Lachrymosity (續：傷感 單字大集合)

 









lachrymosity



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[Origin: 1655–65; < L lacrimōsus, equiv. to lacrim(a) tear (see lachrymal) + -ōsus -ose¹]



But it is Joan Cusack, John's real-life sister playing his movie sister, whose contribution is most welcome, because she brings a little sassiness to a film that threatens to drown in lachrymosity.





。女性

Nubile



。傷感

schmaltz

Informal. exaggerated sentimentalism, as in music or soap operas 

lachrymose

lachrymosity

because she brings a little [sassiness] to a film that threatens to drown in lachrymosity.

mawkish

characterized by sickly sentimentality, weakly emotional, maudlin

maudlin

tearfully or weakly emotional, foolishly sentimental

Though most of the score is original music by Alfred Newman, the music during the car scene with Karen and Margo is an instrumental version of "Liebestraum" ("Love's Dream") by Franz Liszt, the same music the drunken, [maudlin] Margo [had] the pianist play over and over again during the party scene. The joke is that when she hears it again in the car (now [sober], of course), she condemns [it] as "cheap sentimentality" and quickly turns it off.

Kathy, with scenes that could easily have turned maudlin in a [lesser] actor's hands.



cetacean 

blubber

The [child] seemed to be blubbering something about a lost ring. 

[thick], blubber lips, blubber-[faced].  

Penn even tries to evoke the working-class [blubber] of the original version's star, Broderick Crawford 

salivate

slaver 

let saliva run from the mouth, slobber, drool

drivel

let saliva flow from the mouth or mucus from the nose, slaver

slobber

The [baby] has slobbered his [bib].

My family [slobbered] all over me when I finally got home.  

slobbered [over] bloody gloves and horrifying 911 calls for over a year

sob

or the soft sound of its [sobbing] before the final confrontation,

weep

her fussing, her weeping, her [rashes] on hands and head.

snivel

to weep or cry with sniffling

The hero doesn't [snive]l and [pine]

They [snivel], cheat, steal, abuse one another, [ostracize] and brutalize one who has a foul disease and finally cut loose in a wild carouse that fairly [wrecks] the place. 

Man and sniveling [boy], sir.



dewy

and family togetherness with his dubious, dewy [wife] (Charlize Theron) 

as dewy and [saucer]-[eyed] as Winona Ryder used to be

On one occasion, the act of trash humping is filmed [near] a dewy soccer field, a setting [familiar] in any suburbia. The [faces] of the three characters, or "Humpers," are [severely] wrinkled and weathered; 

the viewer is never fully convinced they are not supposed to be wearing masks and [prosthetics] worthy of Leatherface’s elders.

globule

small spherical body

blob

a globule of liquid, bubble

Indian cinema is as difficult to nail down as a blob of [mercury], but you'd never know it from the rare imported samples. 

He displays giant Rorschach [blobs] on his office walls as if they were decorative art and helps Clay sort out disturbing dreams,

















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