self-display

“He is free from self-display, and therefore he shines.”

The dominant style, particularly among male novelists of the middle and later decades of the 20th century, has been melodramatic self-display.

Pornification makes compulsory sexual self-display while purity culture over-values virginity and counsels "modesty" in girls' and women's dress to protect men from sexual "sin."

“If a woman sings these high notes, and does all of this self-display, then, somehow or other, she’s going to have to be killed.”

When we regard our institutions as having abandoned this mission in favor of individual ambition and self-display, we withdraw our trust.