Prurient

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–adjective 

1. having, inclined to have, 

or

characterized by lascivious or lustful thoughts, desires, etc. 



2. causing lasciviousness or lust.

3. having a restless desire or longing. 





　

Storytelling, the leanest and meanest of Solondz's misanthropic comedies, feasts [on] the anguish of adolescence and confusion of college—white suburban-style. Based on cartoonish stereotypes, it could be considered an anti-Amélie were the style not so laconic. 



Two stories are told; the first, shorter one, pointedly called "Fiction," is a memorably nasty meditation on what post-structuralists call "difference." 



The opening minutes oscillate [between] prurience and pathos, as two undergraduate members of a college writing workshop, pink-haired Vi (Selma Blair) and cerebral-palsied Marcus (Leo Fitzpatrick), couple in a cinder-block dorm room. "The kinkiness is gone," Marcus complains afterward. "You've become . . . kind." 



cerebral palsy

【醫】大腦性麻痺





lechery 

lubricious libidinous 

lascivious insalubrious



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