October 5, 2008

Polemic

polemic



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–noun 
1. a controversial argument, as one against some opinion, doctrine, etc. 
2. a person who argues in opposition to another; controversialist.  

–adjective 
3. Also, polemical. of or pertaining to a polemic; controversial. 


descent 
This last aspect — the rape’s awakening of Maya’s consciousness as a woman of color — 

elevates "Descent" beyond case study and 
into 
the realm of [bomb]-throwing polemic.
 

Maya’s personality is transformed during visits to a dance club, where she falls for a macho African-American D.J. named Adrian (the musician turned actor Marcus Patrick, who has a bit of 

Burt Lancaster’s
looming
physicality), 

experiments with drugs and tries to reclaim the sexual confidence that Jared stole. (The latter is suggested rather than shown, in a strobe-lit (閃光燈) 
dance floor 

montage of Maya writhing [with] several partners.)


blather prattle prate confabulate (informal)
natter
harp glib

garrulous 
gush 
[Oil] gushed from the well.
geyser  
該 ser
the [kettle] geysering all over the stove.
great [gushing] [geysers] of talk

Garrulous








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