“Going Dutch” is a contemporary military workplace family comedy, not necessarily in that adjectival order.

Dederer is continually trying — not in the adjectival sense, but as the present participle: showing us her thought process, correcting as she goes and experimenting with different forms.

Many verb and adjectival forms being feminine, regular mention of captivity, and recurring names - such as Walsingham - all put them on the trail of Mary.

They complain that some playwrights, like Pinter, got the classier adjectival ending “-esque” even as they each wound up with “-ian.”

“Children are a crushing responsibility,” Leda tells Callie at one point, Colman’s steady gaze and adjectival emphasis only heightening her character’s allure.