harpy
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【希神】鳥身女妖
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–noun
1. Classical Mythology. a ravenous, filthy monster having a woman's head and a bird's body.
2. (lowercase) a scolding, nagging, bad-tempered woman; shrew.
3. (lowercase) a greedy, predatory person.
Taylor in particular did some of the best work of her career, screaming, bullying, and scheming her way across the screen with raw, full-bodied anger. Both imposing and pathetic, her Martha remains one of the more astonishing examples of an avenging harpy that the screen has to offer.
Aside from [boasting] such fine work from its leads, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? became known as one of the most successful examples of stage-to-screen adaptation. Much of this was due to Ernest Lehman's script, which remained scrupulously faithful to the original material, and the legendary Haskell Wexler's gorgeous black-and-white cinematography.
Above all, Who's Afraid owed its success [to] Nichols' direction, here comprising one of the screen's most self-assured and controlled debuts.
ravenous
a famished condition
ravenous wild [beasts].
ravening
adds the idea of fierceness & savagery
ravening [wolves].
veracious
voracious
1.
craving a great deal of food
a voracious [appetite].
2.
voracious [readers]
After all, a moviegoer’s [imaginative] life is voracious.
rapacious
insatiable
When small-town high school hottie Jennifer (Megan Fox) is possessed by a hungry demon, guys who never [stood] a chance with her, take on new [luster] in the light of Jennifer’s [insatiable] appetite. From the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Juno.
Walrus
nymphomania
nymph
naiad
Sphinx Protean cornucopia Jovial Mercurial
Adonis
Aphrodite Nemesis Juno hermaphrodite
Samaritan
cherub
orgy
Innuendo
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