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NL888 Posted 14 years ago
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Quack-religious leader? does it mean "both an unqualified doctor and a religious leader"?
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Adams, 38, took a year off to have her baby. And now, she's back, in three decidedly dissimilar films. In Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master, she's the scarily pitiless wife of a captivating, blustering quack-religious leader (Philip Seymour Hoffman). In Trouble with the Curve, she's Clint Eastwood's estranged daughter. In December's On the Road, she's Viggo Mortensen's kooky, unstable common-law poet wife, playing a character based on Joan Vollmer. And next summer, she enters the superhero canon in Man of Steel, as Lois Lane opposite Henry Cavill's Clark Kent.
Adams, 38, took a year off to have her baby. And now, she's back, in three decidedly dissimilar films. In Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master, she's the scarily pitiless wife of a captivating, blustering quack-religious leader (Philip Seymour Hoffman). In Trouble with the Curve, she's Clint Eastwood's estranged daughter. In December's On the Road, she's Viggo Mortensen's kooky, unstable common-law poet wife, playing a character based on Joan Vollmer. And next summer, she enters the superhero canon in Man of Steel, as Lois Lane opposite Henry Cavill's Clark Kent.
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<< Quack-religious leader? does it mean "both an unqualified doctor and a religious leader"? >> No.
- << Quack-religious leader?
- does it mean "both an unqualified doctor and a religious leader"?
- >> No.
- It has nothing to do with medicine in this case.
- While "quack" usually refers to a false doctor, the term may be used to describe a false prophet in any trade or profession, as long as the trade or profession is made clear.
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<< Quack-religious leader? does it mean "both an unqualified doctor and a religious leader"?>>
No. It has nothing to do with medicine in this case.
While "quack" usually refers to a false doctor, the term may
No. It has nothing to do with medicine in this case.
While "quack" usually refers to a false doctor, the term may
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Just means "a false religious leader" in this case? Or beside being a religious leader, the husband is also a false "doctor" or what you can name?
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NL888 Just means "a false religious leader" in this case? Or beside being a religious leader, the husband is also a false "doctor" or what you can name?A quack is a person who tries to cheat other people by pretending to be something that he is not.
In this case, he is pretending to be a minister or other religious figure.
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Avangi<< Quack-religious leader? does it mean "both an unqualified doctor and a religious leader"? >>No. It has nothing to do with medicine in this case.
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