Antipathy toward a wealthy, preening managerial class seems to be gaining popularity across the political spectrum — and, oddly, to have helped elect a wealthy, preening incoming president.
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Blue Jays 103, Yankees 210 TORONTO — There was no preening.
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"Eyebrows on fleek," she said on Vine, primping and preening.
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But they were nothing like Trump, who's a preening cartoon.
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Standing out is hardly a matter of preening or flaunting plumage.
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And that's what Hader leaned into in his smug, preening performance.
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But all that television preening supports his true passion, he insists.
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Yet so much of the choreography is trivial: preening, mannered, insubstantial.
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She was preening and privileged, removed from the experience of normal people.
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Mr Jones is genial and steady, Mr Moore preening, sour and angry.
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He extends his right arm outwards like a beautiful swan preening itself.
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Jenkins, a junior, just stood there, hands raised to the sky, preening.
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A preening billionaire is going to create jobs out of thin air?
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Others in the caucus, she suggested, were simply preening for future campaigns.
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It was all a little indelicate perhaps, incompatible with endless social self-preening.
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Amy Lombard captured the primping and preening that goes on behind the scenes.
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But he doesn't: He's much too busy preening and flexing in the mirror.
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What a pair of election-year divas, always preening for the pundits. Enough.
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Onstage, he was a preening cock of the walk with a majestic voice.
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It was also to wonder about the degree of preening and performance involved.
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But it is also conveys a uniquely Irish aversion to preening or vanity.
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Some people may frame this instinct negatively, as showboating or preening or overstepping.
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As he ambled back and forth, preening, Boicourt grabbed a purple bath towel.
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As Rodriguez circled the bases, in his distinctive preening trot, the ballpark fell silent.
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He's a preening dictator, and with this outbreak some citizens are paying a price.
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Instagram had become a preening zone for overly stylized images of a presumed ideal.
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Where's the grammatically challenged, preening macho dope for me to make fun of now?
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The point is that, once again, he had delivered, a preening lion among ordinary tabbies.
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With images of preening cam performers, starstruck fans, and more, we'd say he nailed it.
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I've sunk hours into each one I've used, preening and polishing the most minute detail.
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It is not even the occasional preening that Labour has somehow, uniquely, caught the zeitgeist.
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These groups reflect a growing interest among wealthy male urbanites in preening and snappy dressing.
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I feel similarly about Rajan, Kala's useless husband whose preening father is Bombay's cockiest politician.
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"Well, we do our best for the fans, don't we?" says Tony, preening a bit.
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No, my (wholly unoriginal) quarrel with Washington concerns the preening insularity of its political class.
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He's seen as low-key and humble (although he's not shy about preening after big shots).
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There they were, cooing toward the cameras, preening for attention as if they, too, were famous.
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" AND NOW, A WORD FROM CHARLES… "When their time comes, they should refrain from moral preening.
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The acquisition would create "a giant preening with its convergent technology", DT's CEO Tim Hoettges said.
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There were images of football games, athletes dancing and preening for the camera, and close-ups.
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All the greatest hits are here — the spectacular feuds between Union generals, the preening of Gen.
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His first challenge was farcical—wear ties—and the others had been a little preening and collegiate.
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Why should he leave his home, where everyone flattered him and he could spend all day preening?
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A deal with cuddly Canada (CETA) barely survived an encounter with a preening regional parliament in Belgium.
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That helps explain why even a preening narcissist like Trump reportedly didn't want to win the election.
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Maybe at some point the two men will compare fur coats and entourage sizes, like peacocks preening.
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In a competition too full of self-involved, preening egotists, this was the best comment of all.
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He came into court flexing and preening, leonine in his arrogance, and eventually he departed in handcuffs.
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In his most famous story, a preening St. Petersburg bachelor wakes up one morning without a nose.
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Like the teenage girls who monopolize its attention, "Kill Me Please" is moody, lovely, preening and libidinous.
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But his preening, and his whining about being persecuted by the intelligence services, really twists the knife.
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He is a man given to preening and transgressive statements, whose success has repeatedly baffled the media.
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The series was essentially a testament to superficiality, snapping people while they were peacocking and posturing and preening.
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Meanwhile, Vortigern has become a creepy, preening tyrant, prone to plummy speeches about the pleasures of being feared.
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What's unsettling to me is the thought that maybe this isn't just intellectual preening; maybe he believes it.
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Because, of course, women have been waxing, shaving, and preening their nether regions since the dawn of time.
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The dismissal of the preening Scaramucci, on the other hand, came with the power of a lightning strike.
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Not because of preening public pension staffers or legal obligations, but because it's the right thing to do.
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The two books under review offer peep-show views of preening lives and impostures before they went panoramic.
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Henry's biggest challenge involves deciding who is meant for him: a shy, quirky colleague or a preening narcissist.
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Another version wears a purple coat of implacable yet appealing texture, preening its glossy fur with every rotation.
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Along comes Christian Dawkins to wreak a peculiarly 21st century revenge on those preening coaches and federal prosecutors.
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And George W. Bush, preening in Top Gun gear and justifying his war to no one in particular.
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The food at both places shows great skill and self-assurance with very little preening and self-consciousness.
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I would go to a creaking amphitheatre to watch a lecture by a preening giant of French literary theory.
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We claim to treasure it, yet want badly to be known and seen (posting on Instagram, preening on Twitter).
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So long as they continue to boil, Mr. al-Baghdadi, or whatever preening jihadist succeeds him, will be back.
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The best ones have a ruthlessness, a willingness to get to the marrow of oneself, without preening and dissembling.
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So often at my high school in suburban Massachusetts, boys would walk around with their shirts off, flexing and preening.
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Sebastian Velasquez was the youth winner for his shot of a preening horned puffin taken in the Alaska SeaLife Center.
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As we watch Nélisse preening in a bathroom mirror at Bill's house, Dern questions her willingness to stay after Mrs.
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His nemesis the Joker is a more frequent and annoying presence, played as a preening, pimpish sociopath by Jared Leto.
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The world it uncovers is a poisonous nest of preening dandies, bejeweled grande dames, hypocritical sycophants and assorted hangers-on.
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There are few preening Instagram models hawking weight-loss tea, and a distinct lack of crazy uncles posting Infowars clips.
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As with Brat, the offerings here — decidedly Mediterranean — are far more about the local ingredients than about a chef's preening.
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Three years ago, for instance, a short video appeared on Vine of a 16-year-old named Kayla Newman preening.
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Does Anna have more in common with Varvara or with the preening, privileged creatures of Moscow and St. Petersburg's salons?
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We are a country of mediocre education and limited skills, whose preening vanity has prevented us from seeing our failings.
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Gazelle is famous and spends her days draped over a chaise longue, answering fan mail and preening in the mirror.
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But since we're bundled up from head to toe during the winter anyway, can't we just put our preening on pause?
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Created alongside his publisher, Saumel William Fores, Rowlandson substitutes the brutalities of boxing with the preening of a woman's makeup routine.
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His unofficial campaign announcement—a cover-interview in Vanity Fair,with pictures by Annie Leibovitz—was panned as preening and entitled.
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If people feel like they've seen enough preening photos and silly Stories from everyone they follow, they could drift from Instagram.
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That an election that was supposed to restore Thailand to democracy will instead bolster its preening monarch is a crowning irony.
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I was less threatening than a male colleague when the musician was preening himself in the mirror or something like that!
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Whenever Trump has seemed to go too far, he had discovered that people are amused by his preening, bragging, and bullying.
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The hair, the cloaking suits, the hotels, the pageants, the constant talk of "winning" — they all belong to a preening surface.
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Mr. Foster, seen on Broadway in "Orphans" in 2013, provides an effortlessly natural Stanley, unencumbered by the usual preening self-consciousness.
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You know it but your preening self-interest, general incompetence and apparent lack of will to change means that nothing advances.
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Often Drucker or Ernst seem to be posing for the other, preening before a mirror or gazing directly at the camera.
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Laura Benanti, the Broadway star, reprised her "Late Show" role as Melania Trump, preening in a mock interview with Mr. Colbert.
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Critics question, for instance, whether there will be too much preening for the cameras, to the distraction of the team concept.
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On Twitter, I suggested that Trump was pugnacious, pugilistic, preening and puerile, and asked for other P words to describe him.
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Footage of the bird preening and cooing as he fruitlessly courted a decoy made of concrete has been watched obsessively online.
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When Polinesso, the preening duke, arrives and declares his love, Ginevra rebuffs him in a feisty aria full of spitfire runs.
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She tracked six "behavioral states" and how long each squirrel was in that state: foraging, preening, resting, standing, freezing and fleeing.
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Twitter seemed like a ghastly mashup of the preening narcissism and nanosecond attention spans that defined the worst trends in digital culture.
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He not only failed to empathize with the hardships that storm survivors are experiencing, he basked in praise like a preening puppy.
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Like a bird of paradise preening on a branch, weighed down by its luxurious tail, fashion can never truly justify its costs.
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Acting as a cheerleader for the event, she parodied Edwick as a younger girl, preening herself in front of a hand mirror.
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A beautiful Asian woman sits in front of a mirror surrounded by lingerie-clad bombshells preening and primping themselves and each other.
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A family of wild peacocks visited daily, including a preening male who seemed to like to admire his reflection in my windows.
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The similarities between the two of you are unavoidable: the preening, the insecurity, the pathological narcissism, the chronic lying, the bad haircuts.
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In contrast to the yelling, preening and debating in vogue on sports shows, Tirico said, he strives to be an invisible narrator.
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And, of course, there are the opening credits, where the main characters are doing their best Hepburn impressions, preening directly to camera.
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We are fatally vulnerable to little brothers and yapping dogs — to all varieties of preening, needling, attention-mongering and weaponized self-regard.
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In the 15 years that have passed since then, it is anything but a secret in a world of competing buff, preening dandies.
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More distinctive performances are given by Gary Cole as the hotel's pragmatic owner, and by Norbert Leo Butz as a preening, theatrical surgeon.
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Instead of repackaging the frontman's preening, strutting bravado, he disappeared behind masks, make-up, UV and black lighting, and abstract and surreal costumes.
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"I think Comey is a preening popinjay utterly consumed with his own vainglorious pomposity," Podhoretz wrote, among many other pointed remarks on Twitter.
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During the '80s, Duran Duran was a staple of MTV: handsome, preening British lads smiling and singing synthesizer-driven tunes about glamorous seductions.
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Topping the list, of course, is the pompadoured Mr. Guter, a terrific dancer whose Conrad is every bit the cocky, preening teen idol.
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"Open Plan" justifies the Whitney's fifth-floor preening, demonstrating in five ways its ingenious versatility through the use of space as artistic material.
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Clinton did an effective job last night of raising doubts about the preening billionaire's bona fides as a tribune of the working class.
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Mike Ritchey, 70, peered through a pair of binoculars as the duck stood preening himself on the far shore of the Turtle Pond.
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But appealing to the same failed tactics over and over suggests that they're only preening for the advantage of their like-minded audience.
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The theme of its holiday windows is "Theater of Dreams," its windows filled with preening starlets, usherettes and a poodle in hair curlers.
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Meanwhile your supporters accused your critics of moral preening and ignoring how many people would die from a deep and prolonged economic depression.
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Ms. Aharanwa is a laugh and a half, beaming and preening as her arched eyebrows and fluttering eyelashes betray her thinly veiled judgments.
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The result, which featured an assortment of preening video girls, was distinguished less by its imagery than by its precise focus and framing.
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Still, she said she accepts the enduring importance to her work of themes they introduce: grooming and preening, glamour and its fault lines.
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It's frustrating because even the ridiculous, preening Nazis of Hunters share a trait that real-life fascists have: they know what they want.
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President Trump is preening over his acquittal, his poll numbers and the economy, while the Democratic nomination race looks like a divided mess.
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" Kevin Kline picked up his third Tony Award, for his portrayal of a preening actor in a revival of Noël Coward's "Present Laughter.
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They do arrive, of course: two of them, enormous and leathery, one bearing the Khaleesi, Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke), descend screeching and preening.
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Below is the video for said song, which finds him slinking and dancing through dark streets, interpretive dancing, preening, posturing, and making out.
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You see it in his extraordinary position on immigration, pandering to the Democrats' extremist open borders base with his utterly irresponsible "sanctuary state" preening.
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"You can mock me, I don't care," insists Ocasek, but the imaginary lover will never mock him as much as those preening guitars do.
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Culture is dominated by preening elites who not only think they are cleverer than the average person but also that they are more virtuous.
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They both see each other in such unique ways, and it's refreshing that Axe doesn't have to do all his bullshit preening with Taylor.
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Think about it — the majority of the preening and primping we do takes place in the privacy of our own bathrooms, while we're alone.
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This preening young aristocrat is so blatantly shallow, selfish and manipulative that he doesn't seem to warrant a tumble much less a mortal sacrifice.
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It played like a pro-wrestling spectacle: Mr. Cruz's preening heel turn, the hooting crowd, Mr. Trump's surprise appearance just as the boos crescendoed.
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Instead, his behavior suggests a TV caricature, a preening Monopoly millionaire seeking power to enrich himself and destroy a long list of perceived enemies.
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The robust-voiced baritone Luke Scott conveys Conti's preening entitlement as well as the insecurity of a fearful man who sees the world changing.
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All the while, Ms. Doherty's body turned into a wave as she rocked from side to side with her expressions both pained and preening.
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Today, the charcoal drawings are a testament to how Gilbert & George worked to soften the preening pretensions of Conceptualism in the British art scene.
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A camera trained on the mirror streamed their preening live to the PornHub website, which last year had 23 billion visits, according to PornHub.
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"I feel like we're in 'Best in Show,'" he said, making a reference to Christopher Guest's mockumentary about preening owners competing in dog shows.
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Give the power, with no crown, to the hard-working, camera-shy introverts; give a crown, with no power, to the preening spotlight hogs.
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I most looked forward to seeing the barnyard roosters, whose belligerent, strutting, preening, aggressive macho behavior was a source of endless fascination and trepidation.
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Nor does he reckon with the fact that there is almost always something preening and aggressive in the act of enumerating one's own weaknesses.
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In the battle of the easy media narratives, valiant Welshman Gareth Bale was defeated on Wednesday evening, while preening, peacocking Cristiano Ronaldo won the day.
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The bluster, the preening, the indomitable self-confidence that enrages his opponents and fires up his supporters—all of that was drained out of him.
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While you might think of verification as a frivolous bit of social preening, it's also used as a legitimate tool that can help filter abuse.
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Front Row 7 Photos View Slide Show ' The man with the parrot on his shoulder was preening as he examined necklaces before a vanity's mirror.
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He had seen actresses in their fishtail dresses preening and posing before the phalanxes of photographers at ceremonies like the Golden Globes and the Oscars.
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The fits of pique and preening can be funny — Richard checks out his reflection before the deposition scene in which he calls for a mirror.
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But "Masterful Likeness: Dutch Drawings of the Golden Age" also includes the outdoor games, the indoor carousing, the posing and preening for the artist's gaze.
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He writes about these details in a way that resemble Tom Wolfe in his novels, but with less starch in the shirts, with less preening.
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In their grab for power, these monstrous, preening egos, desperate for validation and vindication, are already steering the Brexit process out of control, knocking Mrs.
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Doing that without preening is tricky business, and so many of us bungle it that I'm not going to single out anyone in this column.
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Bites Is the name of this restaurant in the Shoreditch area of London a cheeky nod to the neighborhood's preening see-and-be-seen-ness?
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For nonactors, preening in front of a camera with directors calling out emotions to convey merely with facial expressions and gestures can be cringe inducing.
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Despite Trump's preening claims to success, smarts and temperament, a presidential debate against Hillary Clinton would likely show him to be unprepared, inexperienced, peevish and boorish.
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It turns out Snapchat can be used for more than just preening (though the first 20 seconds of the short consist of Jenner doing exactly that).
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Brittle, preening guitar riffing forms most of the tracks melodic base, though Aaron, ever the genre synthesist, also leans heavily on glowing 808s and quasi-rapping.
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Leaving aside his bilious nature, his preening self-absorption, and his casual bigotry, Trump represents a tradition of American populism that dates back to the 1880s.
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We tried a few other ways to stop the penguins from preening and to keep them warm while they recovered, but there were hundreds of birds.
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Of course, many of you don't have time to watch the entire press conference, which also contains its fair share of executive preening and corporate monologuing.
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"Influencers have become a thing"I see the selfies sticks, and people preening and smiling into the void… they're doing their thing, as I'm doing mine.
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It reminds me of the Parisian ballets of Serge Lifar, where dancers are forever preening themselves and proclaiming "Moi!" without really showing us why they dance.
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Popular culture's fascination with — and derision for — the pomp and preening baked into awards shows can't but extend to the women fixed in the cameras' glare.
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CreditCreditCummings Archives/Redferns, via Getty Images One of the 20th century's most powerful creations was the rock star: the preening, erotic god of guitar-fired defiance.
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A great blue heron was standing on a downed tree at the edge of the water, preening each damp, curling feather and sorting it into place.
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Still, the contrast between each of them and the preening, prevaricating Republicans we saw in the House hearing room today could not have been more clear.
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But no episode was more memorable than the bittersweet finale when new management fired the entire WJM News staff — everyone but the preening, clueless anchorman, Ted Baxter.
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And I care about sneering, preening Draco Malfoy, the book's true antagonist, whose rivalry with Harry is really what gives Sorcerer's Stone its tension and forward drive.
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Ironically, in helping elect Trump, Milo and those like him made themselves obsolete: America now faces greater problems than the mean-spirited shitposts of a preening hack.
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And yet to watch him play was to see a hard-working, no-frills footballer with none of the preening entitlement or theatrical stroppiness of his peers.
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All of President Trump's reality-television posturing, all of his hooting and hollering and fussing and foolishness and tweeting and preening is sound and fury signifying squat.
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That D'Souza's nearly got himself sent to jail by constantly whining about being a political prisoner—his preening alienated the judge in his case—is not mentioned.
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The character of Jimmy—a preening, vainglorious novelist who had a critically lauded debut—is familiar to anyone who has met a self-important, minorly successful writer.
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Initially a proudly preening woman, she is called "the baronessa" by her fellow Italian-American locals, semi-mockingly (Barbara Rosenblat excels as a stern but loyal Assunta).
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I look forward to this yearly visit and now — a rare treat — the hummingbird perches on a crocosmia stem, preening her feathers in shimmery golds and emeralds.
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In "Sideshow," we see five musicians, a young, preening buffoon or jester and their suave, watchful barker-ringmaster (a fair likeness of Ferdinand Corvi, the owner, himself).
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In his two-hour annual State of Nation speech, Russian President Vladimir Putin was preening himself, preparing his gullible masses to vote for him later this month.
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It's a dinner party, for Pete's sake — who needs a babbling drunk like Hemingway, or some preening member of the Bloomsbury "set," making everyone else feel inadequate?
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Through all the protests, it revealed that Republicans had a common enemy — those preening, devious Democrats — and that trumped any doubts about whether Kavanaugh might have assaulted Ford.
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Both Frasier and Niles are out-of-touch, preening, snobby and childishly competitive: an entire episode revolves around the brothers vying for membership of an exclusive gentleman's club.
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Given that humans are generally preening, narcissistic assholes, it's a safe bet that most people aren't going to allow someone to write, "This guy sucks!" on their profile.
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I lived in Nolita, a picturesque part of Little Italy bordering Chinatown and SoHo, where you can regularly spot TV actors filming and influencers preening for #OOTD Instagrams.
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Rajinikanth is no preening Bollywood star, but a balding 65-year old doyen of Tamil cinema who has acted in over 753 films, generally playing a lovable rogue.
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Women are so associated with bathrooms: hours presumed to be spent in there, preening or crying; heading to public restrooms in hordes; smoking in stalls in between classes.
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At a time when the main anti-politics candidate, Mr Trump, is more sick with self-love than any preening politico, Mr Johnson is admirably down-to-earth.
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Then there's "Glomorous Indie Rock and Roll," a lovely, preening, wildly overblown song that nobody seems to know the words to but insists on singing along to anyway.
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But one painting, called "Eye Sweater," which shows a preening male figure from neck to hips, also captures the magic and pathos of this kind of art making.
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As we approached the bridge leading to the wetland's exit, a blue-and-red azure kingfisher sat on a branch over the river, preening itself in the sun.
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Neil Patrick Harris couldn't be more in his element as the preening and venomous Count Olaf, who, with pantomime and eye-rolling disguises, torments the three Baudelaire orphans.
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Think of Mr. Trump preening at his beauty contests, body-slamming Vince McMahon at W.W.F. events or holding rallies that resemble the arena gigs of an insult comic.
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Violet Tinnirello is very funny, and slightly terrifying, as a cocky, preening Shirley Temple, but understandably she figures less than Michael Wartella's Joe Yule — professional name, Mickey Rooney.
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They found that pairs with closer relationships before the experiment — they spent more time preening or feeding each other, for example — were more likely to help one another.
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In his view, American immigration policy has been distorted by "virtue-signalling": the tendency, particularly prominent among élites, to propound dubious ideas as a form of moral preening.
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You can tell Blanchett is having fun playing as big and bad as possible, preening and tossing her antlered head about like a cosmic, world-crushing drag queen.
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"Never in my life had I so harshly judged any adult," he recalls of his Jewish aunt's preening over a brief interaction with the anti-Semitic president, Charles Lindbergh.
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Logan kept up the arrogant preening act throughout the first round, but he was forced to take the fight seriously after receiving a few meatier punches in the second.
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She wore black-and-brown leather pants and a long feathered robe, and the way she stretched looked more like preening than working out a kink in her neck.
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Just about every discussion on the platform turns into a preening flame war, and just about any attempt to dive into substance is mocked by the platform's cool kids.
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I assumed there must be a preening bwana mkubwa, or big man, at the front of the plane, readying himself to be met with pomp, chaos and a convoy.
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Mubarak was lauded for campaigns to promote population control and education, and criticized as the preening wife of a leader who presented himself as a kind of modern pharaoh.
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" -- Tucker Carlson said Romney "shall go unnamed" on his show, "on the grounds that silly moral preening should not be rewarded with the publicity it is designed to garner.
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Pacino is delightful in his role, reconciling his preening showboating (appropriate for a puffed-up, sometimes self-appointed leader of men) with his ability to go quiet and seething.
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That's what this is really about: the sacrifice of one wretched bigot to atone for the indulgence of another; an opportunity for moral preening after so much moral surrender.
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Now, of course, Cruz has all kinds of weaknesses as well — more than a few of which were on display in his rambling, preening, melodramatic victory speech on Monday night.
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America's circus-like primaries and gladiatorial presidential contests find few echoes in Europe, and Mr Trump, in all his preening, soufflé-haired glory, is surely a sui generis American phenomenon.
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Thus Amazon, and Bezos with it, are setting themselves up to be treated as a case study for everything bad that corporate moral preening can do to a company's brand.
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But the forensic linguistics stuff makes for fascinating television all the same, especially once Bettany arrives to offer a saucy grin and a preening confidence in his own superior intellect.
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But the preening side, the foolish pride of the boxer who stayed in the ring way too long—none of that was apparent in the man I came to know.
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It regularly topped $1 million per week during the summer of 2015, following its bounty of Tony nominations, though only Christian Borle, as the preening Shakespeare, took home a prize.
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Equally trippy but somewhat more health-conscience is Gatosano, located on the second floor of a shop steps from the preening gothic lolitas and teeny-boppers on Harajuku's Takeshita Street.
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The glossily unreal, unreally glossy world that PC Music present in such a preening and pristine manner is, at present at least, disconnected from what's actually happening in the world.
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The combination of this music with the preening, aggressive-recessive manner of Mr. McGregor's choreography is often close to unbearable, and the scrambled structure offers no path through the mire.
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Bayern Munich made it despite indulging in a crisis so profound halfway through that its preening potentates had to call a news conference to rail against a "disrespectful" news media.
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But the comedian's wryly clownish antics as the preening, not-especially bright owner of several fast-fashion stores are in service of a story that feels sloppy and overly broad.
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The preening and self-consciously decadent elite were never the whole of Paris, and with few exceptions — Proust and Wilde being the obvious ones — didn't leave much of interest behind.
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As a journalist, I see so much spin, preening, hypocrisy — but in your prison cell, you embody democratic values more honestly and passionately than the leaders of our democratic countries.
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Many of Le Pen's supporters might be bigots, but their case against the self-satisfaction, self-dealing, moral preening and economic incompetence of the French ruling classes is nearly impeccable.
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Shulkin rang the closing bell standing near a preening and flexing Captain America, with Spider-Man waving from the trading pit, and Marvel swag distributed to some of the attendees.
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The nonstop preening and partying of the first half is exhausting, but the comedown, in which Tremaine attempts to rearrange the film into a serious character drama, is downright painful.
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The resolution now before Congress avoids past missteps by allowing extended questioning of witnesses by staff lawyers before preening lawmakers take the stage, and it sets fair rules that respect precedent.
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It was widely seen as a calculated attempt to cultivate a nonconformist image, and became a symbol of his rebel spirit to his fans and of preening arrogance to his critics.
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Republicans may take some comfort from the unique toxicity of Mr Jones's opponent, Roy Moore; their primary voters will not always stump for a preening bigot accused of molesting teenage girls.
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Cheap headphones fake it, expensive headphones actually have advanced materials like beryllium to flex real muscles, but in all cases you can detect some preening on the part of the manufacturer.
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It's perhaps the most ubiquitous image of Trump's administration to date: the president at his desk, preening for the cameras as he affixes his jagged signature to yet another executive order.
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But it was worth the wait, because she did a masterful job cataloging, in a controlled but strong voice, all that would make this preening pretender a disastrous choice for president.
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"Although this may for a moment bring preening with delight, it will make it hard to resolve economic imbalances or out of kilter politics and other deep-rooted problems," it said.
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It's a seamless effort that comes alive with a dazzling ensemble that includes Jason Isaacs as Zhukov, a preening military force, and Michael Palin as Molotov, a first deputy prime minister.
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Autograph hunters were permitted to knock on Mr. Salah's hotel door in the middle of the night, he said, while preening Egyptian celebrities barged in on him, invading his personal space.
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Sinosphere HONG KONG — President-elect Donald J. Trump's golden quiff, bushy eyebrows and preening gestures were immortalized this week in China — though perhaps not in a way that he would like.
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Most agencies must navigate a byzantine series of House and Senate hearings on operations spending, fight through lawmaker questions, deal with a bit of preening and finally, earn a budget agreement.
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Thirty women, dressed head to toe in River Island dresses you sense still have the labels on, stand behind lit-up podiums while some preening dude tries to peacock for them.
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Four years later, Mr. Murry is still missing, Charles Wallace is almost unbearably precocious, and Meg is acting out at school, where a preening bully keeps poking her about her missing dad.
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But it is one of the last remaining bulwarks for working-class New York, with healthy hostility for the preening moneyed classes and all the bullshitters, rascals, thieves, landlords and gonif politicians.
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No amount of polish and preening could protect the flawless exteriors of the world's rarest, most coveted cars from the incessant sprinkling of charred refuse of nature that settled on every surface.
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It will be topical, like "The Confession" (2010), which was about the death penalty and mostly set in Texas — with a preening, ambitious governor who bore an amazing resemblance to Rick Perry.
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Conservatives on sites such as The Federalist and Hot Air were apoplectic over the exchanges, accusing mainstream reporters of taking sides in a policy battle and preening for one another on-camera.
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From this single motion, Khan builds an almost martial dance of male preening that opens into mesmerizing circles and percussive ritual rounds of shoulder-to-shoulder men, each flicking at his lapels.
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Preening moral talk may seem like a special fault of Hollywood, but we're all guilty of it -- and it keeps us from having the sorts of moral and political discussions we should.
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Then our boat glided into a rookery with hundreds of herons and storks, each one as big as a 2-year-old child, perched, preening or at times filling the sky overhead.
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The producer Osno1 turns in a brittle guitar line and a preening hook befitting of a early 00s pop-punk song, though she slivers and pitch warps it into something more absurd.
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Time for grand costume balls, fierce mask contests, towering wigs and a parade of preening, strutting revelers as city residents and visitors from around the world take part in its annual carnival.
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At least two preening Democratic presidential contenders, along with a handful of GOP presidential also-rans, a crusty veteran committee chairman and tales of wild, violent sexual escapades all made for riveting television.
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There were no famous boys last night when Charli took the song to Fallon, but there were boys nonetheless, preening in the background while the British singer bopped around the stage in shades.
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The bomb stands outside history or society—it's the condition of our extinction, a power too monstrous to fully comprehend, and has been put in the hands of a few preening public schoolboys.
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The former pharmaceutical CEO, who became a pariah after raising the cost of a life-saving drug 403,000 percent, has been preening for cameras and trolling on social media, potentially complicating his defense.
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In the wake of the 259 election, Instagram — known as the home of preening influencers, artfully arranged grain bowls and Icelandic vacation photos — somehow escaped much of the scrutiny of other social networks.
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To be fair, Cohen has earned a pretty obsessed following in part because of her finely sharpened first impression, that of a preposterously preening, rigorously self-regarding, sexually arrogant diva in Lululemon leggings.
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The villains were cast from strength: Alfred Walker, as the brutish Crown, glowered over every scene in which he appeared, and Frederick Ballentine, as the devious Sportin' Life, was a footloose, preening delight.
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"We're big fans of Radiohead, and we like a bit of art," said Mr. Gamble, the preening owner of a "pill shirt," a Supreme item influenced by a signature artwork by Damien Hirst.
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Then there was Trump's preening over supposedly rescuing "countless American children" who have been "trapped in failing government schools" -- that is, public schools, which he and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos have long disparaged.
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About the only people able to afford a Knicks ticket these days are preening hedge-fund bros who think a back-door play is something to hide from the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Ronaldo is the preening matador, the virtuoso performer and the undeniable centre of attention, while his Polish counterpart is a muffled gunshot, an explosion without warning, a purveyor of lethal understatement and deadly surprise.
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Bo Burnham's directorial debut follows the genial but despondent Kayla (Elsie Fisher) as she not only navigates middle school's judging adults, preening peers, and hallway hell, but also its social-media-induced social anxiety.
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Few things undo dramatic characters as effectively as preening hubris — just ask Joffrey, Oberyn, and any number of killed-off slavers and henchmen — and Ramsay doesn't realize how many forces are aligning against him.
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Most Sanders people are kind- and open-hearted, but there is a core that is corrupted by moral preening, an uncompromising absolutism and a paranoid unwillingness to play by the rules of civic life.
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In its scale, monotony of materials and color, preening formalism and disregard for the gritty urban fabric, the hub is the sort of object-building that might seem at home on the Washington Mall.
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The gap in the social sharing market this young team reckons it's spotted is a sort of 'anti-Instagram' — offering a playful contrast to the photo sharing platform's polished (and at times preening) performances.
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The first and most devastating theory is that—after suffering what police described as life-threatening injuries—the swans are dead, flapping their wings, preening their feathers, and leaving droppings all over swan heaven.
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At the same time, his Rockette leg kicks and preening and chest-bumping — at one point he beat James off the dribble and all but lathered himself in self-praise — are a bit much.
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In 2004, for example, Democratic voters threw the preening pundits a curveball when, during the primary process, they suddenly tapped on the brakes, took a much longer and harder look at front-runner Gov.
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Senator Keene's father, who drafted the bill that banned vigilantism by costumed adventurers, sending many of them into retirement or government work, turns up to see his preening son become a white supremacist superhero.
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One virtue of the pageant of preening and self-importance, however, is that it brings out the worst in some people, leading them to say things that reveal their vileness for all to see.
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He remained for a full hour and a half, posing with a seemingly endless line of fans, including preening models and a few photographers who briefly swapped their professional cameras for selfie-friendly iPhones.
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Viking is a perfect ideological Rorschach blot of a villain: You could read him either as a preening liberal elitist or as a coldblooded Ayn Rand techno-capitalist, depending on what you hate most.
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As Joe sets up the soup cans he's just bought to make dinner, Jeanette prowls around the kitchen, preening and posing for her son's benefit, desperately clinging to whatever sense of self she still has.
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He ran the 60 in a skin-tight compression shirt and shorts, a perfectly preening choice for a player who knows that his physique is the single biggest attribute major league teams can dream on.
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Its lasting value is less as an account of Enron's daywork than as a social and linguistic data pool, a record of the way we write online when we're not preening for the public eye.
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"He constantly disparages the work and the information he gets from the intel community, but in a moment of preening he disclosed that information to the Russians in a one-on-one meeting," Deitz said.
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Across the 10 records, he made tracks full of ghostly whispers, surrealist asides, preening fuck-yous to the wannabe literati, all centered around Lawrence's unique sense of humor—the unearned confidence of an overachieving underdog.
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The original quoted Tweet is invisible to me, which means I'm left to guess at the specific putrid pettiness or clownfish preening of the original text from the way that people are recoiling from it.
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But then, with his titles, Spelios cuts through the layers of intended and/or unintended ambiguity and zeroes in on a concrete descriptor or detail, such as "Pool" or "Pink Hat" or "Preening" (all 2016).
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But the lush 15-acre park overlooking the Matanzas River and St. Augustine Inlet is actually a delightful and informative place to pass a few hours among the majestic live oak trees and preening peacocks.
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But while preening might be an evolutionary, animalistic urge, humans also have society to contend with — and these subconscious habits can say as much about our feelings towards ourselves as those we have for other people.
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Will the San Francisco skyline ever be as beautiful as it was before the Salesforce Tower rose like a middle finger to the city's low-slung aesthetic, amid a rising fist of preening (and leaning) towers?
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Known for his impressive physique, Ronaldo is often criticized for his preening but on a warm and humid night by the Black Sea, coach Santos lauded his striker not for his muscles but for his mind.
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This is a show that begins with a preening John Judd dumping baskets of dirty laundry onto the stage from the movable bridge of Grant Sabin's self-deconstructing set, while shimmying to a country-rock beat.
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The preening Billy is not as endearing as Mr. Tucker means him to be, and it strains belief that the play's smart women would spend so much time talking with one another only about the men.
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On one hand, Lewandowski -- despite openly antagonizing House Democrats and preening for his Republican cronies -- testified fairly casually about misconduct by President Donald Trump that, in normal times, would be presidency-defining (and potentially presidency-ending).
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Calling the Breitbart editor a "preening hate-peddler" responsible for spreading "toxic spume ... too disgusting for Twitter," the Australian author of the hugely successful The Blue Day Book slammed Simon & Schuster's decision and said he wasn't alone.
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The very first seconds of White Gold give us the actor in bright red briefs, a gold chain, and nothing else, preening in front of the mirror as Laura Branigan's disco-y "Gloria" plays in the background.
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By watching it with your webcam on, you'll see your face plastered to billboards, posters, and even onto a piece of toast, Jesus-style, all while a preening Santigold makes her way through the streets of SoHo.
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There are always extended bouts of glamorous preening: The dance luminary, body arched like a bullfighter or a bow stretched for archery, keeps one or both arms raised to show his or her thorax to best advantage.
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On board the train to Cannes, I befriended a young family from Kolkata on their way to Nice and five hours later got a glimpse of yachts preening in Cannes harbor for the town's annual film festival.
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To hell with her exams, to hell with "trivial" Oxford, to hell with Nancy and with Robert and, for that matter, to hell with Nat Vane (the preening Tynan double, with whom she's had a cracking dalliance).
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Within a few chapters he moves from lowly bit-part in Corsica, to queller of crowds in Paris, to preening victor in Italy, then on, and on…By the age of 28, he was a nationally feted general.
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Like Beck and Thurston Moore, Malkmus was skinny, floppy-haired, decidedly unattractive, and his awkward realness became, paradoxically, a source of power, a weapon in his assault on the pretty, preening males who have always dominated commercial rock.
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That exquisite first film, out in 1990 and made for just $225,000, introduced what would be Stillman territory throughout three more movies: the moral questing of a group of preening and idealistic preppies on the verge of adulthood.
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The older dancers, wearing the same tight suits and slinky silk dresses that Bausch's regular troupe had worn, go through the ritual preening they learned over decades; they get lucky or get humiliated, and come back for more.
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The cast is now complete with shady characters, wronged bureaucrats and impeachment prosecutors preening for their close-ups on national TV. As in 2628 and 28500, there is going to be a reckoning when this is all over.
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It modeled a productive style of coed collegiality, with Ms. Moore teasing out the various ironies known to any smart woman trying to keep from cracking up in a world of scowling male bosses and preening male soloists.
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Marianne Vitale's exhibition at Invisible-Exports, Equipment, cannily alludes to this preening masculine vanity that comes to the surface through the machinery of military power, but also gets at the slightly menacing playfulness with which it is intertwined.
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Cory Booker, the candidate of the preening centrists who like David Brooks and worry about "a deficit of empathy," has absolutely nothing to say to those who inhabit the vast desolate lands in America and live in real poverty.
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LoftOpera's casting is, as usual, acute: For a staging set among high schoolers — appropriate for this tale of innocence yielding to experience — the company selected four singers who could pass for teenagers, the boys goofy and the girls preening.
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It was a power-move, the sort one would expect of a male celebrity whose entourage vets which preening women would get his attention -- except that it had been appropriated by a woman, and a brown woman to boot.
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The government fully expected a conviction, and decided to seek the death penalty, but hoped to avoid a trial like O. J. Simpson's, with its bloody footprints, its leather gloves, its preening attorneys—a media circus, a legal travesty.
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I don't know if they're friends outside of the building, but they work every shift together like a pair of evil skaters, setting each other up for another dastardly deed, then preening around the room when it comes off.
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And before Mueller even began his investigation, Trump successfully got Neil Gorsuch—a hard-right conservative who even other Supreme Court justices think is a preening nerd—installed to a lifetime gig on the highest court in the land.
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Many Americans are out of patience with a president who spends inordinate time preening in the glow of the lavish praise he demands from his appointees and propagandists while failing miserably to deliver on what he promised for his first term.
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"Cory Booker, the candidate of the preening centrists who like David Brooks and worry about 'a deficit of empathy,' has absolutely nothing to say to those who inhabit the vast desolate lands in America and live in real poverty," tweeted Gravel.
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Anyway, Lindsay apparently had to date these chumps on the show: Hard to say if being in a relationship with Durant was better or worse than whatever reality TV show carnival displays of male preening yielded Lindsay in the long run.
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After the war, at least one robust (if bumptious) man is preening hopefully for Hélène, escorting her to the Communist Party festival and out leafleting, but her heart zooms back to her childhood crush, Henri (Hippolyte Girardot), and they marry.
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Sea stacks that would be wind-scoured crags in the Caribbean are Seussian humps here, covered in mats of vegetation, sprouting trees at odd angles, with frigate birds preening in the branches and blue-footed boobies hunkered on the ledges.
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Canon EOS Rebel t2.83i with Tamron SP 150-600mm f/5-6.3 lens; 1/800 second at f/11; ISO 1600Photo: Sebastian Velasquez (Audubon Photography Awards)Sebastian Velasquez photographed this horned puffin preening at the Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward, Alaska.
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Rather, I believe that this chaos is the perpetual result of the absolute incompetence and idiocy of a preening philistine who has faked his way through life pretending that he knows more than he does and is tougher than he is.
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Those preening types call to mind an observation made on Tuesday by Olivier Saillard, a distinguished French curator invited by the Pitti Uomo organizers to create a special fashion exhibition within the gilded salons of the colossal, Renaissance-era Palazzo Pitti.
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Trouble looms when Natasha, dazzled by the heady whirl of Moscow society, falls prey to the charms of Anatole (the amusingly preening Lucas Steele), a womanizer who enlists his sister, Hélène (Amber Gray, glamorous and scheming), to help win her affections.
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And while he lords it over his petty kingdom with a preening arrogance, Hamm is, of course, as pathetically dependent on Clov as Clov is on him — ultimately more so — and thus he, too, invokes as much pity as horror.
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They hear the "paternalistic semi-intellectual experts" telling them what to do; but now they hear other voices, too, telling the left-behinds that they have been cheated, manipulated, betrayed; telling them that the status quo truly only serves the smug preening Establishment.
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An underrated album that still managed to sell millions, Parade is responsible for one of the most beloved hits of Prince's career: "Kiss," a preening, pawing strutter that proved just how funny he could be ("act your age/not your shoe size").
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These mostly young women would parade up and down the sidewalk, the avenue, the Tuileries in their freshest outfits, preening and "peacocking" for the cameras — whether they ever set foot inside the venue and witnessed the fashion show was beside the point.
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Talking about how many aircraft, where the aircraft are flying in, how they're breaching a building, other technology they can bring to bear, knowledge about the tunnels and the mapping of those tunnels, these are operational details which are only about preening.
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His preening narcissism, his compulsive lying, his vindictiveness, his terror of germs and his terrifying inability to grasp basic science — all of it eclipsed his primary responsibilities to us as Americans, which was to provide urgent care, namely in the form of leadership.
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After admiring the preening shop cat, he pulled out his phone, its screen cracked just that morning, and pulled up a list from his wife: Marmite, Colman's English Mustard, oatcakes, Lee & Perrins Worcestershire sauce, Twinings Earl Grey Tea, Twinings English Breakfast Tea.
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But what if they had hailed from a more media-centric market from which to launch their egalitarian approach, the one that endures in the post-Duncan era with a new leading man, Kawhi Leonard, who, like Tim Duncan, is averse to preening?
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The roses were all a little tired-looking from the journey, the florists said, so workers spent the next few days nursing them back to health — hydrating, cleaning and preening them before arranging them into $503 dozens to be delivered to New Yorkers.
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None of those complications and next to no history, though, have made it into "1917," a carefully organized and sanitized war picture from Sam Mendes that turns one of the most catastrophic episodes in modern times into an exercise in preening showmanship.
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Bruce MacVittie, like Lazar a downtown stalwart of many decades, morphs convincingly from Mae's preening, superior, educated lover into the lump of human flesh that Mae gives Lloyd permission to kill because Henry is disabled and of no use to her anymore.
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Tuesday's marathon brawl over the rules of the trial, extending well past midnight, offered a bracing glimpse of what he can look forward to in the coming days: pettiness, partisanship, preening, dissembling and enough outrage, faux and genuine, to unnerve a lesser man.
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In a different way, Florine Stettheimer's "Cathedrals of Wall Street" (1939) a few rooms away, with its insouciant image of the financial district, the capitalist heart of the nation, packed with preening politicians and soldiers, is the product of an artist painting critically.
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Until the media learns that not everyone can become a North Korea or Google expert overnight, we are going to continue to see warehouses and ballrooms filled to the brim with preening writers and camera teams, while the stories that most need telling remain overlooked.
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"Talking about how many aircraft, where the aircraft are flying in, how they're breaching a building, other technology they can bring to bear, knowledge about the tunnels and the mapping of those tunnels, these are operational details which are only about preening," he told me.
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Not the peacocks preening on the sidewalks, you understand, in their early fall furs and Chrysler Building wedges, but rather the broadly drawn personas that the designers conjured up on the catwalks, with their shrugged-on airs of evening melodramas and art-house flicks.
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The key largely resides in the strength of the casting, which includes Lyriq Bent as the buttoned-down Jamie, Cleo Anthony as the preening Greer and Anthony Ramos as Mars Blackmon, the character Lee played and popularized ("Please baby") in, among other things, Nike commercials.
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"Talking about how many aircraft, where the aircraft are flying in, how they're breaching a building, other technology they can bring to bear, knowledge about the tunnels and the mapping of those tunnels, these are operational details which are only about preening," Leiter said.
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So now it's become a daily combination consisting largely of personal preening and half-baked, often corrected, declarations (the early assertion that the coronavirus would "wash" away in the summer; the New York quarantine that wasn't and the plan to reopen the country by Easter).
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The video features a cluttered and incoherent but celebrity-studded storyline wherein Perry's basketball team (the Tigers, as in "I've got the eye of the") faces off against the preening, vacuous Sheep (presumably Swift, as in "Watch out for the Regina George in sheep's clothing").
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But just imagining a third party that isn't swayed by cable news hosts, preening politicians, special interests, that isn't designed solely to enrich coffers and play to an ever-shrinking base, but exists simply to reflect the moderate majority lowers one's blood pressure almost instantly.
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As if to heighten the contrast, the leaders of the Empire -- who include a brilliant CGI rendering of actor Peter Cushing, who died in 1994 and appeared in the original "Star Wars" -- are all preening Caucasian imperialists; you can imagine them goose-stepping around their space ships.
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It would have been an amazing feat if Trump had done anything else, given what an enchanting Siren's call to sexual hypocrites the Clinton marriage has been — especially preening marital hypocrites for whom its dangerous temptations have proved, time after time, the rocky shoals of political shipwreck.
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But Baldwin can normally be counted on to elevate perfectly reasonable but not exciting sketches through the sheer bizarre energy of his Trump impression, and the visible pleasure he takes in the president's affectations: Gina for China, the preening "we all love Trumps," the stunted hand gestures.
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Xu, 29, who used to be a make-up artist for pets in a country where tinting and preening dogs and cats is remarkably popular, hopes her large social media following will help her secure a movie role, and is in Cannes to make vital contacts.
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And, unlike say Morrissey, where the act of adulation and preening reciprocation feels like the last spark attempts at a fire long dead, Nick Cave balances the knowledge that he's operating within the tradition of SHOWMAN with an audience connection rejuvenated with new work that actually works.
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Ponyboy and his crew are "greasers," so called for their copious hair grease, and to the rest of the world, they gamely fulfill all the clichés of their socioeconomic strata: They are tough, given to fighting and preening, always on the lookout for a suitable weapon.
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The brilliance and simplicity of the colors used in "Indian Roller on Sandalwood Branch" (1779), for example, is juxtaposed with the detail of the ruffled feathers on the preening bird's curved neck and the marine blue of its upper wings scumbled to the teal of its middle.
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Much of "Neruda" is a shaggy-dog cat-and-mouse game, as Neruda and his wife, Delia (Mercedes Morán), are pursued by Oscar Peluchonneau (Gael García Bernal), a preening police inspector who stakes his professional honor on his ability to track down the country's most famous fugitive.
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He's a little smarmy while interviewing Trump supporters on The Daily Show, a bit of a preening doofus in his hour-long comedy special, Jordan Klepper Solves Guns—and now he's got his own late-night show on Comedy Central, The Opposition with Jordan Klepper, which premieres September 25.
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" Baldwin has received some acclaim for his portrayal of Trump on SNL—the Atlantic praised his "extremely blunt perspective on the candidate," noting that his Trump is "an aggressive ogre rather than as a preening egotist," and credited him for "invigorat[ing] a show that had started feeling stagnant.
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Reed Hastings, the CEO and cofounder of Netflix, stood on stage rattling off the list of countries like an overexcited middle school student preening in front of a geography class — or, in this case, the tech lovers at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Azerbaijan. Vietnam. India. Nigeria. Poland.
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It is scathing in terms of Jim Comey and I suppose some others in his -- in his senior management day -- it was textbook what you don&apost do when things like this occur, preening for the cameras, overtaking the DOJ, Attorney General Lynch&aposs judgment and supplanting it with his own.
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Yet in a country with an elected leader who is so obsessed with his self-image as portrayed by media (see the unnecessarily drawn out denialist preening about his inauguration crowd photographs), considering Douglass's thoughts on the public perception of images and the truth of photography are as relevant as ever.
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You can actually envision a foreign policy debate between Trump and Clinton that sounds oddly like the one Obama and Clinton had in 2008, with Trump playing Obama, preening about his good judgment on Iraq, wanting an end to nation-building and thinking he could have a reset with Russia.
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Nothing about the appearances of Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh changed that basic reality — not the undeniable power of her account, not the sob-swallowing anguish of his attempt at self-exculpation, and certainly not the relics and opportunists croaking and preening and shouting from a decaying institution's bench.
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And it's increasingly obvious to me that the teenagers and 20-somethings who have mastered these platforms — and who are often dismissed as shallow, preening narcissists by adults who don't know any better — are going to dominate not just internet culture or the entertainment industry but society as a whole.
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In the midst of preening his feathers, he might suddenly turn upon an unsuspecting hen and peck her savagely; he might leap into the air with dazzling accuracy to swallow a fly; with narcissistic élan he might flap his way onto the lowermost limb of a tree, to perch and doze.
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For Nawaz's detractors, of whom there are many, it's this very chameleon quality, this at-homeness in disparate roles and spaces, that has earned him a reputation as something of a charlatan, a preening opportunist cashing in on his own sensational travails by means of society's abundant anti-Muslim bias.
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In 29, Rose O'Neill drew a comic strip about 'kewpies' (taken from 'cupid') – preening babylike creatures with tiny wings and huge heads, which were soon being handed out as carnival prizes and capering around Jell-O ads (to this day, Kewpie Mayonnaise, introduced in 143, is the top-selling brand in Japan).
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According to native advertiser Mike Allen and his new newsletter Axios Presented By Bank of America, Trump's people are worried about how Mnuchin will perform and are generally annoyed by his preening ways: Transition officials tell us they are worried about Steven Mnuchin's readiness for his Thursday confirmation hearing to run Treasury.
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In 1974, he took in an E.L.P. performance and came away appalled by the arsenal of instruments (including "two Arthurian-table-sized gongs" and "the world's first synthesized drum kits"), by Emerson's preening performance, and by the band's apparent determination to smarten up rock and roll by borrowing from more respectable sources.
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This is Florida, where campaign money flows like sugar cane runoff and the Republican Party establishment is planning to make what could be its last stand against a man, Donald J. Trump, who embodies many of the state's stereotypes — the love of a year-round suntan, an obsession with golf, a preening ostentation.
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The unity of art and design that Hoffmann and Moser advocated no longer seemed so imperative, and the later days of the Wiener Werkstätte were dominated by Peche, whose ornamental gilded wood frames, feather-bedecked chandeliers and jewel boxes topped with preening stags made a mockery of earlier claims to objectivity and functionalism.
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" Throughout his film and television career, Mr. Ferrell has used his height (he's now 6-foot-3) and athleticism to his advantage, wringing laughs as Buddy, the oversize Santa's helper, in "Elf"; the preening, looming broadcaster Ron Burgundy in "Anchorman"; and the goofy stepfather battling a buff Mark Wahlberg in "Daddy's Home.
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The first two of those were seen at the Classic Stage Company, where "The Liar" opened on Thursday, in impeccably acted productions that managed to make the preening fops, bawdy servants, blushing ingénues and romantic heroes of long-ago France seem like our contemporaries, only with an uncanny gift for rhymed verse.
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"Talking about how many aircraft, where the aircraft are flying in, how they're breaching a building, other technology they can bring to bear, knowledge about the tunnels and the mapping of those tunnels, these are operational details which are only about preening," Michael Leiter, who led the US National Counterterrorism Center from 2007 to 2011, told me.
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Beloved by rank-and-file New Yorkers and despised by media-elite blowhards — most notably the "short-fingered vulgarian" currently grasping at the country's nuclear codes — the magazine was co-founded by Kurt Andersen and Graydon Carter (now editor of Vanity Fair), who delighted in the sort of ego-puncturing they thought the city's preening glitterati so sorely deserved.
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One of the USPS's most maddening characteristics is its willingness to play both sides of the line: preening as a private-sector behemoth that should be allowed to compete with other businesses when it suits them, and as a beleaguered federal agency seeking relief from Congress and flirting with a taxpayer bailout when the going gets rough.
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How are committed, pragmatic voters supposed to react when the person sold to them as not just the most "electable" person in this particular race, but among the most "electable" people in recent political history, loses a freak election to a preening, venal huckster who was treated as a great big joke for almost the entirety of the campaign?
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In the course of a day, Gravity (played by Kristin Seth), a young sculptor from New Zealand who works in New York as a high-school English teacher, encounters a classroom of bored students, a preening East Village neighbor, and a New Museum curator (played by Kraus) who turns down Gravity's work with a blizzard of critical-theory speak.
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Rather than follow them to sea, the movie focuses on the young women who are haunted, first emotionally and then literally, by the men who've left them behind — in particular Ada (first-time actor Mame Bineta Sane), who's caught between her vanished lover and the preening scion of a wealthy local family who wants to marry her.
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In "Untitled (Baum 19833)," done in 2014, a black shape composed of climbing tendrils and descending bulbs hovers in front of a gradated scarlet rectangle on a white ground, while in "Baum 18," from the same year, a cyan rectangle overlaps and partially obscures an animated black line that spans the height of the canvas, preening and stretching its limbs.
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The party takes place in a large garage-cum-recreation room (outfitted with a pool table and a Ping-Pong table), where the men assemble and engage in various vigorous activities: dancing in pairs; giving preening displays of their muscular forms; engaging in a raucous brawl that finds one of them shorn of clothing, skittering around the stage clutching his genitals.
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At one point I reached over to him and put my hand on his shoulder, a friendly gesture, casual, avuncular maybe, and then I let my hand curve around his shoulder and down his arm and, as I felt him flex his biceps, that reflexive preening, I curled my fingers around the muscle there and squeezed, feeling how solid it was.
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A glass cabinet was an armory for Mx. Soloway's trophies, Emmys and Golden Globes for "Transparent," their groundbreaking Amazon series about a family of three preening, questing and hapless adult siblings whose father has come out as a transgender woman, a plot sparked by the coming-out of their own parent, now known as Carrie (her daughters, Jill and Faith, call her Moppa).
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The team includes one guy dressed like an owl and another like a moth; a savvy sexpot, Silk Spectre, and her cynical daughter, Laurie; a mentally ill antihero named Rorschach; the all-American Captain Metropolis; a Vietnam vet; a bright-blue, naked, nuclear-powered Übermensch ; a preening billionaire, Ozymandias; Hooded Justice, who wears a noose; and others, some barely walk-ons.
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Instead, her three suitors — mature businessman Jamie Overstreet (Lyriq Bent), preening model and photographer Greer Childs (Cleo Anthony), and motormouthed Mars Blackmon (Hamilton star Anthony Ramos, taking over the role from Lee himself, who originated it in the film) — are presented as interesting not for which one Nola might choose but for how they all speak to different parts of her personality.
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The entire debate kicked off under the shadow of the passing of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, and CBS moderator John Dickerson—who did an admirable job last night steering a ship of preening howler monkeys shrieking at one another—opened the program by asking the six presidential candidates about whether or not President Barack Obama should name Scalia's replacement during his final year in office.
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The Ready Player One adaptation widens the story to encompass anyone who has a fantasy they'd want to play out in an escapist world, and while it turns its hero into a bland audience avatar, at least he's no longer a preening jackass who thinks his knowledge of Earthworld's Talisman of Penultimate Truth makes him objectively superior to someone who hasn't heard of it.
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And we need a way to make the new shape of religion in America, in which a Christian core looks resilient, the lukewarm are secularizing and non-Christian faiths expand apace, feel less threatening to everybody — so that conservatives stop panicking about Shariah law every time a mosque goes up nearby, and the left stops preening about social justice while dragging nuns and florists into court.
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"Because at the end of the day, Americans need someone to count on to tell the truth (even if a bit too much of it and at the wrong moment), who will take responsibility as others duck it (even if that sometimes looks self-centered and preening) and who will do the right thing as he sees it whatever the cost (even if the cost to himself and the country is terrible)," he continued.
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Because at the end of the day, Americans need someone to count on to tell the truth (even if a bit too much of it and at the wrong moment), who will take responsibility as others duck it (even if that sometimes looks self-centered and preening) and who will do the right thing as he sees it whatever the cost (even if the cost to himself and the country is terrible).
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For more immersive viewing, you can stream full episodes of Ms. Moore in "The Dick Van Dyke Show" (Hulu, Amazon and iTunes) and "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" (Hulu, Amazon and iTunes); her heralded portrayal of a grieving mother in "Ordinary People" (Amazon and iTunes) and her bitingly comedic turn as a nagging, preening one in "Flirting With Disaster" (Amazon and iTunes); and a career overview in her own words in the Archive of American Television (emmytvlegends.org).
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Mitt RomneyWillard (Mitt) Mitt RomneyYang congratulates Romney for 'voting his conscious and character' in convicting Trump McConnell 'disappointed' by Romney impeachment vote, but 'I'm going to need his support' Pence celebrates Trump's acquittal: 'It's over, America' MORE (R-Utah) as "the ultimate selfish, preening, self-centered politician" Wednesday night and called for him to resign after his vote to convict President TrumpDonald John TrumpSchiff: Bolton 'refused' to submit affidavit on Trump's involvement in Ukraine controversy Yang congratulates Romney for 'voting his conscious and character' in convicting Trump McConnell 'disappointed' by Romney impeachment vote, but 'I'm going to need his support' MORE on one article of impeachment.
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