wallflower

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.

Some wallflowers also have red, white or purple blooms, and the plants will reseed to grow back in the spring.

McInerny gives an especially strong performance as Sam’s dependable sister — a wallflower who delivers the most incendiary line of the play.

Audiences rallied behind her relatable Toula Portokalos, a wallflower Chicago waitress who straightened both her hair and her spine despite the protests of her domineering family.

Should we feel bad for the wallflowers, Oregon State and Washington State, who now become the tragic twosome?