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"wallflower" Definitions
  1. a garden plant with yellow, orange or red flowers with a sweet smell that appear in late spring
  2. (informal) a person who does not dance at a party because they do not have somebody to dance with or because they are too shy

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"You don't want her to be a wallflower," he said.
"I feel really like sort of a wallflower," she said.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky Before starring in the 93 film, she fell in love with the script for The Perks of Being a Wallflower and quickly devoured the book. 5.
Reeves has described himself as having a "wallflower demeanor" at parties.
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"The Perks of Being a Wallflower" was released in September 2012.
Kanye West isn't exactly what one would refer to as a wallflower.
Hyundai's learned its lesson; the 2015 through 2017 Sonata was a wallflower.
In "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" (2012), Rudd played a thoughtful teacher.
An emotional wallflower finally dropping the barriers and letting a certain someone in.
The process can be a little terrifying if you tend to be a wallflower.
"I'm not a wallflower and I encourage girls to live that way," she says.
Ezra Miller (The Perks of Being a Wallflower) will star as the title character.
Reclusive energy from your ruling planet Venus will encourage you to be a wallflower.
Stephen Chbosky, the author and filmmaker of "The Perks of Being a Wallflower," directed.
Wallflower ($75, prix fixe)A delightful precooked, four-course turkey dinner in the West Village?
Thematically, the story recalls Spider-Man 2, but without Tobey Maguire's bug-eyed wallflower energy.
As with the wallflower 911, the car was loaded on a trailer and sent home.
Then he spotted his colleague Henry J. Stern, no wallflower, way off to one side.
The wallflower is attracting some attention, and so far appears to be absorbing it well.
She progresses from a halting, tremulous wallflower to a confident storyteller to rival her legendary grandmother.
He said he never saw him angry, and at parties, he said Donaldson was a wallflower.
The former suitemate said he never saw Donaldson angry, and at parties, he was a wallflower.
A heroine who is a witty but wounded wallflower or a beat cop with daddy issues?
Willowy and seductive, with a deep voice and a contagious smile, Ms. Dvorovenko is no wallflower.
It's very specific that she could hold her own against anybody, but she wasn't a wallflower.
Watson has since starred in films including The Perks of Being a Wallflower and The Bling Ring.
To portray her as a wallflower that nobody asks to dance is not only demeaning but inaccurate.
Wallflower joins the growing category of smart home devices, especially as it relates to safety and security.
By the end of the movie, Needy's taking charge, a wallflower no more, and Seyfried sells it.
Pitt has his moments, especially in the ending (Robbie is very much a wallflower in the movie).
The owners of Wallflower in the West Village will close the restaurant after dinner on June 15.
One of those wallflower names could be worth a second glance, according to Todd Gordon, founder of TradingAnalysis.com.
In fact, the Wallflower learns cooking habits and notifies users if the stove is on longer than usual.
Maria (Kelvin Miranda), a withdrawn teen known to classmates as a "dead kid" — a wallflower and wet blanket.
"Invisible" is a proto-"You Belong With Me." In this song, the protagonist is more of a wallflower, though.
Wallflower-like mannequins donning spectacular costumes by Paris-Based Indian designer Manish Arora flank the hall between installation spaces.
She had learned the trick wallflower humans have always known, which is to hang out by the food table.
Toward the end, the teenage wallflower finally lets loose in her room, dancing around and singing as the song crescendos.
They want people who have a voice, so find something to say, or risk being perceived as a workplace wallflower.
It's not Perks of Being A Wallflower, but it might be the most hopeful note the show could end on.
These brief spectacles belie the dogwoods' reputation as the ultimate woodland wallflower, obvious only briefly, and rarely attracting attention thereafter.
Where previous Topshop collections have erred on the side of incredibly wearable, many of these pieces weren't for the retiring wallflower.
You can even add multiple users and multiple devices to the Wallflower app so that everyone in your household has access.
A dutiful man, Mr. Martien instead married her older sister, Gabrielle, a wallflower who was apparently less wonderful in every regard.
" He also played Logan Lerman and Nina Dobrev's on-screen older brother in 2012's "The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
Edith, once a wallflower, has the biggest job of them all, even if it's not the one she would have chosen.
She is voluble—"I'm South African, I'm not a wallflower"—but, she says, still deeply affected by her experience with Epstein.
"Most say they just didn't want the attention, or were more comfortable being a wallflower—just not being noticed," Marker says.
Or maybe a dress that transforms you from reticent wallflower to the one who has to be dragged off the dance floor?
Shelton, who sings "Wallflower and Weeds" for the movie's soundtrack, also portrays Ox, the one-eyed Mayor of Uglyville, in the film.
Like Franklin's, it had the ability to be the life of the party; but it could also be a wallflower when necessary.
In 2012, Walsh played mom to Logan Lerman in Perks of Being a Wallflower, an adaptation of Stephen Chbosky's coming-of-age novel.
They would have so much fun together and I'd give anything to be a wallflower listening in on all their unstinting, impromptu jokes.
This work is pure comedy, satirizing the ho-hum, clichéd confession of a wallflower by rendering her with outrageous glittering hot pink nipples.
It was directed by Stephen Chbosky ("The Perks of Being a Wallflower") and adapted from the best-selling children's novel by R.J. Palacio.
When Hines kids her about her wallflower reluctance, she responds by doing everything the men had just done, better than they did it.
Starrah is the secretive wallflower dominating the charts, a fame-shy songwriter who has written hits for Drake, Rihanna, Maroon 2800 and more.
Mr. Soloway, 43, is an owner of two restaurants in New York, Wallflower in the West Village and the Eddy in the East Village.
While Wallflower only works with electric stoves right now, the team is working on creating a device that will retrofit gas stoves, as well.
It takes guts to wear print on print, and we'd rather turn heads with floral prints than end up looking like just another wallflower.
If you're that person (or live with one of them,) the Wallflower stove monitor is about to take a major weight off your shoulders.
To the Editor: Re "Pompeo Defends President as Being Harsh With Russia" (news article, July 26): Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is no wallflower.
When we first meet Moll (Jessie Buckley) in Michael Pearce's "Beast," she's a wallflower-ish 27-year-old living on the isle of Jersey.
Because, even here, in this "wallflower of European history," known only for its clock museum and pink pelicans, deeply held hatreds lie in wait.
On a recent Saturday night, one such woman pulled out a stool for a tipsy wallflower diligently reading plaques describing the studio's glamorous history.
Think about it: we all have moments when we want to be a wallflower, and other times when we feel like chatting up random strangers.
According to the product listing, the Wallflower app uses the data from the smart plug to let you know when your stove is turned on.
Both of these female figures — one a harridan and the other an ignored wallflower — are seen in profile, most often facing from left to right.
How might it feel to be a shy 14-year-old wallflower going to a new school in an Australian suburb in the late 1970s?
The Perks of Being a Wallflower looks into the life of a quiet high school boy, his hard-to-access family, and his eccentric friends.
TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET The one that took hold of me was a book, "The Perks of Being a Wallflower," which was made into a movie later.
SEMICOLONThe Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood MarkBy Cecelia Watson Pity the poor semicolon, punctuation's wallflower, wrongfully maligned and too seldom asked to dance.
You didn't want to be too aggressive, too assertive, or it would be too much, but yet you didn't want to be the wallflower either.
Filmmaker Stephen Chbosky, the director behind another tearjerker, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, helms Wonder based on a script from Steve Conrad and Jack Thorne.
You can just make him out, reprising his role in High Rise by lurking like a besuited wallflower while everyone else is engaged in orgiastic glee.
Stephen Chbosky — himself the author of YA hit "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" — is adapting fellow YA author Raquel Jaramillo's novel "Wonder" into a movie.
Films closer to the tone of "Love, Simon," like "Edge of Seventeen" (1998) or "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" (19.73), were released by boutique studios.
You may think of it as the uninspired wallflower of herbs—neither here nor there, taking a backseat to pretty much every other more exciting ingredient.
If the stove is on when you leave the home, the Wallflower will send a notification to the your phone to remind you to turn it off.
"Wallflower" is troubling to the extent it seems to seek a rational explanation for the killer's actions — as if it were possible to get inside his head.
"Wallflower" is troubling to the extent it seems to seek a rational explanation for the killer's actions — as if it were possible to get inside his head.
She thinks of herself as an inexperienced wallflower, and she's well aware that Peter, the most popular boy in school, has plenty of options outside of her.
Prince Charming (TBA): According to The Hollywood Reporter, Stephen Chbosky—the bestselling author of The Perks of Being a Wallflower—has committed to reimagining the eponymous Prince Charming.
Wallflower is a device that easily hooks into most electric stoves, between the outlet and the stove itself, to notify users if there is risk of a fire.
The books that have come up include the Harry Potter books and Stephen Chbosky's The Perks of Being a Wallflower, which she starred in on the big screen.
Was it in The Princess Diaries, where the 19-year-old perfectly embodied the awkward and frizzy-haired Mia Thermopolis, who goes from bookish wallflower to confident princess?
The Bachelor is a balancing act — you need to avoid being a doormat or a wallflower, without becoming so much of a troublemaker that fans turn on you.
Overlooking the great room was a balcony, from which Mr. Wolff had given a rousing speech just moments before about the perks of being a White House wallflower.
At the end of March, David Maguire debuted his deep dive into the making and mythos of I Spit on Your Grave via Columbia University's Wallflower Press imprint.
While articles in Canada focused on Simon Reisman, Canada's sometimes bombastic chief negotiator, Clayton Yeutter, the United States' top trade official, was also no wallflower in my experience.
That imprint also released Binge by Tyler Oakley, Selp Helf by Miranda Sings, Turning the Tables by Teresa Giudice and The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky.
He pledged in 2011, at the height of conference realignment, that Oklahoma would not be a "wallflower," leaving open the possibility that it might depart the Big 12 Conference.
While she tends to clam up when asked to speak English, she's in no way a wallflower: she's an adventurous eater, has a rich belting voice, and is charmingly quirky.
Since saying goodbye to Harry Potter, Watson has appeared in a smattering of movies, such as 2012's The Perks of Being a Wallflower and 2013's The Bling Ring.
But while he resembled a wallflower at the free-love orgy, MacDermot spent the next 50 years cultivating a reputation as one of the funkiest composers Broadway had ever seen.
Publication date: September 22011 Stephen Chbosky broke out with his sweetly melancholy 25 YA novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower, but with Imaginary Friend, he's turning to literary horror.
This proves dispiriting to his secretary, Marie (a nicely feisty turn by Katie Birenboim), who has a steady crush on her boss and must watch, wallflower-like, as he marries Thea.
She developed a set of rules to make the most out of networking: don't be a wallflower, prepare several icebreaker questions, ready an elevator pitch, and ace the follow-up game.
She appears to feel that self-assurance, on the field and off, is a necessary vaccine against wallflower reticence, which could hurt her team — any team — in the most demanding moments.
So often, female nerdiness is defined through men: the traditional cinematic girl nerd was a wallflower who becomes desirable to a protagonist when she removes her glasses and lets down her hair.
Terms like "arm candy" and "wallflower" aren't explicitly gendered, but they're the sort of hyper-critical comments about someone's looks or behavior that are generally more likely to be directed at women.
In a similar vein to how the Huni Kuin welcomed Neto to partake in their own rituals, the artist invites viewers to transcend the wallflower role and physically engage with his works.
Synopsis: In the independent drama "The Perks of Being a Wallflower," shy student Charlie (Logan Lerman) navigates high school with the help of witty seniors Sam (Emma Watson) and Patrick (Ezra Miller).
A few months after I bled all over my ex, a wallflower led yours-intoxicated-truly from a college party back to his room where he mounted me like Vicki did Maura.
Cauliflower is like the little wallflower at the dance that nobody looks at and nobody wants and the only time you're using it is because you've got nothing else on the shelf.
"The Kendra Scott girl has personality, she's not afraid to express herself, she's not a wallflower, she walks with confidence, but she has a heart that beats for her community," the designer explained.
It's also 40 years since I first visited New York from Britain, where I'd discovered dance and other performing arts, not as a practitioner but as a wallflower: a fan who wrote letters.
" Miller — who has also appeared in The Perks of Being a Wallflower and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them — said the comments were made by "folks in the industry, folks outside the industry.
Despite my wallflower intentions, Burn All Night moved me — both figuratively and onto the dance floor — and for someone who fears both dancing and the inevitable end of all things, that's a powerful feat.
Whether you're an introvert or social butterfly, these are the workouts and classes you should try next if you want to make a new fitness buddy — or just feel like less of a wallflower.
Successful conversions aren't the norm even when he's wide open; in the half-court he's a wallflower more often than not, either camped out in the corner, setting a screen, or crashing the glass.
If it's been on for longer than normal (the Wallflower website claims the app "learn[s] your cooking behavior") an alarm will sound from the device and you'll get a notification on your phone.
It has an indie vibe — something on the sunnier end of the Sundance Film Festival, perhaps, with a hat tip to "The Perks of Being a Wallflower," an Independent Spirit Award winner in 2013.
Assuming a pose of wallflower-at-the-orgy detachment, Mr. Lerner so abstinently avoids the topic of beauty — and love, for that matter — that you reach a point where you actively hunger for it.
"New Western dry" gins—as Aviation Gin co-creator Ryan Magarian dubbed the more botanically driven, less juniper-forward versions in 2009—eclipsed the godfather of them all, the little wallflower known as genever.
Mr. Chbosky's 2012 feature, "The Perks of Being a Wallflower," split the difference between the sentimental heart-tugging associated with more standard Hollywood fare, and the intelligence and intimacy often associated with independent films.
Other authors with whom Mr. Feig has worked include Mr. Chbosky ("The Perks of Being a Wallflower" started as a book) and Suzanne Collins, the force behind the "Hunger Games" book and movie series.
Ms. Coel's performance as a nerdy wallflower bursting out of repression is matched by those of Susan Wokoma as her angrily devout sister and John Macmillan as her supercilious and curiously asexual boyfriend. 231.
As wallflower Dory (Alia Shawkat) tried to unravel the mystery of an acquaintance from college who mysteriously disappeared, the show — half comedy, half noir — became a surprisingly sharp take on modern malaise and creeping narcissism.
In the November general election, Mr. de Blasio faces the Republican candidate Nicole Malliotakis, who, although she has virtually no chance of winning, is showing us that she will not assume the role of wallflower.
As you connect with new circles of friends, you want the flexibility to dip in and out of parties without having to babysit your wallflower pals (or have to explain the antics of your wilder buds).
Some books I have enjoyed include "A Room With a View," by E.M. Forster; "The Perks of Being a Wallflower," by Stephen Chbosky; "Bad Behavior," by Mary Gaitskill; and "For Kings and Planets," by Ethan Canin.
But you also know that Scorsese is hardly a wallflower if you've followed his recent remarks against Marvel movies, which he said were "not cinema" and closer to "theme parks" in an October interview with Empire magazine.
The struggler is Sasha (Queen Latifah), a former serious journalist turned flailing gossip blogger; the wallflower, Lisa (Jada Pinkett Smith), is a nurse and single mom; the cutup, Dina (Tiffany Haddish), well, it's unclear what she does.
Whether you feel most comfortable as a wallflower or in the middle of a dance circle, chances are you've got a celebration coming up that requires you to go a little beyond your daily all-athleisure-everything lifestyle.
After "The Perks of Being a Wallflower," Watson starred in 2013's "The Bling Ring," which was based on a real-life story about a group of teenagers who attempted to rob the homes of celebrities in California.
EZRA LEWIS, the new chef at Wallflower in the West Village, is bringing something of a sweet tooth to the menu, with a foie gras and banana bread terrine with blueberry gel, and brussels sprouts with bourbon-bacon jam.
And while there are plenty of smart smoke detectors, most notably the Nest Protect, the Wallflower focuses on prevention by hooking into one of the most common sources of fire and letting you know to take action before disaster ensues.
Rating In Search Party — a new comedy slash drama slash thriller from TBS — Dory (Alia Shawkat) is a wallflower who desperately wants to shake up her own paint-by-numbers life, if only she could find a reason to do it.
But even a cursory Google search of Reno's name inevitably brings up another aspect of her career in the public eye: Saturday Night Live's portrayal of her as an awkward and childish wallflower, as performed by Will Ferrell in drag.
Bateman is very much in his wheelhouse as the guy making it all up on the fly, but Linney is no wallflower as his resourceful spouse, and Julia Garner shines as a young woman whose instincts and grit exceed her humble origins.
This delightfully spunky scene from 2013's Frances Ha. Bowie's 1977 track "Heroes" served as the perfect backdrop to this fan favorite Perks of Being a Wallflower scene in which main character Charlie has a transformative moment with his two best friends.
IMAGINARY FRIENDBy Stephen Chbosky Twenty years after his smash hit novel, "The Perks of Being a Wallflower," Stephen Chbosky returns with a 700-page doorstop, "Imaginary Friend" — an ambitious tale narrated through multiple perspectives, mashing together horror, fairy tales and the (rewritten) Bible.
But the screenwriters Stephen Chbosky ("The Perks of Being a Wallflower") and Evan Spiliotopoulos ("The Huntsman: Winter's War") added depth — what happened to Belle's mother, more about why the prince got zapped — and a new household character, a touchy harpsichord (Stanley Tucci).
There are plenty of hidden Easter eggs that allude to world events and pop culture as well as callbacks to previous missions in earlier games, so long as you're willing to spend some time as a wallflower, waiting for the characters to cycle through the script.
The 26-year-old actor has showcased his versatility in films spanning different genres — from the coming-of-age hit "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" (where he played a teenager named Patrick) to the superhero movie "Justice League" (where he starred as Barry Allen/The Flash).
It's the biggest live-action hit in years for costars Julia Roberts and Owen Wilson (who play Auggie's concerned parents), and another triumph for director Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower), who's also one of the credited screenwriters for this year's Beauty and the Beast.
Other than The Smiths, Let Me Get What I Want pulls inspiration from a multitude of 80s and 90s touchstones: the aforementioned David Lynch's Twin Peaks, but also Brett Easton Ellis, Bruce La Bruce, Sofia Coppola's Lick the Star, and The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
In "The Closet" he gives us, among other unlikely humans, Martin's co-workers Patricia (Jessica Hecht), a wallflower who leads a "Hidden Words of Hate" workshop; Brenda (Ann Harada), a rude gossip who has musical-theater Tourette's; and Roland (Will Cobbs), a homophobe with an all-too-predictable secret.
In addition to her critically acclaimed role as a mom with a frayed marriage on the HBO dramedy Togetherness, the New Zealand-born actress has appeared on TV's Two and a Half Men and in films such as The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Up in the Air and Ever After.
Logan Lerman, so good in 2012's "The Perks of Being a Wallflower," shines as the protagonist, but it's a nearly 15 minute tête-a-tête between Messner and the school's dean (a terrific Tracy Letts) — adapted by Schamus with an almost Tarantino-like zeal — that really steals the show.
While the coming of age show gets off to a legitimately rocky start — mirroring most of our high school experiences, to be honest — it's clear the real draw of the series is watching a romance blossom between A.V. club wallflower Kate Messner (Peyton Kennedy) and drama club queen Emaline (Sydney Sweeney).
So before you saunter off to play an Oak-clad wallflower at your next dark techno afterhours, remember that it was a bunch of guys in stovetop hats and raggedy-ass coat-tails who used to throw insane ragers in Morgan Ave warehouses... and then set them on fire back in 1999.
To gain quasi-exclusive access, check out open mics at fan favorite spots like Artists' Television Access, and instead of being a wallflower in a strange city, submerge yourself into the slouching, chain-smoking, zeitgeist crowd to score an invite to something fleeting and real in a packed 103 square foot apartment.
These swimsuits celebrate confident, bold women with eclectic style and glowing confidence, and they're not for wallflower types: "All the bikinis are definitely my personal style, but I also keep in mind what other girls that I know would love to wear, as far as the community I have online," Gregg said.
To gain quasi-exclusive access, check out open mics at fan favorite spots like Artists' Television Access, and instead of being a wallflower in a strange city, submerge yourself into the slouching, chain-smoking, zeitgeist crowd to score an invite to something fleeting and real in a packed 700 square foot apartment.
At present, though, the wallflower picture is out of its corner and in the spotlight, as the centerpiece of a dream of a show through Sunday called "Fra Angelico: Heaven on Earth," in which the museum has united it with three related pictures from Italy and surrounded them with nine additional works.
The Perks Of Being A Wallflower actor may be getting plenty of buzz for his upcoming role as The Flash in the new Justice League movie (let's be honest, his hilarious line delivery is exactly what we need in the often-bleak DC Comics cinematic universe), but it's not a superhero fans want him to play next.
If you were a shrinking wallflower then you could walk straight back out the door on a career on the floor, but if you loved cut-throat aggression, had quick numeracy and could stand up for yourself in a confrontation, then this was not only a highly lucrative job but was also a lot of fun.
Then there's the curious case of the 19643 screen adaptation of Stephen Chbosky's bildungsroman novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower: The MPAA initially went for the R, for language as well as a nonjudgmental depiction of acid use and the scandalizing sight of Emma Watson clad in a white bra for a screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Director Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower) adapted R.J. Palacio's source novel into a screenplay with Steve Conrad and Jack Thorne, and it neatly avoids becoming a didactic after-school special about why it's important for people to be kind by letting the story work as a character piece, full of humor and warmth and conflict and fun.
"To All the Boys I've Loved Before," an Xennial mash note to '80s teen romances, ended as John Hughes ordained: with the wallflower, Lara Jean (Lana Condor), and the jock, Peter (Noah Centineo), professing their love on a lacrosse field in a climactic shot with enough space in the frame to imagine Judd Nelson strutting by with a fist pump.
In every scene, she exudes complexity and a range of nuanced emotion that make her impossible to pigeonhole into any of those typical rom-com tropes: she's not the shy wallflower turned bold party girl, she's not the frigid bitch turned unexpectedly relaxed and mellow, she's not the serious student who takes off her glasses to reveal a surprise hottie.
What began as a demo by the Monsters and the Strangerz, a behind-the-scenes Los Angeles studio team, and Sarah Aarons, a young wallflower songwriter from Australia, took more than a year of fiddling between the germ of the idea and its Top 40 debut — a creative roller coaster that included three distinct waves of musical production, 14 prospective vocalists, a corporate tie-in and a video premiere during the Grammys.

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