejune,” leading some in diplomatic circles to worry that the U.S. might be running out of appropriate adjectives with which to craft its response.
President Obama attempted to calm those fears, saying that the United States was prepared to “scour the thesaurus” to come up with additional adjectives and was “prepared to use adverbs” if necessary.
There’s no problem a well-placed adverb can’t solve.