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
In 2019 Coughlan was cast as wallflower Penelope Featherington, the youngest daughter of a newly rich family during London's Regency era, in Bridgerton.
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2024
Until now, her character, Penelope Featherington, has been content to be a wallflower in the ballrooms of Regency London, allowing her to observe and secretly write a society scandal sheet under the pseudonym Lady Whistledown.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 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
The typecasting as wallflowers and frumps confused her.
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2023
"And, you know, we're political wallflowers," he added.
From Reuters ● Nov. 16, 2022
The dance felt a bit like a prom attended only by the wallflowers and parent chaperones, but then the 40th birthday celebrants arrived and blew life into the party.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 29, 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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