He had an instinctive flair for self-projection that did not help with his academic studies.
Caravaggio was, after all, a master of shifting and theatrical self-projection.
How well can you know someone so adept at self-projection and protection, whose guard never seems to come down?
Some suggest he is already Jackson of the Thriller/Bad era, at least in terms of self-projection.
Reality TV and self-motivation books and all that crap, they are all just forms of self-projection.
The conversation made me wonder whether her anxieties about self-projection map on to sketch comedy more generally.
She says this straight-facedly, and I note that, like many stars with a gift for self-projection, she is almost wholly devoid of irony.
"Acting is the ego's unabashed self-projection, so the appeal of Hughes is obvious," you muse, thanks to Peter Conrad in the Observer.
His wry, almost satirical relationship with fame, combined with his masterful skills at self-projection, led him to play with his own name.
And then the heat — the leap to that last sentence, with its combination of Grand Guignol and unverifiable self-projection: How can he really know this?
