Insouciant & Nonchalant (續：難過憂鬱 無憂無慮 苦惱煩躁 激怒 單字大集合)

insouciant



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- adjective

free from concern, worry, or anxiety; carefree; nonchalant. 



nonchalant

–adjective 

coolly unconcerned, indifferent, or unexcited; casual: His nonchalant manner infuriated me.  





　

Sheen, so effective as Tony Blair in both “The Deal” and “The Queen,” excels again as Frost, an insouciant ladies’ man who in many ways was Nixon’s opposite -- light, devil-may-care and sociable rather than dark, brooding and awkward. 



An engaging early scene -- in which Frost, traveling with recruited British producer John Birt (Matthew Macfadyen), picks up comely young socialite Caroline Cushing (Rebecca Hall) in a 747’s first-class cabin on his way to California to meet Nixon for the first time -- 



adroitly conveys the gifted gabber’s talent for mixing work and pleasure.



gab

–verb (used without object) 

1. to talk or chat idly; chatter. 





3. 緊張精神疾病 Fray

3.5 疾病 Scalp

3.6 身體器官 Areola



3.7 難過憂鬱

malaise 

And after a nine-year retreat from the spotlight, the actress who personified the [knowing] malaise of the late ’80s and early ’90s—as the beautiful freak in Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice,

In breaking the cycle and making a name for himself as a filmmaker, Montiel showed that there are ways to overcome the urban malaise that [consumed] the majority of his friends.

woebegone 

hapless

rue

Then the fucker will rue the day.

woe

To add to his [woes], Bergman's producer at Svensk Filmindustri informed him that he would not be able to finance his next film if this one didn't [perform] at the box office.

saturnine

[Piccoli], the balding, saturnine slickster with the five-o’clock shadow, and Belmondo, the oily outlaw punk. 

[echoing] Freud's saturnine assessment of the human race. 

plaintive

King's plaintive [baritone] had all the passion of gospel

The studio that Jerry built is about to be demolished, and the [music] dubbed over the shot is Duke Ellington's plaintive "(In My) Solitude."

The film's opening scenes [observe] him alone in a field putting a gun into his mouth and [rehearsing] his suicide. A [plaintive], [muffled] score by Robb Williamson, one of the screenwriters, suggests the softer, [glummer] side of Neil Young.



dole

Here Randy, needing the money, dons a protective hairnet and doles [out] pasta salad.

doleful

a doleful [look] on her face. 

Offered her own liberation from the Underworld by the powers-that-be, the Princess dolefullly agrees to restore Eurydice [to] life, and to never have anything to do with Orpheus again.

pine

Complicating his life is his beautiful contact who pines [after] him with fetishistic ardor

to pine [for] one's home and family.  

Separated by their families, the lovers pined [away].  

Gallimard, pining [for] his lost love, then becomes a physical and mental wreck.



lugubrious

exaggeratedly, affectedly mournful

the film bogs [down] in the [hushed], [lugubrious] narration of disillusioned newspaperman Jack Burden

Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Distant is a [lugubriously] paced reflection on modern urban life.

but Miramax faces a tough challenge overcoming negative reviews and bad word-of-mouth in guiding this [lugubrious] extravaganza into the mainstream. 

Directed in a functional style at a [lugubrious] pace, Palindromes has a [sedated] quality that's deliberately at odds with its often sensationalistic material but perfectly suited to its schematics. 

The shooting and earlier occurrences are covered in three [lugubriously] intertitled acts, 

while the lugubrious pacing and desert vistas recall Gus Van Sant's Gerry, and the mounting sense of dread, Elephant.

In this lugubrious but brilliantly realized adaptation of Henry James' classic [novella] The Turn of the Screw,

jeremiad

was intended not so much as an attack on the meatpacking industry as a socialist [jeremiad] against capitalism itself. 

Although much has been made of his conversion to Mormonism, LaBute seems more fundamentally a Puritan—and not simply in his taste for [jeremiad] and punitive disdain for sexual pleasure.



somber

The opening credits' [somber] street-scene montage—less a city symphony than a city threnody

The movie becomes proper, [well] mannered and [somber], like Malcolm's dark suits and [narrow] ties, as it dramatizes his rise in the Nation of Islam, founded by Elijah Muhammad.

glum

but Regular Lovers [plods] on dutifully, exhibiting the same [glum] perseverance as Garrel's career. 

The last thing Leo needed was another glum brow-[furrowing] role. 

mopy

since they still live in the town where they just attended college, still [mopily] haunting the bar where they made so many of the memories from which they must now divorce themselves,



3.75 無憂無慮

insouciant

an insouciant [ladies'] man who in many ways was Nixon's opposite

insouciance

The latter class's [villainy] is embodied not so much by Paul's [strutting] insouciance as by his mother's agonized affect and impossibly [taut] neck.

"Episode 3" doesn't have quite the same insouciance and gets a [titchy] bit smug, but the other two are great.

nonchalant

coolly unconcerned, indifferent

His nonchalant [manner] infuriated me.  

A lyrical movie set among Marseilles' working class, Claire Denis' Nenette et Boni is a work of nonchalant [pleasures].





3.8 苦惱煩躁

2.4 激怒 

Vex

















Insouciant