display
verb (used with object)
to show or exhibit; make visible.
self-display
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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
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
Primarily these are based on what McDougall calls the instinct of self-display, which becomes intellectualized and socialized very early in the career of the child.
From The Foundations of Personality by Abraham Myerson
