October 15, 2008

Saturnine

saturnine



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[sat-er-nahyn]

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–adjective 
1. sluggish in temperament; gloomy
taciturn
2. suffering from lead (鉛) poisoning, as a person. 
3. due to absorption of lead, as bodily disorders.  


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Maurice Pialat elicited an award-winning performance from fledgling actress Sandrine Bonnaire in this brilliantly penetrating examination of the life of an unhappy teenaged girl. Near the end of the film, Pialat, who also plays the father of this girl who seems so incapable [of] love, says to her, "Some can love." "Not many," she replies, 

[echoing] Freud's saturnine assessment of the human race. 


malaise 
woebegone & hapless
Fray








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