self-display
Example Sentences
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“He is free from self-display, and therefore he shines.”
From Washington Post • Mar. 24, 2023
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
He is, after all, a man who once modeled himself on Pistol Pete Maravich, and there are human rights advocates today who see his recent methods as more about self-display than substance.
From New York Times • Dec. 2, 2010
Is color liked simply for purposes of self-display?
From Psychology A Study Of Mental Life by Woodworth, Robert S.
