The monk/warrior head of the academy, Toshi Sugiura, comes across as a colorful if enigmatic character, a profligate party boy and self-appointed guardian of sushi traditions.
His central characters are aristocratic profligates who consider themselves above morality and amuse themselves by plotting the seduction of a young girl.
The brothers -- the rabidly paranoid Farish, the addlepated preacher Eugene and the speed-crazed Danny -- are also testament to Tartt's profligate gift for inventing bold, complex characters and for ensnaring them in webs of accident and fate.
Tarantino, as usual, is profligate in placing that word in his characters' mouths, but — at least in this film — it's used not gratuitously as a commonplace epithet but hatefully by hateful characters who intend to demean and dehumanize the Major.
Arthur Wellesley, the duke of Wellington, emerges here as a more complicated character than the dashing, sexually profligate hero we thought we knew: remote, ascetic, cynical, ungrateful, sensitive about his Irish birth, vain but alert to the snares of fame and flattery, and appalled by the human toll of the war he wages with such brilliant efficiency.
Masked balls were banned in taverns and boarding houses because the council determined they were "of immoral and pernicious tendency, subversive of all just and honourable discrimination of character, and calculated to encourage the profligate, seduce the youth of both sexes and promote licentiousness & disorder".
The largest cut was the removal of the character of Mr. Gribsby, a solicitor who comes from London to arrest the profligate "Ernest" (i.e., Jack) for his unpaid dining bills.
Analogies are profligate.
