Grock, who alas is best described as nebbishy, just sits there between his two lawyers, and one can't help but feel his discomfort. ❋ Unknown (2009)
(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.") ❋ Unknown (2009)
Russ Feingold gets it, but still kind of nebbishy . . . ❋ Unknown (2006)
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." ❋ Don Steinberg (2012)
As we have seen, one of the intellectual architects of that war was Sayyid Qutb, a nebbishy Egyptian writer with a Hitler mustache who arrived in the placid town of Greeley, Colorado, in 1949 to attend college. ❋ Peter L. Bergen (2011)
So, yeah, God seems to be testing Larry Gopnik, a nebbishy academic. ❋ Da_lj (2010)
Michael Thomas Holmes plays Nathan Detroit, the proprietor of the oldest established permanent floating crap game in New York, like a slightly nebbishy Harvey Keitel. ❋ Terry Teachout (2011)
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? ❋ Lou Anders (2009)
The New York accent, the nebbishy stutter, the self-deprecating zingers: all classic Allen. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Walking home from school, Susie is lured into an underground lair by the nebbishy George Harvey (Stanley Tucci). ❋ Unknown (2009)
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 (2011)
There would still be the occasional movie with a Cuban theme — think Woody Allen as a nebbishy commandante in Bananas. ❋ Eric Felten (2010)
Then we saw him as he really is: a nebbishy driving instructor with a perfect White Plains family and a killer quiche recipe. ❋ Unknown (2011)
He illustrates this by killing nebbishy men for sport, rudely poking a dwarf waiter and making snotty Slumdog Millionaire allusions to his weapons designers from India. ❋ Unknown (2010)
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. ❋ Terry Teachout (2011)
Hesher serves Mr. Susser, who wrote the screenplay with David Michôd, as not much more than an anxiety-making machine in a movie that otherwise depends on moist clichés (Rainn Wilson's lachrymose widower, T.J.'s puppy love for Natalie Portman's nebbishy loser) and life-affirming gestures (the movie's climax) that feel like borrowings from MTV. ❋ Joe Morgenstern (2011)
