self-presentation
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Her roles in the 1950s diminished in plausibility, and Crawford’s acting stiffened into rigid self-presentation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
Author Gershom Mabaquiao explains that the trend started off being about "the unseriousness of self-presentation", but since it has become bigger than social media and permeated society, it's being interpreted in a "very literal way".
From BBC • Aug. 24, 2024
The new research explored what happened when consumers had what psychologists call self-presentation concerns -- this is when people worry about how their behavior and actions may affect how others perceive them.
From Science Daily • May 13, 2024
An exhibition about hair is also an exhibition about self-presentation and self-perception, difference and hierarchy, race, religion, control, disgust, childhood, adulthood, masculinity and femininity.
From New York Times • Jul. 28, 2023
But often the problem was with the inmates—they could take forever with showering, shaving, and coiffing, trying to get together the perfect self-presentation.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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