Adulterer & Adulterate

adulterer



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n. (名詞 noun)



          1.    姦夫;通姦者

　

For starters, Minghella wasn't doing Law - whose faithless ways are the stuff of tabloid legend - any favors by casting him as an adulterer in their latest (and utterly failed) Academy bid, the sluggish "Breaking and Entering." 





adulterate



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D



–verb (used with object) 

1. to debase or make impure 

by 

adding inferior materials or elements; use cheaper, inferior, or less desirable goods in the production of (any professedly genuine article): to adulterate [food].  



–adjective 

2. adulterated. 

3. adulterous (def. 1).  





　

Her vision can be seen immediately: Film opens with an act of lovelorn desperation as shoe salesman Richard (John Hawkes) responds to the news that his wife is leaving him by setting his own hand on fire. In short, July isn't out to win a fan club or a three-picture deal, but rather to speak about love and loss and loneliness in her own private storytelling language. 



The result is one of those rare indie films that doesn't seem the least bit opportunistic -- just the [pure], [un]adulterated expression of an American artist's highly original personality.



If that all risks making "Me and You..." sound puerile or even irresponsible, then it is all the more to July's credit that she embellishes such moments with a whimsy and melancholia that makes them seem less about sex than about making meaningful connections with other human beings. 



And July's film may [possess] the keenest sense of any film since Michael Almereyda's unreleased "Happy Here and Now" of just how difficult such connections have become in an age where technology has supposedly brought people closer together.



puerile

[pyoo-er-il, -uh-rahyl]

–adjective 

1. of 

or 

pertaining to a child or to childhood. 



2. childishly foolish; immature or trivial: a puerile piece of [writing].  





lubricious libidinous 

lascivious insalubrious 



prurient

The opening minutes oscillate between [prurience] and pathos



adulterer

philanderer

grope

leer

a lascivious or sly look.

I can't [con]centrate with you leering [at] me.

ogle 

Uncle George got a black eye for [ogling] a lady in the pub.

Henrik, Egerman's son by a previous marriage, is studying theology, but he is constantly being [ogled] by Petra, the maid. 

squint

to look with the eyes partly closed.

to look or glance obliquely or sidewise; look askance.

He squinted through the [tele]scope.

The baby squinted its eyes at the bright [lights]. 

Debauchery