Demarcation

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–noun 

1. the determining and marking off of the boundaries of something.

2. separation 

by 

distinct boundaries: [line] of demarcation. 

Also, demarkation.





 　

Yet those vacillations are something to see. 



Unlike many child actors who’ve made the successful [transition] to grown-up roles, DiCaprio hasn’t evolved in predictable ways—there are no clear [lines] of demarcation. His boys were unusually centered, his adults unusually boyish. 



His wide face still carries some insulating baby-fat, like Elvis Presley’s and Bill Clinton’s (before the latest weight loss), and Mendes uses that insulation against him, sometimes cruelly: What was self-assured and [spring]-heeled in Titanic now looks dodgy. 



dodgy

逃避的,狡猾的



Mendes and Winslet [push] DiCaprio to [places] he has never been. 



At the height of her fury, April flays Frank, and both the character and the actor have nowhere to hide. DiCaprio loses his sure balance, his control, and has never been more vulnerable or electrifying: Winslet has forced him into the moment.



And about Winslet:



Well, she could force anyone into the moment. In Revolutionary Road, her emotions are too big for her face; she’s such an elastic actress, so in tune with her characters’ feelings, that her features seem to [expand] or [contract] in every scene. 



Her movements are wary, overly tight, like a woman no longer at home in her body; and when she releases that tension and moves in on DiCaprio, it’s as if she’s finally able to breathe. 



There is a cost to that freedom: April demolishes the marriage to survive, yet she might not be equipped to survive its demolition. There isn’t a banal moment in Winslet’s performance—not a gesture, not a word. 



Is Winslet now the best English-speaking film actress of her generation? I think so.





abyss

fall into the [abyss], [abyss] of shame

abysm (figurative)

abysmal

[abysmal] ignorance, her concentration was [abysmal] 

abysmal[ly] gloomy

the [abyssal] zone (oceanography)

orifice 

crevice 

tiny crevices between our [teeth]

crevasses 

yawning crevasses in our knowledge of the [universe]

fissure

The roots of the tree loosened their holds in the fissures of the [rock].

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