Being what I call a Type A-minus personality (driven but willing to admit defeat), I was ready to take the class by storm.
Entitled Laminations, it's her attempt to pin down the random detritus of a whirling world; a review dubs it an "I Ching for Intelligent Chicks" and Frederica "a new mini-personality".
Some leaders resent what they see as Mr Jiang's preference for former Shanghai-based officials such as Mr Zeng.For all the mini-personality cult that Mr Jiang enjoys, he does not have the charisma and experience needed to impose his will on the party in the way Deng once did.
At his side is an intrepid, seemingly indestructible, rock-collecting little robot (R2-D2 meets Wall-E) of doglike loyalty named Rover, minus the personality quirks of its forerunners.
They accuse him of promoting his cronies, of fostering his own mini-cult of personality, and of wanting to cling to power into his dotage in the manner of Mao and Deng.
We set out to examine the concurrent validity of a mini-interview for personality disorder Structured Assessment of personality - Abbreviated Scale [ 4].
To begin with — and really, this is all you need — the star is Laurent Lucas, a kind of Gallic Joaquin Phoenix minus talent or personality.
They are not competitions so much as ritualized mini-dramas centered on the personality and worthiness of the contestant.
Each of the 18 mini-films featured a single personality from a given area describing him or herself (with some colorful B-roll) and the reasons for his or her electoral choice.
As the crew members are laboriously introduced, they turn out to be the same old cross-section of sci-fi personality types (minus any African-Americans or Asians).
It's somehow grotesque and dull, didactic and indulgent all at once—"Gossip Girl," minus the pleasure and personality, crossed with the 1971 best-seller "Go Ask Alice," a diary of a teen-age girl's drug spiral that is now widely understood to have been fabricated by a therapist as a sort of flamboyant P.S.A.
