Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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

Most of the program was given over to songs by friends of Mr. Meltzer’s, many of them brief epigrammatic works that hovered between emotional withdrawal and self-display.

From New York Times • Apr. 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

The instincts of self-display and leadership, and many of the non-social instincts, such as curiosity and acquisitiveness, are frequently called into play in the service of the more directly social tendencies of the individual.

From Human Traits and their Social Significance by Edman, Irwin