Sentences with phrase «public persona as»

But off - court King was waging another battle, trying to balance her public persona as a happily married woman with her attraction to women.

Seeing a lucrative opportunity in challenging King to a one - off, winner - take - all, televised exhibition match, Riggs» public performance as a «male chauvinist pig» (putting the «show back into chauvinism») made it difficult, if not impossible, for King to reject Riggs offer without compromising her public persona as a women's rights advocate and a feminist icon.

He achieved success early in life and is now struggling to write again and live up to his public persona as a genius, which he hates being called.

Schneiderman's public persona as a strong advocate for women betrayed his personal tendency to strangle, degrade and belittle them, leaving many readers breathless.

He was invited to promote his own legend and bolster his public persona as a self - proclaimed «good guy».

For sixty - six years she has faced the challenge of balancing her individuality as Elizabeth Windsor with her public persona as Elizabeth Regina, and in all her time on the throne she has rarely permitted her personality to overshadow her office.

On 1989, she carefully steps around any easy label that might be thrown her way, both completely owning her public persona as a good - natured girl next door and completely subverting it.

Most employees in 401 (k) plans have very low 401 (k) balances, many do not contribute or participate in these plans, and the «deferred profit - sharing» option has lost some of its public persona as a result of its integration with 401 (k) plans.

These three scenarios come together to describe our public personas as narratives that are continuously rewritten by one another and ourselves.

Not exact matches

«Governor Carney redefined the office of the governor of the Bank of Canada,» said Lee, describing the general public persona of previous governors as «monks in the monastery,» speaking in an «econo - geek» language that didn't often resonate with Canadians at large.

This enables you to discover how you might be viewed as toxic and fix those issues privately so that your public persona isn't damaged.

The address was an opportunity — as Fortune «s Tory Newmyer points out — to humanize her husband, whose boisterous public persona sheds little light on the man he is away from cameras and microphones.

As increasing amounts of our lives have become public through our digital personas, lenders and credit agencies have taken to snooping on our public profiles for any scrap of information they deem necessary.

All to say, as long as «I talk to and hear God» is part of a person's public persona, outward changes are deceptive.

Perhaps the internet is doing all of the above and more: encouraging and unifying small religious and other movements; further facilitating scientific unification across geographic proximity, if not also creating new scientific theories and concepts; fostering the rise of new forms of spiritual irrationalism such as those discussed in Wendy Kaminer's wild book, Sleeping with Extra-Terrestrials; focusing the public even more on particular public personas in news, sports and everything else; creating new classes of investors who are willing to publish online just about anything, regardless of whether or not they agree with it; germinating new technological ideas that are luring capitalists who hold unreasonable expectations of financial bonanzas.

Every facet of Barton seems to be contentious, whether it be his intellectual, public persona whereby he quotes philosophers on Twitter and appears on Question Time or his on - field persona where he seen as a tough tackling but at times psychotic ankle smashing bruiser.

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.

That moment — an early sign of Dean's ultimate unelectability — offered a progressive vision of the political family, an apolitical spouse reluctant to set aside her life and craft a flattering public persona she saw as potentially inauthentic.

The alleged hostile behavior, even if it appears to comport with Percoco's preexistent public persona, serves as an example of the kind of unflattering material the trial may dredge up.

It was a good reminder to me that we should never look at someone's public persona and assume it's the same as what's happening behind closed doors.

«Fading Gigolo» actually functions as something of a statement on Allen's persona - onscreen and off - as it has been understood in the public eye.

While rocker - docs invariably promise to lift the veil of stardom, viewers of titles as diverse as Don't Look Back or In Bed With Madonna will know that the genre generally reinforces, rather than deconstructs, the public personae with which we have become infatuated.

In a terrific turn as the tragic teen idol, he not only portrayed the man as the public knew him but also touched upon the myth behind the famous persona, in a performance both measured and suitably nostalgic.

Producers turned to Grace Jones to liven up the spy saga and she's as striking a screen presence as one would expect from her deathless music and spicy public persona.

That his nickname is thought to originate from a copy of Frederick Forsyth's novel «The Day of the Jackal» is apt, as popular culture has leapt upon him as a subject in everything from Robert Ludlum's Bourne Trilogy (as seen in the TV adaptations, but not the films) to comedic television series Whoops Apocalypse (with Seinfeld «s Michael Richards satirising his public persona).

Battle of the Sexes steps up its game to offer a sympathetic, insightful, poignant, behind - the - scenes look at the private lives of the public personas who stepped onto the tennis court of the Houston Astrodome on September 20th, 1973, as Americans on both sides of the political divide watched in rapt attention.

While co-directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (Ruby Sparks, Little Miss Sunshine) wring tension and suspense from the same - day build - up to the match, the match itself — captured by grainy, fuzzy TV cameras with the occasional, ground - level insert — and the immediate aftermath (symbolic and figurative, more than real or long - lasting), it's in the months - long lead - up to the match, following Billie Jean King (Emma Stone, never better) and Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell) where Battle of the Sexes steps up its game to offer a sympathetic, insightful, poignant, behind - the - scenes look at the private lives of the public personas who stepped onto the tennis court of the Houston Astrodome on September 20th, 1973, as Americans on both sides of the political divide watched in rapt attention.

Shakespeare in Love Year: 1998 Director: John Madden Another film whose reputation has suffered somewhat since its initial reception, largely in this case as a result of an ill - considered Oscar and Gweneth Paltrow's ill - considered management of her public persona since then.

, but so far his public persona is not as compelling as his screen presence.

Scary movies were persona non grata for the first several decades of the Academy Awards, even as they were beginning to assert themselves with the public in the 1930s.

James Franco is using «Francophrenia» as a way to comment on his public persona.

I get the central conceit, separating the public personae of Bob Dylan into distinct pseudonymous characters — Christian Bale as the folksinger Dylan, Marcus Carl Franklin as the pre-fame ramblin» Dylan, Heath Ledger as the international media star Dylan, etc. — and through them exploring the myth of Dylan by converting it into mythology.

It's a blast, with bouncy music, flamboyant costumes, a fab sense of period, and a complex narrative interweaving of flashbacks, shifting perspectives, public personas and private personalities with Slade as the film's slippery Charles Foster Kane.

The good news is that Coogan and Brydon are as good as they've been in the previous movies, willing to poke fun at the public personas, their private lives, and their careers in ways that continue to be pretty brave.

Einar's transition into Lili unfolds gradually and tenderly, first as he serves as the female substitute for one of Gerde's models, then as he begins to step out as Lili, a persona the couple creates in an attempt to quell Einar's public anxieties.

But this film dares to take its time, observing the rhythms and between - the - lines inflections of its characters, examining them as they negotiate public personas and private anguish, remaining open to the different sides they might reveal to us at random moments.

Her music was always something I respected as music (with their catchy tunes and strong instrumentation), but never identified with, and her public persona became so warped that it was not at all a surprise when news broke that she had overdosed herself to death at the impossibly young age of 27.

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

As I leave the motorhome, I think about the disconnect between Ganassi's public and private personae.

Most dictionaries define persona as a public voice or face one adopts to communicate to the public.

She, or at least her public persona, captures the fact that in a culture that's still as deeply misogynistic as ours, it's just impossible to win at being a woman.

Part of promoting your book and career as a self - published author is creating a public persona, including identifying images, graphics, words, and photographs that work in harmony with your author voice.

As violence flares, the characters face a battle between public persona and inner desires.

It's possible that Activision's business strategy and public persona may one day come home to roost, as it did for EA.

Supporting himself as a dishwasher, Winters began a series of public and private performances in 1974 in which he assumed several personae, from Bob - E to W.B. Bearman, attracting sufficient notice to be invited to participate in the 1975 Whitney Biennial.

This exhibition includes two new groups of paintings: a selection of self - portraits and a series depicting the Million Man March on Washington, D.C. Displayed as counterpoints in two separate galleries, the self - portraits offer discrete views of the artist as a private individual with a public persona, while the Million Man March artworks — large, unstretched canvases screenprinted with mass - media images — portray arrays of anonymous individuals brought together at an epochal moment for the African American community.

As a new documentary on the US funnyman's rise and fall airs, we speak to two of his accusers to examine how that public persona may yet lead to his ruin

Oppenheim speaks of growing up in Washington and California, his father's Russian ancestry and education in China, his father's career in engineering, his mother's background and education in English, living in Richmond El Cerrito, his mother's love of the arts, his father's feelings toward Russia, standing out in the community, his relationship with his older sister, attending Richmond High School, demographics of El Cerrito, his interest in athletics during high school, fitting in with the minority class in Richmond, prejudice and cultural dynamics of the 1950s, a lack of art education and philosophy classes during high school, Rebel Without a Cause, Richmond Trojans, hotrod clubs, the persona of a good student, playing by the rules of the art world, friendship with Jimmy De Maria and his relationship to Walter DeMaria, early skills as an artist, art and teachers in high school, attending California College of Arts and Crafts, homosexuality in the 1950s and 1960s, working and attending art school, professors at art school, attending Stanford, early sculptural work, depression, quitting school, getting married, and moving to Hawaii, becoming an entrepreneur, attending the University of Hawaii, going back to art school, radical art, painting, drawing, sculpture, the beats and the 1960s, motivations, studio work, theory and exposure to art, self - doubts, education in art history, Oakland Wedge, earth works, context and possession, Ground Systems, Directed Seeding, Cancelled Crop, studio art, documentation, use of science and disciplines in art, conceptual art, theoretical positions, sentiments and useful rage, Robert Smithson and earth works, Gerry Shum, Peter Hutchinson, ocean work and red dye, breaking patterns and attempting growth, body works, drug use and hippies, focusing on theory, turmoil, Max Kozloff's «Pygmalion Reversed,» artist as shaman and Jack Burnham, sync and acceptance of the art world, machine works, interrogating art and one's self, Vito Acconci, public art, artisans and architects, Fireworks, dysfunction in art, periods of fragmentation, bad art and autobiographical self - exposure, discovery, being judgmental of one's own work, critical dissent, impact of the 1950s and modernism, concern about placement in the art world, Gypsum Gypsies, mutations of objects, reading and writing, form and content, and phases of development.

Wearing's work examines our public personas and private lives, describing her working method as «editing life».

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.