Shoddy

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–adjective 

1. of poor quality 

or 

inferior workmanship: a shoddy bookcase.  



2. intentionally rude 

or 

inconsiderate; shabby: shoddy [behavior].

 

–noun 

3. a fibrous material obtained by shredding (碎片) unfelted rags or waste. Compare mungo.

4. anything inferior, 

esp. 

a handmade item or manufactured product.





　

What does it mean to give a wholly [convincing] performance 

from 

an [un]tenable script? 



Does the [feat] confirm the supremacy of the living word over the frozen text? 



Or is the acting merely earnest salesmanship 

of 

shoddy merchandise? 





It's an inquiry that might especially interest Daniel Day-Lewis, whose famously immersive process surpasses the artistic and enters the realm of the metabolic. As the dying hippie farmer in wife Rebecca Miller's The Ballad of Jack & Rose, Day-Lewis—



an ambling scarecrow under boater and musty cloth coat



—is as rooted as an [oak] in his character and milieu, yet easefully [dis]engaged from the film's pensive histrionics. His turn as lifestyle extremist Jack carries an authentic scent of [tobacco] and [peat] while much of the movie smells of the lamp. 





filch

huckster monger hock bauble shoddy

Sham



pert  

brash insolent indolent 

shoddy

curt laconic

terse

terse (polish, brusqueness) 

succinct (originally)

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