Sentences with phrase «like public persona»

The two have managed to create a false, warrior - like public persona of Katniss that has been perpetuated by the media in the same way that our own celebrity obsessed society attempts to attach persona's on actresses like Jennifer Lawrence herself.

Not exact matches

NOW WE CLEARLY UNDERSTAND THE EXTENT OF DEMENTIA IN AMERICA Dale Benjamin Drakeford 8-31-12 When Clint Eastwood, a self - proclaimed «conservative» (who has lived more like a Joseph Smith liberal spurning nine children with four different women, sporting a clinch fisted personae in his private exenterates over public exhibitions) talks vulgar to an empty chair, Marco Rubio (a small government advocate who loss his roots somewhere between caffeine - free tea and a caffeine rich Cuban cigar) slips Freudian to advocate «large government» in a failed attempt to wax brilliant but came off bane (pun intended) to the capitalization of the nation, Paul Ryan can lie and demonize his role against the truth until his nose is a foot long and not one member of his audience will notice, and Mitt Romney can anecdote on his personal family, business and church goings on as oppose to his solutions for unemployment, banking corruption, housing displacement, militarism, planetary illness and international human rights unrest, we can clearly understand the extent of dementia in America.

Presenting a safe public persona, like Kinnock and Miliband did, was off - putting for everybody

Shannon also conveys the confident swagger (He walks into a Washington, D.C., donut shop like he owns the place and kind of smirks when someone mocks him after he orders an «original,» because that's the furthest he is to the clientele of the shop), the eccentric personality (There are too many instances here to note just one), and, more importantly, the deep well of pain that the entirety of the public Elvis persona seems to be concealing.

Like Michelle Rhee in Washington, D.C., Joel Klein in New York, and Paul Vallas in Chicago, Deasy cultivated a larger - than - life public persona that cast the superintendent in the title role from the documentary Waiting for Superman.

In part, the perception of increasing funder participation in policy discussions is due to the very public personas of founders of major foundations like Bill Gates and Eli Broad.7 And the advocacy efforts of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Broad Foundation have increased dramatically with a shift from local funding efforts to more direct support for national - level policy advocacy on issues such as the Common Core State Standards.8

«His charm and good nature resonated with people both young and old and enabled him to transfer his warm persona into the face of a trusted pet brand,» says Alice Kim, director of marketing for Natural Balance Pet Foods, Inc. «His desire to bring the very best nutrition to dogs and cats along with his name recognition both worked together to grow the brand because he was a public figure who pet parents truly liked.»

It's like some of Yvonne Rainer's movies — MURDER and Murder and Privilege — that show us the contradictions between her private and public persona that will never be resolved.

Whiteread, in both her work and her public persona, might now seem remote from some of her peers, but — like that of Damien Hirst — her work appeared in the very first of the Young British Artists exhibitions at the Saatchi Gallery in 1992, a show that gave the group its name.

Like all good super her @s we cloak our ordinary public personas and arrive on the scene as dead women artists — masked guerrilla girls — wielding the F word (feminism) to hold our public and cyber institutions accountable to women and youth across cultures and economic backgrounds who are otherwise left on the wrong side of the Digital Divide.

The legends that have grown up around Clyfford Still — his mysterious appearance one fall day in 1946 at the California School of Fine Arts «wearing a long black overcoat» (the story sounds more like the Annunciation with each retelling); his image among former students as «black angel,» Zen priest or messianic prophet, depending on whom you talk to; his rare public statements as well as his silences — all contribute to a persona that seems, in many ways, to be inexplicable.