Luftmensch

The story begins when Voshchev, a classic Chekhovian luftmensch, is fired from his job for excessive "thoughtfulness amid the general tempo of labor." ❋ Unknown (2010)

Third, and most striking to me, is that these remarks showed him to be an unprofessional luftmensch. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Some days, I want to be a luftmensch and just sit around, smoke, write painfully exquisite fiction, have sex, eat, drink and let the whole shebang take care of itself. posted by Dean at ❋ Dean Francis Alfar (2003)

He began writing about Menachem Mendel, an overly optimistic luftmensch an impractical person who literally lives on air who speculated, to his wife's dismay, in all kinds of get-rich-quick schemes. ❋ By JOSEPH BERGER (2011)

He's obviously a judgmental, punitive, rigid ideologue at heart, and a bully, but he's also a luftmensch, lost in abstraction and theory, who would rather win an argument than learn something, and he gets his rocks off nailing people for doctrinal mistakes rather than actually doing anything or attending to stuff that's happening on the ground. ❋ Michael O'Hare (2010)

Greenberg's arrogant luftmensch routine is infuriating-everyone but him wants to live in the here and now. ❋ David Denby (2010)

Joseph père, a luftmensch who thinks that "nature uses man," is convinced that "lifelessness … is only a disguise behind which lie unknown forms of life. ❋ Unknown (1998)

If your head is often [in the clouds], and you don't even think you can live on air, you are probably a Luftmensch. A Luftmensch is a good friend for [holistic], unbiased and unpushy advice, and useless as a [breadwinner]. ❋ Purple_people_eater (2008)

Person 1: "Hmm, should I save five dollars on the bus by walking 10 miles [home in] the rain?" Person 2: "[Are you kidding me], stop being such a [luftmensch]." ❋ Shortyish (2021)