A narcissist's self-confidence is inflated and superficial, masking a bottomless insecurity.
But the public face was partly superficial, masking fears and underlying tensions that were bared by Karl Malone in a 1992 interview with The New York Times.
Channeling love and empathy, leveraging faith and courage, let's remove these superficial masks and heal together.
For Stillman, style is a matter of submitting gracefully to the imperatives of society in order to achieve one's personal goals and fulfill one's own will nonetheless — a superficial submission that masks will with beauty, a mode of irony that's not merely logical (Socratic style) but aesthetic.
Superficial harmony inevitably masks significant underlying tensions.
Haroon Mirza, a London-based artist who was awarded the Silver Lion at the 54th Venice Biennale for his installations "Sick" and "The National Apvailion of Then and Now," suggests these flexible boundaries can mask a superficial disdain from the visual art world toward sound.
I don't always like the kind of person that her multimedia installations show me up to be - at certain points rather cynical and overstocked with superficial cultural references that mask how I really feel about life's big things, things that Rist, on the other hand, appears to process through these works as if she's had to consume, digest and pass them personally.
Besides the superficial oxidation layer, the mask ability of the tip-disturbed silicon layer needed to be further investigated.
This can help to remove the mask of superficial confidence when they have been hurt or scared by something or someone.
No mask is trivial or superficial even if it appears to be clichéd in nature.
"In many jobs a wandering mind isn't a superficial condition that somehow masks an employee's good performance; it's a flaw that makes for poor performance".
