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A S Hamrah
lugubrious
(en)
(adjective) mournful / (adjective) exaggeratedly or affectedly mournful / (adjective) dismal
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The movie is lugubrious, like a Chekhov play about comedians in Los Angeles, a Chekhov play with hundreds of dick jokes, in which Jimmy Fallon might show up in a cameo as himself
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The movie is lugubrious, like a Chekhov play about comedians in Los Angeles, a Chekhov play with hundreds of dick jokes, in which Jimmy Fallon might show up in a cameo as himself
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vituperation
(en)
(noun) sustained and bitter railing and condemnation; vituperative utterance / (noun) an act or instance of vituperating
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Whatever Works is a vituperative, hostile film that mellows after a great painful-looking shot of Larry David lying on top of a woman he’s landed on while trying to commit suicide by jumping out a window
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Whatever Works is a vituperative, hostile film that mellows after a great painful-looking shot of Larry David lying on top of a woman he’s landed on while trying to commit suicide by jumping out a window
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limn
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(verb) depict or describe in painting or words; suffuse or highlight (something) with a bright color or light
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The Depression was not just an urban phenomenon limned in Warner Bros. gangster films and Gold Diggers musicals
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The Depression was not just an urban phenomenon limned in Warner Bros. gangster films and Gold Diggers musicals
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salutary
(en)
(adjective) producing a beneficial effect; remedial / (adjective) promoting health; curative
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Yet since it doesn’t quite know what it wants to say, this salutary didacticism is really a lost cause.
i thought it meant like perfunctory oops
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Yet since it doesn’t quite know what it wants to say, this salutary didacticism is really a lost cause.
i thought it meant like perfunctory oops
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homily
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(noun) a usually short sermon / (noun) a lecture or discourse on or of a moral theme / (noun) an inspirational catchphrase or platitude. homiletic: the art of preaching or writing sermons
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I prefer to get my homilies from somebody a little more disabused than Dorothy Gale
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I prefer to get my homilies from somebody a little more disabused than Dorothy Gale
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exegesis
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(from the Greek for "to lead out") a critical explanation or interpretation of a text, particularly a religious text
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His early exegete Lotte Eisner called her book on German Expressionist cinema The Haunted Screen, but it’s only Murnau’s films that seem truly haunted, haunted from within
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His early exegete Lotte Eisner called her book on German Expressionist cinema The Haunted Screen, but it’s only Murnau’s films that seem truly haunted, haunted from within
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fey
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(adjective) fated to die; doomed / (adjective) marked by a foreboding of death or calamity / (adjective) able to see into the future; visionary / (adjective) marked by an otherworldly air or attitude / (adjective) crazy touched / (adjective) excessively refined; precious / (adjective) quaintly unconventional; campy
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a guy with a bad haircut, a slight, fey combination of Boris Karloff and Tony Perkins, self-righteous and self-consciously gentle
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a guy with a bad haircut, a slight, fey combination of Boris Karloff and Tony Perkins, self-righteous and self-consciously gentle
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