女神殿

jeremiad



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[jer-uh-mahy-uhd, -ad]

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–noun 
a prolonged lamentation or mournful complaint.


　
Its characters struggle with some of the world's dirtiest jobs—morally as well as physically. In this, Linklater is following in the Sinclair tradition: The Jungle, which also focused on immigrant workers, was intended not so much as an attack on the meatpacking industry as a socialist jeremiad against capitalism itself. 


malaise 
woebegone & hapless
woe
To add to his [woes], Bergman's producer at Svensk Filmindustri informed him that he would not be able to finance his next film if this one didn't [perform] at the box office.
saturnine
[Piccoli], the balding, saturnine slickster with the five-o’clock shadow, and Belmondo, the oily outlaw punk. 
[echoing] Freud's saturnine assessment of the human race. 
plaintive
King's plaintive [baritone] had all the passion of gospel
The studio that Jerry built is about to be demolished, and the [music] dubbed over the shot is Duke Ellington's plaintive "(In My) Solitude."

cf. dole
doleful
a doleful [look] on her face. 
pine
Complicating his life is his beautiful contact who pines [after] him with fetishistic ardor
to pine [for] one's home and family.  
Separated by their families, the lovers pined [away].  

lugubrious
exaggeratedly, affectedly mournful
the film bogs [down] in the [hushed], [lugubrious] narration of disillusioned newspaperman Jack Burden
Scalp