Referring to Mr. Roth and to Jerry Lewis and Vincent Gallo, kindred maestros of self-loathing and self-absorption, Mr. Perry said, "These are men who fearlessly and egomaniacally put themselves out there and become a target by allowing their face and their private persona to be open for discussion".
He even tried to recall Mr. Ryan from office, back when Mr. Quinn was the Solti of Sundays, a maestro of self-aggrandizing press conferences exploiting the news media's desperate need for anything that looked like news.
"The next Toscanini you're not," mutters the Concertmaster, who hates the self-loving Maestro.
Mr. Black, in the title role, undergoes a transformation at the hands of the self-help maestro Tony Robbins and perceives inner beauty as its physical counterpart.
"I don't like to guest-conduct so much," said this most self-effacing maestro (if that is not in fact an oxymoron).
Monday's program was the second-highest rated this year, bested only by a Feb. 17 appearance by self-help maestro Dr. Phil McGraw.
Self-regarding maestros are bemused by the quiet endings of nearly all of his music, which guarantee that there will be no burst of applause at the end.
This Britain is designed to gratify a British audience and beguile Americans; it is self-delusion masquerading as self-deprecation.Its main exponent is Richard Curtis, the "romcom" maestro behind "Four Weddings and a Funeral" and other saccharine distractions (though Woody Allen has tried to muscle in).
He may have extremely high self regard, and he may be a maestro at promoting himself.
But while the disciplined Barry became self-reliant, with little patience for neediness or insincerity, the undisciplined Bill became self-indulgent, a maw of need and maestro of faux sincerity.
