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–noun
1. Slang.
a. a lengthy, detailed explanation or account: Just give me the facts, not a whole megillah.
b. a lengthy and tediously complicated situation or matter.
2. (italics) Hebrew. a scroll, esp. one containing the Book of Esther. Others are the Book of Ecclesiastes, the Song of Solomon, the Book of Ruth, and the Book of Lamentations.
Also, megilla.
And Jesus fucking Christ almighty, enough with the Coke product placements, which serve to remind us how typically commercial the whole megillah is.
The rosy denouement is just a bit farther off-planet than your normal teen comedy, but preaches as high-handedly as an episode of the Lutheran-produced kids' show Davey and Goliath.
As any kind of statement, Dannelly's film is cowardly and confused—no one should be surprised if Christian coalitions co-opt it for their own purposes.
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megillah
Just give me the facts, not a [whole] megillah.
which serve to remind us how typically commercial the [whole] megillah is.
And she's a redhead. Au naturel? The whole megillah. It's rare. They feel more. That's scientifically proven.
circumlocution
gobbledygook
gobbledegook
language characterized by circumlocution and jargon, usually hard to understand
the gobbledegook of [government] reports.
The overlapping dialogue, a rush of lab-speak [gobbledygook] that at times resolves into a sort of [techie] poetry, suggests David Foster Wallace rewriting David Mamet.
These snapshots and Iraqi gobbledygook on tape is just another bunch of bullshit.
appellation
He compared the German as insect at the beginning. I find that he has many peculiarities from his handwritting and appellation.
appellative
1. a descriptive name or designation
2. a common noun
[Box Office Poison] was a later appellative
the appellative [function] of some primitive rites.
epithet
1. to label or characterize, sobriquet
2. abuse invectively, expletive (interjectory)
He actually deserves that overused epithet "the last movie star."
Richard [the Lion-Hearted] is an epithet of Richard I.
All three are symbolically [annihilated] by Jared, who [ravages] her while grunting [sexist] and [racist] epithets in her ear.
Charlton Heston's performance is not particularly subtle, but, between [contorted] [grimaces] and [hollered] epithets, he does create sympathy for his lost and angry character.
scatology
expletive
Much of this controversy [emanated] from the filmmakers' refusal to delete the [expletives]--[scatalogical]
who managed to [retain] virtually all of Albee's scatological [epithets] (this was the first American film to feature the [expletive] "goddamn").
Snip off the [expletive] and you've got a perfectly fair nutshell of the endearing and well-acted Thumbsucker,
sobriquet
her character here deserves the same [sobriquet].
moniker
Never take advice from anyone using a Dave Matthew's Band-related moniker.
vernacular
At its core, writer-director Rian Johnson's first feature is a stunt, putting Dashiell Hammett-like tough-guy [vernacular] into the mouths of contempo teens.
This unusual method of filmmaking is also apparent in Green's mix of vernacular [humor]—among Nasia and her girl friends discussing boys and doing each other's hair,
patois
a high school noir, complete with Hammettian plot and a fearless fidelity to [antiquated] gangster patois.
brogue
Taking a breath and resuming his own [Scottish] brogue, he says, "I want to make films like There Will Be Blood, and I want to work with the Coen brothers—and I want them to be like big f***ing epic great films."
cant
patter
speak in [cryptic] jive patter ("Bulls would only gum it"; i.e., "Cops are dumb").
shibboleth
that distinguishes a particular class of persons.
and many Standard users consider use of flaunt for flout a first-class [shibboleth].
argot
that of an underworld group
a Restoration play rich in [thieves'] argot.
describing themselves as "a couple of real mean motor scooters" in the script's [jokey] pop argot
The argot slang that the novel was written in was incomprehensible to writer/director Jules Dassin, so much so that he had to have the producer who suggested it, read it to him.
lingo
The Southern California suburban mall teen scene and its accompanying "Valley Girl" lingo were spreading widely
Spanish [lingo] crime meller has a verve and cheekiness that will put it over with fest and sophisticated audiences that like to [latch] onto hot new talent,
At times the jazzy, tougher-than-leather [lingo] feels like a pose,
Distinctive [lingo] provides a talking point, and youthful cast creates possibilities for some theatrical payoff.
Trying to learn the lingo, but still an old-school Episcopalian you're looking at.
Don't talk to me like I'm another square. You talk the lingo. What's your pitch?
10 cents worth of American Tel and Tel. You're picking up my lingo, honey. I read your column every day.
locution
oxymoron Rhetoric. a figure of speech by which a [locution] produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in "cruel kindness" or "to make haste slowly."
Megillah
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