self-presentation

[self-pre-zuhn-tay-shuhn, -pree-]

noun

1. the act of presenting or introducing oneself to others, especially in social or professional contexts.

Example Sentences

That’s mostly communicated through her ICE photo ops, where Noem uses her self-presentation as a cartoonishly exaggerated icon of white femininity as a visual contrast to the darker-skinned immigrants her agents are arresting for real-life concentration camps, which the administration is euphemistically calling “detention centers.”

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In the wonderful, Cambridge-set “Ludwig,” David Mitchell, best known here for “Peep Show,” “Upstart Crow” and as an irascible team captain on the panel show “Would I Lie to You?,” plays John Taylor, a professional inventor of puzzles — awkward, timid, with no social life and a disconnect from and disdain for modern times that Mitchell’s own self-presentation sometimes suggests.

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Counterintuitively, it’s formally conservative; whatever the subject, one mockumentary now looks quite a bit like another, with the side eyes and addresses to the camera and a sometimes desperate self-presentation on the part of its characters.

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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".

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These supposedly strong men flinch in terror of literal schoolchildren whose gender self-presentation falls outside their rigid boundaries.

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