Roil (續：混亂 旋轉 單字大集合)

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–verb (used with object) 

1. to render (water, wine, etc.) turbid 

by 

stirring up sediment. 



2. to disturb or disquiet; irritate; vex: to be roiled by a delay.  



–verb (used without object) 

3. to move or proceed turbulently. 





　

What is progressively more moving is the sense of weariness, sadness, despair, nostalgia and personal dedication that Mr. Montand communicates in the roil of indecision in this old fellow as to whether he should return to Spain and go on with the "war."





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pandemonium

hell

When Doris Day traveled to London to film some of the location scenes for this film, she was so popular with the British that when she arrived at her hotel, mobs of fans who had gotten word that she would be staying there had gathered. Pandemonium [erupted] when they saw her, and she needed a police escort to get in.

bedlam

an insane asylum or madhouse

Christine is [brow]beaten by the police, bulli[ed] by the press, and finally committed to a local bedlam seemingly filled with people whose mental illness consisted [in] pissing off the cops. 



torque

Like I said, I'm in a hurry, and this car keeps conking out on me every time I try to get anywhere. It needs torque. You know about... There was another wreck the other day. An ice cream truck wiped out on the road. We had to tow it.【物】【機】轉矩,力矩,扭矩 (古代人的) 金屬領圈

You know how many times a week I go without lunch because some bitch borrows my lunch money? Any halfway decent girl can rob me blind! Because I'm too torqued [up] to say no. It's heinous, I'm telling you.

That Plymouth had a hemi with a torque flight.

funicular

up the funicular railway. 電纜車,纜索鐵路,登山鐵道

barrow

And no prince charming in the barrow.【英】兩輪手推車,流動售貨車

vertiginous

here dominated by [vertiginous] hand-held camera movements that reportedly made some viewers physically ill,

roil

to render (water, wine, etc.) turbid 

by stirring up sediment. 

that Mr. Montand communicates in the [roil] of indecision in this old fellow as to whether he should

swirl

All the while, Cretton swirls a current of humor into the story's extremely dramatic turns.

swivel

He swiveled his [chair] around.  

he loosens up his neck and shoulders and swivels his [head]

Digital lensing favors close-ups and [head]-swiveling movement, the [textural] grit offset by "Northwood's" ironically pastel-[bright] interiors.

Uh, don't swivel [around]. There's someone comin'. Someone young.

rotary

[shag] carpets, oversize books bound in white leather, a fat rotary-[dial] telephone. 

maelstrom

Director Spike Lee [dives] head-first into a maelstrom of racial and social ills

His spirit wanders [through] the city, his visions [growing] evermore distorted, [evermore]] nightmarish. Past, present and future merge [in] a hallucinatory maelstrom.

eddy

expresses them through eddies of [sadness] and [rage] that we can sense 

gyrate

And he's gyrating his hips like this. "I want a Miata."

She tempts them with her unrestrained [gyrations]. She joys [in] having them chase after her.

vortex

She felt the women's pain and uncertainty like a vortex pulling her into her own muddled thinking.

So we just wait? In the cupboard? No glowing portal? No vortex? No big star ship?

Both women draw men into their vortex. These men tend to be male versions of herself — nice, sensitive, feckless, uncertain, tentative.

trundle

to cause (a circular object) to roll along

The fruit seller trundled his [cart] along the street.

The movie was [trundled] into theaters in [truncated] form as a B-grade horror flick, 

Quick, McPherson, the handcuffs. Trundle him off to the hoosegow.

helix

The history of popular music is like e double helix, OK? 螺旋,螺旋狀物

Please! Are you kidding? The two of you are like a double helix of crises.

turnstile

So they put us through the turnstiles and turned us loose inside.



undulation 

I've been standing at the window, feeling waves of tiredness beat the remaining strength from my body. The floor seems to be undulating beneath my feet.

undulate

I'm a soft grub, undulating.

ripple 

On the day that a McSweeney's parody/recontextualizing of some of Allen Gisnberg’s most famous lines made a little [ripple] on the internet, it is appropriate that a trailer arrives for Howl, the film that [chronicles] the creation of the poem Howl and the obscenity trial that eventually followed its publication.

dimple 

zit 

fret

The [metal] is fretted with the [acid]

The [breeze] fretted the surface of the [water]



rambunctious

difficult to control or handle

a social gathering that became rambunctious and [out] of hand. 

Ashley's rambunctious uncle who tries to encourage her to [raise] her sights

this fastidiously hyperreal neo-noir suggests a sadder but wiser remake of the Coens' [rambunctious] debut, Blood Simple, and is even more a pastiche of tough-guy novelist James M. Cain.

The result is a look, surprisingly [apt], that is most reminiscent of the early films of Eric Rohmer; and the disarmingly [daffy] end sequence has a low-budget to-hell-with-it rambunctious[ness] that evokes Jean-Luc Godard’s Band of Outsiders.

My curiosity's killing me, but what are you so rambunctious about tonight?



tumultuous

full of tumult or riotousness

The first involves the fact that this model began life by enduring [tumultuous] and [shattering] early years.

blustery

to roar and be tumultuous, as wind

flurry

a light, brief shower of snow or gust of wind, fluster

Dominating the screen in a [flurry] of aggressive method acting, Gallo makes no attempt to make his hateful loser of a protagonist the least bit sympathetic

dither

a state of flustered excitement or fear

The three [cackling] hens go into a [dither] at the arrival of a long-absent young father so dreamy they've dubbed him the Prom King.

restive

a restive [horse].  

Boyle has always been a [restive] director

levity

However none of the levity [breaks] from the remarkably serious intentions or tone. 

solemn little Krysta is previewing her new video, and a [levitating] ice-cream truck serves as the fatal iceberg.

hectic

I've had three papers this week so it was a little hectic.



kerfuffle

disorder, commotion, also written curfuffle, kafuffle, gefuffle

Anderson responded [tersely] at first, and now Jeff Wells has got him on video talking about the kerfuffle.

discombobulate

to confuse or disconcert, upset, frustrate 

The speaker was completely discombobulated by the [hecklers]

It's just, everybody's a little messed up about this, and it's okay to feel—Discombobulated? Yeah. Fucked up.

Zulawski's set-up is tantalizing: aided by the fluid, hypnotic camerawork of Bruno Nuytten, he uses the stark, oppressive cityscape of Berlin to mirror Neill's ever-increasing dread and discombobulation.


intifada

Decades later, Miral comes into Hind's care after her mother kills herself. As Miral witnesses the effects of the [Israeli] campaigns against the [intifada], she draws closer to the political [fringes], finally choosing to join the struggle in full.



cataclysm

any violent upheaval, especially one of a social or political nature

Physical Geography . a sudden and violent physical action producing changes in the earth's surface.

extensive flood, deluge

They forge ahead in hope that somewhere out there exists a place where people will come together and start to rebuild the fragile [threads] that were torn apart in that awful cataclysm that [thrust] them back [into] the dark ages. 

















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