Sentences with phrase «ego as»

In my capacity as Marketing Manager I see that many lawyers in small to medium firms fear down time, not just because of billing targets but because it opens them up to having to do things outside their comfort zone and may force them to drop the persona or legal ego as I call it.

I saw Gerry Spence as another lawyer with an ego as big as the Wyoming sky... but for all his ego, his immodest comments, his flagrantly self - aggrandizing persona, there is one thing that can not be denied.

Manders describes this alter ego as «a character that lives in a logically designed and constructed world, which consists of thoughts that are halted or congealed at their moment of greatest intensity.

This attempt to annihilate the artistic ego as well as the distinction between art and everyday experience was unprecedented and in direct contrast to the posture of his contemporaries in the New York School.

Artists Chuck Carbia, SCAD foundation studies professor, and Jaimie Warren don the alter ego as versions of iconic public figures or characters, and base their artistic practices in performance.

Frequently appearing in public dressed in a women's clothes, Perry described his female alter ego as «a 19th century reforming matriarch, a middle - England protester for No More Art, an aero - model - maker, or an Eastern European Freedom Fighter, a fortysomething woman living in a Barratt home, the kind of woman who eats ready meals and can just about sew on a button.»

While Infamous always had a superhero - theme, the gameplay was once much different, with more focus on the player's alter - ego as a property developer.

A profound sense of worthlessness overcame my ego as I took three strides and gasped for air.

Obviously, since everyone has an ego, that means everyone in publishing has an ego as well.

At the very least, it's interesting to see glimpses of ego as the two compete for which one gets to make the next joke.

Jesse Eisenberg does his overeager pup thing as Ben's student chaperone on a campus visit and for a while the dynamic recalls his breakthrough role in Roger Dodger, with Douglas handing out the dubious advice on dating and sexual politics, but in this case he's just another slice of youth that Ben uses to convince himself he's still young at heart while simultaneously building his ego as the charmer of an elder statesman holding court.

Orson Welles, who worried a lot about his dialogue, had an ego as big as his figure, and managed to make some classics before flaming out.

But at least they are compelling characters: the sadly clairvoyant Dr. Manhattan (Billy Crudup), who knows to much and is watching his faith in humanity ebb in to the ether; the vampirish Ozymandius (Matthew Goode), an effete tycoon who is the smartest man in the world; the embittered Rorchach (Walter Kovacs), a psychopath whose toxic moods swim across his masked face as shifting ink blots; Nite Owl II (Dan Drieberg), who is basically Batman with a Clark Kent - like alter ego as a mild - mannered model of mid-life impotence; and the latex - sheathed, dominatrix - next - door, Silk Spectre II — played by Toronto actress and Maxim cover girl Malin Akerman, who made an appearance at the Toronto premiere I attended last night.

As «Black Panther» begins, T'Chaka's son, T'Challa (Chadwick Boseman), is set to be the heir to the throne as well as take over the duties of his father's alter ego as the heroic Black Panther.

The Room is incoherent and so is its lead character, played by Franco, a long - haired mystery man with a bizarre accent and an ego as vast as his wealth.

Unfortunately, neither does his ego as he pits himself against one of the most ruthless scoundrels in all of Basin City — the one and only Senator Roarke (Powers Boothe).

Benedict Cumberbatch is all spite and ego as Dr Stephen Strange, a New York super-surgeon more interested in fame and fortune than saving lives.

Wisely, the studio chose to forego (as the comic eventually had) his alter ego as a hobbled physician with a walking stick that could suddenly make him — boom!

Over the years, I've also developed my alter ego as I realized that I can't always be the sweet and shy girl.

In my 30's I've become more successful in managing my inner critic, aka Ego as well as my outer critics, aka people around me.

This goal is achieved by maintaining our natural condition of a body of optimum health and strength, senses under total control, a mind well - disciplined, clear and calm, an intellect as sharp as a razor, a will as strong and pliable as steel, a heart full of unconditional love and compassion, an ego as pure as a crystal, and a life filled with Supreme Peace and Joy.»

So like the light - bulb, we need an ego as it is a conduit to delivering our own light source.

The APDA is neither an offshoot of the PDP nor its alter ego as some are speculating.

I really sat with that thought all day, along with this critic's interpretation of ego as it pertains to expressing interest or a need to search deeper and why that makes someone vainglorious and self - important.

«Mourinho has a big ego as well — but in a good way.

If Dean unveils his Gollum alter ego as during the home game least season it won't be a surprise, but hopefully someone has been feeding him some raw little fishes and we'll get to see Smeagol.

He is protective of an ego as big as the Ritz.

The 29 year - old is highly professional, and would not bring the same ego as Zlatan.

Even someone with as big an ego as Mou will know that another # 5M in wages to keep an unhappy player on the bench and the loss of a # 10 - 12M transfer fee is not worth it.

Being forced to feed Dez ego as the # 1 is not going to help that situation... hell, the release tells me that the front office and coaches have already come to the conclusion that Dak / Dez < Romo / Dez.

The «dark night» might clinically or secularly be described as the letting go of one's ego as it holds back the psyche, thus making room for some form of transformation, perhaps in one's way of defining oneself or one's relationship to God.

Secularism = Atheism = their own EGO as god.

When, through the «breaking - through,» i.e., through a «cutting off» of the ego from the world, and through an identification of the ego with the motivating dynamis of the unconscious, this severance is once more resolved, God disappears as object and becomes the subject which is no longer distinguished from the ego, i.e., the ego as a relatively late product of differentiation, becomes once more united with the mystic, dynamic, universal participation (participation mystique of the primitives).1

He viewed the ego as a puny being caught between powerful instinctual drives and id impulses, on the one hand, and the harsh demands of society, intemalized in the superego, on the other.

(12) He sees the ego as having a growing autonomy and strength of its own.

For Reality See muslim will burn their own irrelevant primitive islamic words to punish the Sins of islamic ego as foretold by islam itself.

It's not just disruptive to your business, but can hit at your ego as well as you ask yourself, «What did I do wrong?»

After all, smooth honeymoons are not the norm for financial marriages, which typically involve egos as large as the related transaction prices.

They have big egos as well.

It's that compliance attitude which has allowed the club to not try and assemble bigger names and in some cases bigger egos as they know that they'll have to pay more money and be a lot more ambitious as a club / employer.

Such women usually look for young men who can not only satisfy them physically but pamper their egos as well.

When Alice toppled down the rabbit - hole 150 years ago, she found a Wonderland as rife with inconsistent rules and abrasive egos as the world she left behind.

Curated by Tim Goossens, Shapeshifters is an intergenerational exhibition that features the work of artists, activists, and musicians who use alter egos as tools for change and survival.

Not exact matches

And the writers» egos occasionally come across as elephantine in size.

In this light, awards shows may be viewed by some as an example of ego - stroking largess.

Every day another jerk emerges as the latest poster boy of ego and entitlement, someone who can't figure out how to keep his hands to himself and / or his ugly mouth shut.

I never understood what that meant; like, why would somebody give me money so I could have my ego massaged as a designer?

As Agnieszka notes, although having a high valuation doesn't sound like the worst thing for a startup (it is a bit of an ego boost after - all), it could seriously harm a company.

Second of all, «I told you so» can be interpreted as a way of someone seeking credit for their intelligence or foresight — which is fine, except when it's clearly at the expense of your project or your ego.

«The BlackBerry brand was loved and admired within the consumer community, but Research in Motion as an organization had been tainted by internal struggles, personnel changes, massive ego issues between the ownership, and stock devaluation,» remembers Roberts.