panoply
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–noun
1. a wide-ranging
and
impressive array or display: the dazzling panoply of the maharaja's [procession]; the panoply of European history.
2. a complete suit of armor.
3. a protective covering.
4. full ceremonial attire or paraphernalia; special dress and equipment.
"Saved!" was shot in Vancouver, and it has a bright, sunshiny look to it, as if a strong moral disinfectant had been applied to the streets, the lawns, the school corridors. Dannelly and Urban drop hints here and there of the panoply of Christian youth culture around the edges of the school:
1. 長舌
Garrulous
1.5 誇大
ballyhoo
blurb
She wrote a good blurb for her friend's [novel].
It's the last word, and the [blurb] that Burn After Reading deserves.
The French DVD release proudly [proclaims] in the blurb on the back that of 2,400 people at the film's Cannes premiere, 200 walked out.
bombastic
bombast
grandiose
brandish v. n.
the murder of Marion Crane clearly brandish[ed] its own artistry, with Norman's knife rivalled,
flaunt
As a filmmaker, she appears to be more interested in the iconography of the body than in passion or emotions—in [flaunting] sex rather than the thing itself.
vaunt
What is clear is that the actor [vaunts] something of an intellect.
for all its [vaunted] sympathy for the kids it portrays
pomp
stately or splendid display, splendor, magnificence
ostentatious or vain display, esp. of dignity or importance
pomps, pompous displays, actions, or things
You know what the poet said:
Through the travail of ages
Midst the pomp and toils of war
Have I fought and strove and perished
Countless times upon the star
As if through a glass and darkly
The age-old strife I see
Where I fought in many guises
Many names
But always me.
You know who the poet was? Me.
panache
Scorsese's customary visual brio and [musical] panache are amply displayed in such set pieces
played with great [tough-guy] panache by Vin Diesel,
While the preliminaries could have been served up with a bit more [panache],
tinseltown
tinsel
The movie certainly does not concern itself with political questions—the actual money and power lying behind the cultural anxiety and ritualistic [tinsel] of the [upper] bourgeoisie go unmentioned—but it is, after all, a movie about kids.
razzmatazz
showiness, brilliance, or virtuosity in technique or effect, often without concomitant substance or worth
Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli, who produce the [Bond] razamatazz, diversify by bringing to the screen a kind of 'anti-Bond' spy in the character of Harry Palmer,
pageantry
For years, I used to work at a video store, and on New Years, I would always deal with what I thought were my people, those broken hearted souls that hated the whole pageantry of the night, the ones who wanted to quietly and privately wallow in self pity, getting drunk on the fictional romance and heartbreak of others.
pageant
The [coronation] of the new king was a splendid [pageant].
Junoesque Swedish leading lady Anita Ekberg got her start in the U.S., where she was elected "Miss Sweden" in the Miss Universe pageant.
Like one recent DVD compilation of the peep show [pageants] Bettie made for special-interest photographer Irving Klaw,
The film's bear-baiting, barnyard [pageantry] is less convincing than its clammy locations.
She does not at all sound like a scripted pageant [contestant] with a knife in her hand.
panoply
the dazzling panoply of the maharaja's [procession]
the full panoply of a Royal [funeral]
Dannelly and Urban drop hints here and there of the [panoply] of Christian youth culture around the edges of the school
cavalcade
It’s hard to [square] that snapshot with the [Brad Pitt] cavalcade of glitz that comes to town every year.
salvo
a salvo of [cheering]
The clashing release dates had [drawn] salvos between Sony and Fox at the confab attended by 800 exhibs
drawl
She had the Hepburn [hauteur] and that famous [drawling] East Coast voice down perfectly.
Penn goes for larger-than-life, wrapping his pinched [frown] around an [un]intelligible Louisiana [drawl] and swinging his arms like an autistic evangelist.
over and over and again and again with [violent] excitement, a Southern [drawl], and reserves of [spittle].
cf. spaniel
spiel
Give it a rest with the olden spiel, Charlie.
was busy "spreading" his opponents with a [firehose] blast of agricultural rhetoric when suddenly, in mid-[spiel], he stopped.
The title makes perfect sense. You can almost see
I'm on the street. Let's not make a big spiel out of this.
Murdoch recedes from the spotlight on occasion, letting Steve Jackson deliver two music-biz spiels and giving Isobel Campbell space to shine with the [lilting] "Is It Wicked Not to Care?"
highfalutin
will find the Fox Searchlight offering far [too] highfalutin for words.
And we're gonna get the hell out of here and leave you and your highfalutin asshole friends to rot in this stinkin' sewer!
grandiloquent
In a part as [smart] and [sour] as her role in Being Julia was [steely] and [grandiloquent], Annette Bening plays [spurned] lover/murderess Jean Harris with a lethal combination of self-knowledge and fatalism.
flatulence
The answer is a "no" complimented with beer-aided [flatulence] and the shattering of [florescent] light tubes.【醫】胃腸氣脹
rant
speak or declaim extravagantly or violently, talk in a wild or vehement way, rave
it's one part articulate rant, two parts [oblique] philosophizing, and it betrays practically no effort to make its ideas or purposes obvious even to those familiar with Godard's body of work.
2. 寡言
taciturn
Romances usually picture [crabbed] old Scotsmen,
[taciturn] of speech and
[dour] of outlook.
What one is left with is a memory of Eastwood's face, that [leathery] mask of taciturn male pride, cracking with the recognition of where his own life choices have left him.
tacit
the [tacit] desire to live well
against the urge to [ignite] the lives of others
His body only half-composed, Frank seeks the tacit assistance of Julia -- with whom he had once had a torrid sexual liaison -- in restoring him to human form.
reticent
but Van Sant finds a [tactful], honest [reticence] in his characterization of the Mexicans and complicates Walt with an awareness of his own privilege.
Wendy, the film's main character -- [reticent] and retiring,
Because the movie never feels [sneering] or mean-spirited, it makes this particular past feel like your own, even if your formative summers never involved [menial] labor, acid-wash jeans, or [torrid] first romances with reticent brunettes.
ineffable
ineffable [joy]
the ineffable name of the [deity]
but what I reacted to more strongly was an [ineffable] sense of good nature,
hush
the film bogs [down] in the [hushed], [lugubrious] narration of disillusioned newspaperman Jack Burden
susurration
from the [soft] crackle of burning tobacco to the susurration of a [summer] breeze.
drone
and the occasional droning quality of their talk has more to do with,
And for the office [drone] who [scaled] [barbwire] fences late at night to steal the excess fat of women and absorbed [grueling] punches in Fight Club.
Panopoly
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