shoddy
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D
–adjective
1. of poor quality
or
inferior workmanship: a shoddy bookcase.
2. intentionally rude
or
inconsiderate; shabby: shoddy [behavior].
–noun
3. a fibrous material obtained by shredding (碎片) unfelted rags or waste. Compare mungo.
4. anything inferior,
esp.
a handmade item or manufactured product.
What does it mean to give a wholly [convincing] performance
from
an [un]tenable script?
Does the [feat] confirm the supremacy of the living word over the frozen text?
Or is the acting merely earnest salesmanship
of
shoddy merchandise?
It's an inquiry that might especially interest Daniel Day-Lewis, whose famously immersive process surpasses the artistic and enters the realm of the metabolic. As the dying hippie farmer in wife Rebecca Miller's The Ballad of Jack & Rose, Day-Lewis—
an ambling scarecrow under boater and musty cloth coat
—is as rooted as an [oak] in his character and milieu, yet easefully [dis]engaged from the film's pensive histrionics. His turn as lifestyle extremist Jack carries an authentic scent of [tobacco] and [peat] while much of the movie smells of the lamp.
filch
huckster monger hock bauble shoddy
Sham
pert
brash insolent indolent
shoddy
curt laconic
terse
terse (polish, brusqueness)
succinct (originally)
Tony
Y
D
–adjective
1. of poor quality
or
inferior workmanship: a shoddy bookcase.
2. intentionally rude
or
inconsiderate; shabby: shoddy [behavior].
–noun
3. a fibrous material obtained by shredding (碎片) unfelted rags or waste. Compare mungo.
4. anything inferior,
esp.
a handmade item or manufactured product.
What does it mean to give a wholly [convincing] performance
from
an [un]tenable script?
Does the [feat] confirm the supremacy of the living word over the frozen text?
Or is the acting merely earnest salesmanship
of
shoddy merchandise?
It's an inquiry that might especially interest Daniel Day-Lewis, whose famously immersive process surpasses the artistic and enters the realm of the metabolic. As the dying hippie farmer in wife Rebecca Miller's The Ballad of Jack & Rose, Day-Lewis—
an ambling scarecrow under boater and musty cloth coat
—is as rooted as an [oak] in his character and milieu, yet easefully [dis]engaged from the film's pensive histrionics. His turn as lifestyle extremist Jack carries an authentic scent of [tobacco] and [peat] while much of the movie smells of the lamp.
filch
huckster monger hock bauble shoddy
Sham
pert
brash insolent indolent
shoddy
curt laconic
terse
terse (polish, brusqueness)
succinct (originally)
Tony
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