There is however a newish breed of self styled experts known as 'trichologists.' The most famous of these is Philip Kingsley.
She is self-styled as being "practically perfect in every way", and this isn't actually far from the truth!
Last summer, in suburban Sunnyvale, California, I hung out at a gathering of synthetic biology weekend hobbyists, self-styled as "bio-hackers" with the excellent name BioCurious.
She married her music to a mysterious image, self-styled as a "gangster Nancy Sinatra", that paid homage to 1960s fashions and seedy showbiz glamour.
Self-styled as "the Bishop", his website boasts that he has "a stunning range of skills" and "his address book has been compared with a particularly hefty volume of the Encyclopedia Britannica".
And how can a ruling self-styled as narrow and modest, applying only to closely-held corporations, expand to embrace pleas from religious non-profits to be exempt from exemptions?Some observers are blaming Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg for accentuating the negative.
Its adherents, self-styled as "beat" (originally meaning "weary," but later also connoting a musical sense, a "beatific" spirituality, and other meanings) and derisively called "beatniks," expressed their alienation from conventional, or "square," society by adopting an almost uniform style of seedy dress, manners, and "hip" vocabulary borrowed from jazz musicians.
At least since "Devil Without a Cause" — his breakthrough LP, from 1998, which sold more than eleven million copies in the U.S. — Kid Rock has self-styled as a patriotic iconoclast, a rebel cowboy on a rampage against anything effete, élite, or soft.
Luxury brands were once thought of — or self-styled — as immune to economic pitfalls, but the precipitous decline in sales at retailers like Neiman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue has shown how serious an impact the global recession has had on all parts of the marketplace.
Self-styled as a "New York street kid," the boisterously outgoing Larkin grew up at the corner of 39th Street and Ninth Avenue — Hell's Kitchen — tougher than which it does not get.
It was self-styled as an "invisible college" of natural philosophers and physicians.
