He projects aggressive arrogance that doesn't so much conquer decay as ignore it.
Mr. Powell's statement projects an arrogance and lack of respect for a regime that, while authoritarian, is a vast improvement in moving Russian society into a world of free markets, middle-class consumerism and self-respect after the humiliating years of loss of empire and superpower status.
When the Bush folks sneer at things like the World Court or Kyoto, and virtually every other treaty -- without offering any alternatives but their own righteous power -- "they project an arrogance and obsession with power alone," said the political theorist Yaron Ezrahi.
"You want to project confidence not arrogance," Arden says.
Hillary Clinton was warmly and honorably named to one of the most prestigious appointments in his cabinet, but she wasn't singled out with the genuflecting the Clintons had come to expect--and she didn't project that arrogance.
As Edgar, the infirm army captain living in spiteful and isolated wedlock in a dank island outpost, Mr. McKellen projects an aggressive arrogance that doesn't so much conquer decay as ignore it.
Pam Broom, the executive director of the New Orleans-based Women and Agriculture Network, said that when Mr. Turner spoke about the Lower Ninth Ward, he "projected this Northern arrogance about how he was doing what others had failed to do.
Petit, who spent a year of his youth as an apprentice torero in France and Spain, slid one foot along the wire and then the other, his body projecting a sinuous arrogance.
An exceptional comedic performance, the best of the season, largely because Gridley's ability to project confusion and arrogance in the role, almost all at once, brought great heart to an idea that could have worn thin much more quickly without her.
Do you project confidence or arrogance?
Simply using clear, declarative sentences such as "I plan to study such-and-such in order to pursue my career goals of such-and-such" allows you to project confidence without arrogance or condescension.
