The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)

[southendmd]

Ennis was tense before tent scene one.

[memento]

Getting down to business was uppermost in Ennis' mind in Tent Scene I.

[Toast]

Jack's hand-holding vagary soon made complete sense to Ennis.

def - An erratic, extravagant or unpredictable manifestation, action or notion

[southendmd]

Jack may have been whistling in the dark, but he mustered the courage to take matters into his own hand.

[memento]

Jack initially had the upper hand when he decided to xtend a hand to Ennis, but soon Ennis took matters into his own hands.

[memento]

Round 439!
Time to Recline
More Brokeback Nighttime

[Toast]

Jack, half awake, called to Ennis to:  "Just quit your yammerin' and get in here!"

=comment= yammerin'
In the screenplays the word is hammerin', and the word yammerin' is used there to describe what Timmy was mainly doing on the highway job.

[Fran]

Proulx wrote:

"Jesus Christ, quit hammerin and get over here.  Bedroll's big enough," said Jack in an irritable sleep-clogged voice.  It was big enough, warm enough, and in a little while they deepened their intimacy considerably.

[southendmd]

Thanks to the bedroll's being big enough and warm enough, there was considerable intimacy between Jack and Ennis.

[Toast]

Jack took Ennis's hand, disclosing his intentions to him, and Ennis soon took matters into his own hands.