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Understanding それは別に映画の話であって
それ vaguely refers to in-movie scenes exemplified by 主人公が苦境に立つ. それは映画の話だ simply means "It's just a movie".
別に is usually used as a negative-polarity item meaning "(not) in particular&...
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What is this usage of 連展開 here?
The basic meaning of 展開 is "rollout", "deployment", or "distribution". "Spread" also works, but here it means disseminating information rather than unfolding ...
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What is ではつまらない here? Why does it mean?
Yes, it's saying half-baked stimulation won't satisfy the speaker. You may be asking this because 生ぬるい already carries a negative connotation, but the sentence makes sense because つまらない is more direct....
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What does こんなところ refer to here
こんなところ in this context means "this type of scene" or "such situations".
奥さんはこんなところに小供らしい心を見せた。
It was in situations like this that she showed her childlike side.
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What is this usage of ことが過ぎる? (NSFW warning i guess)
Firstly, 過ぎる potentially represents two different verbs すぎる and よぎる, and in your sentence is used よぎる. (Some people write すぎる as 過ぎる and よぎる as 過る, but it is not a strict rule, as what was found in ...
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Usage of なんだり in this sentence?
It's 遭遇したり何だり(で)大変だったしな。
As you may know, AたりBたり is used to list multiple actions or events, meaning "do things like A and B".
Here なに means "something" or "other things"....
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In こんな私でも自分を認められる, is 認められる potential or passive?
This is a simple potential expression. Reading this as an indirect passive sentence would imply Miku will be inconvenienced by "ending up with being acknowledged", but such an interpretation ...
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Usage of 別に in this context
"黒鳥君のお叱りとはまた別にこう……あるんですよ……"
「～とはまた別に...」 "another... differently/separately from ～～"
「黒島君のお叱りとはまた別に」 -- "another ... differently/separately from Kuroshima-kun's (way of) ...
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How is といわず used in this sentence?
The unrepeated ～といわず is listed as #1 definition in this デジタル大辞泉 entry:
と‐いわず〔‐いはず〕【と言わず】 の解説
［連語］
１ …と言うことなく。…などと言わないで。「明日といわず今すぐ」
２ （多く「…といわず…といわず」の形で）特に…と言うことなく全部。「顔といわず手といわず泥だらけだ」
And #2 ...
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とでも言おうか? What does it mean here?
と: quotative particle
でも: maybe; something like; or something else
言おう: volitional form of 言う ("to call/say")
か: expresses uncertainty
The combination yields "I would call (it) ...
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Why is みた used in this sentence?
The English word "try" conflates some different ideas.
One is "have the experience of something", so as to know what it's like. That's the sense connoted by 〜てみた. The underlying ...
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顔見れる actual meaning?
見れる is the ら抜き version of 見られる, which means "can see". It never means "to show" regardless of the context.
見える = 見られる = 見れる※ = can see
※: nonstandard or highly colloquial
見せる = to ...
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Usage of なんなんだよ?
俺ってなんなんだよ
What exactly is なんなんだよ here? Obviously he's not asking the other person "what am I?".
I understand your question as partly related to parsing (how the phrase is constructed), and ...
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Usage of あれでよく in this sentence?
あれで is simply "with that (noise)".
This よく is a sarcastic よく explained in the following questions:
Meaning of よく住める
善くも as opposed to よく
interpretting よくこれだけの言い訳が出るものだ
What does this ...
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What do these それs refer to here?
I can't be 100% sure, but I think the first それ refers to "私は全く自分の態度を自覚していなかった". I.e. the innocence of the author who not only wasn't trying to find out about the Sensei, but who also wasn't ...
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