wallflower
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They square the circle of Swift masterminding a full-scale trolling of media and fans while simultaneously hosting a cotton-candy celebrity circus where an awkward wallflower finally, triumphantly blooms.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026
Vanderbilt, the former SEC wallflower, just posted the first 10-win season in its history.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 24, 2025
But onscreen — especially in the close-ups Chu enjoys — there’s no spell on Earth, over or under the rainbow, that could convince me Erivo is a pigtailed wallflower.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2025
In it, Streep’s character, a fading but indomitable Hollywood actress named Madeline Ashton, is reunited with her old friend, Hawn’s wallflower novelist Helen Sharp.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2024
The dancing spread like a forest fire, and soon the floor was filled with couples who swayed and dipped around the Gibraltar of a wallflower, Ignatius.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
Jesse Eisenberg made his career playing tightly wound wallflowers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2024
But there is that through line where the characters are strong, and have agency, and aren't exactly wallflowers.
From Salon ● May 17, 2023
"And, you know, we're political wallflowers," he added.
From Reuters ● Nov. 16, 2022
And then there are leeks: the wallflowers that people sometimes overlook, but who will be your best friends, down for anything once you get to know them.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 1, 2022
In every garden wallflowers blossomed in bright color and filled the air with perfume.
From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli
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