self-seriousness

The show satirizes the peculiar combination of self-seriousness and prolonged adolescence that's come to be identified with Portland, in the same way grunge music and slacker culture were associated with Seattle back in the nineties.

WATCH: Are You A Competitive Reader? The New Yorker 2011

Looking back to a photo of him, Fenton and Amis standing at the balustrade of Sacre-Coeur, you can't help but smile at the self-seriousness, the self-consciousness, and the gloss of cool emanating off the trio.

Ashley Rindsberg: On Hitchens Ashley Rindsberg 2011

In carrying every Olympics since CBS '1998 Winter Games, it has greatly improved its primetime — tighter features, great photography, solid announcers, less self-seriousness, more tips for viewers about when events will air — but has clung rigidly to its scripted format.

NBC's Olympic ratings not necessarily golden 2010

The show satirizes the peculiar combination of self-seriousness and prolonged adolescence that's come to be identified with Portland, in the same way grunge music and slacker culture were associated with Seattle back in the nineties.

WATCH: Are You A Competitive Reader? The New Yorker 2011

Looking back to a photo of him, Fenton and Amis standing at the balustrade of Sacre-Coeur, you can't help but smile at the self-seriousness, the self-consciousness, and the gloss of cool emanating off the trio.

Ashley Rindsberg: On Hitchens Ashley Rindsberg 2011

So begins, with a typical blend of eloquence and self-seriousness, the astonishing little novel that in 1954 rocketed an 18-year-old Parisian girl to lasting literary fame.

Stories of Fathers and Daughters Alexandra Styron 2011

The self-exposure and self-celebration had all the hallmarks of a narcissistic Internet; it betrayed both an intellectual inconsistency and an eagerness to abandon the appearance of political self-seriousness.

Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010

Without them, the hero's self-seriousness is insufferable.

What Avatar Lacked Fresca 2010

The self-exposure and self-celebration had all the hallmarks of a narcissistic Internet; it betrayed both an intellectual inconsistency and an eagerness to abandon the appearance of political self-seriousness.

Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010

The self-exposure and self-celebration had all the hallmarks of a narcissistic Internet; it betrayed both an intellectual inconsistency and an eagerness to abandon the appearance of political self-seriousness.

Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010