It wasn't that he failed to project coolness, strength, or joy; it was that he was so obviously trying to project them.
But social media is also a gestural mechanism that while brilliant for blasting 140 characters of moral outrage, is equally adept at allowing performers who project coolness -- but are unashamed and calculating capitalists, simply edgier and hipper personas than the hated bankers at Goldman Sachs -- to escape the real behaviors that demonstrate economic courage.
Since we are attempting to literally box coolness each month, it was imperative to find celebrities not only at the forefront of cool, but whose coolness projected well into the future.
He was neurotically self-conscious about his affect and his image — he used to scribble reminders to himself to project qualities like coolness, strength, and joy — but the obsession didn't do him much good.
He's an aimless wanderer whose ultimate concern seems to amount to projecting an aura of insouciance, a coolness toward his subjects it is hard for his readers not to catch.
Ms. Kardashian was sitting in the front row at Mr. West's late-night showing at Paris Fashion Week, along with Alicia Keys, Sean Combs, Common and Azealia Banks, so maybe that gives some idea of the target customer he has in mind for a collection that seemed desperately trying to project both an aura of coolness and easy availability.
Even if some people don't get the reference, we still felt it communicated this presidential-slash-coolness that Lieberman needs to project".
Mr. Obama's coolness, his inability or unwillingness to project warmth, to compliment those who felt insecure, or for whom a pat on the back or a mention, a mere mention, would mean a great deal, is the most inexplicable snub seen from Europe, where etiquette and insincerity are social skills.
Take these in turn to see why.In this section The power of numbers The coolness of tiny things Fish and no chips ReprintsTotalitarians, regress!The most important claim is that the number of infants dying each year around the world has dropped from 11.9m in 1990 to roughly 8m in 2008 (and is projected to be 7.7m in 2010).
Coolness is, well, cool these days.
