exhibitionistic

Example Sentences

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“The placards are there so we can live our lives, and have access to things. They’re not there so we can be in pain in an exhibitionistic way in public.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2019

Late in life, he scored a musical about the life of the fin de siècle exhibitionistic painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 23, 2018

Nor did he carouse with his more exhibitionistic contemporaries at Cedar Tavern, participate in splashy happenings or attract art-world gossip.

From New York Times • Jan. 5, 2018

Artists are a particularly self-conscious, sometimes self-indulgent, and always exhibitionistic community—they exist to call attention to themselves—so it makes perfect sense that they draw disproportionate notice in the gentrification debate.

From Slate • Oct. 15, 2013

Here, the 'stage' of the microscope refers obviously to the theatre, so often the scene of exhibitionistic activities.

From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various