How To Use nebbish In A Sentence
- (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]
- This nifty little thriller opens with the arresting image of a nebbishy accountant being dangled over the side of a bridge.
- 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
- Robert Dayton plays a recently divorced nebbish who decides to refashion himself as a ladies man.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- ‘I think my wife's a little weird, you know, because she's with me,’ the nebbishy, nasal-voiced director said.
- Carol is convinced that the nerdy, nebbishy suitor is just not right for her pal.
- In Shiver, a sexy bride and her nebbish hubby go to visit her cousins in their ancestral home.
