Amble

 











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–verb (used without object) 

1. to go at 

a 

slow, easy pace; stroll; saunter: He ambled [around] the town.  



2. (of a horse) to go at a slow pace with the legs moving in lateral pairs and usually having a four-beat rhythm. 



–noun 

3. an ambling gait.

4. a slow, easy walk or gentle pace.

5. a stroll. 



—Synonyms 

1. ramble (隨筆), meander.





　

What does it mean to give a wholly [convincing] performance 

from 

an [un]tenable script? 



Does the [feat] confirm the supremacy of the living word over the frozen text? 



Or is the acting merely earnest salesmanship 

of 

shoddy merchandise? 





It's an inquiry that might especially interest Daniel Day-Lewis, whose famously immersive process surpasses the artistic and enters the realm of the metabolic. As the dying hippie farmer in wife Rebecca Miller's The Ballad of Jack & Rose, Day-Lewis—



an ambling scarecrow under boater and musty cloth coat



—is as rooted as an [oak] in his character and milieu, yet easefully [dis]engaged from the film's pensive histrionics. His turn as lifestyle extremist Jack carries an authentic scent of [tobacco] and [peat] while much of the movie smells of the lamp. 



musty

–adjective

1. having an odor or flavor suggestive 

of 

mold, as old buildings, long-closed rooms, or stale food. 



2. obsolete; outdated; antiquated: musty [laws]. 

3. dull; apathetic. 

peat

泥煤,泥炭





harness

trot

horse, go at a gait between walk and run

amble

Day-Lewis—an [ambling] scarecrow under [boater] and [musty] cloth coat

—is as rooted as an [oak] in his character and milieu

thresh

thrash 

He got his comeuppance when the bully [thrashed] him.

flail

The film finishes by exploring hetero motifs: Encolpio discovers that he is impotent while [flailing] around on the alter of the whore-priestess, 

and then [recovers] his virility while pleasuring Oneothea, a corpulent [sorceress] sex therapist.　

Convulsion



amble

He ambled [around] the town.

dawdle

dilatorily saunter, fritter away time working in a halfhearted way

to dawdle [over] a [task]. 

He dawdled [away] the whole [morning]. 

[Stop] dawdling and [help] me with these packages!  

loiter

linger aimlessly

to loiter outside a [building].

dally

loiter indecisively, delay as if free from responsibilities

to dally on the way [home]. (indecisively)

How can you dally [with] such a [serious] problem?

The acceptance of the role as artistic directors of the company is not a [dalliance]

Languid





insipidness unsavory

bathetic 

musty

having an odor or flavor suggestive of mold

an ambling scarecrow under [boater] and musty cloth [coat]



commonplace (dull, ordinary, platitudinous)

banal (inane, pointless)

hackneyed (stale and worn out through overuse)

trite 

[true] but trite

I always like to go into things I'm scared of, so I eventually found it -- "liberating" is kind of a [trite] word -- but it was fun. It was scary but fun.

George Sluizer's original Dutch-French version of The Vanishing (1988) reveals the [capacity] for evil [lurking] beneath the most [banal] surfaces and the dangers of wanting to know too much.

Tenuous