From, “Seven Tickets to India,
Please, and Reservations for an Adventure, ‘The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,’
With Judi Dench,” by Stephen Holden, 5/3/12, The New York Times:
Muriel Donnelly (Ms. Smith), a xenophobic, racist termagant and retired housekeeper in need
of a hip replacement, makes the trip because the surgery in India is cheaper and doesn’t entail
a monthslong wait. The character has the screenplay’s meanest and snappiest
lines, but it is beyond even Ms. Smith’s capacity to make Muriel’s eventual metamorphosis,
from monster into sweet, caring old lady who befriends a low-caste Indian
servant, remotely credible.
Termagant: a quarrelsome,
scolding woman; a shrew
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