self-display
Example Sentences
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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
Most of the program was given over to songs by friends of Mr. Meltzer’s, many of them brief epigrammatic works that hovered between emotional withdrawal and self-display.
From New York Times • Apr. 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
It may be sought further as a mode of self-display, an indication of how one has risen in the world.
From Human Traits and their Social Significance by Edman, Irwin
