Anesthesia

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–noun 

1. Medicine/Medical. general or local insensibility, as to pain and other sensation, induced by certain interventions or drugs to permit the performance of surgery or other painful procedures.

2. Pathology. general loss of the senses of feeling, as pain, heat, cold, touch, and other less common varieties of sensation.

3. Psychiatry. absence of sensation due to psychological processes, as in conversion disorders.

Also, anaesthesia. 





　

A seriously talented cast has been asked to act like cartoon characters in this tale of desperation, mutual suspicion and vigorous musical [beds], 



all in the name of laughs that only sporadically ensue. 



Everything here, from the thesps’ heavy mugging to the uncustomarily overbearing score by Carter Burwell and the artificially augmented vulgarities in the dialogue, has been dialed up to an almost grotesquely exaggerated extent, making for a film that feels misjudged from the opening scene and thereafter only occasionally hits the right note.



In an utterly unrelated [orbit] of D.C. life, desperately middle-aged Linda (Frances McDormand) is pissed that the insurance company for the fitness center where she works won’t cover the extensive plastic surgery she urgently wants done. So antic and frantic you wonder if anesthesia would ever work on her, she suddenly steps into merde with gym trainer Chad (Pitt), who’s even more hyperactive than she is, when the latter finds a disc they think is loaded with ultra-classified information.





acumen

of mind, shrewd judgment

proof of her [business] acumen and romantic imagination

Her [financial] acumen will be a great help. 

acuity

thought or senses

His [visual] acuity was remarkable. 

acuteness

quickness in both sense and mind

pain

The acuteness of the [toothache] drove all thought from my mind. 

Threnody