Gingerly

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–adverb

1. with great care or caution; warily.



–adjective

2. cautious, careful, or wary.



—Synonyms 

1. cautiously, carefully, prudently.





　

The story of a brainy family's coming apart lacks a crucial emotional component in "Bee Season." This intelligent, precision-tooled adaptation of Myla Goldberg's 2000 bestseller centered [on] an 11-year-old spelling whiz delves gingerly [into] mystical territory in [charting] the separate paths explored by the [quartet] of characters. 



But the film is ice cold, never finding a way to invite the viewer into the story, and Richard Gere doesn't convince as a Jewish biblical scholar. Upscale, literary-oriented types will be lured, but fans of the docu "Spellbound" expecting similar pleasures, along with general auds, will find the Fox Searchlight offering far [too] highfalutin for words.



highfalutin

【美】【口】誇張的





voracious

veracious

Impugn means to "challenge the truth or integrity of something," "to attack its [veracity]",

probity

integrity and uprightness; honesty. 

mistakes [self-righteousness] for [probity]. 

rectitude

We are saved, from time to time, not so much by the [rectitude] of the Charles Lanes as by the [dogged] curiosity of the Adam Penenbergs. 



remonstrate

expostulate

where they expostulate their [views] on life and reflect on the state of their relationships with one another

exhort 

admonish & encourage!!!

exponent

an exponent of modern [theory] in the arts.  

[Lincoln] is an exponent of American democracy.  

As a strict [exponent] of unpleasure, however, Haneke will permit none of the narrative thrills the Coens provide in their funny games.



apposite

The combination of [stilted] speeches and deft behavioral acting sometimes seems peculiar, but it is also peculiarly [apposite]. 

felicity

felicitous

felicity of [expression]

the meetings are [felicitous] and the tears very easy to understand. 

While the tale of first contact between Englishmen and the "naturals," as the Brits felicitously [refer] to the Native Americans,

opportune

pat

a pat solution [to] a problem.  

Unlike Steven Spielberg's jocular Catch Me If You Can, Shattered Glass doesn't offer a pat [explanation] for its anti-hero's pathological lying. 

excessively glib, unconvincingly facile

His answers were [too] pat to suit the examining board. 

Likewise, some dialogue is a [little] pat.

dossier

documents on the same subject, esp. a complete file containing detailed information

You'll take responsibility for the dossier.

Flabbergast