Stodgy

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–adjective. 

1. heavy, dull, or uninteresting; tediously commonplace; boring: a stodgy Victorian novel. 

2. of a thick, semisolid consistency; heavy, as food.

3. stocky; thick-set.

4. old-fashioned; unduly formal and traditional: a stodgy old gentleman. 

5. dull; graceless; inelegant: a stodgy business suit.  



Synonyms:

1. tiresome, stuffy, prosaic.





 　

Depp's leisurely quest leads through a posh, stodgy landscape of libraries, lecture halls, and back-alley biblio troves atingle [with] hissed warnings: "Some books are dangerous!" The path is strewn with red herrings and dead bodies; 



eventually, Depp realizes that he's picked up witchy Emmanuelle Seigner as his guardian angel. 



Uninspired yet incongruously jaunty, The Ninth Gate never quite becomes unwatchable. Indeed, one could take perverse pleasure in a contemporary exercise in supernaturalism whose most impressive special effect is the satanic tattoo on Lena Olin's backside. 



atingle

–adjective 

tingling; stimulated.





If Mission to Mars manages an astonishing 30 minutes, The Ninth Gate barely provides 30 seconds. 



For confessional pathos, it's a toss-up [between] the scene in which an elderly French baroness in a motorized wheelchair brandishes her stump and tells Depp that her "orgy days are over" 



and the desultory black [mass] (seemingly in Swedish) that Langella disrupts with heartfelt cries of "mumbo-jumbo."





vestibule

foyer

But arguably the film’s best scene is between Harvey and Dan in an otherwise empty [foyer]

berm

they "hydrate" and then stand in a row, on a [berm], pissing,



mortar

plaster

and there is a Wall of Shame [plastered] with the photos of the girls back home who have dumped them.  

gelatinous

The leaves are covered with gelatinous [ooze]. Whatever the trouble is, it's everywhere.

gluttony

glutinous

viscous

that viscous [stew] of naïveté, insecure leader-lust, psychotic self-righteousness, and [medieval] imbecility?

Smock