(1) He's a schlemiel , for one, someone who is constitutionally unequipped for the rigors of contemporary life, and whose benighted gropings would seem tragic, if only they were not so comic.(2) he seems like the classic underdog schlemiel(3) An ethnically Jewish version of the fool, the schlemiel is caught up in situations that reflect the historical problems of the Jewish people.(4) When it comes to chopping veggies, a schlemiel would spend days building a massive contraption to do it for him.(5) you schlemiel, it's right outside!(6) But they all praise the author, and fan the flames of his remarkably well-presented public posture of brilliant author posing as humorous, downtrodden schlemiel posing as brilliant author.(7) Frantically denying the obvious, he's suddenly the bleating schlemiel in a heartless sex farce.(8) There is more than a bit of the schlemiel (to cite that useful Gaelic term) about him.(9) Furthermore, one doesn't need to be a Freudian (his former favorite form of therapy) to know that a true schlemiel and/or neurotic could not produce the sheer volume of work that he has.(10) Oh my God, I thought, I could never explain this without looking like a total schlemiel !(11) Mr. Paul is far from the village idiot type embodied by Gimpel, the butt of incessant practical jokes, a genuine schlemiel .(12) 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.(13) There is apparently no one in his coterie who will point out to him that his nervous schlemiel is by now tired and threadbare and that he is no longer writing many funny lines.(14) It looks as if there's one law for the notorious, and another for the schlemiels in the pews.(15) The REAL reason they started positioning their army units horizontally is that they are uncoordinated schlemiels , who keep bumping into the table the board is on, knocking the pieces into disarray.(16) We're the schlemiels who shrug and think to ourselves, Well, at least they get things done.
