In possibly the most hilarious example of Communist-autocratic self-delusion yet to come from modern China, the online version of the Chinese Communist Party's official news paper has fallen for a massive, giant, unspeakably hilarious send-up in satirical magazine The Onion.
Though autocratic and self-doubting, Kirstein was a knowledgeable advocate and patron of American art, writing, photography and architecture as well as classical ballet.
In a sense, he already had a voice — a kind of autocratic, intolerant self-consciousness — but it took time to turn his brilliant barroom bitchiness into a more focussed and solid art.
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McEvilley argued that the formalist criticism that dominated the 1960s came to be autocratic and self-aggrandizing in comparison to the more ancient knowledges.
The autocratic and self-absorbed Kim Jong-un's primary goal is to stay in power; that would be impossible in an incinerated North Korea.
On Tuesday Mr. Boulez turned to a true renegade, the Paris-born Varèse, who arrived in America in 1915 as an autocratic, shaggy-haired, self-proclaimed messiah of modernism.
Too self-centered and autocratic to command sympathy, she is instead sinister.
This is the voice of 21st-century self-identity: subjective, autocratic, superstitious, knowing what it wants before it gets it, specifying even the unknown to which it purports to be abandoning itself.
Self-involved actors, autocratic directors, romantic and uninformed producers, complacent audiences, presumptuous critics, cynical corporate sponsors all get their comeuppance here -- even Actors Equityy, the union, one character says, that makes sure "no more than 80percentt of our membership is out of work on any given day".
