self-admiring

Hannah Waddingham, from “Ted Lasso,” plays Tyrannis’ mother, the noncanonical, self-admiring goddess Deliria, who has suffered a social reverse among the Olympians and has moved in with the family.

Nor can they quite overcome the disconnect between the glossy, self-admiring visual beauty of “Close” and the stormier, uglier emotional depths it purports to uncover.

When a Washington Post reporter met Ms. Soares at her home in Rio in 2002, he found her in a black catsuit and self-admiring how it fit her derriere after a fitness regimen of weightlifting for two hours every day of the week.

It’s hardly a problem unique to “Titane”: Absent the element of surprise, even the most heroically uncompromising vision often runs the risk of being later dismissed as a showy, self-admiring stunt.

One of the pleasures of seeing a movie here in the rarefied environs of Telluride, which places the art of cinema on a pedestal 8,750 feet above sea level, is the audience’s unfailing reverence for the theatrical moviegoing experience — a reverence that the festival has made central to its admirable and somewhat self-admiring mission.