This sort of analysis of abstract or "thin" ethical concepts was tied to a special partitioning account of more concrete or "thick" concepts, such as "cowardly", "cruel", or "gluttonous". Such attributes obviously do not swing free of the facts, yet they carry the same "practicality" that "bad" or "wrong" do. They were intended to combine the particular, non-cognitive "evaluative" element championed by the theory with the obvious, "merely descriptive" element. One could detach the evaluative force by employing them in an "inverted commas sense", as one does in attempting to articulate thoughts in a system one opposes, by e. g. putting "unmanly" or "unladylike" in quotation marks. That leaves purely "descriptive" or "factual" expressions that apply to actions of men and women, respectively, whereas employing such expressions without the quotation marks would super-add the non-cognitive extra of "and such action is "bad"".