Donald Satz wrote: >As I move further along into reviews of recordings, it increasingly >interests me how we find adjectives and other terms to describe what we >like and don't like. I thought it might be fun to come with some terms >and then apply their relative opposites. If you like, please provide >some of your own. Astonishing: Very nice, I liked it; a cut above what you usually hear. Used chiefly by British critics, who use this adjective when they can't find a full thesaurus (I complained about the annoying frequency of this term -- found often in the BBC Music Magazine -- on the Mahler-List a couple of years ago). Mitch Friedfeld