flummox
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D
–verb (used with object) Informal.
to bewilder; confound; confuse.
Rohmer sees men as being [at] a disadvantage in the mating game.
Flummoxed
by
feminine [conspiracies] they're always the last to know about,
they have no choice but to open up. In the male-female universe of Autumn Tale, it is the women who are [canny] and sphinxlike while the men, desperate to be understood, spill their souls out and are no wis[er] [for] it. (Gerald, smitten, does practically all the talking when he's with Isabelle, and the [pattern] is later repeated with Magali.)
There's a form of poetic justice in all this, and it gives the film, otherwise [strait]laced, its [jagged] wit:
[Women] on the lookout for love may be fools,
but
they make sure to turn the [men] who romance them into even bigger ones.
obfuscate
nebulous
enigma sphinx
impalpable
impeccable implacable inscrutable
witticism
conundrum tantrum rummage Fray
repartee
astute gumption shrewd
mime
buffoon & charlatan
Threnody
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D
–verb (used with object) Informal.
to bewilder; confound; confuse.
Rohmer sees men as being [at] a disadvantage in the mating game.
Flummoxed
by
feminine [conspiracies] they're always the last to know about,
they have no choice but to open up. In the male-female universe of Autumn Tale, it is the women who are [canny] and sphinxlike while the men, desperate to be understood, spill their souls out and are no wis[er] [for] it. (Gerald, smitten, does practically all the talking when he's with Isabelle, and the [pattern] is later repeated with Magali.)
There's a form of poetic justice in all this, and it gives the film, otherwise [strait]laced, its [jagged] wit:
[Women] on the lookout for love may be fools,
but
they make sure to turn the [men] who romance them into even bigger ones.
obfuscate
nebulous
enigma sphinx
impalpable
impeccable implacable inscrutable
witticism
conundrum tantrum rummage Fray
repartee
astute gumption shrewd
mime
buffoon & charlatan
Threnody
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