Whether it's for Facebook, Instagram or Snapchat, the selfie camera is now the main camera for our  self-admiring generation.
|
|
That this desire would extend to momentary financial transactions may point to our screwed-up, self-admiring times, but it's hardly shocking.
|
|
And the influence of someone who is simultaneously profoundly clueless and ill-equipped for his job, and yet also self-admiring of his "outsider" status, is dangerous.
|
|
Trump, an erratic and impulsive spokesman for his own policy, needs competent civilian advisers, if only as a counterweight to the military point of view and his own self-admiring caprices.
|
|
The picture makes fun of religious fanatics; "Nothing Sacred," the hit comedy that Hecht wrote for the director William Wellman in 1937, spoofs the monosyllabic folk in a small Vermont town, and then turns on the verbose, self-admiring swells in New York.
|
|
Tabloid columnists and self-admiring sports talk radio type feed this inchoate rage with white-hot takes lambasting the team for trading such an accomplished player for so little, when dealing him months ago was the Obvious Thing To Do. Straw man arguments aside, just about everyone loses in this deal.
|
|
One reason that I appreciate and don't just love "A Star Is Born" is that its director and male lead, Bradley Cooper, gives fairly equal time to both the body of his co-star, Lady Gaga, and to his own, including through some amusingly self-admiring shots of his bare chest.
|
|
"Schön sein" (To be beautiful) is a song by Die Toten Hosen. It's the lead single and the seventh track from the album Unsterblich. The song is about a wish to be beautiful and rich, which in many people's minds is supposed to make their life better off and bring success. The single was released with two possible covers: a mirror cover and a rarer poodle cover, both of which are symbols of self-admiring.
|
|
From the ages of 6 to 12 months, the child typically sees a "sociable playmate" in the mirror's reflection. Self-admiring and embarrassment usually begin at 12 months, and at 14 to 20 months, most children demonstrate avoidance behaviors. Finally, at 18 months, half of children recognize the reflection in the mirror as their own and by 20 to 24 months, self-recognition climbs to 65%. Children do so by evincing mark- directed behavior; they touch their own noses or try to wipe the marks off.
|
|