January 27, 2009

Sundry & Sundries

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–adjective 
1. various or diverse: sundry persons.  

—Idiom

2. all and sundry, everybody, collectively and individually: Free samples were given to all and sundry.  


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sundry (adj.), sundries (n.) 
 
Sundry is an adjective of somewhat pedantic or archaic flavor; it means "several, several kinds, various." The cliché all and sundry, meaning "every one or everything, the whole collection," is still in use, 

pedantic 
–adjective 
1. ostentatious in one's learning.
2. overly concerned with minute details or formalisms, esp. in teaching.


and the noun, especially in the plural, has wide use meaning 

"a hodgepodge, a miscellany, typically of small items such as might be sold in a drugstore or novelty shop," 

and in a specialized plural sense meaning those particular items themselves: Try the department where sundries are sold.


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In act three, ex-fiancée Anna (Ludivine Sagnier) shows up at the apartment while Leopold is away. Their previous passion is quickly [rekindled], and Anna soon marvels at the sundry techniques her lover has learned since she last saw him. 


picket
Don't cross the picket [line]
to picket a [lawn] [captives]
a small group of protestors [picketed] the movie... those carrying picket [signs] decrying the movie as an attack on religious beliefs.
mete
demarcation
Unlike many child actors who’ve made the successful [transition] to grown-up roles, DiCaprio hasn’t evolved in predictable ways—there are no clear [lines] of demarcation.
aberration
aberrant 
that the Huey Longs were [a]berrations,
trajectory

While the film [follows] a tragic [trajectory], the Coens can't resist leavening it with oddball humor.

stature
the height of a human or animal body.
She was rather [small] in stature.
Thomas Jefferson was a man of [great] stature.
Film noir is rarely about heroes, but about men of small [stature], who are lured out of their timid routines by dreams of wealth or romance. Their sin is one of [hubris]: These little worms dare to dream of themselves as rich or happy. 
Nixon has his way with Frost through the first three [sessions], telling long stories, reinforcing his presidential [stature] and digressing when his [interlocutor] attempts to put him on the spot. 

quicksilver
displaying both his [quicksilver] inventiveness and [hangdog] self-deprecation. 
treacherous
He was cruel, [treacherous] and unscrupulous.
My [memory] is treacherous.
cabal
He discreetly joins up with the German Resistance - a [cabal] of high-ranking military and government [bigwigs] who meet in dark
Vicinity








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