Piffle

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Informal.

–noun 

1. nonsense, as trivial or senseless talk. 



–verb (used without object) 

2. to talk nonsense. 



Origin:

1840–50; perh. akin to puff 





　

They plot and connive as the enemies and friends of the two queens, and are not above murder most foul or murder most timely. It is all jolly good fun. 



Reviewers generally turned thumbs down on Timothy Dalton's performance as Lord Henry Darnley, Mary's second husband and king-consort, saying it was one-dimensional and shallow. However, Darnley himself was something of a piffling lightweight -- talented only at indolence and drunkenness. 



Perhaps Dalton was simply [mirroring] history. 



The film is not without its faults, namely, a sometimes-uninspired script and a sometimes-revisionist interpretation of history that sanitizes machinating Mary. However, the costumes, music, and settings are evocative of the era, and the Protestant-Catholic feuding and double-dealing keep the plot moving at a gallop. 





rigmarole

She showed no interest in him at all initially, which makes sense because he's a completely uninteresting guy. But for someone like Von Sloneker, that's just inciting. so he swung into action with a full rigmarole about how he...

Garrulous