inflict
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–verb (used with object)
1. to impose as something that must be borne or suffered: to inflict [punishment].
2. to impose (anything unwelcome): The regime inflicted burdensome taxes on the people.
3. to deal or deliver, as a blow.
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inflict, afflict (vv.)
Both meaning and combined prepositions keep these from being confused:
You inflict punishment or other torments on [upon] someone,
and you afflict someone [with] punishment or other torments.
Both verbs are transitive.
There are comedies of discomfort, and then there's Margot at the Wedding, Noah Baumbach's scalding follow-up to The Squid and the Whale.
An [immersion] in sibling malice and simmering resentment, with one of the most infuriating characters in recent movies holding us under,
Margot tramples the [commandment] that only the pure of heart and noble of deed are worth a viewer's scrutiny. Hard as it may be to imagine a comedy that inflicts all the psychic [torment] of Cries and Whispers,
Baumbach has pulled off a more psychologically acute—and funnier—version of the Bergman pastiches that Woody Allen attempted 30 years ago, with a jumpy, nerve-rattling rhythm all his own.
1. 充滿
2. 風浪
3. 強度 Beleaguer
2.4 激怒 Insouciant
2.5 造船
Choppy
3.5 酸鹼值
3.6 乾濕度 Lye
4. 痛苦
pang
[a] pang of [remorse]
hunger pang[s] cf. fang
She connects with a French family, forms a friendship with their daughter and goes through the pang[s] of adolescence.
spar
box with light blows.
and Sands finds himself [verbally] sparring with a priest
bout
match, fray, a contest or trial of strength, as of [boxing]
a bout of [illness]
She's reliving the throes of adolescent-style [awkwardness]. [Between] bouts,
Martinis, consumed by the bucketful, launch anxious [bouts] of adultery and heartrending quarrels.
Aronofsky dotes on the details of the Ram's routine, especially his preparations for a [bout].
Years before addiction became common currency in the movies (or in American life), Milland [etched] an [indelible] portrait of an alcoholic in denial, willing to lie to friends and family, steal from strangers, and give up his [livelihood] for a drink; Milland's pain[ed] and [weary] desperation as he searches for a pawnshop or the [abject] terror of his [bout] with DTs still ring horribly true.
Nathaniel Ayers, a former cello [prodigy] whose bout[s] with schizophrenia landed him on the streets after two years of [schooling] at Juilliard.
。婦產
Travail
twinge
a sudden, sharp pain
On damp days, he's often bothered by a twinge of [rheumatism].
a twinge of [guilt] [sorrow].
Trevor's skeletal form and déjà vu [twinges] eventually come to symbolize the movie's problems.
atingle adj.
tingling, stimulated
and back-alley biblio [troves] atingle [with] hissed warnings
tantalize
In addition to more traditionally structured scenes,
his film contains a series of [tantalizing], non-sequential images that reveal themselves as the narrative unfolds,
the various haircuts and facial bruises of his lead character (Jeremy Theobald) eventually coalescing [into] [coherence].
harrow
He was harrowed [with] anxiety.
German filmmaker Michael Haneke weaves this disturbing tale of a family forced into a harrowing confrontation with a group of strangers set against the backdrop of a global apocalypse.
Roma, citta aperta is a harrowing, emotionally powerful film that changed the face of cinema.
rankle
His behavior rankles with me [still].
and Korine himself [jokily] propositioning a gay African-American dwarf while recounting tales of being [sod]omized as a child -- may rankle.
torment
inflict
[inflict] punishment or other torments [upon] someone.
In that way, I can control them. Control them? You mean torture them, don't you? The more [pain] you infict, the more pleasure you get.
[afflict] someone [with] punishment or other torments.
crucible
a severe, searching test or trial
Agnes (Harriet Andersson), the dying sister, has been caught in a crucible of [pain].
tribulation
grievous trouble, severe trial or suffering
The [trials] and [tribulations] of being a misunderstood teenager in love are rendered with depth in "Dandelion," the highly assured debut feature by writer-director Mark Milgard.
Its humorous depiction of a young man struggling to get through his teenage years was so authentic, [heartfelt], and moving that it vividly evoked all the [trials], [tribulations], and [thrills] of my own younger years in a way I was not prepared for.
In terms of message, there isn’t really much to The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman. It’s a film about love and the[ trials] and [tribulations] we endure [for] it.
So while we’re hear Polley’s family history — how her mother and father met, got married, had kids, went through terrible trials, tribulation[s].
Inflict
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