grist
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–noun
1. grain to be ground. (grind, ground, ground)
2. ground grain; meal produced from grinding.
3. a quantity of grain for grinding at one time; the amount of meal from one grinding.
4. Older Use. a quantity or lot.
–verb (used with object)
5. to grind (grain).
—Idiom
6. grist for or to one's mill, something employed to one's profit or advantage, esp. something seemingly unpromising: Every delay was so much more grist [for] her mill.
Of the Art Film-era über-auteurs, Fellini, Antonioni, Godard, Truffaut, Kurosawa, and Buñuel remain potent [currency] in one form or another (new work, old scripts, reissues, docs, tributes, etc.), but Ingmar Bergman seems to have faded dramatically [from] view.
Clearly now, the respect he received was always on the verge of [dis]solving into contempt; going back as far as the 1968 short De Düva, things "Bergman-esque"—overt psychological symbology, brooding seriousness, spiritual crisis, Scandi-angst
—have been grist [for] farce.
The grim Swede may have seemed to be an indomitable voice, but in today's cultural market, he's a nowhere man.
grate
His constant chatter grates [on] my nerves.
to grate on the [ear].
to grate a [carrot].
to grate one's [teeth]. with people grating tulip bulbs to make soup.
hone
Two decades in Tinseltown surely honed Verhoeven's [perversity].
Fray
niche
But filmmakers with an easily defined [niche] and some marketing [flair] can still assemble a distribution plan.
to find one's niche in the [business] world.
barter
to barter [wheat] for [machinery].
bartering [away] his [pride] for [material] gain.
Sham
Y
D
–noun
1. grain to be ground. (grind, ground, ground)
2. ground grain; meal produced from grinding.
3. a quantity of grain for grinding at one time; the amount of meal from one grinding.
4. Older Use. a quantity or lot.
–verb (used with object)
5. to grind (grain).
—Idiom
6. grist for or to one's mill, something employed to one's profit or advantage, esp. something seemingly unpromising: Every delay was so much more grist [for] her mill.
Of the Art Film-era über-auteurs, Fellini, Antonioni, Godard, Truffaut, Kurosawa, and Buñuel remain potent [currency] in one form or another (new work, old scripts, reissues, docs, tributes, etc.), but Ingmar Bergman seems to have faded dramatically [from] view.
Clearly now, the respect he received was always on the verge of [dis]solving into contempt; going back as far as the 1968 short De Düva, things "Bergman-esque"—overt psychological symbology, brooding seriousness, spiritual crisis, Scandi-angst
—have been grist [for] farce.
The grim Swede may have seemed to be an indomitable voice, but in today's cultural market, he's a nowhere man.
grate
His constant chatter grates [on] my nerves.
to grate on the [ear].
to grate a [carrot].
to grate one's [teeth]. with people grating tulip bulbs to make soup.
hone
Two decades in Tinseltown surely honed Verhoeven's [perversity].
Fray
niche
But filmmakers with an easily defined [niche] and some marketing [flair] can still assemble a distribution plan.
to find one's niche in the [business] world.
barter
to barter [wheat] for [machinery].
bartering [away] his [pride] for [material] gain.
Sham
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