Malleable

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–adjective 

1. capable of being extended or shaped 

by 

hammering or by pressure from rollers.  



2. adaptable or tractable: the malleable [mind] of a child.  



—Synonyms 

2. impressionable (敏感的), moldable, flexible, pliable. (易曲折的)



—Antonyms 

2. refractory (執拗的,耐火物質), intractable.



refractory

–adjective 

1. hard or impossible to manage; stubbornly disobedient: a refractory [child]. 

2. resisting ordinary methods of treatment.

3. difficult to fuse, reduce, or work, as an ore or metal.

–noun 

4. a material having the ability to retain its physical shape and chemical identity when subjected to high temperatures.

5. refractories, bricks of various shapes used in lining furnaces. 





　

Looking macho but speaking mostly in a tender, sincere way to his women, Bardem is a thoroughly convincing and likable ladies' man. 



Johansson needs mostly to be [open] and [malleable], 



reacting to Cristina's life opportunities, and thesp's slower pace serves as a nice contrast to the others. Hall, whom American theater audiences saw on tour in her father Peter Hall's production of "As You Like It," registers engagingly and betrays no Englishness as a woman who suddenly doubts what she thought were life's certainties.





catalyst

[His imprisonment] by the government served as

the catalyst that helped transform [social unrest] into [revolution]. 

alchemy elixir 

tonic



apex

cusp

on the cusp of a [new] era.  

Nubile