self-display
Example Sentences
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“He is free from self-display, and therefore he shines.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 24, 2023
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
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 avoided everything that even tended toward self-display.
From On the Trail of Grant and Lee by Hill, Frederick Trevor
