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Easy going; jovial; cheerful e.g. One movie reviewer refer to the hero of a film A Stranger from Somewhere as a Breezy Westerner [53] brillo Someone who lives fast and is a big spender [5] broad. Main article: Woman. Expression used solely by men to refer to a woman and widely considered offensive by women [56] bronx cheer. Main article:Blowing ...
Jean-Marc Leblanc is a bureaucrat and a once passionate supporter of the Quebec sovereignty movement.His wife, Sylvie, and daughters are no longer interested in him. At work, he is repeatedly bothered by his superior Carole who berates him for issues such as taking longer breaks than allowed, and for calling black Canadian co-worker William a "Negro", though Jean-Marc insists he simply said ...
One 1951 television episode and two syndicated TV episodes are known to exist; the latter two are held by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Further, two films also exist at the Library of Congress in the J. Fred and Leslie W. MacDonald Collection: a CBS kinescope from 1949, and an NBC installment from June 14, 1951 with all the DeSoto ...
Snowflake is a derogatory slang term for a person, implying that they have an inflated sense of uniqueness, an unwarranted sense of entitlement, or are overly emotional, easily offended, and unable to deal with opposing opinions.
Penn extended his criticism to Hollywood as a whole, expressing disbelief that "The Apprentice" − a movie about the rise of Donald Trump, starring Sebastian Stan − had trouble finding a U.S ...
A further example is the Russian word for 'head', golová, which sounds similar to Gulliver known from Gulliver's Travels; Gulliver became the Nadsat expression for the concept 'head'. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Many of Burgess's loan-words, such as devotchka ('girl') and droog ('friend'), maintain both their relative spelling and meaning over the course of ...
A slang is a vocabulary (words, phrases, and linguistic usages) of an informal register, common in everyday conversation but avoided in formal writing and speech. [1] It also often refers to the language exclusively used by the members of particular in-groups in order to establish group identity, exclude outsiders, or both.
The film proposes that willful ignorance (as opposed to what is commonly meant by stupidity, low mental capacity) has increasingly become a strategy for success in the realms of politics and entertainment, that is, the "stupid" things that seemingly smart people do every day. The film questions "why stupidity is such a slippery concept to grasp ...