Sentences with phrase «ego trip»

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

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

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

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).

Our office meetings provide learning opportunities and are not just ego trips.

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

Our need to be there in the future, to be «rewarded,» vitiates our acts and turns them into ego trips instead of experiences of loving and living.

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.

This book is not a «how I made a billion in the stock market» nauseating ego trip or self - serving fiction.

We shouldn't confuse primitive man's justifications of their self preseving attrocities or other such ego trips with It's rule or intent; if we must though, perhaps we should look at It's retribution through things like the destruction of the mass murder's temples, their dispersal as captives throughout the world, the holocaust etc. as perhaps It's reward for such action.

Life can be that wonderful, and it often is, sometimes thanks to people like Whedon who prove not all Hollywood - types are a bunch of stuck - up ego trips.

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.

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.

Seemed purely like a Belichick ego trip.

Anne Treneman in The Times described it as a «revolutionary ego trip», claimed she would have walked out if she could have and gave it just one star out of five, while Alice Jones in the i newspaper said it veered close to being a one - man lecture.

The vacuous, completely non-analytical or even slightly critical mouthings of Alan Johnson on his apparently entirely self - promoting ego trip «Labour In For Britain» site, is as one with every Blairite MP I have seen so far troupe through the studios of the mass media to add their pennyworth on that campaign.

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

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.

Remember the Barbra Streisand ego trip «A Star is Born,» in which she transplanted the the story to rock and roll and pop?

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.

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.

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

We're accommodating people — we're not on an architectural ego trip.»

Occasionally, we hear about celebrities or athletes whose oversized egos tripped them up in public, and we blame their downfall on «reading their own press clippings.»

Being CREA's CEO was a long - term well - protected very well paid ego trip.

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

We survived the big deals and ego trips of Tomás Saraceno, Tom Sachs, Alighiero Boetti, Yayoi Kusama, Gabriel Orozco, and (one can only hope) Jeffrey Deitch.

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.

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.

It would be more than an ego trip to package an ETF under your own name and brand: offering a publicly traded product gives you credibility and can open a whole new distribution channel.

I'd rather have sense, than the ego trip.

Not to put too fine a point on it, this man appears to he ego tripping in a manner remarkable chiefly for its unabashed vulgarity.

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.

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.

The institute director, Wilbert E. Eichenberger, an able, friendly and ever - present person, warned everyone early in the institute not to go home the first day, writing the whole thing off as an «ego trip» for Schuller — although that would not upset Schuller, who teaches that every person needs ego - fulfillment.

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.

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.

Get off of your ego trip.

Tiggy: 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.

As I said I think its all an ego trip, the rich against the poor the have's and the have nots.