dramatic; exciting; touching; extreme
restoration; repair; mending
beautiful woman; (a) beauty; belle; good-looker
incarnation (of a god, spirit or abstract quality); embodiment; avatar; incarnation; monster role; kumadori worn for a monster role
to express in a refined fashion; to weave a web of words
et cetera; etc.; and the like; the likes of; something like
supplication; appeal; entreaty; petition
smoking a cigarette without holding it with one's fingers; holding a cigarette in one's mouth
to hold the steering wheel; to drive (a car)
personal history; background; career
hard to please; difficult; particular; bad-tempered; in a bad mood; displeased
enmity; antagonism; hostility; feuding (with); being at odds (with)
revolving lantern; ever-changing scene (e.g. life flashing before one's eyes)
superior; superiors; senior
to press forward; to forge ahead; to push on
mechanism; machinery; trick; dodge; mechanical doll; string puppet
going upstream; sailing against the current
to slip into; to crawl into (under); to conceal oneself (under); to sneak into; to infiltrate
armchair theory; impracticable plan; unworkable idea
(being in) the red; deficit; red letter; red writing; corrections (by a teacher or proofreader) written in red
to begin to crumble; to crumble and fall (or collapse) onto another object
sound; noise; audio; acoustics; reverberation
significant; meaningful; intentional; volitional
to go to meet (someone); to go to pick up
putting that aside; that said; apart from that; anyway; be that as it may
to buy again; to buy anew
detachment; coming off; peeling off; (flow) separation
becoming red-hot; red heat; scorching heat; burning (love); passionate (e.g. debate); ardent
to purify; to cleanse; to exorcise; to purge; to ward off