Gangling

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–adjective 

awkwardly tall and spindly 外表(結構)上單薄的; lank and loosely built. 

Also, gangly.





　

Played by Nicole Kidman, all sculpted cheekbones and blithe venom, Margot could be the dejected, midlife, midlist-career-and-a-busted- marriage-later version of the hyperliterate post-grads in Baumbach's first feature, 1995's Kicking and Screaming—people whose education taught them 



to parse others' sentences for [slight][s]. 



Introduced en route by train to her sister's wedding, Margot initially doesn't seem so bad—although it's an ill omen that the passenger her gangly adolescent son Claude (Zane Pais) mistakes her for is some random sourpuss. 





see meager lanky parse