女神殿

shoddy



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–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