Sentences with word «schlemiel»

His son loves him, but Menashe is regarded by most who know him as a rather bumbling schlemiel.

Stevens rejects his objectively handsome persona and becomes a Woody Allen-esque schlemiel, bumbling and oafish and constantly screwing up.

The brother - in - law, Harry Hinkle, is a good - hearted schlemiel played, of course, by Matthau's dear friend and frequent costar Jack Lemmon.

The main character is a poor schlemiel writer, played by David Duchovny, who actually believes that his pilot has a chance of getting on the air the way he created it.

It would seem that way from the videos of Guy Richards Smit, an American up - and - comer who, in 1999, created the character Jonathan Grossmalerman (or Big Painting Guy), an ego - bloated, alcoholic schlemiel with a rapier tongue trying to get a break in the art world.

«So don't vote for them, schlemiels.

Stan is also very good as Jeff, a schlemiel whose account of the events he is said to have masterminded often flies in the face of Tonya's version of the same things.

But it's easy to feel sympathy for this schlemiel, as his wife recently passed, and Menashe's main focus is proving to his judgmental brother - in - law (Yoel Weisshaus) that he's fit to take his son (Ruben Niborski) back into his home.

Alexander Payne («Citizen Ruth») co-wrote and directed the film in his native Omaha, Neb., and shrewdly cast Matthew Broderick against type as a schlemiel high school teacher.

When we first see him — trying on tuxes with Doug — he seems a schlemiel.

Though King's novel takes place entirely within a room and positions Gerald as a schlemiel who resents his trophy wife, here the man is a hunk in the form of Bruce Greenwood, who paces around with a pair of clinging undershorts as though expected to have sex with her without stripping.

Reading Adam Minter's book Junkyard Planet reminded me of the many stories I've heard about the business, about the menches and the schlemiels who were part of it.