A room oozing with self-importance and elitism applauded with vigor.
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Wells Fargo's bosses have made fun of Wall Street's self-importance.
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Busyness and self-importance bar the way and also, often, deep suspicion.
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Poet voice is sincere yet disaffected, a droning melody of self-importance.
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" Ullrich chalks this story up to "Hitler's need for exaggerated self-importance.
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A seat at the table feeds the terrorist quest for self-importance.
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On occasion, Bosker radiates youthful self-importance, maybe a touch of naïveté.
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That sense of self-importance sometimes results in a lot of eye-rolling.
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Perhaps foremost, "Life Itself" feels weighted down by its sense of self-importance.
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"We don't have any inflated sense of self-importance at Snopes," he said.
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Male self-importance is, truly, the cause of all troubles in the world.
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One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance.
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I realize, now, that these girls are alive, well, and basking in self-importance.
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Where "Press" hits closest to home is in the deranged self-importance of many reporters.
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As for flip-flops, why not liberate stuffy self-importance with a little beach look?
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Millennials have been linked with both self-importance and an undying love of avocado toast.
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But on return visits, I noticed a leaden self-importance that began to feel stifling.
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Awards shows have always extolled their own self-importance; this year, it finally feels kinda earned.
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Wags, Chuck, and Bobby bluster around with gigantic self-importance — and they risk massive ego falls.
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As Breivik, Anders Danielsen Lie makes the man's isolation and self-importance chillingly real and relatable.
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Leaning into political correctness is proof of party alignment and a certain subcategory of self-importance.
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With dark humor, Saunders knows how to help readers face up to their self-importance, too.
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Moreover, the film occasionally contemplates the fatal idea of brandishing its own sense of self-importance.
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For all his self-importance, though, there really was no one else quite like John Perry Barlow.
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Self-mythologising and self-importance, sometimes to the point of derangement, are central themes to the show.
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It is a most unusual dynamic, even for a sport that tends toward hyperbole and self-importance.
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There was no love in the room and no actual music in the room, only self-importance.
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But after "Bring Up the Bodies," the enterprise, like Henry, has put on weight and self-importance.
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To some extent, that is a consequence of the all-encompassing self-importance of the Premier League.
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ANONYMOUS Your ego is not your amigo — especially when healthy self-esteem turns to privileged self-importance.
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"There was a lot of falsifying of self-importance to be in those meetings," one former employee said.
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That's so rare to find, especially in our business where there are pitfalls of narcissism and self-importance.
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Never was a blustering demagogue led by a distempered sense of self-importance into a more fatal error.
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Ms. Hagner and especially Mr. Early carry the weight there, embodying, respectively, entitled insecurity and secure self-importance.
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At the same time, his pseudo-visionary self-importance won't allow him to surrender to whimsy or mischief.
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THE BIG IDEAS We don't see the problem with our self-importance because our narcissism is so complete.
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Inadequate personalities feel poorly about themselves and are highly susceptible to seductive messages of promised power and self-importance.
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They riff on self-importance, make fun of Rembrandt, laugh at climate change because it is all too real.
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And to me it speaks to a certain brashness, a sense of self-importance, of CNN at the time.
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So — does Page just have a heightened sense of self-importance and a weakness for cloak-and-dagger language?
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"Rojava," at one of the city's main theaters, explodes onstage with a megadose of melodrama, kitsch and self-importance.
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A bit of self-importance may be involved: the interviewee is flattered to have been asked to the party.
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Lovely how such slight and flitting beings can knock us humans off our pedestal of self-importance and exceptionalism.
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"You are not there in order to prop up your own sense of self importance or your own power."
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South Korean youngsters suggest that you engage in quiet reflection to help you overcome your inflated sense of self-importance.
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Already a bad situation in Brainard's lifetime, the art world's self-importance has become appalling since his death in 1994.
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It's silly the NHL feels the need to ascribe some false sense of self-importance to the All-Star Game.
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In the picture we see several of the group's generals, their faces set in self-importance, a smug self-regard.
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Is their sense of self-importance or their need to be eyewitnesses to disaster more important than sound judgment here?
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Alain LeRoy Locke's drive to revolutionize black culture was fueled in no small part by his sense of self-importance.
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Janet Maslin took the film to task for its "deadly self-importance," though she allowed that it was well cast.
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A potent brew of ego, self-importance, a lack of self-awareness, more ego, and a constant need for attention.
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Many people clearly respond to that intensely heightened quality, but pseudo-medieval self-importance has never really been my bag.
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He is mocking self-importance when he discusses the gravity of having a "platform," sending up comics with a message.
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Can you imagine the rarified levels of self-importance and lack of self-awareness required to make that phone call?
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Overreliance on youth leads to a distorted sense of self-importance for young players, with all the disciplinary problems that brings.
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Nor are those in what Walter Bagehot called the "efficient" branch of government immune to an inflated sense of self-importance.
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It's out to "change the world," in the parlance of Mike Judge in his excellent send-up of Valley self-importance.
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At its best, the original film is a brilliant satire on fascist propaganda, skewering the self-importance of science fiction cinema.
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You can think you can have self-importance by involvement in the art world, but popular culture is so much more.
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What a perfect joke about the silliness of band names and the currency and self-importance of being in a band.
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This is an angry age, in which Trump's critics also simmer in rage, ridicule, self-importance, self-pity — and hatred, too.
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Her diminutive phallic linen-and-polyester obelisk, "Untitled Gravestone" (2012), seems to sag under the weight of its own self-importance.
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He's playing on the Senate's sense of self-importance, suggesting it as the only venue sufficiently wise to try the case.
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The vulgar display by a so-called comedian was only part of what ails this overblown tribute to journalists' self-importance.
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The reason for including stuff seems not to be self-importance, but a weird spirit of generosity: We thought this was cool.
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Was subsequent European imperialism perhaps spurred on by a map projection that reinforced the notions of self-importance held by those nations?
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A series of misjudged remarks, some recorded and publicised by his own staff, have contributed to an impression of regal self-importance.
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And ads for Ryan Reynolds projects will have a certain wide-eyed, tongue-in-cheek self-importance that's both ridiculous and refreshing.
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It captures the bizarre blend of wishful thinking, clownish self-importance, and cold calculation that characterized many of the Nazis' powerful enablers.
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Plenty of previous CAH stunts have featured a skewering mix of politics, capitalism, and self-importance, even if they weren't this pointed.
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Now, in a turn of events highly predictable to anyone without a blinding sense of self-importance, Čačić has called Lovren's bluff.
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The ad could be a searing satire of liberal self-importance and elitism, if it were even the slightest bit aware of it.
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Willy William didn't strangle us with an overwrought acceptance speech, drown us in self-importance, or sport a T-shirt with a slogan.
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As she devolves into a weird hybrid of Perle Mesta and Nancy Drew, her sense of self-importance billows like a mushroom cloud.
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Everyone who loses their pride becomes a miser of a sort; their self-importance increases, their eyes die out, and their resentments accumulate.
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There are nine traits used to identify narcissistic personality disorder (things like "requires excessive admiration" and "has a grandiose sense of self-importance").
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He cites a Stanford study, which says that people with extravagant self-importance, lack of empathy, sensitivity to criticism and entitlement make more money.
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Indeed, he parodied this self-importance in his showmanship, his performance, parading around the streets of the Left Bank and holding court in bistros.
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What we witnessed last week was not whistleblowing but instead an exercise in self importance by a purported senior official within the Trump administration.
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Sometimes it seems these thieves with their airs, their acquisitive self-importance and their capacity for cruelty to children, are taking over the world.
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His inability to mention the senator's name is a sign of his immaturity, insecurity, fear of competition, vindictiveness and delusional sense of self-importance.
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For example, the livestock industry has been an economic afterthought for decades now, but an outsized sense of self-importance sometimes fools even lawmakers.
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Watching the spectacle is like being stuck in a hipster party that never ends or stops wallowing in its self-indulgence and self-importance.
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"The narcissism of this woman and her self-importance and her blatant disregard of people that have helped her has got to stop," she said.
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If anything, it makes it easy to romanticize them or paint their inhabitants as brilliant masterminds, fueling their sense of self-importance and persecution complex.
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But always the shaming circumvents due process, precedes true justice, and serves mainly to inflate the sense of self-importance and egos of its progenitors.
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In conversation, as in art, Toews is a schputter; she likes to puncture anything that has a whiff of pretension or self-importance about it.
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Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light.
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"Any possible explanations are speculative but we do know terrorists are often seeking a sense of self-importance and attention to their cause," Rasheed said.
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There is a pretty straightforward conclusion to be drawn here, I think, regarding the varying levels of self-importance residing in the three of us.
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But The King bypasses that in favor of "serious" action, and in doing so, gets a little too bogged down in its own self-importance.
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What about just the plain, old self-importance of a man who wants only to talk and dance and talk, mostly with and about himself?
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And it is that sense of self-importance I think coastal media should focus upon and examine more closely, not their coverage of the Rust Belt.
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Never lacking in self-importance, Mr Shyamalan had decided that if Marvel and DC's superheroes could inhabit their own cinematic universe, then his characters could, too.
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EVERYTHING ABOUT Alan García was big: his bulky frame, his oratory, his political talents, his ambition, his sense of self-importance, his mistakes and moral flaws.
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If you're already exceeding your RDA of self-importance every 15 minutes, you really don't need another helping from baseball, which is supposed to be fun.
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But she'll be the first one to chuckle about it; you'd be remiss to mistake the freewheeling intellect of Hval's work for solemnity or self-importance.
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"Any possible explanations are speculative but we do know terrorists are often seeking a sense of self-importance and attention to their cause," Aarif Rasheed said.
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Her angst is conveyed through Offill's trademark pithy wit, making this book feel very Relevant but without the self-importance typically associated with such fiction. —T.
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And many of an older sportswriting generation felt Bouton had done irreparable damage to the game out of his own desperation and sense of self-importance.
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And many of an older sportswriting generation felt Bouton had done irreparable damage to the game out of his own desperation and sense of self-importance.
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Deeply suspicion of anything that smacks of self-importance, of making a blanket statement or pronouncement, he resists nailing down what the poet and poem are.
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But if you're a starving artist, to be on the safe side, maybe don't give up that exaggerated sense of entitlement and self-importance just yet.
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" Schwartz writes, "In conversation, as in art, Toews is a schputter; she likes to puncture anything that has a whiff of pretension or self-importance about it.
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Diagnosed narcissists often feel entitled, expect to be recognized as superior even if they're not, need constant, excessive admiration, and have an inflated sense of self importance.
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Then the boxer aimed at the spot where his greatest sense of self-importance lies and where McGregor's biggest vulnerability is: the Irishman's (comparatively) small bank account.
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I don't want to get totally Freudian here, so I mostly mean a person's self-esteem and self-worth as well as their sense of self-importance.
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To members of the movement who recognize the extraordinary circumstances of our time, Trump will make non-essential accommodations, granting them a fleeting sense of self-importance.
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Deeply suspicious of anything that smacks of self-importance, of making a blanket statement or pronouncement, Clark Coolidge resists nailing down what the poet and poem are.
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But this resourceful artist is in a zone of her own, tapping into the jangly hedonism of fashion without a whiff of its self-importance and insularity.
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Apple is not exactly the most modest company, and it has a long tradition of grandiose commercials with an air of self-importance that borders on self-parody.
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The rest of his life became a quest for the liberation of South America, in which his main resources were charm, intelligent conversation and an unshakable self-importance.
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Yet while the mainstreaming of exploitation cinema is old news, more notionally respectable movies tend to tart up their cheap goods with ponderous self-importance and deep-dish ideas.
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Even Lang Jeffries (John Schwab), the partner of Paul III's mother Gail Getty (Hilary Swank), has a part in this specific brand of Trust's fatal, machismo-fueled self-importance.
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Just as that of the South Park fourth grader, it's the voice of "self-importance"—the voice, Georgeson clarifies, of those entitled people on social media and, occasionally, elsewhere.
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Reforming billionaires down the ages display the same bizarre mix of good and bad qualities—of grandiosity and problem-solving genius, naivety and fresh thinking, self-importance and altruism.
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The biennial North American, Central American, and Caribbean tournament boasts an air of self-importance and intensity that's not always matched by on-field play, or managers' squad selections.
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" As for North Korea's leader, who has a tendency toward self importance, with someone like that you should ask "what does he see in the future that he wants?
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Without self-importance or unnecessary grandeur, Stranger in the Alps traverses what it means to be human: for every painful admission of loneliness, there's a moment of connection, too.
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Well, perhaps just one thing to add: Although this tower is still being constructed, it already reeks of ersatz historicism and a kind of deadly (and deadening) self-importance.
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Her short stories are majestic presentations of human foolishness, weakness, vanity, self-importance, viciousness, yet all of them are suffused with an awareness of and reverence for human worth.
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The purpose of a Palestinian state ought to be to deliver dramatically better prospects for the Palestinian people, not tokens of self-importance for their kleptocratic and repressive leaders.
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Please resist the almost uncontrollable urge you have to publicly rant about whatever obsessions are rattling around in your own mind about yourself, your self-image or your self-importance.
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Perhaps the value of Twitter just clicked with him, maybe he's upped his self-importance in the universe further, or this could all be clever marketing around his latest album.
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It's probably inevitable that a show so committed to indulging a single character's nihilistic fantasies about his own self-importance would eventually start to get lost in its own hollowness.
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But the members also bring a certain theatrical flair to their work that helps ward off the dusting of dry self-importance that can cling to some new-music ventures.
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Given that the genre attracted many "delusional narcissists who created a bubble of unreality around themselves," it's not surprising that the line between sendup and self-importance could be thin.
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The fundamental challenge is a publishing service that's essentially based on self-promotion, self-aggrandizement and self-importance at some point is going to run into the wall of indifference.
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It's not a reference to the self-importance of the owner, but to a drive-mode that allows you to tailor the steering, suspension and transmission to your own preferences.
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Another critical component is instilling in children a sense of self-importance, and the idea that taking care of themselves is just as crucial as how they treat other people.
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And for a show so clearly infatuated with irreverence and intrigued by hipness, it's surprising that it isn't more self-aware of its nihilistic protagonist's self-importance and self-seriousness.
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The results, published Monday in the Harvard Business Review, found that leaders who grew up in wealthier households had greater levels of self-importance, and lower levels of empathy for others.
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It should be stated up front that Lee comes from privilege and her writing often carries a haughtiness about class and a self-importance that is glaringly evident from her descriptions.
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There is nothing easier than getting caught up in your own world, putting pride and self-importance before everything else and letting those things dictate the way you act toward others.
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Here we are, mid-way through an investigation into why women didn't stand up to the bloated self-importance of yet another sex predator — this time, the disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein.
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So as you can imagine Trump's tweet — the entire situation really — was also ripe for the taking: A he said, they said, scenario further enhanced by Trump's signature air of self-importance.
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At the same time, it won't fully satisfy many newbies: even at its most accessible, it's a blur of names, faces, and places, sometimes stuck together only with solemnity and self-importance.
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The abuses of private and military flights by two cabinet members, Tom Price (who has resigned as a result) and Steven Mnuchin, and others betray attitudes of arrogance, contempt and self-importance.
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A public letter addressed to the chief justice from Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, president of the American Sociological Association, was somewhere in between (with a dose of academic self-importance for good measure).
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Despite its baroque character, there's not a whiff of pretension or self-importance here; yeah, Summoning is nerdy as hell, but if they don't have a problem with that, why should you?
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In addition, the habits of self-obsession, the attitude of self-importance and the insistence on a distinct self-identity separate us from the whole of which we are an inalienable part.
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Washington will be a duller place in his absence—so relentless and uproariously grubby were the scandals his roving eye for a freebie and Napoleonic sense of self-importance kept landing him in.
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" That night, Brother Reilly made a note in his manuductor diary about Brother Finn's "singularity"—Jesuit speak for self-importance—and he added, "I wonder how long Brother Finn will be among us.
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"A Star Is Born" has all the makings of a modern movie blockbuster: A-list talent, catchy songs, a lusty sense of its own self-importance and huge currency in the meme ecosystem.
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From the Renaissance to Gouthière's 219th-century French royal court to masters of the modern universe, gilt — gold's application to metal, whether powder, leaf or plate — is the assertive surface of self-importance.
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The truth was a confluence of half-baked motivations: some notion of needing to live in the American West and the lack of appealing job prospects for humanities majors with undeserved self-importance.
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It may be that Morton's will now see more triumphalist cigar smoke, while the Obama staffer enclaves like the brasserie Le Diplomate — sorry, I meant to say "Le Dip" — recede in self-importance.
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There are also plenty of critics of the concept, who largely think it's a narcissistic mess and the true embodiment of everything wrong with a society centered around self-importance and personal fulfillment.
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Maybe, under the veneer of self-importance that's layered over LCD Soundsystem and so much other music, sometimes it's just better to just listen and not think too much about what it all means.
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I think about the Commanders drawing up the blueprints for a new society that divides women into rigid castes, back when they weren't Commanders but just dudes with an outsized sense of self-importance.
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It's still a minor entry in the Marvel pantheon compared to standouts like Thor: Ragnarok, which went further in upending Marvel's established superhero-movie template, playing with tone and puncturing the characters' self-importance.
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Ash sounds like if the Ramones had frontal lobotomies; you can hear Coldplay being born in the Verve's depthless self-importance; and a surprising number of these bands sound like the Goo Goo Dolls.
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No. What that does is that it attaches an inordinate amount of weight and self-importance to your own political viewpoint, which, if people want to hear your political viewpoint, then be a politician!
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That's probably not the case, and Exit Through the Gift Shop is less a true story than an unintentional presentation of street art's cornball European sense of self-importance, courtesy of Thierry Guetta, a.k.a.
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People with narcissistic personality disorder have an inflated sense of self-importance and lack of empathy for others, which are typically mechanisms used to mask their low self-esteem, according to the Mayo Clinic.
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People with narcissistic personality disorder have an inflated sense of self-importance and lack of empathy for others, which are typically mechanisms used to mask their low self-esteem, according to the Mayo Clinic.
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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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The latest video highlights these buffoons' inflated sense of self-importance or their grifting tactics with potential clients—whichever it is, it's easy to see why they were the perfect firm for the Trump campaign.
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There's a little self-importance in the topic, echoing movies from Sullivan's Travels to Birdman in letting the people onscreen praise the importance of art and artists on behalf of the filmmakers behind the screen.
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As she talked, I was reminded of a character from Renata Adler's 1983 novel, " Pitch Dark ": My back went up, Viola Teagarden used to say, with a little thrill of self-importance, pride and pleasure. . . .
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But his fight against a relatively minor charge, using high-priced lawyers, is evidence of his sense of self-importance, possibly prolonging the media attention, according to at least one person familiar with that world.
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Narcissistic personality disorder, according to Mayo Clinic, is a mental state that involves an inflated sense of self-importance, need for excessive attention and admiration, lack of empathy, and low self-esteem vulnerable to criticism.
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And if I hadn't already decided to quit science because blogging is honestly much more fun than pipetting, the exhausting self-importance of Serious Academics would have made me jump ship eventually, I'm sure of it.
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Mr. Rubio's previous ads showed him speaking directly to the camera, often with a tone of concern, but little else ever shared the screen, lending an air of self-importance as he sought to appear presidential.
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But executive producer and co-writer Ezra Koenig, best-known as the lead singer and guitarist of Vampire Weekend, infused the six-episode series with ingratiating self-importance and existential doubt that weighed down the fun.
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I found myself working in a spirit that drew on conditions that I had observed and experienced in my family's factory, but now I was surrendering my secret God-given white self importance; that was new.
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He didn't just mock the obsession with celebrities; he teased them to their face, displaying studious indifference to the projects they were promoting and a smirking skepticism to their hints of pretentiousness, self-importance or eccentricity.
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My friend had arrived early and, displaying the healthy sense of self-importance necessary to psychological survival in Manhattan, demanded a table better than the dark one in a corner we were going to be given.
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According to the Hollywood Reporter, The Meyerowitz Stories follows a dysfunctional family helmed, quite unsteadily, by patriarch Harold Meyerowitz (Dustin Hoffman), an aging sculptor whose inflated sense of self-importance leaves him bitter and borderline egomaniacal.
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I do like and love some of the movies we've been discussing, even if I don't see enough messiness, wildness and risk and do see far too much self-importance, all terminal signs of white-elephant auteurism.
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Mr. Albee repeatedly dared to ask what most of us retire to the closets of our minds for as long as possible: the fact of our inevitable ends, and what it means for our tenuous self-importance.
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" A source familiar with Adelson's thinking cautioned, "People who profess to be inside Sheldon's head or know what he's doing I would say are 99 percent full of shit or trying to promote their own self importance.
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If a bystander observing a bust asks what Laforge and his team members are up to, they respond "Creep Catchers: We hunt pedophiles" with the same sense of self-importance as FBI agents identifying themselves in movies.
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And indeed, if you go down the list of diagnosing criteria for narcissistic personality disorder — which include things like "has a grandiose sense of self-importance" and "requires excessive admiration" — it does sound a lot like Trump.
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"Pride, ego, arrogance, self-image, self-importance — all of these and more are among the reasons why I traveled down this destructive path," he told Judge Sidney H. Stein of Federal District Court at his sentencing in Manhattan.
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But it is the show's stubborn curse that it's willing to cut off the most popular and meaningful artist in pop at the knees in order to preserve its sense of self-importance — a preposterous and careless choice.
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This would be an eye roll-worthy sentiment of self-importance if the Bachelor weren't speaking to Hannah, a woman who announced, "If something's not perfect, then I think I'm horrible," with a panicky smile ahead of the date.
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It echoes the kind of vulgar self-importance that Trump displayed when he famously pushed aside Duško Marković, the prime minister of Montenegro, to move to the front of a pack of leaders at the NATO summit in May.
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Narcissistic personality disorder is a condition in which a person has an inflated sense of self-importance and lack of empathy for others, which are typically mechanisms used to mask their low self-esteem, according to the Mayo Clinic.
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I told God that I wanted to live in accordance with my beliefs, that I wanted to diminish my sense of self-importance, that I was sorry for not being better, and that I was grateful for being alive.
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Rafael Chirbes is a master of the kind of Spanish literature that shines most brightly in lyrical descriptive passages and powerful metaphors steeped in the lessons of a classical education, and that falters with tone-deaf dialogue and intense self-importance.
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"Mitt Romney represents the old guard, the establishment #RINOs who put self-importance, arrogance, money, and greed above citizens, our economy, our God-given rights, and our children's future," added an ad for a gubernatorial candidate in Washington, Anton Sakharov.
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In Washington, there is an unfortunate phenomenon known as "earpiece envy," where being surrounded by armed security agents speaking into microphones attached to their shirt cuffs is something to be coveted as it bolsters an incredible sense of self-importance.
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Here's what they can teach us about how to live an extraordinary life: The word "foolish" often carries a negative connotation, but the implied meaning here has more to do with humility and a willingness to forgo self-importance than anything else.
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Death by execution — as practiced by one of the play's title characters (played with delicious self-importance by David Morrissey) — is the subject and substance of the opening scene of "Hangmen," directed by Matthew Dunster with a vitality that makes darkness shimmer.
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He has written an allusion-filled novel that still manages to feel original, a violent tale of struggle and survival in a cinematically beautiful landscape reminiscent of the movie "The Revenant" but rendered with far more immediacy and considerably less self-importance.
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There have been countless gestures like Watford's in the last two weeks, glimmers of kindness and empathy and care for society at large from a sport that is often — too often — accused of existing in a bubble of complacency and self-importance.
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" Mr. al-Hussein warned that "the more pronounced their sense of self-importance, the more they glory in nationalism, the more unvarnished is the assault on the overall common good — on universal rights, on universal law and universal institutions, such as this one.
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People who have narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) tend to act with grandiosity and self-importance, with a fixation on unlimited success, control, brilliance, or beauty, among many other things, according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), the manual used to diagnose mental disorders.
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And yet I found myself shrieking with laughter when Renata Klein (Dern gloriously goes all-in on Renata's indomitable self-importance this season), who is dealing with some private financial turmoil, realizes that all this talk of climate change is really stressing out Amabella.
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Then, in one particular moving scene, the Smiths song "Asleep"—so perfectly placed it'll remind you of the morose brilliance of the 80s band, even as their frontman continues to descend and descend into a candle-looking glob made of increasingly misguided self-importance.
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Though some of the sounds and styles overlapped, big beat was like the poppier antithesis to the intellectualism of the more critically beloved IDM, and a response to the self-importance of purist DJs who were dominating the UK dance scene in the mid-90s.
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In a school like Loyola, where the task of keeping everyday order is entrusted to the prefects, being head can bring out the tyrant in even the nicest chap, and Zaka brought to the position an obnoxious self-importance that made him absolutely insufferable.
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If Hideo Kojima needed two hours at the end of Death Stranding to explain the game through cutscenes, what chance do poor old Rob and Heather Alexandra, visiting from Kotaku, have to unpack the game's layers of strange brilliance, tacky sensibilities, and clunky self-importance?
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That's a theme these films have in common, despite their vast differences in approach, with Phantom Thread working to dismantle and poke fun at the self-importance of its prominent man, while Fifty Shades opts for a wish fulfillment reworking of its restrictive romance into something functional.
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"It is important for political leaders to try and remind themselves that you are there to do a job, but you are not there for life, you are not there in order to prop up your own sense of self importance or your own power," he added.
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The Duffer Brothers fall into very few traps of self-importance or self-awareness and they deliver a second season with an expanded assortment of '80s influences, an expanded cast of instantly embraceable characters and some expanded Stranger Things mythology without the bloat that inevitably dooms sequels.
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And so, the Bush administration put, for instance, China at the center of the six-party talks, and because of that, you know, we sort of got an arrogant Beijing because we really sort of fed their notions of self- importance, and we got a nuked up North Korea.
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The Evan Rachel Woods of the world are much more likely to break out a tux in the relative safety of the Globes than they are at an event with the self-importance of the Oscars, where the pressure to put on a princess-y ballgown is immense.
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I often fear that the Trump administration has a way of bringing out the worst in us journalists — our self-importance, our belief that we are in sole possession of the truth, our habits of editorializing when we (pundits excluded) should be trying to tell the news straight.
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They both remind us that totalizing maxims have often been fatuously and unequivocally sententious in their urge toward controlling domination, embellished (as they seem to always be) with a sort of self-importance and fallacious, sweeping universalism that entangles the difficult idea of the multiple into the simple and unitary.
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There's an infectious warmth in the recollections of the friends' school days, and the prose often draws blood: describing protests in San Francisco, a character says that "he had often seen American crowds waving their flags of self-importance and gorging themselves with organic cucumbers before returning to their placid homes."
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The careful attention Bay devotes to these trademark elements is apparent in The Last Knight; on several occasions, the film comes across as more than a little self-aware, piling on frenetic explosions and showdowns and special effects extravagance, deflating its own self-importance even as it builds it up.
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God is accompanied by two archangels: Gabriel, played with a funny air of poker-faced self-importance by James Gleason, who mans a Gutenberg Bible, reciting quotations at God's command; and Michael, played by a feisty David Josefsberg, who takes questions from the audience and eventually, to God's annoyance, begins challenging his ideas.
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The reawakening of the slumbering franchise in 2015 gave birth to "Jurassic World," one of the highest-grossing terrible movies of all time, a lumbering walk in the rebooted park that squandered the charisma of the big lizards and the charm of the human cast in a witless farrago of blockbuster self-importance.
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The public good they purport to serve is almost always actually their own business interests, even when they're boasting major charitable donations, and each time they speak we're reminded only of the eyeball-popping tension between their enormous sense of self-importance and simultaneous refusal to accept responsibility for anything that results from their actions.
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Over the course of his six days on the witness stand in Federal District Court in Manhattan, Mr. Rechnitz, who is cooperating with the government after pleading guilty to fraud conspiracy, was accused of racism, self-importance and above all, lying: to family, to friends, to potential investors, to government investigators — and to the jury.
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Created and scripted by Susan Coyne, Bob Martin (the co-book writer and star of the musical "The Drowsy Chaperone") and former Kids in the Hall member Mark McKinney, the series brilliantly weaves backstage shenanigans — never underestimate the self-importance of actors and directors — with astute insights into the perils and joys of art-making.
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On her new Netflix series, Michelle Wolf, a veteran of "The Daily Show," brilliantly satirized the self-importance of current comedy, skewering the entire genre of righteous political humor that Mr. Stewart gave birth to, mocking its ineffectuality while breaking down the hack conventions of a bit that always ends with the same Trump insult.
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It's been a perfect show since it premiered in 2014 and introduced its unique blend of trenchant Hollywood satire, sublime cartoon silliness, and profound existential drama, all set in a world in which an anthropomorphized horse-man named BoJack (Will Arnett) could be a faded '90s sitcom star plagued with severe insecurity and enormous self-importance.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads It is the rare exhibition that cuts through the earnestness and self-importance of some of conceptual art's supposedly heady offerings; it is even rarer for one to expose, in an illuminating and pleasurable way, the intellectual richness of its subject matter, reveling in its inventiveness while neatly unpacking its more obscure details.
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The checklist for this syndrome in the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) includes: "has a grandiose sense of self-importance", "is preoccupied by fantasies of unlimited success", "believes that he or she is special and unique", "requires excessive admiration" and has "unreasonable expectations of especially favourable treatment or automatic compliance with his or her expectations".
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Imagine the aural onslaught of Deftones without all the sad-sackiness, combined with the soul-filled syncopation of Every Time I Die without the good ol' boy shtick, and throw in the animalistic invention of At the Drive-In without the college-boy self-importance—add a wink and a worn-in smile and you'd have the new Glassjaw.
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Most of the better specimens of the genre, as well as the worst, assume a heavy burden of self-importance: the future of the planet, the cosmic balance of good and evil, the profit margins of multinational corporations and the good will of moody fans all depend on the actions of a gloomy character in a costume.
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The film "belongs to the accusatory tradition of 'Ace in the Hole,' 'Network' and 'Absence of Malice,' movies that see reporters and editors not as guardians of democracy but as barbarians inside the gates of the republic, subverting its values through cynicism, self-importance and mercenary scandal-mongering," A.O. Scott wrote in his review for The New York Times.
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Rankled by the Miserdens' self-importance, Johnny instead envisions a work of scalding honesty (Bella's husband, Alan, a dot-com millionaire, "fit and sleek in tight jeans, with no apparent genitals, had the overall smoothness of features that expects good fortune but never attracts much personal devotion") before finally settling on something, if not exactly flattering, at least more respectful and sedate.
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Yet in an era of self-promotion, self-importance and transparent bids for national prominence among even the greenest of lawmakers, Mr. Kennedy has negotiated his first months on the job as something of a throwback in Washington's crackling tumult — a Southern-fried Waldo for the Trump age, drifting through the volatility in plain sight, if only anyone were looking.
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On Friday, the New York Times columnist David Brooks wrote a fanciful history lesson aimed at the high school athletes that have taken up Kaepernick's protest, the stupendous self-importance and self-evident stupidity of which is hard to overstate; imagine Moses coming down from Mount Sinai bearing a tablet with a "Family Circus" cartoon engraved on it and you're getting close.
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Veep is hilarious, but doesn't have the pitch-black satiric bite of its British predecessor, The Thick of It.Meanwhile, Silicon Valley conceived of a caustic fake ad that mocked tech companies' grotesque self-importance and their vague-but-emotional PR pitches with devastating accuracy—and after the writers came up with it, Uber came out with a real ad that was basically the same thing.
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From the start, his life was made for TV, even as it was fanged by public scrutiny at every turn: the claims of juvenile self-importance, famously taking Brandy to prom and even more famously feuding with teammate Shaquille O'Neal, then the game's most dominant big man, who helped erect a dynasty in Los Angeles with Bryant just as the millennium was getting underway.
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The power of so many of Albee's plays, from the underproduced "Tiny Alice" (1964)—a mysterious three-act comedic drama about a corrupting rich widow and the Church—to "Three Tall Women" and " The Play About the Baby " (2001), lies in his attempt to record, without indicting, the horrible sound of his mother's lullabies: songs about his queerness, his ineptitude, and his failures, supercilious and electric with self-importance and malice.
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But the stunt is just the latest prank from the company, which frequently skewers both capitalism and self-importance; previous CAH hits include a now-annual Black Friday tradition of asking people to pay the company money for nothing in return; a 2016 crowdfunding campaign that raised $100,000 in order to dig a giant hole in the middle of nowhere; and a loving, highly specific Craigslist job posting for a very special new CEO.
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