女神殿

          1.    年老昏聵
          2.    溺愛[(+on/upon)]
                      She dotes on her grandchildren.
                      她溺愛孫兒女。

D

–verb (used without object) Also, doat. 
1. to bestow 
or 
express excessive love or fondness habitually (usually fol. by on or upon): They dote [on] their youngest daughter.  

2. to show a decline of mental faculties, esp. associated with old age. 

–noun 
3. decay of wood. 


C

dote (v.)

means "to be old, weak-minded, and foolish" and, 

in combination with the preposition on,"to be fond 
or 
affectionate to the point of foolishness,"as in She simply dotes [on] her [grandson], showering him with gifts and endearments.


　
Dramatic attention [a]lights [upon] four women watching their young children at a playground, three nattering types and one outsider, Sarah (Kate Winslet), a more pensive observer with little patience for extended discussion of toddler issues. 

The three cackling [hens] go into a dither at the arrival of a long-absent young father so dreamy they've dubbed him the Prom King. They've never dared speak to him as he's played with his little son, so Sarah delight[s] in betting she can get his phone number. 

Instead, in a beautifully played scene that [locks] the viewer [into] the protags' story, they have a delicate, probing chat which ends with them briefly kissing in front of the children and other women.

dither
–noun 
1. a trembling; vibration.
2. a state 
of 
flustered excitement or fear. 

–verb (used without object) 
3. to act irresolutely; vacillate.
4. North England. to tremble with excitement or fear.

Still, the pic spends an unexpected amount of time with ex-con Ronald, whose doting mother (the wonderful Phyllis Somerville) encourages him to date again. This [leads] to a startlingly tender, if ultimately dismaying, 

dinner scene between Ronald and the emotionally [damaged] Sheila (Jane Adams, terrific), and Ronald's [path] eventually comes to cross those of the other characters in a way that will have most mothers in the audience cringing.


codger
cad 
callow cherub
impish
lad
The lad is determined to let his acting do the talking 
swain
a love-sick swain
waif
Nubile