2008年7月31日 星期四

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–verb (used without object) 

1. to roll about or lie in water, snow, mud, dust, or the like, as for refreshment



Goats wallowed in the [dust].  



2. to live self-indulgently; luxuriate; revel: to wallow in [luxury]; to wallow in [sentimentality]. 

3. to flounder about; move along or proceed clumsily or with difficulty: 



A gunboat wallowed toward [port].  



4. to surge up or billow forth, as smoke or heat: 



Waves of black [smoke] wallowed into the room.  



–noun
 

5. an act or instance of wallowing. 

6. a place in which animals wallow: [hog] wallow; an [elephant] wallow

7. the indentation produced by animals wallowing: a series of wallows across the farmyard.  



—Synonyms 

2. swim, bask.





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The psycho kid flick -- from The Bad Seed to The Good Son -- tends to wallow in precocious camp and cheap devil child thrills. George Ratliff's Joshua attempts to revitalize the genre by injecting an element of realism. 



When his mom Abby (Vera Farmiga) and dad Brad (Sam Rockwell) give birth to a baby girl, Joshua (Jacob Kogan) starts to worry that not only will he have to share attention with his sister, but that his flowering sociopath tendencies will alienate him from his parents.





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