Svelte

 

















svelte



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–adjective 

1. slender, 

esp. 

gracefully slender in figure; lithe.



2. suave; blandly urbane. 



lithe

–adjectiv

bending readily; pliant; limber; supple; flexible: the lithe [body] of a ballerina.  



Also, lithesome.





　

Taking aim at the CIA as well as Washington-paranoia flicks in general, Burn After Reading's filmmaking is as svelte as its attitude is snarky. 



For openers, the camera descends (or Coen-descends) from an Olympian altitude, high over America, to the corridors of CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, and scurries into an office where intelligence reader Osborne Cox (John Malkovich) is being taken [off] the Balkan desk. 



(Much entertaining banter: "You have a drinking problem," one nerdy suit informs the irate Cox. "Fuck you, Peck—you're a Mormon," he replies by way of [tender]ing a resignation.) 



Then it's back home to Georgetown. Osborne barely has time to hit the vodka before his nightmare wife Katie (Tilda Swinton) embroils him in her frenzied preparations for the evening's cocktail party—whose guests include her ex–Secret Serviceman lover, Harry Pfarrer (George Clooney).





slinky

lanky

gangling tall & lanky

gangrene



pecuniary & pecunious 

culinary

pauper & penury

turning him from a wealthy respected [celebrity] into a discredited [pauper]

and to create the circumstances for his [slide] into [penury]

Meager