Verdant

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–adjective 

1. green with vegetation; covered with growing plants or grass: a verdant oasis. 

2. of the color green: a verdant lawn. 

3. inexperienced; unsophisticated: verdant college freshmen.  



Synonyms:

1. lush, grassy.





　

Guerín's alfresco Rear Window becomes a glorious Vertigo riff: 



The long scene at the heart of the movie is a circuitous pursuit through the old city. The camera follows the poet as he follows his vision through verdant courtyards, busy walking streets, and cobblestone back alleys. 



Does she know she's being stalked? Is she trying to shake him? He calls her name—as if afraid she might hear him. Will Eurydice look back? And suppose she does, what then? 



(Among other things, it means that this movie, much of it shot in real-time and almost all of it in the wordless tradition of silent cinema, might finally break into dialogue.)





stamen

anther

pollinate

to convey pollen to the stigma of (a flower).

Slight, and slightly precious, this wide-eyed indie [cross]-pollinates the romantic comedy with the offbeat ensemble drama.



artichoke 

hemlock 

shrubbery 

thicket

For four decades, he's been making [droll], dialogue-[driven] "moral tales" in which confused young people [hack] through the [thicket] of their romantic entanglements, mainly by talking about them.

exuberant 

turf 

swathe 

hashish 

camisole  

c(h)amomile 

lingonberry

tulip

Those who dislike Rohmer's verbosity will again find themselves [on] unfriendly turf here,

When you talk [literature] you're getting into my turf. 

He was turf[ed] [from] leadership of the [group]. 



horticulture 

hoe

loam 

cloddish 

had not Matty been infinitely craftier than the [cloddish] Ned.

mound

It is an ancient [burial]-mound.

The body is now a glistening [mound] of bruised and damaged goods,

agrarian

the endlessly hilarious observations about literary criticism and agrarian [socialism] mask the characters' charming, quaint ignorance of matters of the heart.



spore

At the beginning of the film, as the alien [spores] rain down on earth, you see them presumably landing on the Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco,

[Spores] rain forth, unseen, from outer space,

tendril

even though special effects involving the pods and their [hairy] tendrils are brilliantly unsettling, 

fuchsia

Suddenly the lights are stripped of their garish [fuchsia] and purple gels, leaving the [scruffy] set, with its [mural] of the Titanic going under, washed in white light.

cauliflower

She's got cauliflower [ear], a terrible squint.

Hemlock