"We both bluff, exaggerate, ignore; maintain alliances, betray loyalties, reward courage, seek affection; we annoy one another out of boredom; we mock our betters; we respond to flattery; we punish and humiliate those we can, and with those we can't we cultivate appearances.
Then he follows up with a story about how Gould cultivated the appearance of eccentricity onstage in order to "wow" the audience.
Since then, artists by the hundreds have cultivated the appearance of no-hands procedure, either by using mechanical means or, like Roy Lichtenstein or Photo-Realist painters, by feigning them.
It was more that we needed to cultivate the appearance of having a bad attitude".
As long as an annulment was possible, she had to cultivate an "appearance of credit" with the King, as she explained to her brother.
Cultivating the appearance of virtue might have been a more politic strategy, but she chose, instead, to model her style and behavior on those of a royal paramour.
In response to criticism of Douglass' acceptance of political office, Blight notes that "some freedom fighters wear starched shirts, cultivate their appearance, and battle evil with words".
14 times On fleek, adjectival phrase: Extremely good, attractive, or stylish. 2 times Lumbersexual, noun: A young urban man who cultivates an appearance and style of dress (typified by a beard and check shirt) suggestive of a rugged, outdoor lifestyle.
If Mr. Stinchcomb looks like he has spent hours cultivating the appearance of having just rolled out of bed, the band's second lead singer, Tim Ruedeman, looks as if he is still asleep in one.
