Third, and most striking to me, is that these remarks showed him to be an unprofessional luftmensch. From Wordnik.com. [TEXAS FAITH: Brit Hume and Tiger Woods | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com] Reference
Greenberg's arrogant luftmensch routine is infuriating-everyone but him wants to live in the here and now. From Wordnik.com. [The New Yorker] Reference
The story begins when Voshchev, a classic Chekhovian luftmensch, is fired from his job for excessive "thoughtfulness amid the general tempo of labor.". From Wordnik.com. [A Different Stripe] Reference
He's obviously a judgmental, punitive, rigid ideologue at heart, and a bully, but he's also a luftmensch, lost in abstraction and theory, who would rather win an argument than learn something, and he gets his rocks off nailing people for doctrinal mistakes rather than actually doing anything or attending to stuff that's happening on the ground. From Wordnik.com. [The Reality-Based Community] Reference
Joseph père, a luftmensch who thinks that "nature uses man," is convinced that "lifelessness … is only a disguise behind which lie unknown forms of life. From Wordnik.com. [An Apt Show for New York: The Street of Crocodiles] Reference
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