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casual (iou) and Fassbinder, Rainer Werner (sh)


casual (iou)



casual adjective & noun. LME.
[Old & mod. French casuel and Latin casualis (in its late and medieval uses), from casus CASE noun1: see -AL1.]
A. adjective.
Due to, characterized by, or subject to chance; accidental, fortuitous. LME.
W. Raleigh That which seemeth most casual and subject to fortune, is yet disposed by the ordinance of God. Milton Where casual fire had wasted woods.
b. Non-essential. LME-M17.
Occurring unpredictably; irregular; occasional. LME.
Clarendon Both the known and casual Revenue. J. Cary The few shillings a week earned..at casual and temporary Jobs.
Frail, precarious, unreliable. E16-E18.
J. Worlidge In case..the weather prove casual.
Occurring or brought about without design or premeditation; having no specific plan, method, motivation, or interest; performed or entered into casually; spec. designating or pertaining to sex between individuals who are not regular or established sexual partners. M17.
D. G. Mitchell I made some casual remark about the weather. J. Conrad A casual stroll or a casual spree on shore. Conan Doyle A problem without a solution may interest the student, but can hardly fail to annoy the casual reader.
Of a person, action, etc.: unmethodical, careless; unconcerned, uninterested; informal, unceremonious. L19.
G. Greene It needed only a casual inspection to realise how badly the office had been kept. A. Lurie We were both very strained, though we pretended to be casual. J. Irving He puts up a casual hand to catch it.
b. Of an item of clothing: suitable for informal wear. M20.
Special collocations: casual acquaintance: whom one met incidentally or whom one meets only occasionally. casual labourer: without permanent Employment, working when the chance comes. casual pauper, casual poor Hist.: receiving occasional relief, admitted temporarily to a workhouse, casual ward, etc. casual ward Hist. a place for the temporary accommodation of vagrants. casual water Golf a temporary accumulation of water not constituting one of the recognized hazards of the course.
b. noun.
A chance. Usu. in pl. LME-M17.
A casual item of income. rare. E19.
A casual labourer. M19.
A casual pauper. Now arch. or Hist. M19.
An introduced plant, animal, etc., which fails to establish itself. L19.
An item of casual clothing; spec. a low-heeled slip-on shoe. Usu. in pl. M20.
A hooligan who dresses conventionally in casual clothing. slang. L20.
casualism noun the doctrine that all things exist or happen by chance L19.
casually adverb LME.
casualness noun L19.

Fassbinder, Rainer Werner (sh)




born May 31, 1946, Bad W?rishofen, W.Ger.
died June 10, 1982, Munich

German Film director.

He was involved in the avant-garde theatre movement in Munich and helped form the Antitheatre (1967). His first full-length Film (1969) was followed by 40 others, produced in a short period, including The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972), Effi Briest (1974), The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979), the 15-hour Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980), Lola (1981), and Veronika Voss (1982). Regarded as a leader of the German New Wave, he helped revitalize German cinema in the 1970s and '80s. His socially and politically conscious films often explore themes of oppression and despair.