Nail polish is, of course, less on our minds than the fascination with how a person chooses to display herself.
Dowell maintains that Florence is a woman of the most shallow possible motivations - she wants to look good, dress well, display herself to intellectual advantage, and be catered to.
The view is not merely that an agent would display herself in some counterfactual situations to be responsive to reasons, but rather that her responsiveness to reasons in some counterfactual situations is evidence that her actual conduct itself — the causes giving rise to it — is also in response to rational considerations.
It's a gallery type setting, appropriate for this artist to display herself and her new album, and her shoes.
Then she threw off her coat and displayed herself in a red-and-yellow costume.
As Monroe recalls in this interview, she was, at the age of 11, already being mistaken for a more mature, adolescent girl; such responses from men made her happy, that, by simply displaying herself to strangers, she could cause their faces to "light up" and transform the hostile world into a "friendly" place.
Heartbeats Quicken, Lips Part, Pulses Leap, Grips Tighten and, after a few Meet Cutes in which the heroine displays herself as a lovable, clumsy klutz, and a few fiery put-downs to show she's no pushover, they're going at it like knives in the back of his limo.
Jane is proud of her budding womanhood (she displays herself in a slip to her embarrassed father in a creepy, vaguely incestuous scene) and at first seems interested in her father's lieutenant, a great white hunter played by MGM's resident society fop, Neil Hamilton.
Germaine Greer was here to celebrate her 70th birthday, with a string of events where she displayed herself on fine form, expounding the politics of the orgasm, fulminating against young girls' fixation on "pepto-bismol" pink and arguing passionately that war was the most pressing issue for feminists today.
No, she is on the cover of Star magazine in a red bikini displaying herself like a celebrity of some kind.
Her nudity might not have been essential to the plot of either film, but the way she displayed herself was both performative and pioneering.
