Sentences with phrase «ego trip by»

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).

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.

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As for the Naked Pastor blog, I think money grabbing and ego - power - trips by pastors are the least of everybody's concerns about the institution of church.

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.

First you bust a nut over that POS Daredevil (which lost 2 / 3s of its audience this weekend, by the way) now you're turning what should have been a simple reccomendation of a very funny (if mostly forgettable) college pic into some kind of ego - trip psyhco - babble fuck - you to all your readers.

Genre conventions show up right on schedule (conflicting egos, creative differences, make - or - break gigs), while the decade's icons drop by for signposting guest appearances, but wistful or not, the film's magical musical tour isn't purely a nostalgia trip.