ingratiate
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–verb (used with object)
to establish (oneself) in the favor or good graces of others, esp. by deliberate effort (usually fol. by with): He ingratiated himself [with] all the guests.
Along the way, Charlie, whose talents seem at first confined [to] barking orders and being inconsiderate, is getting his edges buffed by Raymond's ingratiating eccentricities and [at]tachment [to] routine.
Then Charlie learns by phone, in Tucumcari, N.M., that he's just lost $80,000 in a business deal, and pic's placid surface erupts in a bombast of music and camera tricks as he takes Raymond to the Las Vegas gaming tables to exploit his mathematical genius. Needless to say, it's a very successful idea. Raymond even learns a little about women, and in a charming scene with Cruise, learns how to dance.
For most of its longish 140 minutes, "Rain Man" is limited by its subject - it's about getting to know a guy (Raymond) who can't respond or change except [by] the slightest degrees. Road segment often feels hastily, loosely written, with much extraneous screen time. By the last third, pic becomes quite moving as these two very isolated beings discover a common history and deep attachment.
buff
(用暗黃皮革等) 擦亮,擦淨
減低(力量), 減弱
bombast
大話
cringe
sycophantic
unctuous
smarmy
that managed to be [clever] and [calculated]
without the [smarmy] [pretension] of today's imitators.
fawn
He fawns [on] anyone in an influential [position].
a [fawn] is a very young deer.
a [faun] is a figure in Roman myth, half [man], half [goat], something like a [satyr]. (農牧之神,森林之神)
obsequious sycophantic
affront insult
effrontery shameless, impudence, presumption
He is polite to the point of [obsequiousness],
not only to his church superiors, but even to the people he [torments].
I couldn’t forgive his [affront] to [of] his mother.
a sneak thief [ransacking] his own broken home for self-serving material
—and some critics at the Toronto film festival this year took Margot as a [scathing] matricidal [affront].
She then had the [effrontery] to ask a [favor].
Given the nature of the Inquisition, it seems unlikely such [effrontery] would have brought with [it] no consequences for Tomas and his retinue, as it does in the pic.
Tenuous
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–verb (used with object)
to establish (oneself) in the favor or good graces of others, esp. by deliberate effort (usually fol. by with): He ingratiated himself [with] all the guests.
Along the way, Charlie, whose talents seem at first confined [to] barking orders and being inconsiderate, is getting his edges buffed by Raymond's ingratiating eccentricities and [at]tachment [to] routine.
Then Charlie learns by phone, in Tucumcari, N.M., that he's just lost $80,000 in a business deal, and pic's placid surface erupts in a bombast of music and camera tricks as he takes Raymond to the Las Vegas gaming tables to exploit his mathematical genius. Needless to say, it's a very successful idea. Raymond even learns a little about women, and in a charming scene with Cruise, learns how to dance.
For most of its longish 140 minutes, "Rain Man" is limited by its subject - it's about getting to know a guy (Raymond) who can't respond or change except [by] the slightest degrees. Road segment often feels hastily, loosely written, with much extraneous screen time. By the last third, pic becomes quite moving as these two very isolated beings discover a common history and deep attachment.
buff
(用暗黃皮革等) 擦亮,擦淨
減低(力量), 減弱
bombast
大話
cringe
sycophantic
unctuous
smarmy
that managed to be [clever] and [calculated]
without the [smarmy] [pretension] of today's imitators.
fawn
He fawns [on] anyone in an influential [position].
a [fawn] is a very young deer.
a [faun] is a figure in Roman myth, half [man], half [goat], something like a [satyr]. (農牧之神,森林之神)
obsequious sycophantic
affront insult
effrontery shameless, impudence, presumption
He is polite to the point of [obsequiousness],
not only to his church superiors, but even to the people he [torments].
I couldn’t forgive his [affront] to [of] his mother.
a sneak thief [ransacking] his own broken home for self-serving material
—and some critics at the Toronto film festival this year took Margot as a [scathing] matricidal [affront].
She then had the [effrontery] to ask a [favor].
Given the nature of the Inquisition, it seems unlikely such [effrontery] would have brought with [it] no consequences for Tomas and his retinue, as it does in the pic.
Tenuous
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