Are these acts of mimesis, as Gilman argues, "fundamentally egoless"?
Djerzinski's theories end in the creation, as soon as the year 2029, of a race of new, immortal, nonviolent, sex-free, egoless beings, of whom the ostensible author is, to our surprise, one; he graciously dedicates his book to obsolete mankind.
Although Pacino remembers this time as "probably the best period" of his adult life — "It was as close to egoless as I've ever been" — four years into his self-imposed exile from Hollywood he was running out of money and Keaton was running out of patience.
From the outset of her acting career — she studied at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), in Sydney, from 1990 to 1992 — Blanchett exhibited an uncanny ability to enter the kind of egoless state that her former teacher the director Lindy Davies calls "transformational".
He seems as egoless as he is guileless and stateless.
When Clinton's eyes fill up as he listens to tales of distress, his tears signal that he has ascended to a higher, egoless level of concern, leaving his suspicious linguistic fluency far behind him.
First, its rhetorical posture is egoless; there's nobody there to underwrite either sincerity or its contradiction.
Donilon, the national security adviser, seems "egoless," for example, and the head of the Joint Special Operations Command manages to look at problems "without ego or emotion".
In a characteristically egoless image, she looks like an apparition of flickering light.
Chances are that only an artist whose work is as determinedly egoless as Lichtenstein's could get away with such a salute to self, and even make it moving, which he does, tapping a strain of vulnerability and poignancy in his art that is otherwise hard to locate.
