Amble－女神殿｜痞客邦

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–verb (used without object)
1. to go at
a
slow, easy pace; stroll; saunter: He ambled [around] the town.

2. (of a horse) to go at a slow pace with the legs moving in lateral pairs and usually having a four-beat rhythm.

–noun
3. an ambling gait.
4. a slow, easy walk or gentle pace.
5. a stroll.

—Synonyms
1. ramble (隨筆), meander.

　
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.

musty
–adjective
1. having an odor or flavor suggestive
of
mold, as old buildings, long-closed rooms, or stale food.

2. obsolete; outdated; antiquated: musty [laws].
3. dull; apathetic.
peat
泥煤,泥炭

harness
trot
horse, go at a gait between walk and run
amble
Day-Lewis—an [ambling] scarecrow under [boater] and [musty] cloth coat
—is as rooted as an [oak] in his character and milieu
thresh

thrash
He got his comeuppance when the bully [thrashed] him.
flail
The film finishes by exploring hetero motifs: Encolpio discovers that he is impotent while [flailing] around on the alter of the whore-priestess,
and then [recovers] his virility while pleasuring Oneothea, a corpulent [sorceress] sex therapist.　
Convulsion

amble
He ambled [around] the town.
dawdle
dilatorily saunter, fritter away time working in a halfhearted way
to dawdle [over] a [task].
He dawdled [away] the whole [morning].
[Stop] dawdling and [help] me with these packages!
loiter
linger aimlessly
to loiter outside a [building].
dally
loiter indecisively, delay as if free from responsibilities
to dally on the way [home]. (indecisively)
How can you dally [with] such a [serious] problem?
The acceptance of the role as artistic directors of the company is not a [dalliance]
Languid

insipidness unsavory
bathetic
musty
having an odor or flavor suggestive of mold
an ambling scarecrow under [boater] and musty cloth [coat]

commonplace (dull, ordinary, platitudinous)
banal (inane, pointless)
hackneyed (stale and worn out through overuse)
trite
[true] but trite
I always like to go into things I'm scared of, so I eventually found it -- "liberating" is kind of a [trite] word -- but it was fun. It was scary but fun.
George Sluizer's original Dutch-French version of The Vanishing (1988) reveals the [capacity] for evil [lurking] beneath the most [banal] surfaces and the dangers of wanting to know too much.
Tenuous