Lines like this smack of teenage angst, yet Ms Ernaux's matter-of-fact account manages to avoid the pitfalls of exhibitionism, while forcefully demonstrating how self-awareness can be achieved through alienation.The appetite of French readers for journals has led Seuil, a Paris publisher, to invite a different personality each year to keep a journal with a view to publication.
His typically donnish assessment of the first few times he slept with Consuela might have served as a blurb for the novel as a whole: "controlled by narcissism, by exhibitionism, and despite the energetic display, despite the audacity...strangely inert".
PARANOIA and exhibitionism, two of the defining characteristics of the Soviet system, make a nasty mix.
His show paved the way for the exhibitionism of reality TV, Jerry Springer's real-life exposés, and the shock-jock performances of Rush Limbaugh, Glen Beck and Bill O'Reilly.
The French press splashed the celebrity president and the former supermodel, week after week, across the front pages.The exhibitionism took its toll, though.
A Femen stunt against Vladimir Putin, Russia's president, at a trade fair in Hanover last month made few waves: most people "just shrugged their shoulders", says Dieter Rucht, a German sociologist.Hind Makki, a Muslim feminist blogger, condemns Femen's exhibitionism.
And I would salute anyone who manages to go to at least one of the biennials listed in The World in 2013 that next year will celebrate contemporary art just as long, that is, that the art on display reflects genuine talent rather than crude exhibitionism.
Exhibitionism was anathema to his thoughtful, unassuming nature.
Flamboyant exhibitionism was falling from favour as surgeons, through experience, learned the merits of painstaking, conscientious operation treating the tissues gently and carefully controlling every bleeding point.
Naturally, she was made to feel an ass afterwards and was liberally accused of exhibitionism, but we cannot doubt that the world is fractionally better off because she stood up and got the necessary money to stop so many unnecessary deaths.
American shock-jockey Howard Stern this week caused controversy by declaring that being subjected to Dunham in the altogether "kind of feels like rape" (yes, Howie, that is exactly what rape is like – something you can flip off with a switch), and the New York Post was only slightly less offensive, referring scathingly to her on-screen nudity as "pathological exhibitionism".
