neurotic

It’s a sinister mode of decadence — decadent minimalism, where overt virtue signaling meets seemingly neurotic purity fantasies, where customers dance in the glow of the glare on bulk bins.

"Today’s young women know that neurotic isn’t cute. Cute isn’t cute. Neither is flustered, madcap, zany, flighty, flaky, harried or hapless - all adjectives that apply to Bridget."

He is the opposite of that, a shaky, neurotic, small, insecure man who has little belief in himself.

The young cast largely carries it, especially Gabriel LaBelle, last seen as Steven Spielberg in “The Fabelmans” and here as Michaels, making a lane for himself as neurotic versions of modern artists in creative ascent.

But this is a distinctly Silver picture, funny and neurotic and, above all, compassionate.