July 5, 2008

Ulterior

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–adjective 
1. being beyond what is seen or avowed; intentionally kept concealed

ulterior
[motives].
  

2. coming at a subsequent time or stage; future; further: 

ulterior [action]
.
  

3. lying beyond or outside of some specified or understood boundary; more remote: a suggestion ulterior to the purposes of the present discussion.  

—Synonyms 
1. hidden, covert, undisclosed, undivulged.


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Every plot turn reeks of implausibility, but least convincing of all are the characters, all extreme cases with little to attract audience sympathy. Could anyone be as naive as McGregor's mousy, bespectacled shut-in? 

Is any villain's ulterior [motives] so transparent as Jackman's?
 

And has any director, even a first-timer like commercial filmmaker Marcel Langenegger, ever telegraphed so many punches?


oblique neither perpendicular nor parallel →indirect 
ulterior concealed, future
reeks of kitsch villain & villein 
sporadic irregular, occasional
inadvertent unintentional, heedless
remittent【醫】弛張的;忽輕忽重的








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