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Magic: a limp explanation
lame If NEA needs more money, why is
it wasting $25,000 on a new logo for its lame slogan? @CultureGrrl Eddie
Murphy’s appallingly lame comedies. Thankyou Sukhdev Sandhu Telegraph Feb 2 10
lamentable stalls with tapes that
alternately blast out the equally lamentable pop songs of both Turkey and
America
leaden "The leaden,
ponderous, and preachy Andy Griffith Show (1960-68) has all the
humor, pacing, and excitement of a funeral in Fargo." (New York Sun) The
next time a higher-up tells me, with leaden jocularity, that I run this
place... Web Bankhead's witty barbs – `There's less to this than meets the eye' – are ill served by a running
commentary of leaden facetiousness. Spectator
limp One
might be tempted to reply that unless magic can be proven to exist it is a limp
explanation for anything.
Lofty, ploddingly literary and rather affectedly performed, the material may have functioned as a short film, but is not nearly amusing or even interesting enough to go the distance at feature length. Variety on Le Nain Rouge, May 17 1998
loose baggy monsters Henry James on
Thackeray’s later novels
low-wattage I didn’t receive mail
generally, with the possible exception of an occasional low-wattage
communique from dear old Aunt Pat... Guardian October 27, 2008 Danny Baker
loyal
"Sherpas fell loyally into crevasses" Clive James, Observer, 70s
lumbering
sanctimoniousness The lumbering sanctimoniousness which afflicts all these
epics when dialogue turns to religion is certainly no worse than any other. imdb on Quo Vadis
lumpen Science
tends to be dragged forward by mavericks, having a natural tendency to a lumpen
orthodoxy, on which hang many careers.
lumpen A woman who needs only a piano and a microphone to amaze has gone all Mariah: reduced to singing while performing lumpen dancing in indiscreet clothing. Sukhdev Sandhu, Daily Telegraph, on Alicia Keys July 2010
made-for-television made-for-television National Trust pot-pourri version of Jane
Austen London Review of Books
made-up (ie
invented)
magnificently
dull (sci fi starring Law and Paltrow)
mannered Michael Tilson Thomas's insistence on smothering his interpretations with a thick
coat of decorative frosting and fussy, mannered detail
leaves a fluffy, decadent, at times even saccharine aftertaste
which belies the often overwhelmingly high level of musical nourishment these
recordings offer. amazon review
marshmallow
furniture Ann Maurice on inflated leather sofas
massed aristocrats, elephants, bands of the Scots Guards
mawkish Bathetic,
mawkish treacle disguised as do-goodery. amazon review
mean (ie
cruel)
meandering tosh
(method actor witters on) "Talking about acting is for civilians."
Peter O'Toole
measly Nicole Richie Spends a Measly 82 Minutes in Jail
medicinal
(ie too good for you)
mediocre
clowning New York Times March 29 07
merely
decorative (largely ornamental) left-wing opinions, good intentions
mesmerisingly awful Kate Muir in the Times, May 2011, on a book about Wallis Simpson
middlebrow
eroticism Peter Bradshaw
mindless business park aesthetic @HughPearman
misty
(concept, definition) misty therapy speak Times Tim Teeman Aug 27 2010
moany moany
old Radiohead
monastic preserved a monastic silence on the subject of...
monumental
self pity, monumentally
dull, monumentally
patronising A A Gill Sunday Times Mar 11 07
monumentally dull A Dance to the Music of Time darrenlollipopman Guardian Jan 8 2011
morally
conceited A A Gill Sunday Times July 29 07
mud hut
anthropology Kate Fox
mundane We're
also overly familiar with the mundane-office sitcom... Web We live life in the
utterly mundane. We exist in the bathrooms, bedrooms, living rooms, and
hallways of life. palmtreepundit.blogspot.com
mushy mushy
therapeutic clichés/to sell the mushy sentiment that It's all going to be
okay. Web “The best I did for Dave was a cross-stitch pillow with a mushy
sentiment.” Web
must-flee TV
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