self-presentation

Example Sentences

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It signaled a kind of self-awareness, an emotional confidence and a willingness to take social risks—qualities that matter far more for long-term collaboration than flawless self-presentation.

From The Wall Street Journal

They are tools in a hypercompetitive news market and a means of self-presentation on social media.

From The Wall Street Journal

Her roles in the 1950s diminished in plausibility, and Crawford’s acting stiffened into rigid self-presentation.

From The Wall Street Journal

In the wonderful, Cambridge-set “Ludwig,” David Mitchell, best known here for “Peep Show,” “Upstart Crow” and as an irascible team captain on the panel show “Would I Lie to You?,” plays John Taylor, a professional inventor of puzzles — awkward, timid, with no social life and a disconnect from and disdain for modern times that Mitchell’s own self-presentation sometimes suggests.

From Los Angeles Times

Counterintuitively, it’s formally conservative; whatever the subject, one mockumentary now looks quite a bit like another, with the side eyes and addresses to the camera and a sometimes desperate self-presentation on the part of its characters.

From Los Angeles Times