showing off

displaying headlining highlighting presenting promoting pushing recommending showing starring turning

calling attention to drawing attention to giving center stage to making much of pointing up turning the spotlight on

assuming characterization depiction dramatics dramatizing enacting enactment feigning hamming histrionics imitating imitation impersonation improvisation mime mimicry pantomime performance playing portrayal portraying posing posturing pretending pretense putting rendition seeming simulating stagecraft stooging theatre theatricals

play acting

air airs appearance artificiality facade front imitation insincerity mannerism pose pretense pretension pretentiousness put on sham show simulation

false front going Hollywood putting on airs

honesty personality reality truth

naturalness simplicity

flashing immodesty

exposing oneself indecent exposure self-display

affectation array boast boasting brag braggadocio bragging bravado demonstration display exhibition flamboyance flash flourish fuss garishness magnificence pageant pageantry parade pomp pomposity pompousness pretending pretension pretentiousness put on shine show showiness spectacle splendor splurge swagger swank vainglory vaunt

false front flaunting grandstand play parading vaunting window-dressing

concealment dullness hiding modesty ordinariness simplicity truth

plainness quiet reservation

arrogance pride

affectation airs conceitedness display narcissism ostentation pretension self-love self-worship show smugness vainglory

big-headedness ego trip self-admiration

humility

hiding truth

modesty