Snide (續：反美德 單字大集合)

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–adjective 

derogatory in a nasty, insinuating manner: snide remarks about his boss.  





　

Roman Polanski's "The Ninth Gate" is a sardonic detective thriller [peppered] with carefully crafted pleasures, not the least of which is a snide approach to wealthy people with a [decadent] streak. 



Whether general audiences will find the story sufficiently suspenseful to turn out in large numbers is up for grabs, for although the pieces fit nicely, this is really a shaggy devil story whose giddy, ironic tone may throw viewers expecting a scary movie.



shaggy 

–adjective. 

1. covered with or having long, rough hair.

2. untidy; unkempt: a shaggy person.  





 。討厭憎恨

Detest



。反美德

affront a. n.

insult, offend deliberately

I couldn’t forgive his [affront] to [of] his mother.

a sneak thief [ransacking] his own broken home for self-serving material—and some critics at the Toronto film festival this year took Margot as a [scathing] matricidal affront.

effrontery 

shameless or impudent boldness, barefaced audacity

She then had the effrontery to ask a [favor]. 

Given the nature of the Inquisition, it seems unlikely such [effrontery] would have brought with [it] no consequences for Tomas and his retinue, as it does in the pic.

I'm at a loss to explain the blizzard of negative advance buzz fired at him for the [effrontery] of playing a half-blind, one-armed Nazi hero. 



jobbery

conduct of public or official business for the sake of improper private gain

A job is worth nothing these days of jobbery in high places.

venal

willing to sell one's influence, especially in return for a bribe, open to bribery, mercenary

Is it [idealistic] to want a whole island to yourself,

and [venal] to believe that other people might enjoy having homes there? 

even those of Faye Dunaway's ambitious programmer, lending a disturbingly matter-of-fact tone to the corporation's most venal and [de]humanizing [machinations].

schmear

spread, smear

Schmear it on the [bread]. 

The maid schmeared him on both comas. Look at this. It says here...

bribe



malady

[social] maladies

a malady of the [spirit]  

as a long-term philosophy major and bartender who’s remained on campus for ten years—in some ways a more advanced case of the [malady] affecting the four leads but in other ways more grounded and focused,

iniquity

gross injustice or wickedness

doomily recounting the descent into [iniquity]

The [iniquity] of the transaction aroused general indignation.

The girl grows gradually aware of the [social] iniquities about her, but only in retrospect does she fully realize just how cruel and wrong-headed the entire colonial system had been.

effete

lacking in wholesome vigor, degenerate, decadent 

an effete, overrefined [society] 

exhausted of vigor or energy, worn out

an effete political [force]

and the [effete] genius Adrian, aka Ozymandias,

unable to produce, sterile 



miasma

The film's form and purpose now [emerge] from the [miasma] of the original cut

inimical

Her opinions are inimical [to] our proposal. 

that the Amazon was truly inimical [to] humankind. 

animus

strong dislike or enmity, hostile attitude, animosity

animosity

and the animosity [Americans] had for the country of [Iran]. 

but their long-simmering [animosity] makes it hard for them to deal with the realities of Lenny's condition.

Some of you who watch might roll your eyes when Luke and Avery's (Bradley Cooper) short animosity gets passed on through their respective sons Jason and AJ (Emory Cohen).

anomaly

I removed some surgical tape from her lips and examined inside of her mouth. I gave the tape to a detective. The man over there. And I look at the anomaly very quickly.

anomy

anomie

a breakdown or absence of social norms and values

Despite this obsession with [urban] anomie

Affleck and Corrigan, sharing a [sloe]-eyed, slack-jawed [anomie], make for convincing siblings,

This sets the stage for a tale of uneasy love and [spiritual] anomie in sterile precincts of middle America. 

It's a testament to Tsai's ability to represent disconnectedness that it's not until well into the picture that we realize the three are a family, sharing the same [dilapidated] apartment in Taipei. 

The [elliptical] narrative focuses on the [ailing] Xiao-Kang and his quest for relief, but it's clear that his illness is a [stand-in] for a host of problems: family dysfunction, sexual confusion, [urban] anomie, and spiritual ache.

Starring Yang Kuei-Mei and Tsai regular Lee Kang Sheng as [zombified] neighbors, the movie imagines a [dreary] world where [urban] anomie and existential loneliness have seemingly ground life to a halt. 

Barely acknowledging the other's existence, the two drift purpose[less]ly through their [bleak] landscape, taking in [apathetic stride] their apocalyptic [limbo]. The only [respite] comes in the form of song.

Almost laughable in its [straight]-faced, [anti]septically designed seriousness, the talented music video director Mark Romanek's big-screen debut aspires to be a [suburban]-anomie retelling of a classic voyeur thriller like Peeping Tom, Psycho, or Taxi Driver.



reprobate n. v. adj.

a depraved, unprincipled, or wicked person

a person rejected by god and beyond hope of salvation

depraved

referring to character

and takes a brave leap of faith into the depraved real world. Aren't we lucky.

"blind people in this film are portrayed as incompetent, filthy, vicious, and [depraved]." 

turpitude

"turpitude"

vile, shameful, or base character, depravity

But I think you're saying these won't play any part in your deliberations? None whatsoever. So what are they? Moral turpitude, you could say.

snide

derogatory in a nasty, insinuating manner

not the least of which is a [snide] approach to wealthy people with a [decadent] streak. 

Imagine how snide anc vicious he could get, and still tell nothing but the truth.

abject

abject [poverty]

an abject [coward]



fulsome

offensive to good taste, esp. as being excessive

Then fulsome music [swells], and the underlying tragedy of human existence is evoked,

Well, well, well. There's a fulsome greeting. There's a hallelujah chorus.

egregious

extraordinary in some bad way, glaring, flagrant

an egregious [mistake] [liar]  

a notably ephemeral work by Michel Gondry, whose flights of fancy can't overcome the egregious [illogic] of the premise. 

Such sentimentality might sound egregiously [Spielbergistic], but Gondry strikes another chord.

Beckinsale's Annie is the most difficult in this last sense. She's supposed to [occupy] the righteous [position] of being harassed by her estranged husband (an agonized Sam Rockwell), but she treats people so poorly (most egregiously her young daughter) that she doesn't deserve an ounce of compassion.

Elf has the feel of a film that has been test-marketed to every conceivable [demographic], which it undoubtedly was, considering the egregious product placements on display throughout.

I'm not a hired gun. I gotta feel a moral or constitutional issue is at stake. But I'm absolutely innocent. And my civil liberties have been egregiously violated.

helluva

hell of a

Oh, it's you, Ichikawa-san. I figured you'd kicked the bucket. That's a helluva welcome.

ornery

Dialect. ugly and unpleasant in disposition or temper

You ornery critter!

blatant

brazenly obvious, flagrant

offensively noisy or loud

There's a character in this one that I based on you. I mean, I named him Ashby, but it's so blatantly you.

Ángela, the nurturing, devoted wife and mother, defies convention by welcoming Ángel's blatantly focused attention towards her and encouraging his company by inviting him to dinner and entertaining his telephone calls.

but this is a [blatant] lie: during his incarceration, he learns that the family has gone broke, his wife committed suicide and his children have been sent to an orphanage.


















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