Sentence examples for portrait of ego from inspiring English sources
Out of Sundance alone came Justin Simien's "Dear White People," a bracing comedy on identity and race that has only become more timely as the year has worn on, Gillian Robespierre's "Obvious Child," a rom-com that deals honestly with abortion in an untortured way, and Alex Ross Perry's "Listen Up Philip" a scalding portrait of ego and ambition among two memorably nasty writers.
Their dynamic is as toxic as it is keenly observed, and Birney, under Trip Cullman's direction, creates a vivid portrait of literary ego.
My reaction was reflexive and gleeful: "Joe DiMaggio was watching me?" So there you have it: a portrait of my ego as a big black dog.
This portrait of the ego-as-object is at the heart of Lacan's lifelong critical polemics against Anglo-American ego psychology, with the ego psychologists seeking to strengthen their patients' egos by appealing to supposed autonomous and "conflict-free" sides of these psychical agencies.
There are many rueful chuckles to be harvested from "Supporting Characters," Daniel Schechter's small, minutely observed portrait of fragile egos colliding inside the pressure cooker of New York's indie filmmaking world.
Hopkins (played in the film by Lee J Cobb) is a thinly-veiled portrait of the giant ego of Roy Larsen, president of Time Inc, for whom Wilson worked.
In Walter Bobbie's fitful production of Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's portrait of battling theatrical egos, adapted by Ken Ludwig, Anne Heche portrays Lily Garland, née Mildred Plotka.
In Walter Bobbie's fitful production of Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's portrait of battling theatrical egos, newly trimmed and adapted by Ken Ludwig, Ms. Heche portrays Lily Garland, née Mildred Plotka.
Spalding Gray, playing the director of the pretentious commercial that haunts Jackson, presents an incisive portrait of a half-successful artist whose ego outstrips his accomplishments.
(A total absence of ego).
