(Last sentence) Do you believe the story about the president (George Washington) who, as a boy, admitted to his father that he cut down the cherry tree?
You could use the adjective, gaudy, to describe a noun. The noun, quail, could be used as the sentence subject (either direct or indirect). For example:
"The gaudy pheasant made the dull quail ashamed of its plain feathers."
Rhetoric is a strong part of english. Especially connotations of words - often at home, my mother hates the word;
When applied in the correct context, okay can mean whatever you say. It isn't a strong word for acknowledgement or conviction the way the word 'yes' is.
