self-display
Example Sentences
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Ms. Dunham has unsurprisingly been criticized for her insistent self-display, sometimes fairly, at other times misguidedly and cruelly.
From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2017
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
In the closest relation to the thyroid appear the instincts first isolated, so to speak, by McDougall as the instincts of self-display and self-effacement, accompanied by emotions of pride and shame respectively.
From The Glands Regulating Personality by Berman, Louis, M.D.
