Agreed, the authors personal ability to make the phrases was not quite right. They also confuse the ability to have these attacked nouns, with the idea that th

Agreed, the authors personal ability to make the phrases was not quite right. They also confuse the ability to have these attacked nouns, with the idea that they are equivalent to other sentences in meaning. I think it becomes clear things like It was a dark and stormy night Night darkness, storminess Loses the context of what or when was dark and stormy.