女神殿

cosset



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–verb (used with object) 
1. to treat as a pet; pamper; coddle. 

–noun 
2. a lamb brought up without its dam (母獸); pet lamb.
3. any pet. 

Origin:
1570–80; akin to OE cossetung kissing, verbal n. based on *cossettan to kiss, deriv. of coss kiss 


　
Miss Redgrave—daughter of Sir Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson (who has a minor role in Georgy Girl) and younger sister of the Vanessa you met in Morgan!—cannot be quite as homely as she makes herself in this film. 

Slimmed down, cosseted in a couture salon, and given more of the brittle, sophisticated lines she tosses off with such abandon here, she could become a comedienne every bit as good as the late Kay Kendall.


codger
dote
They dote [on] their youngest daughter.  
the pic spends an unexpected amount of time with ex-con Ronald, whose [doting] mother

callous
cad 
callow 
cherub
seraphic
Hey, where are you hiding that great seraphic of yours?

vagrant 
vagabond
waif
and he's set the [wisp]-waif to star in his upcoming sci-fi thriller Never Let Me Go.
The result of such a dramatic imbalance renders Redgrave's character that of a [storm]-tossed waif,
gamine
gamin
Cast at least partly for her Audrey Hepburn [gamin] quality,
hobo
Ossie Davis is perfect casting as a sort of [conciliator], a [hobo] nicknamed the Mayor who injects folk wisdom into the discussion.

straggle
stray from the road, course, or line of march.
The [houses] straggled down the hillside.
errant
Tom Ripley, an American who travels to Europe on an all-expenses-paid mission to convince his friend, the [errant] playboy Philippe Greenleaf,
rove
While the central action is presented seriously, things on the periphery are caricatured and one-dimensional, which helps contribute to the widely [roving] tone.
Codger