Word: characterize
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- FlyBy can’t stand the character of Sandy Ryerson, but we enjoyed his return as the pot cupcake-enabling Chronic Lady. Can it be long before he schemes his way into the school again, or will his role going forward be like this rare appearance as the go...
Well, we are now to believe that Sue fought in the 1982 Falklands War where she learned how to radio in the coordinates of conspicuous snipers. So there’s that. Also she really doesn’t understand how interviews work. Or auditions for that matter: Figgins orders...
...stranger to “lexical commingling”—persistently described the title character in a series of epithets (“polite Pnin,” “brave Pnin” etc). Alexander’s narrator has a similar obsession for self-characterization. “Subnormal,” “heteromorphic,” “perpetual like Assyrian cups,” “not like Odysseus” or Vasco da Gama, but rather “Egyptian or Phoenician,” he thuds...
The film functions best as a set of such fragmented moments; Krasinski’s original plotline involving Sara remains the movie’s most bland and least convincing device. Scenes that show Sara in class, at professors’ cocktail parties, or in cafés with her...