On the supposition that Pearl, as already hinted, was of demon origin, these good people not unreasonably argued that a Christian interest in the mother's soul required them to remove such a stumbling-block from her path.
Shot/Reverse Shot The term âshot/reverse shotâ refers to a continuity editing technique in which there is an exchange between either a character and another character, or a character and an object, and which aims to take place rationally. One situation in film where the term would apply would be in describing a conversation between two people.
Princeton's WordNet(4.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition: 1  shot, shaft, slam, dig, barb, jibe, gibe(verb) an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect. his parting shot was `drop dead'; she threw shafts of sarcasm; she takes a dig at me every chance she gets.