"Stiff" simply wasn't an adequate description for how he felt when he tried to actually make his muscles do some work.
"An adequate description," Ann said, stepping past us to the kid's table.
'Big as a house' was hardly an adequate description to track him down.
Do you really think this is an adequate description of an Independent school?
There are other features of the sentence that require careful consideration for adequate description.
To give an adequate description of the classical Nahuatl language, it is, however, essential to mark them.
They weren't enough to provide an adequate description.
The four steps are not necessarily an adequate literal description of what historically happens.
They had no adequate description of either Doreen or the car.
Four additional genotypes require adequate description before they can be recognized as valid species.