Huh. This reminds me of that thing with English adjective order.
It's Happy Little Accidents, but Big Angry Intent. Are Happy and Angry not in the same category of adjective?
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I thought the same thing. It seems like the commonly accepted order (Opinion, Size, Age, Shape, Color, Origin, Material, and Purpose) doesn't include emotion, so that might be what makes it ambiguous.
Or it might be the meaning behind the words - when Bob Ross says "happy little accidents", he's not saying the accidents are happy but that they're a good thing, so this is more like an opinion, while "big angry intents" sounds more like the intents are themselves angry.
It kinda means (to me, a layman) that the accidentals are little but the angry is big
He’s going to beat the devil out of you.
The Joy of Killing with Bob Ross.
"The rivers will run Cadmium Red with my enemies' blood."
Well, he was a Drill Sergeant.
The Happy Little Cloud in the background looks ready for some big angry smiting
Today we're going to use a lot of crimson, start with your knife edge...
We want happy paintings, if you want sad things.... I'm about to go on a happy little spree
the time at war might prove useful
Bob's not so well known spinoff "The Agony of Abstract Expressionist Painting"
"Don't make me angry. You don't want to see me when I'm angry." - Fred Rogers