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Just compare the overtones and associations of the psalm with the -th and the -s endings:
The Latin, Greek, or Old English roots are readily discernible (though I cannot explain the -etz in the last case), and generate few if any metaphorical overtones.
Some are moved by the film's themes of redemption and spirituality; Roger Ebert says it's full of "vivid characters, humor, outrage and emotional release" (the Chicago Sun-Times ). Less kind reviews note the "inadvertently racist overtones" of the relationship between Hanks and Duncan (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ) and say the movie has the "suffocating deliberateness of a river of molasses" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). (David Edelstein the movie in Slate : "not all of the movie is melodramatic, pseudo-mystical drivel--only about two hours and 15 minutes."
The liberal overtones of this synthesis are not surprising when you consider where the National Greatness cons come from.
But its plural form duendes also signified `household gods,' like the Roman Lares and Penates, and took on even broader, pantheistic overtones in duendes de las montañas y de las cuevas `spirits of the mountains and caves.