Not sure if this is a dark comedy or a thriller with some funny moments, but this film is a Christmas gem. Colin Farrell plays a bumbling gangster who made such a huge mistake that his boss, Ralph Fiennes, wants him killed but also wants him to have a nice time before he is executed...
This is the し (shi) entry of the Kyotoiroha karutaset. Because the character 吝 is no longer in common usage,shiwanboumay be written as しわん坊. A variant phrase replacesshiwanbouwith synonym けちん坊 (kechinbou). Compare and contrast爪に火を点す. ...
Not sure if this is a dark comedy or a thriller with some funny moments, but this film is a Christmas gem. Colin Farrell plays a bumbling gangster who made such a huge mistake that his boss, Ralph Fiennes, wants him killed but also wants him to have a nice time before he is executed...
into English from Italian, where it literally meant an ill-starred event, with the Latin word for 'star', 'astra' being its base. With time, the relation to the stars was erased and the word turned into a synonym for 'catastrophe', as we use it in Modern English to this day. ...
Another word that I almost never see used relates to dehumanization. Loosely defined, to dehumanize refers to an act or process of depriving a person or group of human qualities. A terrible thing, obviously. A synonym for this is animalize, meaning to cause to be or act like an animal. ...
“unique” was an exceedingly powerful and precise word. Now we observe the erosion of its meaning. No longer can we indicate the only one of its kind, having no like or equal. Another victim of sloppy semantic change for the word has deteriorated into a rough synonym of unparalleled–but...
It may not mean “sick” as a synonym for “cool.” It may mean “so bad it’s good except it went on too long and became bad again.” Two other films APac features in this “sickest” list are so… not good that I almost don’t know where to start. With the hope of ...