Sentences with phrase «preening self»

The actor, a dependable source of preening self - regard, has somehow become a fine director of modest silences.

But what are we to make of such a man, who hijacks an event focused on the suffering of a mostly forgotten group of people, sandbags his hosts, preens self - righteously, and deliberately provokes an ugly reaction to score political points?

Not exact matches

Men who had more recently joined the group thought this «poncy,» and there were some (relatively good - hearted) jibes from the neophytes about self - preening and «Buddhist» pretensions of enlightenment.

While Anton is ready to go with the times, Burt, a preening, self - deluding, perma - tanned hick, can't see why they should.

There's something wonderfully delicious about a large - budget Hollywood production of Vanity Fair — the 19th - century novel whose aim was to skewer a self - important class that reveled in its own preening excess and adhered to its own inverted version of morality.

By this time, the funny has gone so far missing that this set starts to feel like a preening exercise in self - aggrandizement.

And there's a dangerous new kid in town, a «Jackass» - y guerrilla performer (Jim Carrey, doing pretty much what Tom Cruise did in «Rock of Ages» — self - serious preening, with weirdly off - kilter timing) who gives the bloodthirsty public what it wants: violence, drills to the skull, that kind of thing.

Let the record show that we have no beef with Val Kilmer's take on Jim Morrison, which persuasively intermingles the eyelids - at - half - mast preening of the Lizard King with the actor's own insouciant self - regard.

Hugh Grant plays the preening thespian with unabashed camp and more than a little self - parody, and it's up to Paddington and the Browns to thwart this narcissistic master of disguise and clear the bear's good name.

Before getting to this week's real topic, I thought I'd preen with a bit of shameless self promotion.

Most cats self - groom often, so it's not unusual to see them lick and chew a little at their fur when preening.

Waters freely manipulates images of less - than sacred, low - brow references — Elizabeth Taylor's hairstyles, Justin Bieber's preening poses, his own self - portraits, and pictures of individuals brought into the limelight through his films — to entice viewers to connect to his astute and provocative observations about society.

This surrealist photographic self - portrait of herself as a preening housewife looking over her shoulder while standing at the stove, is part of a series of self - portraits entitled «Untitled Film Stills» (1977 - 80).

This blog has got to be the biggest collection of preening pretentious self - congratulating government - funded idiots ever assembled.