The word of the day1 for March 18, 2007 is "gratuitous" - adjective 1 a : given unearned or without recompense. b : not involving a return benefit, compensation, or consideration. c : costing nothing : FREE. 2 : not called for by the circumstances : UNWARRANTED <gratuitous insolence> <a gratuitous assumption>.
Bond-James Bond. Daniel Craig is not urbane, suave and debonair. I suppose that's fitting for Casino Royale where Bond is just starting out as 007. Dame Judi Dench is lovely as M. I always thought she (Dame Judi) would be the woman to play my mother-that sort of no-nonsense, knows where everyone is going wrong and willing to let them know.
This latest Bond movie certainly beats the 1967 version of CasinoRoyale all hollow. The earlier version had about five Bonds running amok, including Peter Sellers, David Niven and Woody Allen, of all people. It was little better than the MikeMyers spoofs. This latest version has some continuity, albeit along with much violence, gratuitous fire, people climbing buildings and leaping about as though they were in a chop-socki movie, sexual torture and collapsing buildings. This version is updated, so much so that Lloyd said at one point, "This film is about the cell phones, right?" Lloyd also said that, although he had been prepared to dislike it, Casino Royale turned out to be a decent movie.
The quote2 for today is from Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers" (1849), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 1, p. 375, Houghton Mifflin (1906):
The gifts of Heaven are never quite gratuitous.
;^) Jan
1 Unless otherwise attributed, the definition is from either Merriam-Webster Online, 10th Edition or The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition and is used by permission.
2 Unless otherwise attributed, the quote is from either Bartleby: Great Books on Lineor The Quotation Pages and is used by permission.
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Bond-James Bond. Daniel Craig is not urbane, suave and debonair. I suppose that's fitting for Casino Royale where Bond is just starting out as 007. Dame Judi Dench is lovely as M. I always thought she (Dame Judi) would be the woman to play my mother-that sort of no-nonsense, knows where everyone is going wrong and willing to let them know.
This latest Bond movie certainly beats the 1967 version of CasinoRoyale all hollow. The earlier version had about five Bonds running amok, including Peter Sellers, David Niven and Woody Allen, of all people. It was little better than the MikeMyers spoofs. This latest version has some continuity, albeit along with much violence, gratuitous fire, people climbing buildings and leaping about as though they were in a chop-socki movie, sexual torture and collapsing buildings. This version is updated, so much so that Lloyd said at one point, "This film is about the cell phones, right?" Lloyd also said that, although he had been prepared to dislike it, Casino Royale turned out to be a decent movie.
The quote2 for today is from Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers" (1849), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 1, p. 375, Houghton Mifflin (1906):
The gifts of Heaven are never quite gratuitous.
;^) Jan
1 Unless otherwise attributed, the definition is from either Merriam-Webster Online, 10th Edition or The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition and is used by permission.
2 Unless otherwise attributed, the quote is from either Bartleby: Great Books on Lineor The Quotation Pages and is used by permission.
P.S.: Comments and word requests are welcome.
NOTICE: Unique Reclamation Project yard art for sale.
Tags: gratuitous, word of the day, quote for the day, humor
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