self-display
- a word derived from display.
Example Sentences
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Her work was never about self-display, let alone self-dramatization.
From Washington Post • Jan. 18, 2017
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
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
He is, after all, a man who once modeled himself on Pistol Pete Maravich, and there are human rights advocates today who see his recent methods as more about self-display than substance.
From New York Times • Dec. 2, 2010
The age is too stirring, we are pressed on by too solemn interests, to be justified in making speeches for self-display or mere amusement.
From Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American by Eliot, Charles William
