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Examples for using adjectives to describe people:
• She’s so calm, nothing seems to faze her.

• Martin Luther King was a very charismatic speaker.
• We’d better be more careful in the future.
• We need to make the working day more flexible.
• I think I’ve been very selfish. I’ve been mainly concerned with myself.
• Freddie Mercury was a flamboyant star of the British hard rock scene.
• The actor is so modest about his latest triumph.
• Their wedding is a very classy affair.

• I couldn’t believe how straight-looking he was, how preppy.
• He was trying to be really cool and trendy.
• The Hungarian people are warm and friendly.
• I read that the new director is a Mexican.
• Well, I think she’s either Russian or Polish.

• His remarks deeply offended many Scottish people.
• She’s Italian by birth but is now an Australian citizen.
• Patricia looked beautiful and elegant as always.
• The little girl is very cute.
• He was a youngish man, obviously worried and anxious.
• He is a tall man but his wife is a short woman.
• The nurse was a cheerful plump woman.
• I’m overweight by 2 kg according to my doctor.

• He is not slim enough to wear these tight trousers.
• He is very clever and endlessly resourceful.
• Tom was very enthusiastic about the place.
• He was very respectful at home and obedient to his parents.