nebbish

Reconceiving film history as an eternal dance of nebbishes and MPDGs, a video by pop culture website Flavorwire called, "75 Years of Manic Pixie Dream Girls" went viral showing that the trope of the charmingly unstable ingenue - often attributed to recent indie cinema - actually goes back decades" (Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg, "A Montage" <http://www.theatlantic.com/video/archive /2012/07/a-montage-of-75-years-of-manic-pixie-dream-girls-in-cinema/260236/>).

Chapter Four explores the study's most abundant Jewish American racialization: "the neurotic nebbish." He is racialization "of the American Jewish male as effeminate, emasculated, insecure, passive, unsure of his sexual identity, and/or romantically obsessed with Gentile women" (64).

The least concrete, most slippery, but perhaps also most ubiquitous way in which Goldstein's and Rakoff's work resonates with earlier and contemporary representations of Jews in North American literature and popular culture is in their construction of themselves as shlemiel or nebbish protagonists.

Norm, a bearded nebbish who built cell-phone towers or some such, seemed uncomfortable with the way Terry had popped up at the center of her tale, and Allison continued to shoot meaningful looks in the direction of Claudia's hand, but neither Ben nor the girlfriend noticed.

Stephen Hunter of the Washington Post wrote in a film review of a "Woody Allen figure, a New York nebbish, the loner who wasn't in the cool set and had an uncertain way about him" (C1).

To make this list, you have to be a celeb, but you can't be a nebbish, or not care about marrying/dating out or be anti-Israel.

the clean lines of my nebbish back the undoing of my stains

Moments later, Albert (Christophe Demirdjian), a nebbish who draws abstract paintings of used cars, enters the dining room.

a nullity or a nebbish. The poem's design tricks us into predicting

(8.) Some readers might even remember a more mainstream, more comic, yet no less telling contribution to this transnational discursive moment from a scene in Woody Allen's 1977 hit Annie Hall in which the inimitable neurotic nebbish, Alvy Singer, in conversation with his naive Midwestern crush, regurgitates some of the period's most fashionable thoughts on the matter.

It is that equally frequently the position has been filled with nebbish equivalents: Rusk presiding over JFK's "bowl of jelly" and then as LBJ's afterthought and Vietnam fall guy.

But I was out to show that I was a character actor, not just this nebbish kid that Nichols found."

"I didn't know that my side of the romance was going to be so nebbish, so pathetic," he says, sucking on a cough drop to try and fight off a cold.

The intense, nebbish Eisenberg (Zombieland, Adventureland) really nails it, while Andrew Garfield as Eduardo, singer Justin Timberlake as Napstar founder Sean Parker, and Armie Hammer as the Winklevoss twins are also rock-solid.

Who, for instance, can forget the existential plight of Henry Bemis, Burgess Meredith's character in the first season's "Time Enough at Last," when, wanting nothing more than to spend his life reading, this nebbish fellow gets his wish by becoming the sole survivor of a nuclear holocaust that kills everyone in his unnamed city but leaves its library intact, only to break his Coke-bottle glasses while rejoicing over the serenity and silence that he will now enjoy amid tall stacks of books?