It is obvious to me that, at least in fiction writing, verbs matter more than adjectives and adverbs. Instead of saying:
"He quickly walked out of the house, the cold air a tonic to his miserly fatigue."
"He slithered out of the house, the cold air a tonic . . ."
It evokes a different image without adding to the density or complexity of the sentence--it essentially builds character through action, rather than separating out the two.
Interesting observation. It can probably tell us something profound about the way our brains do semantic evaluation.
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