He also wanted to get people to laugh at themselves. “We are so entrenched in our corners these days talking amongst ourselves,” he lamented. “We have to get past all these hang-ups to get anywhere and make some progress.”
That instinct, so rare in a culture that judges art and its creators as good or bad, correct or immoral, elevates the movie beyond its success as an audacious and very funny bit of entertainment. What “American Fiction” does is what art should do: illuminate a universal truth about ourselves.
Maybe it’s not such a mad idea.
Why? Is it the brilliant metaphors? I think that is only half the truth. The other half is the visions, the illuminations in everyday life into which the metaphors have been inserted.
A promontory is a prominent mass of land that overlooks lower lying land or a body of water (where it may be called a peninsula or headland).
Michelle Obama and the Evolution of a First Lady
By JODI KANTOR
Mrs. Obama’s adjustment to the White House — including, at times, severe tension with her husband’s staff — illuminates some of President Obama’s central challenges.
German billionaire industrialist Adolf Merckle has committed suicide. The body of the 74-year-old was found on the side of railway tracks close to his home near the southern city of Ulm. A statement released by the family said the global financial crisis and its effects on Merckle's business empire had turned him into a broken man. Merckle's business activities ranged from generic drugs to cement.
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第一次碰到音樂也使用它
Leroy Anderson: Master of the Miniature
Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze (left), protege of President and Communist Party Boss Mikhail Gorbachev, was a favorite of the Illuminati.
The “passive” sign is not studded with light-emitting diodes like so many others in Times Square, but will be lighted by 16 300-watt floodlights. It will feature custom-printed opaque vinyl sheeting bearing the red-and-white Ricoh logo. The sign will be green, nevertheless, a message “to customers, other companies and the world that resources and energy can be used creatively,” Mr. Potesky said. “The point is that there are ways of being environmentally friendly to the planet, even on a billboard.”
il・lu・mi・nate
━━ vt. 照らす; イルミネーションを施す; 明らかにする; 啓蒙する; （写本などを）彩飾する, （最初の文字）を色彩［金銀］で飾る; 光彩を添える.
il・lu・mi・nat・ed ━━ a. イルミネーションを施した; 彩色した.
il・lu・mi・nat・ing ━━ a. （問題などの）解明に役立つ, 啓蒙的［啓発的］な; 明るくする, 照らす.
il・lu・mi・nat・ing・ly ad.
il・lu・mi・na・tion ━━ n. 照明; 光量; （pl.） イルミネーション, 電飾; 光源; 【光】＝illuminance; 解明, 啓蒙; （普通pl.） （写本の）彩飾.
il・lu・mi・na・tive
━━ a.
il・lu・mi・na・tor ━━ n.
il・lu・mi・nat・ed ━━ a. イルミネーションを施した; 彩色した. il・lu・mi・nat・ing ━━ a. （問題などの）解明に役立つ, 啓蒙的［啓発的］な; 明るくする, 照らす.il・lu・mi・nat・ing・ly ad.
il・lu・mi・na・tion ━━ n. 照明; 光量; （pl.） イルミネーション, 電飾; 光源; 【光】＝illuminance; 解明, 啓蒙; （普通pl.） （写本の）彩飾. il・lu・mi・na・tive ━━ a. il・lu・mi・na・tor ━━ n.floodlight
n.
- Artificial light in an intensely bright and broad beam.
- A unit that produces a beam of intense light; a flood.
To illuminate with a floodlight.
n. - 泛光照明, 泛光燈, 強力照明
v. tr. - 用泛光燈照亮
日本語 (Japanese)
n. - フラッドライト, 投光照明灯, 投光照明器
v. - 投光照明灯で照らす
miniaturization
Come on, admit it: is there anything more awesome than miniaturization?
The Walkman put a stereo system in your pocket and changed the game forever. A modern digital watch has the computing power of a roomful of 1950s computer gear. And people are watching TV shows these days on iPods about the size of a business card.
min・ia・ture
━━ n. 細密（肖像）画, 細密画法; （一般に）小型版; 縮図.
in miniature 小規模に; 縮小した.
━━ a. 縮小した; 小型の; 小型模型の.
━━ vt. 細密画に描く; 縮写する.
min・ia・tur・ist ━━ n. 細密（肖像）画家.
min・i・a・tur・ize ━━ vt. 小型化する.
min・i・a・tur・i・za・tion n.
in miniature 小規模に; 縮小した.━━ a. 縮小した; 小型の; 小型模型の.
━━ vt. 細密画に描く; 縮写する.
min・ia・tur・ist ━━ n. 細密（肖像）画家. min・i・a・tur・ize ━━ vt. 小型化する.min・i・a・tur・i・za・tion n.
miniature
(mĭn'ē-ə-chʊr', -chər, mĭn'ə-)
A miniature is a small-scale reproduction, or a small variation.
In certain contexts, miniature may mean:
- Miniature (illuminated manuscript), a small painting in an illuminated text
- Persian miniature, a small painting in an illuminated text or album
- Ottoman miniature, a small painting in an illuminated text or album
- Portrait miniature, a very small painted portrait (or other type of painting)
- Miniature figure (gaming), a small figurine used in role playing games and tabletop wargames
- Miniature fowl, any small breed of fowl (See bantam (chicken))
- Miniature model, a small representation or reproduction of an object that is larger or smaller than the actual object being represented (see scale model, dollhouse or room box)
- Miniature (The Twilight Zone), an episode of The Twilight Zone
- A collectible figurine
- A miniature toy soldier
- A Miniature park
- A Miniature railway
- A physical model of a larger object used to represent it in filmmaking.
- A miniature chess problem
adjective
1 damaged, no longer able to work:
He attacked the man with a broken bottle.
My watch is broken.
Careful - there's broken glass on the floor.
2 [before noun] suffering emotional pain so great that it changes the way you live, usually as a result of an unpleasant event:
He was a broken man after his wife died.
lea (lee, lay)
noun
A grassland.
Etymology
From Old English leah (meadow). Ultimately from the Indo-European root leuk- (light) that has resulted in other words such as lunar, lunatic, light, lightning, lucid, illuminate, illustrate, translucent, lux, and lynx
Usage
"The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea." — Thomas Gray; Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.
PLURAL NOUN
- 1People claiming to possess special enlightenment or knowledge of something.‘some mysterious standard known only to the illuminati of the organization’
- 1.1 A sect of 16th-century Spanish heretics who claimed special religious enlightenment.
- 1.2 A Bavarian secret society founded in 1776, organized like the Freemasons.
- 1.1 A sect of 16th-century Spanish heretics who claimed special religious enlightenment.
Origin
Late 16th century: plural of Italian illuminato or Latin illuminatus ‘enlightened’, past participle of illuminare (see illuminate).
illuminate,
(ĭ-lū'mə-nāt')
v., -nat·ed, -nat·ing, -nates. v.tr.
- To provide or brighten with light.
- To decorate or hang with lights.
- To make understandable; clarify: "Cleverly made attacks can . . . serve to illuminate important differences between candidates" (New Republic).
- To enlighten intellectually or spiritually; enable to understand.
- To endow with fame or splendor; celebrate.
- To adorn (a page of a book, for example) with ornamental designs, miniatures, or lettering in brilliant colors or precious metals.
- To expose to or reveal by radiation.
- To become lighted; glow.
- To provide intellectual or spiritual enlightenment and understanding: "Once you decide to titillate instead of illuminate, you're on a slippery slope" (Bill Moyers).
- To be exposed to or revealed by radiation.
One who has or professes to have an unusual degree of enlightenment.
[Middle English illuminaten, from Latin illūmināre, illūmināt- : in-, in; see in-2 + lūmināre, to light up (from lūmen, lūmin-, light).]
illuminatingly il·lu'mi·nat'ing·ly adv.illumination[il・lu・mi・na・tion]
- 発音記号[ilùːmənéiʃən]
[名]
1 [U]明るくすること, 照明；照らされていること［状態］；((通例〜s))((主に英))イルミネーション, 電飾
stage illumination
舞台照明
舞台照明
indirect illumination
間接照明
間接照明
3 《光学》照度：単位面積に当たる光の量；ルクス(lux)で表す.
4 ((通例〜s))（頭文字・ページ・写本の絵の具・金泥による）彩飾.
See definition in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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Pronunciation: /ˈmɪnɪtʃə/
Definition of miniature in English:
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Origin
Late 16th century: from Italian miniatura, via medieval Latin from Latin miniare 'rubricate, illuminate', fromminium 'red lead, vermilion' (used to mark particular words in manuscripts).
- When monks and scribes decorated the initial letters of chapters in illuminated manuscripts, they often painted small images. It was not the smallness that miniature originally referred to, though, but the colour of the paint used for the capital letters. Latinminium was a word for the red pigment vermilion. It is the source of Italian miniatura, which originally referred to the illuminating of manuscript letters but came to be used for small portraits, and gave us miniature in the late 16th century. Mini is an abbreviation of miniature that became popular in the early 20th century. The Mini car, originally known as the Mini Minor, was launched by the British Motor Corporation in 1959, and became an iconic vehicle of the swinging 60s that was immortalized in the film The Italian Job ( 1969). The other mini of the 60s was the miniskirt, which symbolized the decade's sexual permissiveness. The French fashion designer André Courrèges is credited with its invention, although it was popularized by Mary Quant. The word is first recorded in 1965, the year when the fashion was first seen.
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