Corrugated_Cardboard




corrugate

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–verb (used with object) 
1. to draw 
or 
bend into folds or alternate furrows (犁溝,皺紋) and ridges

furrow
In spring, [farmers] are busy furrowing the fields.
His [brow] furrowed.

2. to wrinkle, as the skin or face.
3. Western U.S. to make irrigation (灌溉) ditches in (a field). 

–verb (used without object) 
4. to become corrugated; undergo corrugation.
–adjective 
5. corrugated; wrinkled; furrowed.


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Then, there is Irène Jacob. Time has not weakened my worship, but I did start to question, this time round, how skilled an actress she actually was. The picture is unthinkable [without] her presence—swaying between the jubilant and the fretful, all wide [eyes] and corrugated [brow]. 

It is as if she lacked a layer of skin, and that rawness verges on the embarrassing; she comes across not as a decided character but as somebody to whom things happen—a perfect alabaster form, still taking blows from the [sculptor]’s chisel. 

alabaster
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When Véronique sits with her young pupils, watching a puppet show, she responds with the same ecstatic naïveté as they do. She is frequently naked, but her face, in arousal, could be that of a saint, lost in religious contemplation, and her bare breast is also the clothed breast that she instinctively cups, mid-song, as if striving to hold her heart in. 

Kieślowski was brilliant with children and with the elderly, who, lacking the strength for defiance, tend to submit to the imprint of fate; could decades of totalitarian rule have [at]tuned him almost too well to the spectacle of human beings being jerked around by the puppeteers of the state? Where are the robust resisters of middle age?


precipice
crag
scraggly
has a [face] like a rusty hatchet (needle nose, scraggly [beard])

bristle brittle
ruffle
rumple 
irregular, uneven, jagged.
Jerry's assistant Watson (rumple-faced Irv Gooch)

corrugate
corrugated [cardboard]
The picture is unthinkable [without] her presence—swaying between the [jubilant] and the [fretful], all wide [eyes] and corrugated [brow]. 
Debauchery








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