But the movie may also add some sparkle to the small, wonkish policy magazine.

"The problem with really wonkish policy discussion is that it does not attract or hold a mass audience," he said.

His earliest jobs were in the wonkish realm of policy analysis - gazing at the horizon.

If his parents imbued him with a sense of intellectual purpose, it seemed to strike some as wonkish.

Mr. Kyl's response has been in keeping with his wonkish style.

He is issue-driven, mild-mannered and at times described by supporters as wonkish.

Milliband - managerial, wonkish and utterly detached from the real world.

Anesthetized by textbooks, which turn the Revolution into a wonkish debate over taxes and governance?

In the same conversation, he can be wonkish and thoughtful, blunt and profane.

Mr. Hevesi is nothing if not wonkish.

No one questions McCaughey Ross' intellect and wonkish understanding of policy.

It is not a matter of being presented with a wonkish list of policy proposals, though a few of those wouldn't go amiss.

Stock markets are not just places to trade stock; they are also what are known to the wonkish as "self-regulatory organizations."

(Mbeki, notorious for his wonkish style and nervous tics, polls poorly.)

Don't believe anyone who says that this will soon fade, and that the election will henceforth turn on health-care policy or other wonkish debate.

It's working, and in an effort to have an unassailable rhetoric, Mr. Kerry usually comes off as wonkish and hair-splitting.

But political professionals in both parties say Mr. Gore also faces particular problems growing out of his earnest, wonkish personality, and his tendency to lecture.

Obama perceives his audience as intelligent, involved (though only slightly wonkish) citizens interested in knowing more about who he is and what and how he thinks.

Before long, its somewhat wonkish and dowdy staff of meteorologists began dispensing weather reports and forecasts to an ever-growing cable audience.

After a few months of pondering and significant research, Mast shook off his wonkish history and succumbed to the distinct roar of horsepower.

Reich has replaced a dull, earnestly wonkish hearing with a Hollywood script in which a mean Republican hammers a decent Democrat.

Eliot was the sort of wonkish teenager who was reading Foreign Affairs at a time when his peers were perhaps finding more diversion in Playboy.

BTW: I think there is a typo when the article refers to Ed Milliband as 'wonkish'.

To many people, the term "important business book" inevitably conjures up images of wonkish tomes studded with equations that rely heavily on the Greek letter sigma.

The capstone of her Gaza tour was a session seemingly calculated to scare off all but the wonkish: "Women's Empowerment Through Micro-Lending."