kvell

Zelda would kvell her deepest kvells when an acting student made an unforeseen breakthrough in a production.

Roz points admiringly to future daughter-in-law Pam's ponim (rear end); refers to Bernie's plotzing (bursting) over Pam's pregancy; herself kvells (effuses) at the news; calls Jack "a little bit meshugah" (crazy); and, most important to the narrative, teaches Dina the meaning of the phrase neeshtgeet (not good).

The Rebbe's trusted student and compiler of his works, Reb Noson Sternhartz, often kvells over the Rebbe's universalism, as do his followers today.

Baldwin is a hoot enthusing about his reconquest, a cat-that-ate-the-canary grin on his face as he raves about how hot his ex-wife is, while Jane is both flushed and aghast at what she's done, even as she later kvells to her egging-on girlfriends about how naughty she's been.

The other interesting aspect of this telling is that Dershowitz accepts (and perhaps even kvells) about his "aggressiveness." See id.

"Freedom of speech," he says--I got the clip right here--"is one of the greatest American liberties, and I hope this pardon serves as a reminder of the precious freedoms we are fighting to preserve as we continue to wage the war on terror." This is a politician who kvells over the USA Patriot Act!

The ending of The Jazz Singer, with Jolson on bended knee singing "Mammy" as his Jewish mother sits in the audience and kvells, is both a trademark of his style and a paradigm of the conflict that that style embedded.

"The head of the CIA is going to be eating my French onion soup," Amanda kvells. "I'm going to get recruited.

It doesn't help that Hubert keeps silent about his personal life, including that he's gay and has a boyfriend in classmate Antonin Rimbaud (Francois Arnaud)--Chantale finds out by chance when Antonin's hip mother Helene (Patricia Tulasne) sympathetically kvells.

Dustin Hoffman, the open, warm, stay-at-home dad, brags that Greg is a "young, Jewish, Marlon Brando," kvells with pride over Greg's tenth-place ribbons, and hangs his son's framed tallis and kepah on a wall in the family home, dubbed "The Wall of Gaylord." (11) Bernie stands in sharp contrast to the WASPy Jack's conditional love for his daughter Pam (Teri Polo); for example, after Pam discovers that she is pregnant before the wedding she goes to great lengths to conceal the fact from her father.