Emotion has its own vocabulary, and that vocabulary runs across parts of speech. Grief is a noun...

Attitude is the lens a person points at the world, and a sour one colors everything they touch. A...

A great villain needs the right vocabulary, or the menace rings hollow. Call him cruel and the...

A flawless hero is forgettable. Readers remember the liar who cannot stop, the genius undone by...

Verbs do the heavy lifting in any sentence, and the harshest ones strike before an adjective gets a...