Arts, Books

Rendition

• Calls from the audience to repeat it

• Performance on a specific occasion

• The picture actor created

• Amazing achievement

Harrowing

• Extremely upsetting

• Impossible to believe

• Making you feel strong emotion

• Done so often it is boring

Hackneyed

• Not as good as people say

• You remember it long after

• Extremely upsetting

• Done so often it is boring

Far-fetched

• Extremely upsetting

• Done or expressed in a simple but attractive style

• Impossible to believe

• Complex and impossible to understand

Lauded

• Bombed

• Panned

• Praised

• Disjointed

To pull the wool over someone's eyes

• To portray

• To deceive

• To depict

• To challenge

Not affected by

• To be immune to

• To be panned

• To be inured to

• To be bombed

Dazzling

• Having rare beauty or delicacy

• Interesting because it is mysterious

• Inspiring great admiration

• Calling up images and memories

Philistinism

• Inability to appreciate art or culture

• A short enthusiasm for something

• A period of new interest in the arts

• A school of art formed in 1950s

Impenetrable

• Run-of-the-mill

• Transparent

• Extremely difficult

• Better than any other