convulsion
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–noun
1. contortion of the body caused
by
violent, involuntary muscular contractions of the [extremities], [trunk], and [head].
2. violent agitation or disturbance; commotion.
3. an outburst of great, uncontrollable laughter.
Given the industry convulsions of late, all of Indieville will be watching carefully how Paramount and Warners do when releasing leftover specialty projects from Vantage and Warner Independent. One WIP pic, Danny Boyle's "Slumdog Millionaire," has enlisted Fox Searchlight as a co-distributor.。砍殺
haggard
Meager
haggle
sunder
The outcome is a strangely [sundered] one, [torn] between the claims of nostalgia and a desperate bid to seduce the YouTube generation.
hew
chop on a definite purposeuphold, follow closely, or conform to hew [to] the [tenets] of one's political party.
Hewing close [to] the stage text, pic still consists almost exclusively of long one-on-one conversations that in some cases,
''Beau Travail'' [hews] to the basic outlines of Melville's fable, which was set in the British Navy in 1797, but the story is really just a pretext for what emerges as a woman's [rapt] meditation on an all-male society, its [pecking] order and its punishing rituals of authority, repression, discipline and honor.
fell
I won't allow them to fell the [trees] here.
He felled his [opponent] with a single blow.
maim
disable, deprive
maimed in an [accident]
lacerate
cut or tear on flesh or skin
to lacerate an [arm]
Amalric, who had to act with one eye in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, is equally memorable given free [reign] of his emotions, playing the family's [black sheep], while Consigny [projects] a lacerating [coldness] that makes the moral high ground seem just as unforgivable.
mangle
chop, crush or rend as if by machinerybodies mangled in a [train wreck]
mutilate
injure the completeness or beauty, the broadestto mutilate a [statue] a [tree] a [person]
while Thulin has long wanted to do away with herself, at one point mutilating her own [vagina] out of self-hatred.Thulin relives the night she mutilated her [vagina] with broken glass to avoid her dreaded [conjugal] duties.
Karin is cold and hostile, hates her husband, cuts herself with a [shard] of glass in an intimate place and then smiles triumphantly as she [smears] the blood on her face.
rend
to separate into parts with force or violence
She was rending her [hair] out in [anger].
rash
hashish
mince
The director didn't waste time firing back, and he continues not to mince any words about everything that has happened since Cannes.
hash
to chop into small pieces, mince
Though one would assume the movie was largely done by the time these interviews were taking place and that these arguments would have been hashed out months earlier.
temerity
reckless boldness, rashnessAnd so, a quiet, humble, respectable Negro, who has had the unmitigated temerity to feel sorry for a white woman, has had to put his word against two white people's.
Hunsecker enlists Falco's aid in ruining the reputation of jazz guitarist Steve Dallas, who has had the temerity to court Hunsecker's sister Susan.
rampage
violent or excited behavior that is reckless, uncontrolled, or destructive
her father's no-nonsense reactions to such life-and-death crises as a rampaging [mad] dog, and especially Scout's reactions to, and relationship with, Boo Radley (Robert Duvall in his movie debut),
0.4 引發
0.5 往來 Gratuitous
。投射
。追趕跑跳
Ricochet
。顫慄
compulsion
She felt a sudden [compulsion] to hit him.
Following starts with Bill confessing to what may be a shrink about his [penchant] for shadowing randomly selected people through their day, a [pastime] that evolved from wannabe-writer's research to a wasting [compulsion].
convulsive
convulsion
contortion of the body, uncontrollable
When I found Jean, she was having an attack, and [convulsing] on the floor.
cf. shudder
convolution
coiled, twisted ridge on brain surface
a [convoluted] argument
Natacha's real [motive] is, as with many of Rohmer's films, much more convoluted.
the movie that Be Kind most resembles in its tricky premise, double-edged sentimentality, and convoluted [nostalgia].
Essentially everything is played for its camp value, including the rather convoluted, James Bond-like [plot], which [concerns] the hijacking of a shipment of diamonds heading for the Middle East.
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knead
to work (dough, clay, etc.) into a uniform mixture by pressing, folding, and stretchingI'm kneading you hard!
The cook kneaded the [dough]
The [masseur] kneaded my back.
One of the most extended sex scenes involves Boni kneading pizza [dough]; what he does to the dough he does, in his imagination, to the baker's wife, and that is going to be one happy pizza.
So stand for him, kneel for him, as he lies low in kneaded clay, pray for him who prayed too late, that he might shine on Judgement Day.
wringRohmer remained at the top of his game as he entered his 70s, launching the "Four Seasons" series with "A Tale of Springtime" and "A Tale of Winter." The films [hewed] [to] his carefully [honed] themes of intellectual [banter] and [hand]-wringing among the French middle class.
wry
wiry
warp
Be Kind Rewind is a sort of [warped] Möbius strip
twinge
Inflict
twitch
her every [facial] twitch seemingly prompted by an off-screen cattle prod
Paul Newman's performance is a [raw]-nerved, twitchy wonder,
tweak
No, I'm just putting a little tweak on it.
The entire film was shot on Super 16, telecined to high-def video for color [tweaking] and [editing], and then [ex]ported to Super 35. For many of the handheld shots, the director used the smallest [existing] 16mm camera, the Minima.
writhe
montage of Maya writhing [with] several partners.
Raymond Chandler's version of the script ended with Bruno Antony being arrested and institutionalized, with the final image being the villain [writhing] in a straight jacket.
wriggle
squirm to and froThere is a fascinating and agonizing sequence during which Lane tries to pin down the [slippery] details of a Glass story, and Glass tries to wriggle [free].
wrench
Faced with two [wrenching] choices, Kenzie must weigh his own sense of right against what may be a greater good.
Pic's integrity is [clinched] by Bale, whose haunted, aggressive and finally [wrenching] performance gives "The Machinist" a strong anchor.
corbeling
squinchAffecting a buzz-saw [purr] and squinchy [smile], Weisz is nothing if not mannered, but then her part is all about acting.
0.6 馬術
0.7 腳步
0.8 敲打 Strut
0.9 新動作
Cull
Convulsion
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