The man in Washington who can not dance is a "wallflower" -- that is, he never leaves the wall.    From Wordnik.com.  [As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home] Reference

I became a writer because I had a wallpaper personality (or do I mean "wallflower"?).    From Wordnik.com.  [He's Just...Dreamy, But Am I Dowdy? Dandies Prowl Our City] Reference

They are usually perceived as the "wallflower," and often do not get deeply engaged in life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ronit Herzfeld: The Three Faces Of Anger: Which One Is Yours?] Reference

Do they generally fall under the "wallflower" category, suffering from lack of self-confidence?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Turn Self-Promotion Into A Cash Promotion] Reference

Being an INFJ according to the test I just took, or at least introverted, it's been hard for me not to be the "wallflower".    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference

CROWLEY: Not a wallflower in the bunch -- promise.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 1, 2008] Reference

Change from a wallflower to the center of attraction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930] Reference

COOPER: Bill Clinton was not a wallflower in all this.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 16, 2004] Reference

Glory smiled, and the wallflower enclosure brightened.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dragon on a Pedestal]

And, of course, she's not exactly a wilting wallflower.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 8, 2005] Reference

"Chuck Schumer is no wallflower on Wall Street," he added.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gilded Revolutionaries] Reference

We're definitely agreed that he shouldn't be a wallflower.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama Escalates Battle With Hillary] Reference

"I may be a wallflower, waiting for you to take pity on me.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden] Reference

So comparatively speaking, yes, she is kind of a wallflower.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 5, 2008] Reference

She sounded bitter, a wallflower describing last year's prom.    From Wordnik.com.  [When The Bough Breaks]

She had always been, and forever would be the ton's wallflower.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tutoring Lady Jane]

Or will I be another wallflower waiting for someone to pluck me?.    From Wordnik.com.  [badger Diary Entry] Reference

Because I'm a wallflower and not many think anything of a wallflower.    From Wordnik.com.  [confused??] Reference

Believe it or not, I'd rather be a wallflower than stand out in a crowd.    From Wordnik.com.  [chubbychic Diary Entry] Reference

And few doubt that she's now going to wither into a political wallflower.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 5, 2008] Reference

It ` s impossible to be a wallflower and, you know, to be that successful.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 5, 2008] Reference

His lordship will see to it that you are not a wallflower, Miss Thornhill.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Man's Mistress]

It's not hard to feel like a wallflower next to the wildly vivid Dolly Parton.    From Wordnik.com.  [DOLLY SINGS IT BACK HOME] Reference

Yet it appeared now that he had spotted a wallflower and had gone to her rescue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slightly Dangerous]

Late narcissus were dying off amongst the wallflower in a narrow bed on either side.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through the Wall]

MOOS: Ivy admits she's no wallflower when it comes to promotion, particularly self-promotion.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 13, 2002] Reference

And so the best internal candidate to succeed a CEO who boogied too long might be a wallflower.    From Wordnik.com.  [Goodbye Household Names, Hello No-Names] Reference

We have an Iraqi dictator playing cat-and-mouse and a North Korean wallflower trying to get noticed.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Wife and I Boycott the Day; Won't W.?] Reference

No one sent me the email about it being ALL-CINDY FRIDAY, and now I feel like a wallflower at an orgy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greg Gutfeld: CHIEF BRODY SLAPBLOG!] Reference

I am also reading "The perks of being a wallflower" for the second time i forgot how good the book was.    From Wordnik.com.  [invauxboy Diary Entry] Reference

"REVENANTS (WIEDERGÄNGERINNEN)" Oskar Schmidt's photographs feature wallflower-like women and girls in nearly empty rooms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Going Out Guide for Washington, D.C., Sept. 16-22] Reference

Him the prom wallflower, declining seconds on Roxy, drinking spiked punch, getting mawkish with the slow grind numbers and the hurt.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Big Nowhere]