self-advertisement
- a word derived from advertisement.
Example Sentences
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More than half a century later, pantheonization remains, quite literally, a spectacular tool of self-advertisement for France’s head of state.
From Slate • Jan. 18, 2022
Some of the posters in this exhibition were commissioned by the performers themselves, as self-advertisement.
From Washington Post • Feb. 10, 2017
So the exhibition begins with art as institutional self-advertisement.
From New York Times • Dec. 3, 2015
Photograph: Ulf Andersen/Getty Images There's a memorable passage in Tom Wolfe's hyperactive self-advertisement of 1973, The New Journalism, where he describes 60s New York as "a hulking carnival… pandemonium with a big grin on".
From The Guardian • Jul. 14, 2012
Sir Joseph's heart was black, his law bunkum, and he had only got where he was by self-advertisement and picking the brains of men a hundred times fitter for heaven than himself....
From A Crooked Mile by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]
