Sentences with phrase «streisand ego trip»

richardli went live in May 2016, and whether it's an ego trip or a brilliant branding strategy, it makes Li the first person to mark a territory of the internet in such a way.

But this was not a rash decision or about the ego trip of adding more letters to my name.

Intelligent use of media opportunities can advance a client's cause, but many lawyers who seize them appear to be on personal ego trips.

It sees America as infatuated with materialism, on a «power trip» or an «ego trip,» trying to force its will on nature, other societies, and the deep interior of the self.

It scrambles up and onward always by spiralling round whatever stands in its path — drainpipe, porch pillar, / lawn chair — but then, once anchored, corkscrews round itself, amassing braided cables of self - hugging self - satisfaction, the conquering hero's doublejointed pat on his own back, the unbridled ego trip impelled by the uppity sap from deepest root to farthest outflung tip, ecstatically, imperially quivering toward its vegetal entelechy.

Somehow, a belief system that teaches people that they are the center of all the universe, created in the image of the most perfect being imaginable, strikes me as a bit more of an ego trip than accepting that we aren't destined to live forever because of our «specialness», but that we live our short lifetimes and die like every other living thing on the planet, our bodies decomposing and ultimately entering the food chain once again, on a tiny speck of a planet in an ordinary, remote backwater of the universe.

The institute is undoubtedly an ego trip for Schuller, and so is many a classroom lecture and magazine article and editorial column for you and me, but he came through time and again during the conference as a decent, warm, ordinary and enthusiastic human being.

But to equate storytelling with theology and thereby to justify regurgitating one's own autobiography for public consumption is more often than not an ego trip.

You begin to embrace the questions, you start asking more and more and more... and when you realize that the only answer to some of those questions is «I don't know», you suddenly feel liberated, free of the ego trip that religion is, always saying it knows the answers when, really, it only wishes it did.

You have to be pretty narrow minded to just assume she wrote this letter as if she were on some big ego trip.

A second criticism must be made: as a result of naïveté and other factors in their own psychologies, the three authors» therapies become ego trips for them as therapists.

The men go on and on and sometimes I wonder if it's an ego trip because t hey say in half an hour what could be said in ten minutes.

Seemed purely like a Belichick ego trip.

Wenger could (should!!??) of left Arsenal around 2005 - 6 went on an ego trip round Europe for 7 or 8 years and would probably have been in prime position for a grand home - coming to the PL at Man Utd or City in recent years.

Perhaps you don't actually want to make a proper comment; but merely gain an ego trip reputation for «wit», as you clearly think it to be.

Whilst I am not one to read the papers and belive evrythibg I see and hear we all know that rather than buy an established player AW will buy a cheap alternative and then attempt to convert them into a world beater in the positions we need to strengthen most, that way he will be able to dine out and feed his «I made Thierry Henry» Ego trip for another ten years much like he is trying to do with Chambers

It has been a totally short term ego trip for his own legacy, with scant regard given to the future of the club.

Cox and the political wisenheimers insist they were right all along, that the governor's race was just another ego trip by someone who had a lifetime's worth of political flirtations.

The beneficiaries of these ego trips are the greedy political operatives and the likes of Guiliani, Pataki, Lazio.

This isn't an ego trip for me.

«The Working Families Party, whose creation I supported, should divorce themselves from this charade and immediately disavow this ego trip.»

«Once again, the Organised Labour wish to let the reading public know that the leadership of NLC, TUC and JPSNC in the state are not on ego trip with the government neither are we political civil servants but only calling the attention of the government to the deplorable situation of civil servants because of non-payment of salaries and allowances.

I use the word in quotes since write - ins are usually on ego trips, and Lord knows Bell has been down that path.

While the Sun - Jupiter face - off can make us all feel like superheroes, it can also send us on serious ego trips.

Like a member of the royal family, the radiant Sun loves to be large and in charge — and can even bring some ego trips.

Big ego trip, an excuse to dump their issues, seek attention, and complain when they are not happy inside.

since im a young man with intelegance my ego trip would love to I really mean like to find out about tht intelagent side of thm on wat their realy erg is for a man..

«Sure its an ego trip to chat up or start dating gorgeous females but I wouldn't rely on anything longer term to eventuate» Short skirts and skimpy outfits were an indication of a good time girl or a girl to have some fun with for a short or medium term.

Is this simply an ego trip for the escorts on this site?

The drama can be over the top, and sometimes it feels like one big ego trip for Leary....

Robert Downey Jr.'s Blake Allen is enough of a raging dynamo to find the dark humor and desperate romanticism at the heart of Mr. Toback's ego trip of a premise, and to make Blake sympathetic too.

So while anyone who has any memory of the early Seventies will feel like they're back there again with the establishment / counterculture antagonisms and raging ego trips and spells of mellow sunlight, they will also, like the film's hero, detect another phantom vibe.

But it's finally the casting of 500 - pound gorilla Roberts that kills this thing, throwing its centre of gravity so off - balance that August: Osage County feels not much different from a tailor - made ego trip like Something to Talk About, even before that contentious epilogue.

Tellingly, Signs also features bookend title cards touting it as «An M. Night Shyamalan Film» in thirty - foot letters — it's a total ego trip (note Shyamalan's extended «cameo» and exactly how crucial it is to the film: the man makes himself the most important character in the piece), and no matter how beautiful it looks, how expertly its sound is mixed, how funny it can be, and how effective a few tense scenes are, the picture is a first - class disappointment.

And I think that is a conscious stylistic choice, not a directorial ego trip by Paul Thomas Anderson who tends to make big movies with big themes, most of which I have liked a lot (There Will Be Blood, Magnolia).

But as time grew and the more and more he threatened Europe, Carlos went on one big ego trip as his fight against Europe became more about his thirst for power than his actual beliefs.

That just reflects what this movie and DVD really is: one huge ego trip, and evidence doesn't come any stronger than the final special feature: a feature - length recording of the audience at film's premiere, which means lots of hooting, hollering, laughing, and approving applause — in other words, a reaction universes removed from the reality of what played out in multiplexes across the country earlier this year.

The rest of the time, it's an interminable ego trip through Dylan's towering sense of self - importance, his almost total inability to relate with reality, and that curious phenomena of popular artists who are at once imperiously patronizing and desperate to be seen as common men.

But the Bartoletti transporter is more than a museum piece or an ego trip.

Equal Partners vs. Ego Trips vs. Agents Who Just Roll Over: Few agents treat authors like gods, saying or doing anything to try and please their clients or prospects.

I think too many indie authors are on ego trips of the wrong kind.

it is overrated and an ego trip, more than anything, unless one has THE BOOK that people will love to read.

I don't think you're going to be able to convince them, since most people arguing with them are coming at it from a logical / economic standpoint and the publishers think it's some kind of ego trip or moral crusade.

Remember that the award, regardless of what it may be, should be coveted not simply as an ego trip or an economic reward for the breeder, handler, or exhibitor.

There should be specific rules and official lists next time, you shouldn't rely on some guy with an ego trip to run the line.

Is he thinking of security, an ego trip, or art's self - reflection?

They took laboring over a single stroke of oil as an ego trip and a thing of the past.

Either way, he and Francis Alÿs turn relational esthetics into toy stores, ego trips, and «slacker art.»

Were you the least bit annoyed at Vito Acconci for his self - degradation, Bas Jan Ader's forced sobbing, Matthew Barney's ego trip, or Paul McCarthy's Punch and Judy show?

«Video Artist as Video Art: Glimpses of an Alter Ego Trip», The New York Times, April 2009.