prurient
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–adjective
1. having, inclined to have,
or
characterized by lascivious or lustful thoughts, desires, etc.
2. causing lasciviousness or lust.
3. having a restless desire or longing.
Storytelling, the leanest and meanest of Solondz's misanthropic comedies, feasts [on] the anguish of adolescence and confusion of college—white suburban-style. Based on cartoonish stereotypes, it could be considered an anti-Amélie were the style not so laconic.
Two stories are told; the first, shorter one, pointedly called "Fiction," is a memorably nasty meditation on what post-structuralists call "difference."
The opening minutes oscillate [between] prurience and pathos, as two undergraduate members of a college writing workshop, pink-haired Vi (Selma Blair) and cerebral-palsied Marcus (Leo Fitzpatrick), couple in a cinder-block dorm room. "The kinkiness is gone," Marcus complains afterward. "You've become . . . kind."
cerebral palsy
【醫】大腦性麻痺
lechery
lubricious libidinous
lascivious insalubrious
adulterer
philanderer
grope
leer
a lascivious or sly look.
I can't [con]centrate with you leering [at] me.
ogle
Uncle George got a black eye for [ogling] a lady in the pub.
Henrik, Egerman's son by a previous marriage, is studying theology, but he is constantly being [ogled] by Petra, the maid.
squint
to look with the eyes partly closed.
to look or glance obliquely or sidewise; look askance.
He squinted through the [tele]scope.
The baby squinted its eyes at the bright [lights].
Debauchery
- Dec 13 Sat 2008 11:49
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