Sentences with phrase «ego trips of»

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.

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

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

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

It suggests that either Alan Johnson is on some kind of ego - trip or he has not been able, for whatever reason, to organise support from the many diverse fields of expertise involved in EU questions.

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.

«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.

In exchange for talking job creation and revitalization, and for stroking the egos and jazzing the war chests and vacation trips of assorted little Caesars, Widgetom receives tax breaks, public utility deals, EZ loans, and exemptions from environmental and land use regulations.

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

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«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.

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.

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.

It's a self - indulgent, voyeuristic look into the lives of Hollywood couples, but in the end the only realization to be made is that our favorite talents are far more interesting when playing fictitious roles or crafting artifice than in their petulant ego - tripping.

Along for the trip are a set of false teeth dad dons to transform into his buffoonish alter ego, Toni Erdmann.

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).

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.

Maybe instead of planning her ego - trip to Kiev, Weingarten should have been at a rally in Albany the week before, which was organized in response to New York City mayor Bill de Blasio's assault on charter schools.

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.

But all I saw was bloated egos and vultures scavenging for that free luxury trip in lieu of a blog.

I understand, this is completely unscientific, irrational, and probably a tad ego - centric to think this, but I swear, there are some sort of travel writing gurus in the cosmos that seem to be very good at doing this before every trip.

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.

Of course, all that cool ego - tripping belongs to something else as well.

This trip sparked the greatest stimulus of Hockney's career and is commemorated at Hazlitt Holland Hibbert with the defining series The Rake's Progress, in which the artist's alter ego travels to the big bad city to enjoy success before tumbling into iniquity, deception and finally bedlam.

In truth, the brash athleticism that separates him from ego - tripping has worn a bit thin, and so has his connection to the politics of South Africa.

A spiritual and esthetic ideal in its origins, the sublime took on a sense of nation building in nineteenth - century America, of self - making in the time of Jackson Pollock, of ego - tripping for Matthew Barney, and now a kind of ego - undoing in the hands of an upmarket gallery and an inward - looking photographer.

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

«Video Artist as Video: Art: Glimpses of an Alter - Ego Trip», New York Times, April 2009, p. C23 - C26.

Forget the pandering and ego - tripping and of Kehinde Wiley in Brooklyn.

We are so tired of ego - tripping nonentities pretending to be artists.

He felt that much of the art getting made today is devoid of presence — that it's self - serving, ego - tripping, and fails to contribute to contemporary culture.

A peripatetic lifestyle, with stints in Rome, Florence, Paris, London, and Dusseldorf, culminated in a trip to New York in 1972 with Rebecca Horn, which led to the birth of his part - woman alter ego, «Herman Fame».

Lots of lawyers get tripped up in this area because of their own egos.

You were clear, straightforward, have a good sense of humor, no «star» ego - trip, and are invested in us learning.