Identifying Adjectives: Into Thin Air

Identify all adjectives (including articles) in the following sentence: The 40-year-old Fischer was a strapping, gregarious man with a blond ponytail and manic energy

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Sporting a long black ponytail and a gold tooth, he was flashy, self-assured, and very appealing to the clients, not to mention crucial to their summit hopes.

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But two other clients on Fischer's team speculate that Lopsang was short-roping her because she'd promised him a hefty cash bonus if she reached the top.

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But it was one of many little things -- accruing slowly, compounding imperceptibly, building steadily toward critical mass.

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A quiet, moody young man who regarded Lopsang as a showboat and a goldbrick, Ang Dorje had been working extremely hard, well beyond the call of duty, for six long weeks.

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Clients huddled at the base of this obstacle for nearly an hour while Beidleman, standing in for the absent Lopsang, laboriously ran the rope out.

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A stiff breeze raked the ridge crest, blowing a plume of spindrift into Tibet, but overhead the sky was an achingly brilliant blue.

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Climbing along the blade of the summit ridge, sucking gas into my ragged lungs, I enjoyed a strange, unwarranted sense of calm.

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"Yeah, it's turned out to be a pretty good expedition," he replied. "I only wish we could have gotten more clients to the top."

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He had climbed Everest in 1993 without supplemental oxygen and wasn't overly concerned about going without.

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