nudnik

Tarantino has become a nudnik filmmaker, who grabs a viewer by the lapel and says—and says and says—what’s on his mind.

He never stupidly based gender in language alone—like all those nerdy post-structuralist nudniks who infest academe.

Alice is a nudnik and a connoisseur and a troubled person.

Painted in glazes of vibrant, greenish yellow scrawled over a black surface are words like kibitzer and kvetcher; nudnik and nebbish.

The difference is that Knoxville's nudniks volunteer for the slaughter.