Download this dictionary. parado. (adj.) = stuck ; stagnating ; unmoving ; motionless ; stationary. Ex: Learn what to do when there is a power outage and how to respond to alarms that signal stuck elevators or that activate security or sprinkler systems. Ex: Library budgets have stopped growing in the present climate of a stagnating economy.
The Artful Dodger is one of the most famous and memorable characters in the novel... and it's not because he has the coolest street name in all of London.
Quentin Tarantino's ultraviolent, ultra-talky sorta-Western The Hateful Eight is an impressive display of film craft and a profoundly ugly movieâso gleeful in its violence and so nihilistic in its world view that it feels as though the director is daring his detractors to see it as a confirmation of their worst fears about his art.