self-display

It's all self-display and an allegiance to external agendas of the scholar's own choosing, agendas themselves important only to the extent that the professor in question can give it his/her own scholarly spin.

Literary Study 2009

As I have said before, the NYTBR is going to be a poor man's version of The New York Review of Books, in which, most often, self-important so-called pundits have an opportunity to self-display and in the process bore us to tears.

Book Reviewing 2010

This situation is convenient for corporate recruiting ‹ it channels human instincts for self-display and status into an extremely narrow range of economically productive activities.

“Three Victorian Questions” by Geoffrey Miller 2009

This situation is convenient for corporate recruiting ‹ it channels human instincts for self-display and status into an extremely narrow range of economically productive activities.

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And Natalie has chucked the diva approach to country singing -- melismatic self-display, calculated catches in the throat -- in favor of the intensity and directness of a Bonnie Raitt or a Lucinda Williams.

Good Old Grrrls 2008

Nor are they opportunities for self-display, another staple of the travel genre.

The Lessons of the Master Buruma, Ian 2008

That is the meaning of the camel's-hair-clad robber's self-display.

Mr. Sammler's City Myron Magnet 2008

They may be useful (some more than others), but I think this was a bad call: such an enterprise should be a monument, not an opportunity for other writers 'self-display, however reverent.

Samuel Beckett, Birthday Boy 2007

But eventually I ran out of time and interest, especially for blogs of people I didn't particularly like, but whose self-display engendered a sick fascination.

Archive 2007-11-01 Becca 2007

But eventually I ran out of time and interest, especially for blogs of people I didn't particularly like, but whose self-display engendered a sick fascination.

Transience, Technology, and Intimacy Becca 2007