languid
Y
a. (形容詞 adjective)
1. 軟弱無力的,倦怠的
The illness made him feel languid.
疾病使他感到倦怠乏力。
2. 不感興趣的,沒精打采的
3. 無生氣的,呆滯的,遲緩的
Instead, Silk [spins] out like a languid travelogue with no place to go, as Herve (Michael Pitt) makes repeated months-long journeys to Japan at the behest of businessman Baldabiou (Alfred Molina).
languid
The scene is Schofield Army Barracks in Honolulu, in the languid days before the attack on Pearl Harbor, where James Jones' acclaimed war novel From Here to Eternity brought the aspirations and frustrations of several people sharply into focus.
languor
lack of energy or vitality, sluggishness
His more personal work [languished] in desk drawers while his first credits were two of the biggest blockbusters of all time,
lackadaisical
After months of lackadaisical [investigation], the Los Angeles police, who have a serious public-relations problem (there’s been a lot of corruption and shootings), triumphantly produce a child, who was found in Illinois.
lassitude
weariness of body or mind from strain, oppressive climate, etc. listlessness, languor
a condition of indolent indifference
the pleasant lassitude of the [warm] summer afternoon.
There has long been a strain of [sorry] lassitude in Kaufman’s work
ennui
a feeling of utter weariness and discontent resulting from satiety or lack of interest, boredom
Influenced by both the quiet melancholy of Wong Kar-wai and the [sterile] ennui of Michelangelo Antonioni, Tsai presents Taipei as a [soulless], [ultra]-modern labyrinth where individuals cannot communicate other than in one-night stands or business transactions.
trance
Milgard's compact storytelling allows ample time for trance-[inducing] shots of windblown wheat fields that, along with recurring dream fragments and Robb Williamson's ambient score, suggest a mystical view of nature no doubt derived [from] Terrence Malick.
The suffocating summer heat is reflected in the film's deliberate pacing, which [casts] a trance [over] the audience.
transfix
transfix by the spectacle of their collectively produced movie
transient
Mason and Danny [forge] a special bond [whiling] away long afternoons together in their own private refuge. But just when we think we have a handle on what "Dandelion" is and where it's going, it takes an unexpected, life-like detour. Luke accidentally slams his car into a [transient] on a shadowy stretch of rural road,
transience
of the transience of [earthly] things.
ephemeral
The film's [ephemeral], semi-evasive lyricism ultimately works as a modest frame for Bardem's tender, deft portrait
Maybe the purpose of Hartley's films is to satirize America by taking the most [ephemeral] and [superficial] aspects of our society and treating them with [utter] seriousness,
Give him a shot of ephemeral. Come on!
vicissitude
a change or variation occurring in the course of something
vicissitude[s], successive, alternating, or changing phases or conditions, as of life or fortune, ups and downs
Gael García Bernal is an ideal choice to play Guevara, ranging effortlessly from delight to gravitas according to the vicissitudes of the character's experience.
The emotional climax of the film, when Noel reveals something to Paul that [jeopardizes] their [budding] relationship, is a beautifully [wrought] and powerful depiction of the [vicissitude] of romance.
A film adaptation that actually does justice to the novel, Ken Russell's version of D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love (1969) achieves the [requisite] visceral power for a story about the vicissitude[s] of love and lust.
narcolepsy
slumber
to sleep, esp. lightly, doze, drowse
to slumber the afternoon [away].
to slumber cares [away].
She gazed with affection at his slumbering [form]. slumber party!!!
He will not allow the child to be born. He will kill it while it slumbers in the womb.
Pretty little slumber pellets.
siesta
I'll slip away from that possessive old bitch while she's having her siesta... 【西】(西班牙、義大利等地的) 午睡
I've got a killer headache, and siesta hair, I'm thinking of cancelling the speech.
repose n. v.
to lie or be at rest, as from work, activity, etc
Wearing a waved salt-and-pepper [toupee] and spending much of his screen time smoking in [repose] while his v.o. does the narrative work
recumbent
recline
to lean or lie back, rest in a recumbent position.
... kneeling position turned reclining position.
lethargic
lethargy
the quality or state of being drowsy and dull, listless and unenergetic
drowsy
"If you were any thinner you wouldn't exist," [drowsy] hooker Jennifer Jason Leigh mumbles.
A fiercely independent performer who -- not unlike Jennifer Jason Leigh before her -- has used her drowsy [gaze] and humanist sensibilities [to] both good and bad effect, Polley at last finds a leading role that's [strong], [complex], and [utterly] sympathetic.
bleary
bleary-[eyed]
with all its gorgeous, [bleary] vistas and splattered bugs on the windshield.
Shrugging off their bleary white host's offer of cereal, they [clomp] hungover and silent to Noe Valley and a not-much-more-communicative breakfast.
soporific
causing or tending to cause sleep.
all drenched in Justin Timberlake's [soporific] biblical narration.
dormant
suggest the quiescence, sleep but may be roused to action
a dormant [volcano]
The indie thriller, directed by Antonio Campos (Afterschool) and starring Brady Corbet, whose appearance in the film was widely praised, has been dormant since IFC bought it last year.
inert
dead matter, with no inherent power, unable, heavy or hard to move
an inert [mass], inert from [hunger]
slug
I saw everything. It started in the pit. I dared him to come down with me at night to gather slugs.【動】蛞蝓,鼻涕蟲
sluggish
slowness, doesn not move readily or vigorously
a sluggish [stream] [brain]
schlep
with Dante schlepping [to] work at the Quick Stop in New Freakin' Jersey.
The Oscar producers spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a Swarovski crystal curtain to [glam] up the stage of the Kodak Theater. But they’re only creating a big [glitzy] scene from Burlesque if they insist on schlepping [off] the real stars of cinema on a shuttle bus to a backroom ballroom.
torpid
suspended physical powers, hibernate
[Snakes] are torpid in cold weather.
torpor
But too often, the movie [sinks] into an [a]morphous state of emotional torpor
Before long, pic falls into an ill-formed midsection marked by muddled action, abrupt transitions and a [lulling] torpor.
A hurry-and-wait sensation grows on a viewer as, once [transposed] from one scene to another, a [dramatic] torpor ensues at times, except for the hypo of choreographed brutality.
Irreversible's [facile] tale of a once-[idyllic] couple caught in a [torpor] of rape, drugs, and [re]tribution is loaded with easy ironies and horror-flick set pieces.
stupor
suspension or great diminution of sensibility
In his [stupor], Keitel is investigating random murders, but his mind is on baseball playoffs.
insolent
indolent
naturally disposed to avoid exertion
Autumn Tale has more of a [summer]time indolence than the [brisk] pace of fall.
slothful
denotes a reprehensible unwillingness to carry one's share of the burden
so slothful as to be a burden on [others].
flaccid
floppy
flabby
flab
Again, not [a] criticism. Desplechin recognizes that family drama carries more weight when the audience has an emotional investment in the characters, so what might seem like flab in a Hollywood film instead provides useful [texture] as the story [builds] toward its climax.
slouch
Time slouches [on]
I laughed out loud ! I adore that scene with the slouching grandmother!
A movie called "The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things," directed by and starring Asia Argento, has been slouching [around] the festival circuit for a while.
And we just hung all the fruit from the tree using tape and string. It worked, actually. And then we all ran into the truck and we slouched down and we just waited for my dad to come out.
O’Connor is no slouch, but the movie he’s making is bound to be very different from whatever Ramsay had in mind.
lollapalooza
loll
His happiest moments are his days spent lolling [on] the beach in male company and having indiscriminate sex everywhere and with everyone.
lull
He lulls his [audience], both in the movie and in the theater, into believing that
There is a kind of comfort in his films, a gentle [lulling] through the rhythms of everyday life, and he finds great beauty in ordinary people and locations.
Thanks in part to its [lulling], voiceover-enhanced [delirium], Primer evokes La Jetée, the mother of all time-travel loops.
Shot during a writer's strike, which had caused most other productions at Shepperton studios to shut down. Director Duncan Jones says he got a [number] of top-class effects people on the crew because of the lull.
Whenever Sy speaks to Larry, he offers the most caring and supportive sentiments imaginable, but he delivers them in a [voice] so lulling and smooth that it hilariously [amplifies] their insincerity.
Caroline's voice: Before long, the sound of the wind and the grass lulled me [into] slumber.
lollop
a lolloping golden [retriever] named Lucky.
。漫步在雲端
Shamble(s)
Languid
Y
a. (形容詞 adjective)
1. 軟弱無力的,倦怠的
The illness made him feel languid.
疾病使他感到倦怠乏力。
2. 不感興趣的,沒精打采的
3. 無生氣的,呆滯的,遲緩的
Instead, Silk [spins] out like a languid travelogue with no place to go, as Herve (Michael Pitt) makes repeated months-long journeys to Japan at the behest of businessman Baldabiou (Alfred Molina).
languid
The scene is Schofield Army Barracks in Honolulu, in the languid days before the attack on Pearl Harbor, where James Jones' acclaimed war novel From Here to Eternity brought the aspirations and frustrations of several people sharply into focus.
languor
lack of energy or vitality, sluggishness
His more personal work [languished] in desk drawers while his first credits were two of the biggest blockbusters of all time,
lackadaisical
After months of lackadaisical [investigation], the Los Angeles police, who have a serious public-relations problem (there’s been a lot of corruption and shootings), triumphantly produce a child, who was found in Illinois.
lassitude
weariness of body or mind from strain, oppressive climate, etc. listlessness, languor
a condition of indolent indifference
the pleasant lassitude of the [warm] summer afternoon.
There has long been a strain of [sorry] lassitude in Kaufman’s work
ennui
a feeling of utter weariness and discontent resulting from satiety or lack of interest, boredom
Influenced by both the quiet melancholy of Wong Kar-wai and the [sterile] ennui of Michelangelo Antonioni, Tsai presents Taipei as a [soulless], [ultra]-modern labyrinth where individuals cannot communicate other than in one-night stands or business transactions.
trance
Milgard's compact storytelling allows ample time for trance-[inducing] shots of windblown wheat fields that, along with recurring dream fragments and Robb Williamson's ambient score, suggest a mystical view of nature no doubt derived [from] Terrence Malick.
The suffocating summer heat is reflected in the film's deliberate pacing, which [casts] a trance [over] the audience.
transfix
transfix by the spectacle of their collectively produced movie
transient
Mason and Danny [forge] a special bond [whiling] away long afternoons together in their own private refuge. But just when we think we have a handle on what "Dandelion" is and where it's going, it takes an unexpected, life-like detour. Luke accidentally slams his car into a [transient] on a shadowy stretch of rural road,
transience
of the transience of [earthly] things.
ephemeral
The film's [ephemeral], semi-evasive lyricism ultimately works as a modest frame for Bardem's tender, deft portrait
Maybe the purpose of Hartley's films is to satirize America by taking the most [ephemeral] and [superficial] aspects of our society and treating them with [utter] seriousness,
Give him a shot of ephemeral. Come on!
vicissitude
a change or variation occurring in the course of something
vicissitude[s], successive, alternating, or changing phases or conditions, as of life or fortune, ups and downs
Gael García Bernal is an ideal choice to play Guevara, ranging effortlessly from delight to gravitas according to the vicissitudes of the character's experience.
The emotional climax of the film, when Noel reveals something to Paul that [jeopardizes] their [budding] relationship, is a beautifully [wrought] and powerful depiction of the [vicissitude] of romance.
A film adaptation that actually does justice to the novel, Ken Russell's version of D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love (1969) achieves the [requisite] visceral power for a story about the vicissitude[s] of love and lust.
narcolepsy
slumber
to sleep, esp. lightly, doze, drowse
to slumber the afternoon [away].
to slumber cares [away].
She gazed with affection at his slumbering [form]. slumber party!!!
He will not allow the child to be born. He will kill it while it slumbers in the womb.
Pretty little slumber pellets.
siesta
I'll slip away from that possessive old bitch while she's having her siesta... 【西】(西班牙、義大利等地的) 午睡
I've got a killer headache, and siesta hair, I'm thinking of cancelling the speech.
repose n. v.
to lie or be at rest, as from work, activity, etc
Wearing a waved salt-and-pepper [toupee] and spending much of his screen time smoking in [repose] while his v.o. does the narrative work
recumbent
recline
to lean or lie back, rest in a recumbent position.
... kneeling position turned reclining position.
lethargic
lethargy
the quality or state of being drowsy and dull, listless and unenergetic
drowsy
"If you were any thinner you wouldn't exist," [drowsy] hooker Jennifer Jason Leigh mumbles.
A fiercely independent performer who -- not unlike Jennifer Jason Leigh before her -- has used her drowsy [gaze] and humanist sensibilities [to] both good and bad effect, Polley at last finds a leading role that's [strong], [complex], and [utterly] sympathetic.
bleary
bleary-[eyed]
with all its gorgeous, [bleary] vistas and splattered bugs on the windshield.
Shrugging off their bleary white host's offer of cereal, they [clomp] hungover and silent to Noe Valley and a not-much-more-communicative breakfast.
soporific
causing or tending to cause sleep.
all drenched in Justin Timberlake's [soporific] biblical narration.
dormant
suggest the quiescence, sleep but may be roused to action
a dormant [volcano]
The indie thriller, directed by Antonio Campos (Afterschool) and starring Brady Corbet, whose appearance in the film was widely praised, has been dormant since IFC bought it last year.
inert
dead matter, with no inherent power, unable, heavy or hard to move
an inert [mass], inert from [hunger]
slug
I saw everything. It started in the pit. I dared him to come down with me at night to gather slugs.【動】蛞蝓,鼻涕蟲
sluggish
slowness, doesn not move readily or vigorously
a sluggish [stream] [brain]
schlep
with Dante schlepping [to] work at the Quick Stop in New Freakin' Jersey.
The Oscar producers spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a Swarovski crystal curtain to [glam] up the stage of the Kodak Theater. But they’re only creating a big [glitzy] scene from Burlesque if they insist on schlepping [off] the real stars of cinema on a shuttle bus to a backroom ballroom.
torpid
suspended physical powers, hibernate
[Snakes] are torpid in cold weather.
torpor
But too often, the movie [sinks] into an [a]morphous state of emotional torpor
Before long, pic falls into an ill-formed midsection marked by muddled action, abrupt transitions and a [lulling] torpor.
A hurry-and-wait sensation grows on a viewer as, once [transposed] from one scene to another, a [dramatic] torpor ensues at times, except for the hypo of choreographed brutality.
Irreversible's [facile] tale of a once-[idyllic] couple caught in a [torpor] of rape, drugs, and [re]tribution is loaded with easy ironies and horror-flick set pieces.
stupor
suspension or great diminution of sensibility
In his [stupor], Keitel is investigating random murders, but his mind is on baseball playoffs.
insolent
indolent
naturally disposed to avoid exertion
Autumn Tale has more of a [summer]time indolence than the [brisk] pace of fall.
slothful
denotes a reprehensible unwillingness to carry one's share of the burden
so slothful as to be a burden on [others].
flaccid
floppy
flabby
flab
Again, not [a] criticism. Desplechin recognizes that family drama carries more weight when the audience has an emotional investment in the characters, so what might seem like flab in a Hollywood film instead provides useful [texture] as the story [builds] toward its climax.
slouch
Time slouches [on]
I laughed out loud ! I adore that scene with the slouching grandmother!
A movie called "The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things," directed by and starring Asia Argento, has been slouching [around] the festival circuit for a while.
And we just hung all the fruit from the tree using tape and string. It worked, actually. And then we all ran into the truck and we slouched down and we just waited for my dad to come out.
O’Connor is no slouch, but the movie he’s making is bound to be very different from whatever Ramsay had in mind.
lollapalooza
loll
His happiest moments are his days spent lolling [on] the beach in male company and having indiscriminate sex everywhere and with everyone.
lull
He lulls his [audience], both in the movie and in the theater, into believing that
There is a kind of comfort in his films, a gentle [lulling] through the rhythms of everyday life, and he finds great beauty in ordinary people and locations.
Thanks in part to its [lulling], voiceover-enhanced [delirium], Primer evokes La Jetée, the mother of all time-travel loops.
Shot during a writer's strike, which had caused most other productions at Shepperton studios to shut down. Director Duncan Jones says he got a [number] of top-class effects people on the crew because of the lull.
Whenever Sy speaks to Larry, he offers the most caring and supportive sentiments imaginable, but he delivers them in a [voice] so lulling and smooth that it hilariously [amplifies] their insincerity.
Caroline's voice: Before long, the sound of the wind and the grass lulled me [into] slumber.
lollop
a lolloping golden [retriever] named Lucky.
。漫步在雲端
Shamble(s)
Languid
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