Sentence examples for goombah from inspiring English sources

Sorkin's characters don't get into pickles in the usual TV ways: breaking the law to help a victim ("Law & Order: SVU"); obeying unseen voices ("Medium"; "Ghost Whisperer"); having sex with the wrong person ("Desperate Housewives"); or burying a goombah in a landfill ("The Sopranos").

Popular representations of Staten Island typically take shape as slights: in "Saturday Night Live" sketches, MTV reality shows, and elsewhere, the borough is a teeming natural habitat for spray-tanned guidos and guidettes; a goombah paradise of big hair and mobbed-up pizzerias; the city's orange-skinned stepchild.

The band was led by its guitarist, a self-described "goombah" from Little Italy known as Vinnie Stigma, who recruited bandmates as if he were building a not very well-regulated militia.

E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet Popular representations of Staten Island typically take shape as slights: in "Saturday Night Live" sketches, MTV reality shows, and elsewhere, the borough is a teeming natural habitat for spray-tanned guidos and guidettes; a goombah paradise of big hair and mobbed-up pizzerias; the city's orange-skinned stepchild.

Charlie told Traficant, "Your uncle Tony was my goombah … and we feel that you're like a brother to us".

And Michael Hayden, the former C.I.A. director, is quoted calling his successor Leon Panetta Rahm Emanuell's goombah".

Have you ever seen the Charles Grodin-Robert De Niro movie "Midnight Run," in which De Niro is a rough-and-tumble ex-cop bounty hunter hired to catch Grodin, a fastidious accountant with a heart of gold who stole from the mob, gave the money to the poor, went into hiding, and evaded a long line of successive goombahs hired to catch him, until the anti-goombah, De Niro, agreed to take the case?

In the way that "The Real Housewives of New Jersey" deploys goombah-ness as its regional signifier, "The Real Housewives of Miami" showcases the city's Latin culture through predictable stereotyping.

While not explicitly addressing Hollywood gangster folklore, "Excellent Cadavers," a meticulous and angry new documentary, offers an implicit critique of the lovable-goombah view of organized crime.

In drug-gangster movies, the kingpin is always some guy with a pock-marked face who has goombahs on his flanks on the way into the restaurant, sits with his back against the wall and always gets the big piece of chicken.

Not surprisingly, as this column has noted several times, Italian-American groups are tired of the endless parade of on-screen Guidos and goombahs, as if the children and grandchildren of the immigrant generation amount to no more than that.