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–noun
1. a rude, boorish, or surly person.
2. a peasant; rustic.
3. a niggard; miser (吝嗇鬼): He was a churl in his affections.
4. English History. a freeman of the lowest rank.
But ''The Man Who Wasn't There'' is so assured and perceptive in its style, so loving, so intensely right, that if you can receive on that frequency, the film is like a voluptuous feast. Yes, it might easily have been shorter. But then it would not have been this film, or necessarily a better one. If the Coens have taken two hours to do what hardly anyone else could do at all, isn't it churlish to ask why they didn't take less time to do what everyone can do?4. 工具
Schmuck
4.5 爛人
brogue
rogue
free-spirited art student and a [roguish] poet find their addiction to each other taking a back seat to their taste for heroin,
But he certainly is a [satisfying] person and a happy, comforting relief from the [devious], self-pitying [rogues] and [weaklings] we have seen in a lot of modern-day films.
Rampart is another of these misperceived criminal conspiracies. It's really the story of a [handful] of rogue, criminal cops who [ratted] out a wider number of untainted cops to save their own skins.
roguish
HE HAD BEEN LISTENING TO "CANDLE IN THE WIND" OVER AND OVER AND OVER. THERE WAS A LOOK OF A GRIN, LIKE A ROGUISH EYE IN HIS EYE WHEN HE WAS ABOUT TO HAVE SOME FUN.
After his roguish turn in This Boy's Life, Leonardo DiCaprio made his name as a serious young actor with his top-notch work as the retarded Arnie.
hooliganscoundrel
A dangerous habit. Never lost a penny in my life. I guess heaven takes care of fools and scoundrels.
skunk
rascal
Latter's characterization, restrained and chilling at first, unfortunately becomes too broad, almost that of a jolly [rascal], effect being to flaw the dramatic impact at times.
scalawag
scamp, rascal
Don't listen to that scalawag. I didn't expect to find him here, Louise.
ruffian
Here's a ruffian with a sword. He should be tied up like this.
They befriend [each other] after Sasha is threatened by some ruffians, spend the day together, and alter each other's [perceptions] of life.
peeve
Because Harvey Stephens was so young, Richard Donner found that the best way to direct him was to provoke genuine reactions before the camera. For example, when Damien is angry at being taken to church, Donner got his [peeved] facial expression by shouting to Stephens off camera "What are you looking at you little [bugger]? I'll [clobber] you."
peevish
A profoundly [inert] yet [peevish] protagonist whose act doesn't seem all that worth getting together.
grumpy
grumble
He is a troublemaker, under sentence of death by the expedition leader, Capt. Newport for [mutinous] grumblings.
curmudgeon
curmudgeonly
The Freeman Lowell character in this version was an older, more curmudgeonly man who simply doesn't want to return to earth and forced into retirement, so he steals the Valley Forge, "Shoots the rapids" through Saturn's Rings to make it look like his ship is destroyed, and heads off into deep space.
cantankerous
because of that he never comes [off] as a dirty old man, just a cantankerous old [fart], while Evan Rachel Wood is simply, irresistibly charming, so you can understand why a man [of] Boris' age would want to [nurture] her.
After receiving a sweepstakes letter in the mail, a cantankerous father (Bruce Dern) thinks he’s struck it rich, and wrangles his son (Will Forte) into taking a road trip to claim the fortune.
grouch
But Leopold, an insurance salesman, is an insufferable [grouch] and petty tyrant.
grouse
For all the critical grousing [about] Rodriguez selling out, it is an exciting movie on the most basic level.
querulous
She lives with her kids and her [querulous], distant father-in-law.
stroppy
Having said all of this… I don’t make the same [connections] between Condon and the [sulky], [stroppy] Twilight [mood] that I can trace [off] to Coppola and van Sant.
bumpkin
although it is inevitable that the fastidious Mahmut will grow increasingly irritated with the [gauche] bumpkin camped out in his spare room.
in which a [country] bumpkin moves in with his massively indifferent city cousin.
rustic
yokel
You knucklehead fool! You empty-headed yokel!
boor
They snickered and whispered and made [boors] of themselves.
Larry with [boorish] zeal leads the local protest against the return home of a convicted sex offender,
Possibility that his friend is being "whipped" into shape by a [mere] girl is something the [boorish], frat-jock-type Philip won't let pass without comment.
here the Russ agent is an apprehensive [boor] and the Chinese a whimsical,
What a boor! He's become unbearable. Basically he's a failure, and an envious one.
churl
He was a churl in his [affections].
isn't it [churlish] to ask why they didn't take less time to do what everyone can do?
But only a churl would deny the potency it [held] the first time round, in the last period American cinema felt like a world leader, with Tarantino's success given [ballast] by a purple patch for the Coen brothers and Robert Altman's glorious Indian summer.
ribald
vulgar or indecent in speech, language, coarsely mocking, abusive, or irreverent, scurrilous
During the locals' [ribald] song about Willow that [appalls] Howie in the Green Man pub, the bearded mythological figure depicted on the tavern's sign materializes as the most [bellicose] of the revelers.
gaffer
Keep your hands to yourself. I'm the gaffer now.
crass
the crass methods of [political] hucksters.
The sheer [crassness] of some of the scenarios --
This is one film that could [benefit], dramatically, from the gutsy decision to become [crasser] and more graphic
They have showed his disgust with his mother after his working-class father died and she [squandered] the bit of insurance a [crass] employer paid.
I mean, that's just crass, right? "Crass." It means greedy, exploitative, scummy.
gruff
low and harsh, hoarse
a gruff [voice]
rough, brusque, or surly
a gruff [manner]
Connolly uses a combination of sad eyes, inquisitive [grunts], and [gruff] signs of loyalty, not only to become probably the most sympathetic zombie in film history,
Eventually, the trio reach Colin's house, where Tolen works his [gruff] magic on Nancy, and [havoc] ensues.
That didn't happen in the end - Bale instead decided to run around punching people while doing a spot-on impression of gruff-[voiced] blue-haired 1980s Coronation Street character Phyllis Pearce.
The gruff Valentin adheres [to] Molina's flight of fancy and confronts an awakening sexual curiosity, while Molina, the apolitical drama queen, courts danger by agreeing to assist Valentin's rebellion.
gruffness
Cassevetes has always been good at capturing the gruffness of a given [locale], and his New York is as dirty and unfriendly as any caught on film.
gruffly
With writing credits on Undeclared, producing credits on The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up, and a star-making turn as a perpetually stoned but gruffly likeable lead in the latter, Rogen proved that he was equally capable of carrying a film on both sides of the camera.
callow
Nubile
cad
And that he had behaved like an absolute monster cad. It was heaven.
What will you tell Peter and Katarina? Who cares? lt feels good to be a cad!
fop
The weather girl and the [fop]: Ludivine Sagnier and Benoît Magimel
given a memorable foppish [swagger] by Benoît Magimel,
As for Paul, he's such a vain, [preening], [foppish] creature that Gabrielle should see right through him -- which she does, in fact.
knave
Our Lady of Humanitarian Narcissism here [endures] another dreadful fate: losing her child to a mob of [knaves]
Can't have those knaves from Whitehall moving in.
miscreant
not the immoral miscreant and lawbreaker his detractors [color] him to be.
nudnik
a persistently dull, boring pestMcDormand is triumphantly dumbest as a ridiculously self-assured nudnik [obsessed] with financing a complete surgical makeover.
pestiferous
pesky
bothered by a pesky [fly]
A series of incidents in which the presence of a pesky [mouse]
Watching the movie, it takes a little time to let go of all those pesky preexisting expectations, and adjust to what at first seems a [tad] lowbrow and simplistic.
vermin
You can't touch it. It's vermin.
I thought boys like you were really into vermin and death and shit.
They crawled all over, cracking the [body] vermin with its nippers!
varmint
varment
He'll die. Fuck a varmint! Salim, get out of here!
4.6 爛臉
sourpuss
sullen
dour
Surprising, too, is the almost [dour] tone of the film.
scowl
His wife [scowled] when he came home late again.
As lawman Artie Bonner, Diggs furrows his [brow] and [scowls] introspectively,
Fairuza Balk [scowls] through her turn as secretly pregnant Paula, who drives through [slapping] rain,
Meanwhile, downstairs at the ceremony, Jan's shipmate and Bess' grandfather [scowl] at one another,
Lyle's poker face masks a [neuro]-emotional mess of shorting [splitters] and [thrashing], rain-downed power lines. While Gordon-Levitt leans hard on an overcompensatory Timberlake scowl,
Brooding blond [hunk] Michael York plays the morally ambiguous protagonist with scowling [proficiency], but fellow [marquee] name Farrah Fawcett manages to cram more wretched acting and non sequiter facial expressions into a brief cameo than most actresses could fit into a leading role.
glower
No glowering [closeups] or characters skulking in a corner to give the game away.
Dad [glowers] but doesn't speak. Mom has her eyes [glued] to the TV, where a tape of an old Buffalo Bills game is playing.
grimace
Though Roth has the somewhat thankless task of simply [grimacing] and [grunting] his way through most of the film,
Milk humors White but [grimaces] in distaste when he’s not looking.
moue
a pouting grimace.
gathers itself into a moue of petit bourgeois [disapproval]
ornery
ugly and unpleasant in disposition or temper
inferior or common
He and Shelly navigate the [flat] Formica landscape of Hartley's dialogue with great ease, their blunt, no-[frills] performances forming the heart of an [ornery] but immensely satisfying film.
4.7 笨蛋
Lout
Churl
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