Adjectives can be very useful. Let's take delightful. Imagine one is writing a ’50 Shades’-style S&M story. He ran through the previous night's activities. Th

Adjectives can be very useful. Let's take delightful. Imagine one is writing a ’50 Shades’-style S&M story. He ran through the previous night's activities. There was the brutal whipping, followed by a caning. He was forced to drink the urine of a dog, and then she stretched his arms out in agonising pain. "That sounds brutal," Melanie said with her eyelids agape. She had never understood the appeal of kinky sex. "No, it was delightful really," he said with a big, perverse grin on his face. Lewis' suggested rule against adjectives in writing is fine, but sometimes they are very useful for contrast or in dialogue. The adjectives you use can build up the character of a person, and can form part of their personal idiolect. Lewis' advice is fine and good, but one ought not to extrapolate from a rule against applying adjectives lazily in place of actual description to a rule against using adjectives at all.