Men's high levels of body talk were symptomatic of a growing obsession with appearance, she added.
Both sisters seem to have arrived at a place where the obsession with appearance is more a source of amusement than a source of anguish.
He really seems to think that the world he displays, of money, celebrity, flattery, name-dropping, and, of course, an all-consuming obsession with appearance, is something to flaunt.
She paints doll-like women with pouty mouths and perfect porcelain skin; yet their eyes are empty, hinting at the superficiality of their beauty and the artist's reflection on her generation's obsession with appearance and consumption.
That's due in part to the meticulousness of Michael Attenborough's incisive staging, whereby an entirely British cast fully connects with the particularly American obsession with appearance embedded in Mr. LaBute's title.
Add to this the pressures of achieving academically, plus an obsession with appearance that is prevalent in an age group desperate to fit in, and no wonder some struggle.
As Viroli demonstrates, they exhibit instead the characteristics of servility, including flattery, blind devotion to powerful men, an inclination to lie, obsession with appearances, imitation, buffoonery, acquiescence, and docility.
The stars of "Shahs," which begins on Sunday on Bravo, are members of the reality tribe, defined not by ethnicity, nationality or religion, but by preening, boastfulness, obsession with appearances, crassness, conformism, thin skin and a tendency to violence.
That analyst said that the obsession with appearances applied even to Mr. Skilling's departure from Enron: "When he resigned, it was for 'personal reasons' and everybody stuck to that story.
The leaf blower represents everything that people say is bad about the suburban lifestyle: its obsession with appearances, its heedless hostility to neighbors and the environment, and its elevation of neatness and conformity into the ultimate aesthetic ideal.
There may be things about her three principals that she will not say (Dr. Foster's obsession with appearances, particularly with his wife's, goes well beyond anything that racial inequity can explain), but there does not appear to be anything she didn't know.
