How To Use Nebbish In A Sentence
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(Variety's Dennis Harvey called Mr. Friedman's onscreen persona "nebbishy"; The Boston Globe's Wesley Morris was a little nicer, saying, "The movie is the product of his big, shiny love of forgotten soul legends whom superstardom ... has eluded.")
Did Pirated 'Wolverine' Review Get Fox 411's Roger Friedman Fired? [Update]
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A nebbishy fellow with glasses stood up in one of the cubicles.
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So like some kind of nebbish-y Nero he decrees, "All this pastrami is going straight to my thighs ...
Dan Pashman: The Mike Bloomberg Diet
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Murphy's character flip-flops between obnoxious clown and likable nebbish, failing to ever find an appropriate balance.
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Cusack is a very different kind of nebbish, and he avoids the pitfalls of too many actors who think that being in a Woody Allen movie means you have to fully inhabit the Woody persona.
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I still can't believe that a nebbish like Tony could possibly become a senior Government Minister.
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Then we saw him as he really is: a nebbishy driving instructor with a perfect White Plains family and a killer quiche recipe.
Cheers & Jeers: How We Met Barney's Father
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Woody Allen is funny (then again, I'm a big fan, so I'm biased) as Tex, whining and being the nebbish we've all come to know and love.
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Leo is a neurotic nebbish of sizable proportions.
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Allen was never a pretty picture, but his famous nebbish looks and wimpish physique did convey a certain elfish charm.
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The name-checking of Woody Allen on the cover of the first issue recalls the nebbish director's maxim that he would never want to join any club that would have him for a member.
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Meanwhile, in the ‘comedy,’ Melinda is the downstairs neighbor of an ambitious film director, Susan, and her nebbish husband, Hobie.
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However, many Yiddish words have entered mainstream English, mainly, but not exclusively, in the United States - "shlep" (to carry or drag a load), "chutzpah" (audacity), "kvetch" (to whine, complain), "nebbish" (a simpleton, a weakling) being just a few.
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Russ Feingold gets it, but still kind of nebbishy . . .
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There are those who will think I'm being a whiny nebbish, and I just don't care.
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He's nebbishy, quietly romantic, and - as many of his songs suggest - dreaming of road trip getaways.
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But nebbishy Peter isn't what he seems to be either - he's actually a pencil pushing clerk at the airport.
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A scrawny nebbish of a man, Moss is no Moore, to be sure.
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A nebbishy architect is inexplicably charged with designing the suicide barrier on the Bloor Viaduct.
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While the film received lesser reviews, Meet the Fockers added Stiller's 'nebbishy', liberal parents played by Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand to the mix.
Scott Mendelson: Goodbye to You: Franchises That Left Us in 2010.
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Carrey's performance is not as consistently acute or concentrated; occasionally he is the stereotypical nebbish, but he too has his moments of depth.
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The cast of characters includes a nebbishy analyst, a touch so quaintly anachronistic as to make you wonder where Mr. Allen has been for the past quarter-century.
You Hear the One About the Hunchback?
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You keep expecting Marcello Mastroianni; but instead, what you get is Miles, an angst-ridden nebbish, and Jack, a pathological philanderer.
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She locks Mom, kids and family dog in a large steamer trunk and then prepares to seduce nebbishy Bob.
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So I'm talking to a rather fetching dame with a disco outfit circa 1970, when a nebbish second year inserts himself uninvited to our conversation.
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I love the word 'nebbish' and celebrate every time it is used.
Will pro-choice activists give any moral weight to the unborn?
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Something like nebbishy wussboy monomanical ultranerds that hang out in smoky rooms away from everyone else (and all the women) expressing their love for the 13th line of 15th century poems perhaps?
Why Science Fiction Authors Can't Win
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Robert Webber plays Rogers as a nebbish, but along the way, his subtle movements and quirks help reveal a great deal about the character.
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This nifty little thriller opens with the arresting image of a nebbishy accountant being dangled over the side of a bridge.
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Mr. Nebbish seems like the perfect, safe choice if you've been smacked around by relationships.
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The physically awkward but intellectually gifted nebbish was foregrounded in film and television by Woody Allen, Dustin Hoffman, and Richard Dreyfuss, and later by Jerry Seinfeld, Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, and Larry David.
A Renegade History of the United States
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Robert Dayton plays a recently divorced nebbish who decides to refashion himself as a ladies man.
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Among the other numerous (at least one per page) lovable wisenheimer remarks is this definition: A nebbish doesn't know he's a nebbish ...
David Finkle: Easy Reader: Howard Jacobson's Novel Takes the Prize
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The character was described as the nebbish, not so great with the women, really kind of insecure, starting over.
TV Addict Interview: UNHITCHED Star Shaun Majumder | the TV addict
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A Woody Allen-type nebbish, Lenny is a kvetcher ( "My mind was full of sickening Jewish worry, the pogrom within and the pogrom without"); he frets about his age, his baldness and, in a major way, his parents.
Down and Out In Gotham
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‘I think my wife's a little weird, you know, because she's with me,’ the nebbishy, nasal-voiced director said.
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Carol is convinced that the nerdy, nebbishy suitor is just not right for her pal.
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In Shiver, a sexy bride and her nebbish hubby go to visit her cousins in their ancestral home.
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His only allies are his nerdlinger best friends, nebbishy Neal and the unspeakably gawky Bill.
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Michal Czerwonka for The Wall Street Journal Fred Stoller Fred Stoller's neurotic Brooklynite whine makes Woody Allen seem like an amateur, and Mr. Stoller, 52, has worked his gift into a career, first as a deadpan stand-up comic and then as a nebbishy actor in countless short-lived sitcom roles: Elaine's annoying date in an episode of "Seinfeld," a mopey cousin on "Everybody Loves Raymond," a jerky waiter on "Friends.
Diary of a Nebbishy Comic: 'My Seinfeld Year'
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Allen, of course, hotly denies this, arguing that his lusty, maladroit, cowardly, witty and nebbish persona is a comic archetype.
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So I'm talking to a rather fetching dame with a disco outfit circa 1970, when a nebbish second year inserts himself uninvited to our conversation.
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Gene Wilder is brilliantly understated as the Waco Kid, a stark contrast to the neurotic nebbish Leo Bloom in Brooks's The Producers.
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There's nothing special about us… just a coupla nebbishes…
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When this movie was made, Bill Gates was a little-known nebbish.
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Allen, of course, hotly denies this, arguing that his lusty, maladroit, cowardly, witty and nebbish persona is a comic archetype.
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In the original, the men were cold and sinister; in the new version, they're nebbishes who need to be constantly drilled in masculine prerogatives by the head of the Men's Association.
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(And the nebbish is the one who has to clean it up.)
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 3
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What's the difference between a schlemiel, a schlimazel, and a nebbish?
The Three Jews
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Which leaves Stern in the familiar role of the nebbish buddy who just wants to fit in.
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The bit parts he was up for were usually coded with terms like nebbishy," minty "or fey.
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All the same, Polanski ably blends comedy and pathos in his portrayal of the nervous nebbish Trelkovsky, which is important since he's in every scene. -
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Can't we call her a schmutz, nudnik, noodge (this would be my preferred option), nebbish, ganef, or dybbuk?
GOP Consultant On CNN: Sometimes It's "Accurate" To Call A Woman A "Bitch"
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Adam Rafferty as the nebbish Albert Peterson is perfect.
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He's a short, nebbishy guy with a neat goatee and horn-rimmed glasses.
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Grock, who alas is best described as nebbishy, just sits there between his two lawyers, and one can't help but feel his discomfort.
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About half or more of the “millionaire” guys she has to fix up are Jewish and yenta supremo Patty constantly derides them as “nerds” and “nebbishes” to the flotilla of girls she gathers up to meet them.
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