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

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

The passage, then, which seems to suggest a doctrine of self-display, is really a teaching of self-effacement.

From Mornings in the College Chapel Short Addresses to Young Men on Personal Religion by Peabody, Francis Greenwood