self-display
Example Sentences
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Whether you celebrate its authenticity or hate the TMI-ness of it all, this is unquestionably an age of self-display.
From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2018
Her work was never about self-display, let alone self-dramatization.
From Washington Post • Jan. 18, 2017
At 20, she wore her hair in a mullet and dressed "in neon that hugs in all the wrong places," turning her awkwardness and misery into self-display, and then that self-display into art.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 2, 2014
Sedgwick, like Plimpton, was both tempted by fame and plunged into all the excitement and self-display available in the media world.
From Salon • May 28, 2013
Ostentā′tious, given to show: fond of self-display: intended for display.—adv.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
