Timorous

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–adjective 

1. full of fear; fearful: The noise made them timorous. 

2. subject to fear; timid.

3. characterized 

by 

or indicating fear: a timorous whisper.  





　

As in his previous movies, suburban New Jersey serves Solondz as his personal barrel of ducks. Scooby's casually dysfunctional family is a monument [to] unearned comfort. Every dinner affords the overweening patriarch, embodied by John Goodman, an occasion for a purple-faced slow burn. (In a touchy-feely world, this terrifying actor would be legally required to appear opposite Roseanne for the remainder of his career.) 



Throwing fuel upon the emotional fire, Scooby's mother is played by the suitably timorous Julie Hagerty. Making the family fatuously Jewish allows Solondz to mock their sense of victimhood, as expressed in the cult of Schindler's List. (American Beauty is another target.) 



ween

【古】以為,料想,想像

fatuous

–adjective 

1. foolish or inane, esp. in an unconscious, complacent manner; silly.

2. unreal; illusory. 





　

Trying on their nascent [feminine] wiles and seeing how they fit, Rebecca and Heather also enlist doleful Peter as judge in a fellatio competition, while little Robby wins a passionate online admirer when he [pens] a surely unprecedented coprophiliac fantasy. 



As she proved in her bracing video Nest of Tens (2000), July ascribes sexuality [to] persons under the age of consent without coyness or [moral] hectoring. 



And while Peter and Robby's pain and alienation following their parents' breakup are evident, Me and You absorbs rather than underlines them and refuses to sentimentalize the flexible forbearance of youth. 



When a regular customer asks after Richard's boys and coos fatuously that kids are "so adaptable," Richard replies, with weary self-indictment, "Yes, well, they have absolutely no control over their own lives, so... " 



doleful

令人傷心的,悲傷憂鬱的

bracing

令人振奮的,使人心曠神怡的

hector

欺凌,威嚇





imbecile lout goon

dunce

ignoramus

nebbish 

Paul Giamatti is a nebbish in

fatuous

in an unconscious, complacent manner

illusory 

Making the family fatuously Jewish allows Solondz to [mock] their sense of victimhood

Schmuck



bashful

diffident timid

tepid lukewarm 

Tenuous