self-display

Example Sentences

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

From Washington Post • Mar. 24, 2023

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

Press notes highlighted the designer’s “red-carpet heritage,” as if the procession toward the awards ceremony and that toward the altar are all part of one continuum of self-display.

From New York Times • Apr. 18, 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

But mainly she loved her work as a means of mere self-display.

From Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story by Beerbohm, Max, Sir