"The presence of it both affirms my self image as a guy and frustrates me, actually," he said.
But he is too invested in his self-image as an unpopular "Cassandra for his own time".
Japan's reputation — and its self-image — as an efficient, prosperous and smoothly functioning society has been dealt a blow.
Fleshy bathers and barbaric nudes dominate the art of this era along with the minotaur, his self-image as an uncontrollable beast.
In the same way, Ikea's self-image as an ecofriendly company stands in direct contradiction to its campaigns telling you to toss out a perfectly good lamp.
It is possible for her to achieve a self-image as an alluring sexy female, she may (perhaps wrongly) believe she needs to play a submissive role.
For Goldman, it represented a serious assault on its self-image as an honest broker bringing together the buyers and sellers of important investment products.
The self-image as an African "king of kings"; the wild costumes and theatrical tirades; the bizarre lectures on the need to change wordings in the Koran.
Moltz said: "China challenges India's self-image as an Asian technology leader, puts India's low-cost launch market at risk, and makes its satellites vulnerable to possible military attack".
This month the national newsmagazine The Week ran a grandiloquent cover story that captured the country's infatuation with its space program and its self-image as an emerging power.
But critics have long complained about a blotch on the city's self-image as an urban utopia: the Downtown Eastside, a notorious high-poverty neighborhood known for its concentration of homeless people and drug and crime problems.
