| When it comes to chopping veggies, a schlemiel would spend days building a massive contraption to do it for him. |
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| Oh my God, I thought, I could never explain this without looking like a total schlemiel! |
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| He is equally good as the powerless schlemiel whose life is collapsing all around him, and who takes his power at the expense of his captive. |
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| Do you call an ineffectual, hapless person a schlemiel, a shlemel, a shlemyel, or a schlemeyel? |
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| In an extraordinary late painting called The Beautiful Dress, he presents himself as a kind of dancing schlemiel. |
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| There is an old Yiddish word schlemiel, which is someone who falls on his or her back and breaks his or her nose. |
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| The song ends up a hit, and the schlemiel has done it again. |
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| Woody has always traded on his paradoxical self-image: schlemiel and stud, the unprepossessing wimp who is none the less a magnet for bright and beautiful women. |
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| Thus, the neurotic schlemiel from the shtetl is whisked away to be planted firmly in Manhattan for all to watch. |
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| Arendt's four types are the schlemiel, the political rebel, the suspect and the man of goodwill. |
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| Its hero is a lovable schlemiel opposed by a wincingly evil character. |
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| Schlemiel and schlimazel that we are, the power went out, but it fortuitously came back on in just enough time to warm the warm and chill the cold. |
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