adjectival phrase in a sentence

Examples

1. The phrase makes me think of the National Film Registry criteria; we also have Register of Culturally Significant Properties, but " culturally significant " itself is just an adjectival phrase without much meaning absent some context . " Maybe " retarget to Cultural heritage, but even that seems tentative .-- talk ) 18 : 31, 7 October 2016 ( UTC)
2. Robert Reisner suggested in 1971 that " it was not uncommon in the Middle Ages to have a characterizing adjectival phrase attached to one's name, such as Charles the Simple, Louis the Pious, so why not John the Fucker, if that was his most salient quality ? " Allen Walker Read rejects this connection; although it was certainly commonplace at the time for people to acquire surnames reflecting their occupations, skills, places of origin, characteristics and so on, he comments that he " cannot imagine people seriously giving this activity prominence, or any man seriously accepting the name ".