| 单词 | preen |
| 例句 | He preened himself, then asked the question again, this time in a coaxing tone. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z But this wasn’t the time to gloat or preen, or even to relax. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z She preened, then touched the gland near the top of her tail and lubricated her dry feathers with its oils. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The cinnamon teal waddled onto the bank and preened its feathers. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z There were always adults available to encourage this relentless preening. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I prance from rack to rack, I preen. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z "You going somewhere, or just wearing a hole in that carpet while you preen?" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The assassin tried not to preen—and failed miserably. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z It hopped to a higher blade of grass, preened, and sang its morning song. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Although a creature of the wilds it had a leaning towards civilisation, and preened and smiled in a jam-jar in some cottage window without resentment, living quite a week if given water. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z He flew up to a low branch and glared down at them, betrayed, preening his feathers, making his feathers sticky with the syrup too. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Sir Fig Newton lay on my unmade bed, preening with intense resolve. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z It preened a long iridescent feather, shook its head, raised and lowered its crest in a gesture that was somehow threatening, and turned to gaze at us with a perfectly round, yellow eye. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The statue of the preening lion no longer gleams. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Boo preened himself, taking dramatic pauses to glare at them every now and then. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Sumac preened himself happily on the other side, and I will say I felt as full and content as Mama Killa at that moment. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Jaja turned to the statue of the preening lion as we drove past it, his lips moving soundlessly. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Perched on a myrtle tree, Boo began to preen himself. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The emotion of years of unfulfilled longing preened in their voices. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Sally was stroking her hair, preening like a peacock. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “You two are not going to embarrass me in front of the Guardians. Spines straight! Wings preened! Beaks pointed!” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z A dusty gloom hung over the chicken pen where the five remaining roosters uneasily preened their gorgeous feathers as they waited for the Angel of Death to chop, pluck, and disembowel their youthful, awakening bodies. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z When dinner was done, the fire would blaze on; Frightful would sit on the foot post of the bed and preen and wipe her beak and shake. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z No questions, no interviews—but there was certainly a lot of preening. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Something in his smile reminded her of Blake, that preening buck from the old days. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The lilac bushes preened at the railing, but there were no lilacs yet. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The Handsome One grabbed a piece of Tica’s hair in his beak and preened it slowly, carefully. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z At this moment Frightful, who had been sitting quietly on her stump, began to preen. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The cheerleaders bounced, sashayed, strutted, preened, and generally acted as if they had died and gone to heaven. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Through the lens Axel watches the adult preen the baby, touching it with his beak. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z There are video screens on which flawless complexions turn, preen, sigh through their parted lips, are caressed. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He preens on the railing, raising his beak majestically, fluffing his feathers. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Pinch pointed up and sure enough, Andeg, sitting out of reach on a high branch, certainly looked guilty as he glared down and preened his new growth of feathers. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z “Indeed we have,” said Hallgrimsson, and if Coram had had to describe his expression, he would have said that the scholar was preening himself just a little. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z But long before the sound of their lowing and the sight of their preening, the building was leased to a Hungarian baker, modestly famous for his brioche and poppy-seed rolls. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z At her gentlest touch he will preen, stretch, and open his mouth. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Frightful shook out her feathers and preened and oiled them. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z She crouched in the stern, preening her wing feathers with her teeth, which didn’t look like a very effective form of personal hygiene. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z So you saw horses soaring and preening on rooftops; you saw birds by the thousands running through the streets and along highways. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z He shapes it into a narrow cylinder then rolls the paper, licking the edge with the delicacy of a preening cat. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He preened, even as the rumbles of the Maafa smashing against the Golden Crescent shook the room. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z He preened, his left wing lightly touching my scarred cheek. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Andeg preened his feathers, very glad to be so warm, bobbed his sleek head, and blinked his brilliant eyes. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z He took a long wing feather into his beak and slowly preened himself. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z So she preened her flight feathers, wiped her cheek on her shoulder, and walked under an overhanging rock. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Her crying stopped, and Malcolm saw her smile and laugh and preen herself, as if she had done something splendid. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Alex looks over at Henry, who’s groaning and rolling his eyes under his mother’s preening, and smiles at how much closer this packaging is to the real, messy, complicated Henry. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z To the rest of the Barrel she was the Peacock, though Inej had always thought she looked less like a bird than a preening cat. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z She was preening her now silver-gray, black, and white feathers. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z From them she looked into immeasurable distances—above, below, and to all sides—then nervously preened her feathers. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z She preened her feathers and watched the sun set. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z I preened a while, this way and that. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Maya just preened a little as Grace’s phone buzzed again. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z He spent hours communing with them, preening their feathers with a stick while sitting in the dust and gobbling softly at them. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z He tries to ignore Henry a few feet to his left, currently getting a final preening from a royal stylist. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Standing in the middle of a concrete slab, scared for their lives, they preened. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Dimple could see her practically preening for the crowd. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The Handsome One squawked in protest, then fluffed himself out and began preening his belly feathers as if to show he didn’t need my assistance. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z On the far side of the pond, peacocks strutted and preened. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z On a day so pure and steady trees preened. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z She tried to hop to her stump and preen. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z She turned and preened in the air, ran her fingers through her hair, and examined herself as if delighted by her own beauty all over again. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z He reaches around to preen his wing as a group of preschoolers leans over the wharf railing, dropping rocks off the side. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m from Jupiter,” declared one man, preening himself. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z While that character, Fleur, primped and preened for an imagined camera as if on a livestream, she bragged about her “social media fluency” on an address to a “royal hiring academy.” Kate Soper Returns to Opera With a Story Medieval and Modern 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z Fiennes’s onscreen presence, sometimes a bit desiccated and chilly, is here richly sanguine and even rather exuberantly conceived, playing Dickens as the preening peacock of emotional pain. Ralph Fiennes's 20 best film performances – ranked! 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z It was hardly a prototype for the ages: pining and preening get old. Dance Review: Francesca Harper’s ‘Art Prototype 2013’ Mocks Beauty Shows 2013-08-18T21:57:41Z There was no saying what particular beasts they were, but all had a creaturely preen to them. Cunningham company offers a dazzling farewell 2011-10-30T23:02:04Z After a repeat of her initial statement, he handled her more aggressively, but he ended kneeling beside her as she preened. Dance Review: Cherylyn Lavagnino Dance at Danspace Project 2012-06-29T23:23:49Z Not only is Tyson feisty and funny and glowing with inner light, but her co-stars prove more than compelling: Vanessa Williams is politely savage as her preening daughter-in-law, icy without becoming a dragon. Review: Tyson sublime in 'The Trip to Bountiful' 2013-04-24T00:05:09Z Jimmy is hungry and hustling; Saul, preening and peacocky; Gene, beaten and bitter. ‘Saul’ Great, Man 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z The preening Schmidt and the broken Nick are perfectly cast supporting characters, and they have helped make “New Girl” huge-hearted, ridiculous and hilarious, however you feel about Zooey. 2012′s best — so far! 2012-07-04T14:00:00Z Given Claire’s preening egoism and tendency to denigrate her intimates gently, it’s a safe bet that the role will not prove a stretch. | 'Go Back to Where You Are': From Amphitheater Bit Player to God?s Errand Boy 2011-04-13T02:01:25Z Buff and wearing nothing but tighty whities, Mr. Walker preened and strutted and described his elaborate grooming rituals, drawing bursts of laughter. Bret Easton Ellis Takes In ‘American Psycho’ the Musical 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z Cooking shows these days are over produced, even the ingredients look too preened and cleaned up for television viewing. A Slower Pace for TV’s ‘Galloping Gourmet’ 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z One of our best actors takes on a role that could be self-congratulatory and preening in less experienced hands by letting his character’s emotional life serve the play rather than the other way around. The Year in Theatre and Farewell to a Friend 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z Its most prominent brand ambassadors are, of course, the preening and tensing men of Love Island, who are effectively one giant regional gym made flesh. ‘Get shredded in six weeks!’ The problem with extreme male body transformations 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z In compensation, they get to preen over their “genius” hair, certainly compared with Pinter’s. Review: In ‘Textplay,’ Stoppard and Beckett Get Snarky, FWIW 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z In Manhattan he discovered a home and showcase for his extravagant preening, befriending the Club Kids’ founders Michael Alig, James St. James and others. Richie Rich, the ’90s Club Kid, Goes Virtual for Beauty 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z “I feel like we’re in ‘Best in Show,’” he said, making a reference to Christopher Guest’s mockumentary about preening owners competing in dog shows. Helmut Lang Returns! Or Does He? 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z On the banks of Yosemite Creek, brown-headed canvasback ducks plunged and preened. Airstream trailer stays add retro glam to a road trip down the Pacific Coast 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z Jes Tom, 29, has a swagger that is at once preening, arch, acidic and world-weary. Five Nonbinary Comics on This Moment: ‘I’m Not Some New Buzzword’ 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z As Rosenblum boasted about the academy's diversity track record, Vergara preened and posed like a beauty pageant contestant on a spinning platform. Emmys 2014: A night of highs and lows for women 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z Some colleagues found him vain and preening, and his teaching mediocre. How did one of the worst paedophiles in history get away with his crimes? | Robert Booth 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z Later, three dancers wearing point shoes arch and preen in birdlike stances — a program note calls this section “Herons” and suggests they represent the elite who “turn their backs on poverty.” Review: Film Overwhelms Dance in a Mud-Caked Trip to Brazil 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z We asked ourselves, very directly and candidly, whether we were being precious, whether this was a purely symbolic effort to expiate our white guilt, or preen self-righteously before the public. We want Robert E. Lee’s name off our school — and in return, we were greeted with hateful Internet trolling 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z His show on Monday evening was a casually friendly career survey devoid of the preening grandiosity that often accompanies such autobiographies. Review: You Ain’t Never Heard a Baritone Like His 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z “Open Plan” justifies the Whitney’s fifth-floor preening, demonstrating in five ways its ingenious versatility through the use of space as artistic material. Review: Ingenious Versatility in the Whitney’s ‘Open Plan’ 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z His nemesis the Joker is a more frequent and annoying presence, played as a preening, pimpish sociopath by Jared Leto. Review: ‘Suicide Squad’ Chases Nihilistic Swagger but Trips Over Its Own Feet 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z She’s been exhumed yet again to pout and preen and die in “Marie Antoinette,” David Adjmi’s cursory comic strip of a play at Yale Repertory Theater, a co-production with American Repertory Theater. Theater Review: David Adjmi’s ‘Marie Antoinette’ at Yale Repertory Theater 2012-11-12T17:08:56Z For competing with his ambition was an equal sense of modesty, drummed into him by his mother: “Bushes were to win, but not to brag; succeed, but not preen.” Review: In ‘Destiny and Power,’ George H.W. Bush Epitomizes a Vanishing G.O.P. 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z There is just something about that preening pixie face that makes my fingers flex murderously. When Beyonc?'s on stage, our rock gods should quake 2011-02-13T00:06:39Z In most other films set in a college, the Winklevoss twins would be the preening, privileged Aryans who torture the lonely nerd until he gets his revenge. 'The Social Network': A Pie in the Facebook 2010-09-24T18:50:00Z Louis is a preening male chauvinist in a three-piece suit. Populaire – review 2013-06-01T23:05:28Z But underneath his ridiculous macho preening is a quivering marshmallow. Movie Review: ‘The Watch,’ With Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn 2012-07-26T23:50:07Z The fits of pique and preening can be funny — Richard checks out his reflection before the deposition scene in which he calls for a mirror. Review: Royal Shakespeare Company’s ‘King and Country’ at BAM 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z Inspired by what he heard, McLellan instead made a 40-minute film to accompany the album, with its moments of teenagers jumping in rivers, preening before a mirror and just hanging out delivering a timeless feeling. Saint Etienne looks to the past but limits the nostalgia 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z It seemed like a place for preening and pretending. Camille Cosby: A life spent juggling her role as public figure with desire to be private 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z “There is something refreshing about a show that doesn’t let Picasso preen on his pedestal,” wrote The Economist. Hannah Gadsby’s Picasso Show Was Meant to Ignite Debate. And It Did. 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z The eagle in the tree turned its back to us and then started preening. A special reunion at the National Arboretum 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Tending to his own flossy coif with comb, hair dryer, spray and oversize scissors, Trump is the delusional, preening Norma Desmond from one of his favorite movies, “Sunset Boulevard.” Stephanie Grisham, the Latest White House Memoirist, Offers Apologies and Payback 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z Right now the show is little more than rich people dawdling and preening on a stage. ‘Barococo’ Review: Fop Till You Drop 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z When he tells these folks that they are to be in a movie, some preen, others shyly decline and yet others start philosophizing about what it means to live a life worthy of cinema. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z Then our boat glided into a rookery with hundreds of herons and storks, each one as big as a 2-year-old child, perched, preening or at times filling the sky overhead. Vietnam’s Empty Forests 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z The constant preening and tweaking means that running for office is the equivalent of every day being your wedding — with everyone fussing over you constantly. How politicians get camera-ready: Stylists and media training 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z He copies Mr. Schuman’s photographs, then digitally alters them to turn a preening peacock into a turkey. Front Row: The Sartorialist Blog Is a Victim of Knockoffs 2010-03-31T19:46:00Z When Loki isn’t pulverizing midtown Manhattan, he’s preening like a Ziegfeld showgirl and disgorging contemptuous aphorisms in the manner of an Oscar Wilde dandy with Tourette’s. Marvel's The Avengers: A Superhero Roundup That's Almost Super 2012-04-25T12:25:56Z There followed decades of Garden gigs, one band after another, mostly white guys, preening or skulking under the lights at the arena’s Eighth Avenue end. Searching for Transcendence with Radiohead 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z Here, standing amid a scattered wreckage of books and loose papers, he is both an affecting emblem of bewilderment and a tower of preening vanity. Review: Screwball Eggheads Tear Up the Library in ‘Travesties’ 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z Linked in spirit to Aravena’s interest in unpretentious as opposed to preening beauty, it begins by asking if “bravura” architectural effects are still possible in cities struggling since 2008 with austerity and scarcity. A grassroots, handmade Venice Architecture Biennale from Alejandro Aravena 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z It isn’t easy to look equally convincing whether strutting and preening or rocketing from relevé balances to the floor and back up again on the knuckles of your toes. Dance Review: Sending Signals With Songs, Struts and Static 2010-02-26T22:57:00Z Jim Morrison, now dead 46 years, leers, taunts and preens from every angle. The Doors defined California cool in the ’60s. How does their legacy stack up 50 years later? 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z Would that we could all see as clearly, that we could downplay something as precious as Hutchison’s voice, as he does here, rather than preening. Frightened Rabbit Evolves with Pedestrian Verse 2013-02-07T15:00:35Z To that end, Thor enters midfight on a battlefield washed in grayish red light, preening and posing and showboating alongside characters from Marvel’s “Guardians of the Galaxy.” ‘Thor: Love and Thunder’ Review: A God’s Comic Twilight 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z As with Brat, the offerings here — decidedly Mediterranean — are far more about the local ingredients than about a chef’s preening. Beyond Porridge and Boiled Mutton: A Taste of London 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z This is the Everyman Murray, the crasher of kickball games and karaoke jams, who would rather borrow your 10-speed than preen on a red carpet. The greatest role of Bill Murray’s life has been playing Bill Murray 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z They are both victims of a hypocritical, repressive, male-dominated world, though the actual men in their lives are weak, preening mediocrities. ‘Shirley’ Review: A Writer as Scary as Her Stories 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z He sits awhile, preening, then loops off in a long, dipping flight above the ocean of trees. T Magazine: Send in the Clouds 2011-11-18T13:08:53Z While I despise the status that is accorded to designer labels or expensive cars, I've happily joined consensual preening chats with other Mac owners for years. David Mitchell: are smug Apple users losing their cachet? 2010-06-05T23:06:00Z When baritone Michael Adams introduces himself as the would-be alpha male Sergeant Belcore, for example, his preening gestures perfectly complement the stylized vocal turns. Seattle Opera’s ‘Elixir of Love’ beams with the joy of singing, even in virtual format 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z He found the humor in Lancelot’s self-aggrandizing anthem “C’est Moi,” in which that preening knight describes himself as “a French Prometheus unbound.” Music Review: Operatic Slugger Drives Some Pop 2011-04-03T21:11:49Z The theme of its holiday windows is “Theater of Dreams,” its windows filled with preening starlets, usherettes and a poodle in hair curlers. Why Holiday Windows Still Matter 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z Women are expected to spend time in bathrooms, primping or preening or powdering or whatever other p-word it is they do in there, and we love them for it. Gene Weingarten: That awkward moment when you take your kid to the restroom 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z Otherwise, “his only thought was to get rid of you,” as he strutted around, predatory and preening: the “epitome of the normal male.” Review | What inspired sculptor Louise Bourgeois? One novelist takes a guess. 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z There is still something rather awesome about the gathering of yakking, coruscating ghosts — preening, complaining, dueling — that the talented Mr. Stein has released into the Internet’s ether. Critic?s Notebook: Paris Review Editor Frees Menagerie of Wordsmiths 2010-10-22T23:00:00Z Jagger himself was impressively animated, prancing and preening in his signature style, twisting, contorting and shimmying his still-lithe body in ways that seemed to belie his 71 years. Rolling Stones reunite with their more dangerous past at 'secret' L.A. show 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Getting the jokes allows the audience to preen itself on being with the insiders. Matthew Broderick, Nathan Lane and Stockard Channing in 'It's Only a Play' on Broadway 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z Unlike Stephen Colbert’s know-it-all blowhard on “The Colbert Report,” Mr. Friedlander doesn’t preen or ramp up the bombast. Critic’s Notebook: Judah Friedlander’s Stand-up Comedy 2012-09-05T22:20:35Z They are dramatic, they preen, they get depressed, they fall in love. At a Public School in Denver, Refugee Children Find Hope and Frustration 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z In films, he has excelled at preening seducers. John Malkovich: 'I had a lot of violence growing up, but so what?' 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z Betzer films a man’s world unabashedly but without pride or preening. Two Excellent Independent Films: “Wild Canaries” and “Young Bodies Heal Quickly” 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z She seems to have lived peripheral to multiple different worlds of preening ambition. Review | An artist who stood apart from D.C. intrigue and the New York whirl 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z And here’s Charles Dickens, a preening coxcomb prepared to spend eternity congratulating himself on his own literary reputation. The sparks fly when Tolstoy, Jefferson and Dickens meet in the afterlife 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z As a host, she was flamboyant and awkward, preening in loud, shimmering outfits that mirrored the psychedelia of the GIF-and-Instagram-influenced art that filled the show’s interstitial bits. Miley Cyrus Delivers Many Story Lines to 2015 V.M.A.s 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z My mum said she ran for the camera to capture the moment, which reminded her of those television programmes where you see chimps preening each other. Family life 2011-01-15T00:05:55Z Mr. Harris threatens to steal the movie with his portrayal of this vain, preening fop, a hissable baddie whose mug is plastered with a ridiculous, curling handlebar. Seth MacFarlane’s ‘A Million Ways to Die in the West’ 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z It’s no insult to Howerton to say that Dennis’s character can mostly be conveyed by an inert, silent dummy; his strutting, preening, psychopathic personality comes through just by looking at the doll’s blank face. The Comforts of Watching “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” Eat Itself 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z It lures you in with its soaring jets and preening male fighter jocks, but the real story is one about male vulnerability. The lost meaning of "Top Gun" 2022-05-28T04:00:00Z Viking is a perfect ideological Rorschach blot of a villain: You could read him either as a preening liberal elitist or as a coldblooded Ayn Rand techno-capitalist, depending on what you hate most. ‘Cold Pursuit’ Review: Liam Neeson Is a Killer Snowplow Driver 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z All that posing and preening can be a brand-builder, she acknowledged. Mamie Gummer Wants to Make a Name for Herself 2012-10-05T20:45:19Z It was clear that this was not a place that was preening itself for tourists. Minorca, Off the Coast of Spain, Is a Tranquil Biosphere Reserve 2012-04-13T17:28:35Z More distinctive performances are given by Gary Cole as the hotel’s pragmatic owner, and by Norbert Leo Butz as a preening, theatrical surgeon. Review: ‘Mercy Street,’ a Civil War Hospital Drama on PBS 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z In “Lost for Words,” it’s the world of literary politics — preening, narcissistic and obsessed with status. Edward St. Aubyn’s ‘Lost for Words’ 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z In his most famous story, a preening St. Petersburg bachelor wakes up one morning without a nose. The Russian Comic Writer Who’s an Antidote to Mad Times 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z His enemies are preening, scornful and often foolish noblemen, out to promote clannish interests or reconciliation with Rome. “Tubes”: What the Internet is made of 2012-05-28T00:30:00Z If the proliferation of men’s-wear blogs and dapper new clothing lines are any indication, the boys are beginning to preen again. Doodled Dandies 2010-07-27T15:48:00Z He struts across the stage like a preening wizard, turning his eyes into golf balls whenever Griffin takes a solo. Doomed for life: How Pentagram became metal’s ultimate survivors 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z Back in the green room, Teyana Taylor and her preening are commanding attention. Meet Kanye West's newest stars: Big Sean, 2 Chainz, Common and Pusha T 2012-09-28T12:00:00Z The horrific “American Psycho” came his way because of “Dorian Gray”; it features a thumping club score by Duncan Sheik and stars Benjamin Walker as the preening murderer Patrick Bateman. The killer career of Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z On the subject of glamour: Lady Rizo knows how silly it is, but also how much fun it is, to dress up and preen. Music Review: Lady Rizo, a k a Amelia Zirin-Brown, at Joe’s Pub 2013-01-18T22:18:24Z But Rosie Huntington-Whiteley preened and pouted for Michael Bay’s leery lens in “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” and hardly suffered for it: She has a starring role in the coming “Mad Max: Fury Road.” Some Fashion Models Are Better in Movies Than Others 2014-04-18T18:38:50Z He was preening, mercurial, a creature of luxurious comforts and particular tastes. Karl Lagerfeld, the Designer Who Dressed to Survive 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z Henry’s biggest challenge involves deciding who is meant for him: a shy, quirky colleague or a preening narcissist. Review: In ‘Evolution of Mann,’ Fumbling Cuteness Goes Only So Far 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z Take a preening English rock star on the down slope of a once-huge career and a shlubby American talent agent trying to make his bones. "Get Him to the Greek": '30s screwball bromance 2010-06-04T00:20:00Z Girls, clucking loudly and preening, raced to the floor and took up spaces. ‘Being poor is not inevitable or due to personal flaws. I know, I’ve been there’ | Mary O’Hara 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z As had been the case in The Producers, Mars's character – a preening, velvet-suited geologist – represented one buffoon among a parade of eccentrics. Kenneth Mars obituary 2011-02-15T18:47:58Z In its scale, monotony of materials and color, preening formalism and disregard for the gritty urban fabric, the hub is the sort of object-building that might seem at home on the Washington Mall. Santiago Calatrava’s Transit Hub Is a Soaring Symbol of a Boondoggle 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z And behind its macho preening is a preposterous, routinely executed story about the theft of bricks from the Kalgoorlie-Boulder goldfields in Western Australia. ‘Son of a Gun,’ a Ewan McGregor Action-Adventure 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z The preening and self-consciously decadent elite were never the whole of Paris, and with few exceptions — Proust and Wilde being the obvious ones — didn’t leave much of interest behind. Hanging With the Wits and Dandies of the Belle Époque 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z The result is fine enough, but it throws off the balance of the dish, whose true focus is the rice, steamed in chicken stock until it preens. Thai Cuisine With an Added Touch of Whimsy 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z Swain’s Damon rolls on the floor and preens like a cat. On ‘Pose,’ dancing isn’t just about self-expression. It’s a survival skill for trans women. 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z He’s clearly never watched the preening, cooing pigeons doing their springtime-in-Paris dance. Books of The Times: In France, Sauciness Extends Well Beyond Food 2011-06-15T23:45:43Z Nor does he reckon with the fact that there is almost always something preening and aggressive in the act of enumerating of one’s own weaknesses. A Writer Gets Candid About Marriage and Humiliation in ‘The Trouble With Men’ 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z Matthew Maher stands out among the supporting players for his complacently doltish Acaste, preening himself on his own stupidity like a cat licking its fur after lapping up a saucer of milk. | 'The School for Lies': Glittering Opprobrium in Iambic Pentameter 2011-05-02T04:27:03Z It also throws in a dash of comedy with Stanley Tucci’s amusing portrayal of Louis’s preening, effeminate brother. Review: In ‘A Little Chaos,’ a Guileless Kate Winslet Offsets a Lavish Versailles 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Russell Brand's performance was one of the funniest, most memorable parts of "Forgetting Sarah Marshall," and here he reprises the role of preening British rock star Aldous Snow. Capsule reviews: 'Get Him to the Greek' and others 2010-06-03T21:39:00Z Still, the film nicely captures the grad-student vibe: beer-fueled bull sessions about science, religion, probability and destiny; fragile, self-absorbed egos preening even as confidence wavers. | 'Watching TV With the Red Chinese': Gillian Jacobs in ?Watching TV With the Red Chinese? ? Review 2012-01-20T01:46:56Z Diggs portrays the Marquis de Lafayette in Act 1 and, in Act 2, a wondrously preening version of Jefferson, returning from Paris after the war to sing “What’d I Miss.” ‘Hamilton’: Making ecstatic history 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z And back in the studio, when he riles up the crowd with some Trumpian indecency, and sneers and preens foolishly amid their angry response, his exhilarating impression communicates opposition and contempt all on its own. A Trump Impersonator Worthy of Being Called “A Disgrace to the World” 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z Cats with names like Precious, Prince, Smokey and Angel preened to be petted, fought in an adjoining room and napped inside a baby-grand piano. Loretta Lynn Mines a Legacy of Heartaches and High Notes 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z But it’s mostly idiosyncratic egos and preening emotions that occupy this compact center stage. Review | ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ amps up the glamour at Folger 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z The weirdest scene is a one-reel home movie of the Baroness and Robert preening before the camera. Movie Review: ‘Galapagos Affair,’ Historical Documentary of Island Expats 2014-04-03T23:28:00Z In “Birds,” the peacock preens like a fashion model to the Barcarolle from “The Tales of Hoffmann.” 2010-01-30T05:48:00Z I spotted him after the ceremony with his wife, surrounded by hundreds of preening celebrities, casually holding the Oscar he had just won for best original song, for Man or Muppet from The Muppets. Flight of the Conchords: ‘We're retired sex symbols' 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z For nonactors, preening in front of a camera with directors calling out emotions to convey merely with facial expressions and gestures can be cringe inducing. 15 Minutes of Fame Is Too Much. Try 6 Seconds. 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z Jefferson was a clever tactician, but also a preening showboat; Hamilton had serious “skill with a quill”, yet he could also be a self-destructive windbag. Patriotism on Broadway 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z The novel follows the ageing Generalissimo through his last day on earth as his assassins circle, showing him as a grotesque character whose failing body is no bar to his preening machismo. Mario Vargas Llosa: Five essential novels 2010-10-07T15:55:00Z Gina: The point is, he makes this fair game by preening his appearance. Perspective | President Trump: The new Mae West? Let us explain. 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z The red carpet these days is where actresses woo fashion brands, fashion brands woo actresses, and actresses preen for preening’s sake. Viola Davis: ‘A Symbol of Hope in Dark Times’ 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z And George W. Bush, preening in Top Gun gear and justifying his war to no one in particular. Raymond Pettibon, Wielding an Art Mightier Than the Sword 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z We first meet Marie as a pretty, preening, egotistical teenager who believes she will evade the anonymous torpor of provincial life and become the center of all France’s attention. Review | Amélie Nothomb is a must-read author in France. ‘Strike Your Heart’ shows why. 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z This preening young aristocrat is so blatantly shallow, selfish and manipulative that he doesn’t seem to warrant a tumble much less a mortal sacrifice. Review: Rupert Everett Brings Oscar Wilde to the Stage in ‘The Judas Kiss’ 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z At school, he is picked on by his teacher, Manders, a preening bully with detritus in his beard. The Truth About Leo by David Yelland 2010-04-16T23:10:00Z In places on the album, though, he's still preening and presumptuous, and these vestigial moments are welcome. Country crooner Toby Keith has a new CD, without the old attitude 2010-10-04T23:08:00Z And so people preen and posture and tease and bait. | 'Uncle Vanya': Chekhov?s Slugfest, With Pratfalls 2011-08-07T21:36:44Z It was an older school of rock-hero behavior, full of preening and bombast. Critic’s Notebook: Axl Rose and Kanye West, Heroes of Governors Ball 2013-06-10T21:53:47Z The robust-voiced baritone Luke Scott conveys Conti’s preening entitlement as well as the insecurity of a fearful man who sees the world changing. Review: ‘¡Figaro! (90210),’ a California Love Triangle 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z “She has unembarrassed goodness as well. In this time of snark, preening, sub-tweeting and the showy torment of characters, we could use more Tyler.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z She spends earlier scenes preening, her perky blond coif lacquered to catch the light, her eyes rimmed in black for maximum impact, her curves enhanced by an array of form-fitting costumes. Diane Keaton, Hiding in Plain Sight 2010-11-15T19:16:00Z But its furniture is almost too comfortable and too lovingly restored, and it is left to Damon to provide the tale's one properly unruly ingredient as the florid, preening ranger. True Grit 2011-01-04T20:38:08Z The economist preens; the Shakespearean knows that “all scholarly endeavor was eventually . . . tucked . . . into endless paper beds, installed within tombstone covers and seldom disturbed.” “The Shakespeare Requirement” Is a Sad-Professor Satire That Burns with Moral Anger 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z True, he's just swallowed up half of our allotted interview time to be preened by hair and makeup, but he is head-turningly handsome: tall, lean, raffish, chiselled. Irrfan Khan: 'I object to the term Bollywood' 2013-07-25T18:00:00Z The style is ornate and layered, syntactically complicated, and it sometimes preens right up to the edge of overwriting before pulling itself back with an arresting image or self-deflating observation. A Renowned Travel Writer’s Letters From the Road 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z Vidal knew how to play up to his image, and was obligingly both preening and sardonic, inviting me to notice for instance his facial resemblance, in the cheekbone area, to Pasolini. Adam Mars-Jones: my lunch at the Dorchester with Gore Vidal 2012-08-03T07:00:37Z The preening, lovelorn rock band Maroon 5 has reportedly been selected to perform at the next halftime show, one of the most widely coveted and feared gigs in the whole of popular music. Should Maroon 5 Not Play the Super Bowl Halftime Show? 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z He is unremittingly pretentious, preening — and superb company. A Playful Masterpiece That Expanded the Novel’s Possibilities 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z As Tolson, Hammer purrs and preens, ostensibly as gay as Bill Tilden, but DiCaprio’s Hoover can take little pleasure in the nearness of the man he loves. Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar: Yanking the FBI Chief Out of the Closet 2011-11-08T16:35:25Z In love songs, words could preen in bright colors; in anti songs, they attacked in camouflage. Opinion: K’naan, on Censoring Himself For Success 2012-12-08T18:30:19Z And Holmes — rendered here as something of a preening buffoon — sashays smugly around one crime scene only to fall splat onto key evidence. David Arquette falls flat as Sherlock Holmes at the Warner Theatre 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z All the while, Ms. Doherty’s body turned into a wave as she rocked from side to side with her expressions both pained and preening. Review: An Astute Choreographer Stumbles (and Rises) to Hope 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z True to form, she preens and sings as the wealthy and flamboyant Lavinia Peck-Foster, who is found with her husband’s dead body in the trunk of her car. What’s on TV: ‘Trial & Error’ and ‘Hidden’ 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z Many of them sport stylized renderings of leaping fish, lumbering elephants, soaring birds, prancing female nudes and prowling or preening panthers. Shows full of sparkle at Museum of Glass 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z It’s a seamless effort that comes alive with a dazzling ensemble that includes Jason Isaacs as Zhukov, a preening military force, and Michael Palin as Molotov, a first deputy prime minister. Review: The Slapstick Horror of ‘The Death of Stalin’ 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z As I watched through binoculars, he glared imperiously, then preened. Eagle-Eyed Urbanites? Winter Treks 2011-02-17T21:01:12Z Acrobats, trapeze artists, lion tamers and circus animals preen across the five large display windows beneath a red-and-white striped big top that calls to mind the American flag. Dante Ferretti Goes From Cinecitta to Madison Avenue 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z What interests me is bringing music back from being preened and polished and stylised. Why Cerys Matthews wants to teach the world to sing 2013-06-01T05:59:01Z Carrey may have created the best PG-movie villain in decades: a perfectly calibrated comedy machine whose preening, glowering and frustrated sputtering somehow still seem spur of the moment. ‘Sonic the Hedgehog 2’ Review: Keep Up! Bada-Brrring! 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z Classic Yohji clothes are relaxed and durable, so that the wearer looks stylish but not preening. Yohji Yamamoto: the people's designer who cuts loose from the catwalk 2011-03-14T17:44:24Z Two costumed revelers preen and strut, making eyes at each other, while the third, a lovelorn musician, looks on. Masterpieces From Scotland Visit the Frick 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Throughout the crowded locker room, N.F.L. employees, reporters, and corporate sponsors watch him, bemused, taking photos of him, accidentally standing in his way as he struts and preens. The Profound Silence of Marshawn Lynch 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z Soon after that they recorded “Locked Down” — Mr. Auerbach produces and plays guitar — which is a bit more preening and academic. Spring Performance: Music: Dr. John Plays Three Weekends at BAM 2012-02-24T20:50:19Z What lovely work “titivate” — “to preen” — does there, with its light aura of fussiness and futility. He Was a Prominent Holocaust Survivor. But His Story Was a Hoax. 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z Human vulnerabilities manifest as extreme, the preening and posturing and deep panic attacks of inadequacy are acute, occasionally insufferable. My Summer Waiting Tables at the Writers’ Retreat 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z Even with serious scholars like the Harvard professor Ruth R. Wisse and sensitive writers like Cynthia Ozick, Mr. Wolfe shows that empathy and principle evaporate into preening chauvinism and callous disregard for others. ‘At Home in Exile,’ on the Jewish Diaspora, by Alan Wolfe 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z Couldn't get enough of their no-nonsense preening and posturing. Can Trinny and Susannah win back our hearts? 2010-09-30T11:39:00Z All the while they get distracted by zany side-quests, pal around with odd sidekicks and preen narcissistically. The Antihero’s Last Gasp 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z “Want” plays with the idea of desire, beginning with a prologue in which two dancers are transformed by donning elegant shoes, preening before an invisible mirror. Seattle Dance Project bids a bittersweet goodbye 2014-05-03T22:47:15Z In addition, three videos in the gallery show Ghanaian bodybuilders pumping and preening, in classic scenes of homosocial, and presumably heterosexual, camaraderie. Amar Kanwar at Marian Goodman, Lyle Ashton Harris at CRG 2010-04-01T22:40:00Z But he ultimately proved dispensable, always played second fiddle, and before he became Rocky’s trainer, was deliberately characterised as an uppity, preening buppie. Creed adds to short list of boxing films starring a black hero 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z Certainly theater audiences have always been asked to accept such odd failures of perception, but Elena is also an actress—a better one than her preening husband. 'The Guardsman' at NoHo Arts Center 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z Therefore, the females do not need to do much grooming, preening, for other than hygienic purposes. ‘I Feel Pretty’ and the Rise of Beauty-Standard Denialism 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z Well, the last thing we need is another preening berk with a hot temper. When one frontman is as good as any other 2013-05-23T13:14:08Z To his friends, he was known as Duke, which gives some idea of his preening self-regard, a facade after nervous breakdowns torched banking and military careers. ‘As It Turns Out,’ a Sister’s Remembrance of Edie Sedgwick and Andy Warhol 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z The film opens on a school picture day with high-school boys preening in a bathroom and lines of students snaking outside. ‘Licorice Pizza’ Review: California Dreaming and Scheming 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z As I understood it, this was the land of Liberace, a neon catwalk for the un-self-conscious preening of the “Swingers” crowd, a font of mob nostalgia for “Casino” fans. Lost in Las Vegas 2011-02-04T19:55:00Z Over the following decades, against a backdrop of political turmoil, he hopscotched across the spectrum of available styles, from conservative-modernist to extravagant kitsch to preening avant-garde. Review | Lucio Fontana slashed his canvases with a knife. Was it a gimmick or something more? 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z The desired effect was achieved as the participants circled the freshly preened vehicles and took down dealer ifo. Porsches, Helicopters and the Monticello Motor Club 2012-06-14T21:33:06Z There were some fine, stylish performances, however — from Gary Sullivan, who danced and preened as the Rt. A game but low-energy ‘H.M.S. Pinafore’ 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z As of the final preview, the company was largely preening, not being, and one or two of the performances are totally off. Review: Coward, Coward Everywhere, From Cabaret to West End and On 2010-10-05T13:42:00Z This gives his dancing definition but also contributes to a static quality and a preening suggestion of body worship. Dance Review: ‘Dancing the Gods,’ a Festival of Indian Movement 2014-04-29T20:20:23Z Fashion is a business of aesthetics, but these virtual gatherings offer attendees no real opportunity to preen. Perspective | Inside the virtual fashion party scene, where supermodels may materialize and your clothes don’t matter 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z Nobody preens better than Ms. Dvorovenko, whose legs immediately need to be registered as weapons of mass destruction. Theater Review: ‘On Your Toes,’ With Christine Baranski, at City Center 2013-05-09T21:00:33Z His sensitivity to matters of consent and misogyny are hard-earned after a youth of macho preening and homophobic slurs. Review | Raising a boy in 2020 is tough. Three new books aimed at fathers offer some guidance. 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z Moritz Junge’s costumes show people in everyday outfits, including a group of men in rumpled black suits, who preen about like the town’s enforcers of propriety. Review: At Met Opera, ‘Pagliacci’ Goes Vaudeville as ‘Cavalleria’ Turns 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z The other half was stuffed with shiny, preening Disney Channel moppets in unbuttoned shirts blurting out scenes one phonetically memorized syllable at a time. Reboot regrets: the TV revivals that should never have happened 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z Musically, his sludgy, house-inflected beats are mostly minimal, a platform for his preening and posturing, but occasionally hit on a sharp tune. Zebra Katz – review 2013-06-09T15:06:55Z Costume designer Alejo Vietti’s filmy period suits, skirts and shorts are fetchingly designed for these romantically combustible characters to preen in. Shakespeare Theatre throws a musical punch with ‘Kiss Me, Kate’ 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z The man with the parrot on his shoulder was preening as he examined necklaces before a vanity’s mirror. An Avant-Garde Director Sets the Stage for Hermès 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z I thought pop was all about pompous, preening ninnies. The Darkness's Justin Hawkins: 'Contrary to expectations, you'd never catch me dogging' 2012-08-23T19:30:00Z They suggest no vanity or actorly preening but a keen self-awareness—and understanding of Davis—through the lens. Kind of Clichéd: How the Miles Davis Movie Could Have Been Better 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Popular culture’s fascination with — and derision for — the pomp and preening baked into awards shows can’t but extend to the women fixed in the cameras’ glare. On the Golden Globes Red Carpet, Fighting Back in Black 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z As a performer she shares certain qualities associated with her subject: an ability to make the crassest vulgarities sound like crystalline repartee, an earthy glamour and a preening, kittenish imperiousness that’s somehow warmly endearing. Theater Review: ‘I’ll Eat You Last,’ Starring Bette Midler 2013-04-25T02:00:01Z As far as preening, provocative, self-important, misguided and annoyingly good-looking frontmen go, Jim Morrison was the best of his era. The Doors are as respect-worthy as MC5 2010-04-05T10:06:00Z Smallwood’s references to Kafka and Kant and Thomas Mann never feel like intellectual preening. A Debut Novel With Prose as Lively as Its Heroine’s Mind 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z There is no preening prettiness here as the dancers, dressed nonchalantly in green and black practice wear, fling their legs to the sky with a hard, dominating glare at the audience. The Washington Ballet, perfectly balanced in Forsythe’s ‘In the Middle’ 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z Clinton and Penny reserve their darkest shade for former President Eric Dunn, a preening, bombastic one-termer who shredded the country’s reputation and retreated to Florida to sulk, play golf and plot his return. Hillary Clinton and Louise Penny Deliver a Page-Turner Part Sly, Part Sweet 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z The smug, preening male characters bear the brunt of the satire. Movie Review: ‘What’s in a Name?,’ a Farce About a Fractious Evening 2013-12-12T23:26:35Z Ms. Lovette is one of the company’s beauties, but she wastes no time on preening her loveliness. Debuts at New York City Ballet 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z I sauntered up to the front, ordered a coffee and inquired about the baked goods preening on a cake stand. Waco, Tex., needed fixing. Luckily, Chip and Joanna Gaines had the tools. 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z In the 15 years that have passed since then, it is anything but a secret in a world of competing buff, preening dandies. Review: In ‘Zoolander 2,’ All Is Still Vanity 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z The title character of “Carlos” broods and preens over his determination to be a revolutionary outlaw hero. ‘Wasp Network’ Review: Fleeing Cuba With Loyalties in Question 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Brianne purrs and preens even as she expresses skepticism, and whines and demurs when she might bare real claws. ‘1 + 1’ Review: She Just Wants to Be His Plaything 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z Not one to preen, Ms. Hahn didn’t record an early album of encores, as many young musicians do. Hilary Hahn Returns to Bach, 21 Years Older. And Maybe Wiser. 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z In the late 1970s, this couple covered their library walls with scenes of pigeons preening, princesses bathing in garden pavilions and princes drunkenly picnicking, painted between 1600 and 1850. Antiques: Asia Week Dealers Stress Provenance 2011-03-17T20:46:32Z “Songs About Jane” is not a great record, but it is nonetheless the band’s best record, a collection of preening, blue-eyed soul that occasionally makes gestures toward alternative rock and roll. The Artless Spectacle of Maroon 5 at the Super Bowl 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z It was unclear if the ritual was part of any Christmas, Kwanzaa or Festivus tradition, but the revelry resumed after their preening drew to a close. Red Egg, a New Dance Spot in Chinatown ? Bo?te 2012-01-04T22:26:00Z Others preen, yell nonsensically and often look as if they were about to careen into the audience. On Comedy: The Comedy of Murderfist and The Birthday Boys 2013-12-10T22:37:39Z You can spot a “Sparkle pony” by her rainbow dreads, platforms and preening, while you will certainly have the dubious opportunity to see several “shirtcockers”, men who sport a shirt and nothing else. The crazy world of Burning Man – festival survival guide 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z These are the areas that males and females preen in the early stages of their courtship in the wild. Do our pets ever really love us – or do they just stick around for the food? 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z She preens in a leopard-skin outfit, and when asked a question emits not a word but a noise: "Miaow!" Anna Nicole: the opera 2011-01-02T00:04:04Z The food at both places shows great skill and self-assurance with very little preening and self-consciousness. Le Crocodile Shows How a New York Brasserie Should Look and Taste 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z Davis preens as Mr. Calpito keeps his own legs suspended an inch off the ground for an excruciating amount of time and tells you that you should be doing the same. Is This the Breakout Star of Virtual Fitness? 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z In places on the album, though, he’s still preening, and these vestigial moments are welcome. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-10-03T22:17:00Z But the lush 15-acre park overlooking the Matanzas River and St. Augustine Inlet is actually a delightful and informative place to pass a few hours among the majestic live oak trees and preening peacocks. 36 Hours in St. Augustine 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z Elisabeth Moss and Dominic West ride shotgun as, respectively, a brittle journalist who keeps a pet chimpanzee and a preening conceptual artist whose address is interrupted by a heckler with Tourette syndrome. Cannes 2017 – the best of week two 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z There’s often a violinist in a corner, or a worried stage mother preening on the sidelines. For ‘Little Dancer’ set designer Beowulf Boritt, windows into the soul We glided up and down on a teeter-totter in a deserted playground, while enormous white swans preened their feathers on the banks of the Main River a few feet away. Frankfurt on the fly: A long layover allows for a walking tour of the German city 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z He has no ability to see himself as others see him; following each plunge into the toilet, he struts and preens, as though he were accepting applause. Perspective | Who would be a better president than the current one? For starters, my cat. 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z Now Memphis is a Blaxploitation cartoon who can be distractingly flamboyant, as when he hijacks one of Queen’s key scenes by preening barechested. ‘The Life’ Review: Turning More Than a Few New Tricks 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z But as dancing, it’s often impressive, including the preening Mr. Flatley. | 'Lord of the Dance 3D': Irish Feet Aflutter, Stepping Into an Extra Dimension 2011-03-16T21:53:24Z Nude Hindu holy men preen and cavort as nervous pilgrims scurry by. Art Review | 'Pilgrimage and Buddhist Art': On the Road With Seekers at the Asia Society 2010-03-18T23:04:00Z "Anne Hathaway at least tried to sing and dance and preen along to the goings on, but Franco seemed distant, uninterested and content to keep his Cheshire-cat-meets-smug smile on display throughout." No prizes to Oscars hosts James Franco and Anne Hathaway 2011-02-28T13:19:43Z He showed little enthusiasm for celebrities preened by teams of experts, and was instead much more excited by the genuine self-styled fashionistas of the streets. Bill Cunningham’s democratic lens: Style blogs owe his empowering eye for fashion a huge debt 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z When I see so many pouty, preening female celebrities, I wonder if they ever feel silly, playing up sex appeal to almost comical levels. "Glee's" mysteriously shrinking Rachel 2010-10-08T17:30:00Z It is probably a bit tacky for these world leaders to pose and preen together, but they are only human. The media’s Michelle Obama problem: What a selfie says about our biases 2013-12-10T23:59:00Z They strapped cameras onto their white-water rafting helmets, preened while scampering on a ropes course, and were excited about making a short movie with their cousins at summer’s end. That’s a Wrap. What Did I Miss? 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z Coward’s patter songs revel so unabashedly in their own preening turns of phrase that they invite a performer to adopt a brittle, supercilious tone. Music Review: Channeling the Smart Set, but Hold the Snobbishness 2010-03-01T22:52:00Z Advertisement Advertisement The whole business risks mockery, but it’s played dead-sober, with only Mr. Moyer having some hint of preening fun with his villainy. Review: In ‘The Bastard Executioner,’ a Warrior Switches Blades 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z The blazer and the preening are a nod to the fact that there's a photographer with us, who, for the purpose of this introduction, as is traditional, I'm going to pretend isn't here. In conversation: Nathan Englander and Jonathan Safran Foer 2012-02-10T09:00:01Z One of the 20th century’s most powerful creations was the rock star: the preening, erotic god of guitar-fired defiance. The Gay Architects of Classic Rock 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z Jenna Sauers, who writes about fashion on Jezebel, the feminist blog, would happily trade in the streamlined, preening Mr. Jacobs, for the older, apparently gentler model. The Survivor 2011-06-01T20:37:21Z The point work they do — usually with knees bent — isn’t effeminate or even preening. All Jooked Up With Everywhere to Go 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z Masturdon: A lumbering, shaggy-haired mammal given to nocturnal bellows and preening shows of dominance. Style Invitational Week 1231: TankaWanka 3 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z He identifies as queer and hot, he says, preening with ironic self-regard. Review: In ‘Leo Reich: Literally Who Cares?!,’ He’s Too Hot to Live 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z She must avoid the noxious preening that taints so many memoirs of their authors’ misspent youth. Books of The Times: A Young Muse in the Service of Male Writers 2011-03-20T21:14:14Z It seemed like a place for preening and pretending. Camille Cosby: A life spent juggling her role as public figure with desire to be private 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z She preens contentedly in a magnificent red dress during a coronation scene that features a luxury sedan for the new ruling couple, and she cradles a candle during the sleepwalking scene. Review | The king feels more like a pawn in updated, political ‘Macbeth’ 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z These allow Mr. Arias’s Alice to preen and glower in full diva mode while using his multi-octave voice to provide antic variations on pop standards like “Midnight at the Oasis.” Review: In ‘Sisters’ Follies,’ Basil Twist Conjures Two Avant-Garde 1915 Benefactors 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z As we approached the bridge leading to the wetland’s exit, a blue-and-red azure kingfisher sat on a branch over the river, preening itself in the sun. Cycling Along the Great Victorian Rail Trail 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z Matt Damon again proves he can do anything, joining the duo on the trail as a preening Texas Ranger. Capsule reviews: 'True Grit,' 'Little Fockers' 2010-12-22T18:47:15Z Who is the foremost pompous, preening ninny in pop? The Darkness's Justin Hawkins: 'Contrary to expectations, you'd never catch me dogging' 2012-08-23T19:30:00Z Since the show first aired, McElhenney has been contacted on social media by a number of game developers who all assumed that they alone were the inspiration for the preening buffoon. Rob McElhenney: 'I was fuelled by privilege, ignorance and testosterone' 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z He had seen actresses in their fishtail dresses preening and posing before the phalanxes of photographers at ceremonies like the Golden Globes and the Oscars. Bill Cunningham, Legendary Times Fashion Photographer, Dies at 87 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z Though he hates being interviewed, he’s happy to preen for the cameras, showing off this designer outfit or that luxury sports car. Critic’s Notebook: Chief Keef’s New Album is ‘Finally Rich’ 2012-12-19T23:07:51Z As he leads us through the City, which is even more glassy and preening when it is Sunday-empty, I speak to the punters. Harry Potter and the end of a pop-culture phenomenon 2011-07-12T18:59:01Z Is he a preening narcissist of limited ability? All-male Egyptian sitcom leaves women out of laughs 2013-06-18T14:15:00Z So the old-fashioned narration and preening models in his spring show were a bit of a sendup. Gaultier, Under New Management, and Focus of an Exhibition, Has a New Lease on Life 2012-02-29T21:29:58Z Eighteen years ago MTV pioneered "reality TV" with The Real World, a brainless festival of preening teen narcissism. Delicious Dahl 2010-03-28T00:05:00Z But even as he preens, he is driven above all by the belief that the truth must be brought forth: for him the public good and right conduct dictated by reason are indistinguishable. Theater Review: ‘An Enemy of the People’ at Samuel J. Friedman Theater 2012-09-28T02:00:19Z Instagram has escalated them into thirst traps of preening bodies and unicorn rafts as massive as a cruise liner. Perspective | Pool parties are soul-crushing spectacles of half-naked strangers posing next to an artificial swamp 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z The monster was never found but a preening Gore became a star. South Park's Al Gore apology contains an inconvenient truth: it's funny 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z The remaining 1 percent can openly preen about newly acquired treasures at Art Basel Miami Beach, as Mr. Orlofsky of the Gagosian Gallery noted. Art Basel Miami Beach: Where Art and Commerce Come Together and Party 2010-12-10T19:11:00Z What is worse is that the historical particulars of the story are sacrificed to Mr. Schnabel’s restless, preening stylishness. | 'Miral': Hopes and Struggles in a Difficult Land 2011-03-24T21:53:01Z He writes about these details in a way that resemble Tom Wolfe in his novels, but with less starch in the shirts, with less preening. Gary Shteyngart Is Back, on the Road and Still a Master of Dislocation 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z These preening dandies, played by Chris Pine and Billy Magnussen, share the funniest song, “Agony,” in which they bellyache about the pain of the yet-unconsummated romantic chase as they cavort around a waterfall. ‘Into the Woods,’ Disney’s Take on the Sondheim-Lapine Classic 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z She was also critical of his preening profile photos. Vows: Christy Ely and Peter Tiboris: A Reunion That Was a Long Time Coming 2014-01-17T18:41:34Z It lures you in with its soaring jets and preening male fighter jocks, but the real story is one about male vulnerability. The lost meaning of "Top Gun" 2022-05-28T04:00:00Z In a reversal of roles, animals in exotic outfits are seen preening on a catwalk, while backstage naked humans are confined to cages. On the Runway Blog: From PETA, a Video of Animals Strutting Their Stuff 2013-02-06T18:34:33Z At the unveiling, I was more excited than anybody: I'd fallen hard for these funny, flawed, tough women, and I loved watching them preen and vogue in their finery. 'Real Women Have Curves': funny, flawed and fabulous 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z The modern-dress characters primp and preen, drink cocktails and run up large bills on their mobile phones. Imeneo – review 2013-03-12T18:56:27Z There would be no pseudo-authoritative biographies or prying, preening magazine profiles to complicate our pleasures, and ambitious actors would not dare to impersonate beloved novelists. Review: ‘The End of the Tour’ Offers a Tale of Two Davids 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z The budget is bigger and the explosions louder but nothing can dispel the air of contractual preening as the has-beens jockey for pole position in the unfunny one-liners stakes. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2012-12-09T00:05:40Z Nor is it terribly intriguing when the Spittituccis prey on the vanity of the messenger, rendered with preening arrogance by Doug Wilder, to lure him into their show as Mephistopheles. The new farce ‘The Good Devil’ presents a banana peel of a plot 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z Firth's performance -- which won the best actor award at the Venice Film Festival -- is one of the finest of the year, a wondrous surprise at the heart of this otherwise preening, shallow movie. 2009-12-10T01:10:00Z Inevitably, when I looked over, one of them would be sprawled on the carpet, the other preening triumphantly. Who Said ‘Game of Thrones’ Wasn’t for Kids? 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z He is utterly comfortable in Hedwig’s skin, whether preening in glam wigs and short skirts or, at his most daring, wading into the audience for naughty, naughty in-your-face interactions ripe for strip clubs. Review | Morton sings the hot pants off ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ songs 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z His father, in response, preened, and later told Trump Jr. that he didn’t like his beard. Perspective | President Trump and his eldest son celebrate Father’s Day with a family tradition: grasping for approval 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z She is still preening, tucking her shoulder-length hair behind her ears, a childish tick she has never quite abandoned. Marianne Faithfull, as Years Go By 2011-12-23T21:47:23Z But it is also conveys a uniquely Irish aversion to preening or vanity. Who’s Irish Now? 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z Ainslie, while singing an extremely demanding role, was forced to preen and prance while wearing a variety of garish outfits that included fishnet stockings and a glittering codpiece draped in fringe. Baroque opera in burlesque house 2013-03-21T16:06:09Z “He’s a figure who some people see as too grand, too preening, too quick with a comment,” Mr. Codron said. An Empire Where the Curtain Would Not Fall 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z I plotted and preened and placed myself in his eyeline at every possible moment. My inappropriate relationship 2013-03-24T01:00:00Z In it pixieish young men preen for the camera in the middle of bustling streets and loll around on rolls of fabric in busy market stalls. Art In Review: JULIKA RUDELIUS: ‘Rituals of Capitalism’ 2012-08-09T20:27:20Z Even when he's up against a preening macho man like Harry, who roars up in a Range Rover and never stops roaring. 'The Slap' may challenge notions of fault, but abuse is abuse 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z She preened: “Every thing I do with and for Ted has a celestial radiance, be it only ironing or cooking.” Sylvia Plath’s Letters Reveal a Writer Split in Two 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z Much of the footage shows Morrison posing, preening, screaming and going crazy onstage. | 'When You?re Strange': Documentary Recalls the Fire of Jim Morrison 2010-04-09T00:08:00Z Before the premiere, Mr. Jackson and Mr. Hardwick preened for photographs but entertained questions only from television reporters. 50 Cent Hosts a Rap Concert for ‘Power’ 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z Does All Made Up refer to primping and preening, or making up after a disagreement, or is it hinting at a sustained fiction? All Made Up by Janice Galloway ? review 2011-08-12T09:00:01Z And yet its preening felt more offensive than might have a musical existing entirely outside of history. NBC's 'Hairspray' Hit All the Expected Notes, to Diminished Effect 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z “Is this moral reflection,” Caldwell asked, “or moralistic preening?” A Modern Jeremiah Sees National Decline Everywhere He Looks 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z “More recently, Marvel, in print, movies and television adaptations, has tried to make inclusiveness a central aspect of fan culture and corporate practice. ‘Spider-Verse’ accomplishes this without awkwardness, preening or preaching.” What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Gotham’ and ‘Shrek Forever After’ 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z It played like a pro-wrestling spectacle: Mr. Cruz’s preening heel turn, the hooting crowd, Mr. Trump’s surprise appearance just as the boos crescendoed. A Donald Trump Speech Whose Sunny Spots Came Mostly From the Stage Lights 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z Some adventurous shows dug a little deeper, such as The Larry Sanders Show, which constructed its fictitious late-night talk show as a temple to its host’s preening vanity. Office lol-itics: the evolution of the workplace sitcom 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z For all that a region Mary McCarthy once called “the Seacoast of Bohemia” quietly preens itself on a prevailing Yankee plainness, Wellfleet and Truro can hardly be considered retreats of hoi polloi. The Calming Quiet of Outer Cape Cod 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z Downstairs in a dim basement, a crowd watched a video triptych depicting strangers, many naked, preening for the camera in a Narcissister mask. Up Close: The Mannequin Also Speaks: Up Close With Narcissister 2013-01-16T15:54:06Z The follow-up, “Dynamics,” released last year, was a more introspective effort with underpinnings of preening Britpop and deftly introduced a bit of pathos to the dance floor. New Year's Eve Entertainment in New York 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z And gone is the preening camp of before. Doctor Who recap: The Name of the Doctor – series 33, episode 13 2013-05-18T18:45:00Z M’s Montenegro, whose chief was just seen; N’s Nudged aside so our boss-man could preen. Style Invitational Week 1233: Alphabet noir 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z So there were Kahlo and Kollwitz, two of the pseudonymous founding members of the Guerrilla Girls, the activist, feminist art collective, preening and posing at their 30th anniversary party and retrospective in May. The Guerrilla Girls, After 3 Decades, Still Rattling Art World Cages 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z All that posing, all that preening, all that lip gloss: I’d been turned into someone utterly unrecognizable. I Never Planned on Being a Playboy Pinup 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z Mr. Foster, seen on Broadway in “Orphans” in 2013, provides an effortlessly natural Stanley, unencumbered by the usual preening self-consciousness. Review: A Darwinian ‘Streetcar’ With a Feminist Streak 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z Following those good-hearted bumpkins to the Iowa State Fair and watching them collide with the preening city slickers from Des Moines was like watching a new nation being born. As Life Spins On, the Midway Beckons 2010-08-28T05:01:00Z Of course, the really enjoyable thing about the first few episode of a brand-new "Housewives" spinoff is that the various preening, self-important debutantes on our TV screens are scrambling to choose teams as well. "Real Housewives of D.C.": Meet the new frenemies 2010-07-31T23:01:00Z Donald Trump preened when vice-presidential nominee Mike Pence got good reviews last week for his debate performance. When Trump went low, Steve Bannon found a new direction: Lower. 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z How you loved David Bowie—imagined yourselves in his guise, stood before your bedroom mirrors and preened in mascara, boas and platform shoes. See TIME's Cover Commemorating the life of David Bowie 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z When she was growing up her favorite comic was Eddie Murphy and, like him, she isn’t afraid to swagger, preen or grab her crotch. The Strategic Mind of Ali Wong 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z But as the capital merry-go-round spun its peccadilloes, scandals and ballyhooed promises, his jaunty baritone restored order with bipartisan japes and irreverent songs to deflate the preening ego and the Big Idea. Mark Russell, Piano-Playing Political Satirist, Dies at 90 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z Viewers see Jarvis Cocker, the band’s charismatic frontman, preening and dancing wildly as he sings its biggest hit, “Common People,” while his boisterous audience howls the chorus back at him. A New Documentary Looks at the Band Pulp 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z And I bring it up because I see Erickson’s preening as a shining example of why movement conservatism is more about cultural signifiers than actual politics. The war to be clown-king of the GOP circus: Erick Erickson’s spat with Donald Trump exposes the conservative movement 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z But while watching the footage, I didn’t get the sense that Nancy Pelosi was preening for her daughter’s camera. Perspective | Nancy Pelosi held it together 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z In Ball’s account, Nancy Pelosi is as tough as bullets and knows how to count votes, negotiate and herd her tribe — lost skills in American politics, atrophied in the modern-day rush to preen and tweet. 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2020 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z So perhaps here is where horror and camp begin to work against each other: Can anything that preens so glibly in the spotlight’s glare truly be scary? ‘American Horror Story: Hotel’ Recap: Strange Appetites 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Still, she said she accepts the enduring importance to her work of themes they introduce: grooming and preening, glamour and its fault lines. Lush Morsels From an Artist’s Erotic Imagination 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z The comic bits seemed almost surreal, like the scene when the preening courtiers break into a vaudeville dance, complete with kicks and caps. Review: James Levine Conducts a Noirish Verdi at the Metropolitan Opera 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z Ah, but the Love McMansion is a fantasy destination, to which polished, preening males of the species flock for the right reasons. A suitor on “The Bachelorette” is revealed to be . . . possibly racist 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z But he isn't, and Baldwin is visibly wounded by the subject, with an almost feminine preening. Cannes 2013: Seduced and Abandoned - first look review 2013-05-19T14:37:26Z There is something deeply repellent about this kind of urban preening that does not relate to anything but cash on the line. Hudson Yards Is Manhattan’s Biggest, Newest, Slickest Gated Community. Is This the Neighborhood New York Deserves? 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z And then there is Thulani Zwane, the fly in all of this fancy ointment, who screeches and preens, demanding attention be directed at him, not at the otherwise smooth parade of sounds and sights. Amid All Those Words, An Animated Argument 2011-02-11T23:24:31Z Remembering these emotional turning points, Mr. Gallagher is the opposite of the preening and crowing leading man whom you might expect. Music Review: Peter Gallagher at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency 2012-11-17T02:02:20Z No doubt, the preening teen from Disney's last golden age of young camp rockers was gone. Nick Jonas drops brother act for grown-up moves with album, TV show 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z It reminds me of the Parisian ballets of Serge Lifar, where dancers are forever preening themselves and proclaiming “Moi!” without really showing us why they dance. Review: At School of American Ballet, Passing With Flying Colors 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z Some guests — who preened in eye-popping colors, aggressive patterns, velvet slippers and stiletto heels — were art-struck. AmfAR Heads to Billionaires Row in Palm Beach 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z It wasn't snide or snarky, it was never bored or jaded; but it was abundantly aware of the sheer ridiculousness of the pop machine, and of pop stars' preening and pretentiousness. Young Arts Critics 2010: critical conditions 2010-05-24T20:30:00Z For all her superficiality, Bergman’s Charlotte came across as a woman whose preening vanity was just one of many notes in her character; Ms. Buckley’s cool, crisp Charlotte never acquires any tempering emotional depths. | 'Autumn Sonata': A Fraught Mother-Daughter Drama 2011-04-28T22:18:19Z But by the time I'm at the door, she's dancing, preening and posing again, and I'm a distant memory. 'I'm scary. I'm scaring myself' 2010-04-16T23:09:00Z With cutting rhymes and a sharp sword, he defends dramatic truth against the woeful thespian’s powdered preening. ‘Cyrano’ Review: Who Wrote the Book of Love? 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z My mother was a violent woman who preened in sorrow. Modern Love: Affirmation of a Father?s Love, Etched in Vinyl 2010-06-04T16:24:00Z The scuffling between the disadvantaged proletariat below decks and preening nobs above? Hollywood Came to China; It Was Epic. 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z The arch verse no less than the ruffs and pantaloons too often turn Cyrano into a preening fop, which is exactly what he isn’t. Review: ‘Cyrano de Bergerac,’ Now Noseless and Drunk on Words 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z Fiennes plays the SS officer Amon Göth, a Nazi who is an exemplar of pure evil: hypocritical, banal, smug, preening and cruel. Ralph Fiennes's 20 best film performances – ranked! 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z A smorgasbord of revealing outfits and onstage preening is expected at Saturday's final, but gray-haired acts from the U.K and Russia are stealing most of the attention. This is pop? A look at wacky Eurovision contenders 2012-05-25T12:31:04Z But I’m not the target audience: the masked-up kids in “The Nature of Color” were having a blast, preening in front of projected lights and staring wide-eyed at their prismatic reflections. Seeing Color: A Matter of Nature, or Culture? 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z Indeed, Ms. Portman’s Jackie preens with a purpose, assiduously refining and exploiting her style in a way that was ripe for the television age. Jackie Kennedy: The First Instagram First Lady 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z He cites Basquiat twice, preening his insider knowledge by lyrically incorporating both the artist’s given name and Samo, his original graffiti tag. Jay-Z is Rhyming Picasso and Rothko 2013-07-12T22:13:27Z The specter of the privileged preening among poverty no longer seems to haunt a country with a fast-growing middle class, although the disparity between rich and poor is still evident. IHT Luxury Conference: Brazil and the Fashionable Life 2011-11-09T12:11:45Z He preens, she melts, and when they make music together, they rumba like the stars of a Copacabana floor show. Review: ‘She Loves Me’ Is a Daydream of the Ordinary 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z He remained for a full hour and a half, posing with a seemingly endless line of fans, including preening models and a few photographers who briefly swapped their professional cameras for selfie-friendly iPhones. Joe Biden Drops by a Fashion Party. The Reason? His Daughter. 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z “I prefer my opinion to yours,” preens one official, Garanin, despite the information being presented to him. Chernobyl: horrifying, masterful television that sears on to your brain 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z Drew Drake helps deepen the mood in that final story as a double-crossed husband; Marty Austin Lamar, on the other hand, preens gloriously alongside Rogers as they play the competing rakes. Review | Zora Neale Hurston’s ‘Spunk’ gets revived with flair, and all of it has heart 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z Or see which politicians, in a chamber-full of camera hogs, preen and parade the most? Perspective | The House speaker vote is the best thing on TV right now 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z Wrestlers snarled and preened as they entered the ring to theme music, then thunderously slammed each other to the canvas, careened off the ropes and moaned in submission holds. Inside the Ring of Underground Wrestling 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z But on his end, the marriage plummets quickly from him preening about landing someone another character calls "luscious" to displays of intense, irrational jealousy. TV film throws the book at Drew Peterson 2012-01-16T21:49:00Z This is a tantalizing premise for fans of comedies about vintage theater stars preening their overgrown egos and flamboyant neuroses. | 'The Grand Manner': Kate Burton in A. E. Gurney?s Comedy at Lincoln Center 2010-06-28T02:12:00Z But the dense mix of jungle green leaves and preening parakeets suggested the native Brazil of the designer Daniella Helayel, who is about to open her first store in São Paulo. Prints That Tell a Story 2012-09-16T18:24:24Z His posturing and preening was an elaborate pose, rather than a deeply held conviction. Sebastian Horsley obituary 2010-06-18T14:40:00Z Technically primitive but dramatically sophisticated, Renoir's insertion of an uncouth tramp into the household of his preening bourgeois rescuer still pays satirical dividends. This week's new films 2010-12-18T00:07:33Z Darting, birdlike movements alternated with luxuriant, liquid preening and the occasional coiling crouch or springing leap, before the same proud walk carried him offstage. Alvin Ailey Company Offers Asadata Dafora Work From 1932 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z Paul Morrissey, Viva and the self-proclaimed Superstars of Andy Warhol’s Factory pout and preen. Avedon at Large 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z Stephen Carlile’s cranky Mr. Darling and preening Captain Hook provide fine amusement. ‘Peter Pan’ flies high in panoramic performance at Tysons Corner Center 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z This was light work for her, the casual dismantling of celebrity preening. Without Joan Rivers, ‘Fashion Police’ Is Falling Apart 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z The extravagantly renovated Bolshoi Theater has been preening like a prima donna before the news media’s flashbulbs since it reopened in October. 45 Places to Go in 2012 2012-01-06T17:44:12Z That school’s privileged and preening young men made Golding feel “dirty and ashamed,” Mr. Carey writes. Books of The Times: ?William Golding,? the Lighter Side, by John Carey 2010-07-06T23:03:00Z May I suggest that some of her colleagues, a growing cohort of copycat arm-flashers, might want to check the mirror before again preening sans sleeves? The Mirror: Michelle Obama and the Exposed Arm 2012-09-28T18:12:32Z It hovers before the throng like a preening drone, playful yet vaguely malevolent. Review: With sports and horror movies as canvas, an artist dissects the world's digital upheaval 2023-11-15T05:00:00Z One image especially caught my attention; it was of a group of women preening themselves in a nightclub bathroom. L.A. Affairs: I had three boyfriends. Did I really need another? 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z Birds are known for their elaborate courtship rituals and romantic gestures that are replete with beautiful songs, complex dances, gift-giving practices, preening, and flamboyant plumage. Something in the eyes: Java Sparrows in love show enhanced eye rings 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z But, in the face of their nearly utter ineptitude in governing, they preen. The gang that couldn't shoot straight: Will the GOP's baffling "ignarrogance" be its undoing? 2023-10-15T04:00:00Z She likes a little bit of preening around the face, and she obviously knows and recognizes what food is. What an orphan owl taught an ecologist about bird intelligence 2023-10-01T04:00:00Z A courtship progressed, the male solicitous and preening. Artificial Intelligence Could Finally Let Us Talk with Animals 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z As Republican candidates preen, the haunting truth is their arrogance condemns innocents to early deaths. Republican Presidential Candidates Vow to Fiddle as the Earth Burns 2023-09-01T04:00:00Z Imagine him preening in front of a mirror in the days leading up to his scheduled arrest, trying out various grimaces, the better to determine which might best convey “never surrender!” to his supporters. Commentary: Donald Trump's campy mug shot gives Andy Warhol's infamous mural some competition 2023-08-29T04:00:00Z Religious charlatans like Falwell may have meant to usher in a new Great Awakening, but in fact they taught millions of Americans to be wary of preening ventriloquists who claim to speak for God. America is losing faith in religion | Nicholas D. Kristof 2023-08-27T04:00:00Z So if you happen to raise an orphan like we did with Alfie, that desire to be preened is very relatable. What an orphan owl taught an ecologist about bird intelligence 2023-10-01T04:00:00Z But time and again, Haley seemed to look at the Trump/Ramaswamy wing and implicitly say: You children need to stop preening and deal with reality. Nikki Haley is the best Trump alternative | David Brooks 2023-08-25T04:00:00Z So it’s beyond maddening that our City Hall, for all its ideological preening, still can’t seem to press “Go.” The big tell in this year’s Seattle City Council elections 2023-07-29T04:00:00Z Creel, infusing every line reading with delectable originality, plays the Prince as a preening fop who excuses his behavior by explaining to Cinderella late in the musical that he’s meant to be charming, not sincere. Review: The Tony-nominated 'Into the Woods' revival — maybe the best in my lifetime — lands in L.A. 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z They would prowl among the ruins and preen for the tourists who gathered along the balustrades above, cellphones and cameras in hand. Friends, Tourists, Countrymen, See Where Julius Caesar Was Killed 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z “South Florida is where money goes to preen,” Standiford said in an interview. ‘We’ve had some sensational cases’: Trump’s case will be historic, even by Miami standards 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z Flamboyant, freewheeling, slippery and preening, Silvio Berlusconi loomed over Italian politics for decades as billionaire businessman, media tycoon and prime minister. The Many Twists, Quotes and Scandals of Silvio Berlusconi 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z Its one interesting idea — here were two characters whose breaches of decorum and protocol scandalized a rigidly structured, wackily dressed and hopelessly preening French aristocracy — is interesting mainly as a commentary on Cannes itself. Cannes kicks off with controversies and chuckles as it returns to full force 2023-05-18T04:00:00Z Her pseudo-feminism was always an inch deep, but that was enough to fool some centrist pundits and to allow Republicans to preen about how they're the "real" advocates for women. Trump's dogwhistle to the Christian right is a permission slip to harm women 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z Is bipartisanship what they really want or are they more interested in preening about "unity" while lobbying under the table for corporate interests? The centrist plan to sabotage Joe Biden 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z “We are able to put more fresh, oxygenated water through the wetlands and that just means a healthier ecosystem, all around,” said Isola, pointing out a bald eagle preening atop a cottonwood tree. Here's where California's remarkably wet year is bringing welcome recovery 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z Perhaps not surprisingly, narcissistic arrogance can also come out in the ways one usually associated with pomposity — "pretentiousness, preening, snobbery, a sense they are better than others," according to Durvasula. The 8 traits that can help you identify a narcissist, according to experts 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z Staring into a phone camera, preening to check our makeup or undereye circles, gives us a hyperreal mirror, but this, too, is distorted and reversed. AI’s Best Trick Yet Is Showering Us With Attention 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z There is contemporary evidence that foreigners who encountered the Tudors in their preening glory found it vulgar, impressive and perhaps a bit ridiculous. Perspective | Learning an old lesson from the Tudors: Grifters gonna grift 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z One wonders what he really thought about the pampered, preening, multimillionaire playboys of the contemporary global game, who change hairstyles weekly and win world championships sparingly. Appreciation: Pelé was the greatest soccer player. Was that good or bad for Brazil and for soccer? 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z There are no filters, preening influencers, data-harvesting schemes or algorithmic feeds on Locket — it’s just an easy, no-frills way to share photos with your loved ones. The 2022 Good Tech Awards 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z The traditional format for hearings, in which each committee member gets five minutes to strut and preen, would have been like dosing the country’s water supply with Ambien. Opinion | Bennie Thompson and Liz Cheney are the Jan. 6 committee’s unusual dynamic duo 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z There they were on the road to another victory, preening, gyrating and scowling: the Los Angeles Lakers’ Big Three in defining moments that captured their essence. Perspective | The Los Angeles Lakers, once left for dead, are showing vital signs 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z Take away the profit motive and algorithm, however, and you've changed the calculus away from quantity back to quality — more people tweeting to be funny and fewer seeking engagement through moral superiority preening. Elon Musk must be stopped! If Twitter is to be a true "town square," it's time to socialize it 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z The furry creatures delight newbie onlookers by backstroking, preening and doing all kinds of innocuous things a four-foot-long, 75-pound whiskered marine mammal is capable of. Why Kraken fans’ anger after late collapse is a good thing 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z Usually, Lotus would incubate the eggs overnight and Mr. President would come and relieve her in the morning so she could go preen and hunt. D.C.’s most famous bald eagle couple rebuilds nest in Washington 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z What happens now, they claim, is that not as many people watch or listen to interviews live, while many view short excerpts on social media which are usually gaffes or grandstanding questions by preening interviewers. Nick Robinson: Liz Truss cancelled, but public want their leaders interviewed 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z And his constant preening for the press alienated executives at both companies who had previously been loyal to him. Review | Carlos Ghosn always wanted more — and ended up losing everything 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z And the turbulence of the Reformation gets a lot of arch nods, which are all the funnier in the slangy phrasing of queens who are essentially preening Billboard goddesses. Review | Tony-winning musical ‘Six’ brings girl power to the National Theatre 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z The crowd that packed the center’s pedestrian streets and play areas on a recent sunny afternoon included preening teenagers, screaming toddlers and relaxing retirees. Housing boom around University Village: Will it be a real Seattle neighborhood? 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z Despite the self-important preening from conservative men about "chivalry," the reality that too many women know too well is this: Male supremacy has always been maintained through violence. Our summer of misogynist rage: Toxic men unleash a wave of violent threats aimed at outspoken women 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z At a press conference announcing the organization’s climb-down, DeSantis preened at having prevented “marginalizing some of these athletes based on a decision that has no bearing on their ability to compete with honor or integrity.” Column: How DeSantis bullied the Special Olympics into betraying their own athletes 2022-06-06T04:00:00Z With a singular presence and a deeply personal cadence, he preened and strode, quipped, opined, demanded and screamed into many, many telephones. Robert Evans wouldn't approve of the man playing him on TV. He would be wrong 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z The American right-wing's moral preening about the unborn combined with its fetish for gun violence and resistance to guaranteed health care makes the U.S. a very special place indeed. Why Donald Trump is downplaying the Supreme Court's leaked abortion ruling 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z Twitter favors stories that allow users to engage self-righteous preening, or at least cheap dunks on easy targets. Twitter should have died long ago — let Elon Musk take it out back and shoot it 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z Guardian reviewer Mark Lawson responded: "OK then, you preening pugilistic publicist, let's see what we can do." Talk TV: Piers Morgan attracts mixed reviews after network launch 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z By the end, they were celebrating 3-pointers and dunks in a preening performance on the Tar Heels’ homecourt, sending fans fleeing for the exits with five minutes left. Round 3: UNC, Duke set for 1st NCAA meeting in Final Four 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z All this insecure masculine preening about coming back and not running away is all the more comical because it continues to be obscure what, exactly, the truckers think they were fighting for. Ginni Thomas and the truckers' convoy: Why the right seeks refuge in conspiracy theories 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z After preening Republican senators browbeat Ketanji Brown Jackson, it’s clear: Partisan fights over Supreme Court nominees are now the depressing norm. The elements of a peace deal in Ukraine are clear — but the two sides can't get there yet 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z Couple that with Senate hearings that seem designed more for senatorial preening and bloviating than for examination of a Supreme Court nominee. Opinion | Attacks on Judge Jackson’s record were beyond the pale 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z Birds daily cover their feathers in a substance called preen oil taken from a gland at the base of their tail. Earth’s Sonic Diversity, Secret Bird Scents, Pandemic-Inspired Sci-Fi, and More 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z Travis is the kind of guy who gets excited by having enemies: “You know you’re on your way up when they slap a target on your back,” he preens. Review | Two new shows chronicle the fall of Theranos and rise of Uber — and tally the human cost of tech greed 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z The constant is a bed of Carolina rice, each grain fluffed and preening. Chicken and Potatoes With Commanding Flavor 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z Biden may get away with blaming the Russians for everything when he's kowtowing to war hawks and preening for the cameras in Washington. What's going to happen in Ukraine? Total war, nothing at all or somewhere in between? 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z An outraged public that had endured months of lockdown couldn’t understand why strict rules were being suddenly bent for a preening athlete. Nadal, Djokovic and how character shaped the plot of the Australian Open 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z “Our Zoom meetings now bore no resemblance to most Hill meetings, which involve a lot of posing, preening, and showing off. All that status-seeking behavior was gone.” Review | For Rep. Raskin, personal grief and national trauma collided 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z She stares and preens sarcastically into the camera. #IQuitMyJob I found the photo of the preening model alongside a Rolls-Royce off-putting and superfluous in the extreme. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: What we left out of ‘Images of 2021’ 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z Call me old-fashioned, but I believe bravery in service of one’s country is more worthy of thanks and praise than snarkiness in service of one’s preening ego. Opinion | Eugene Goodman should be Time’s Person of the Year 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z “His daughters, both very pretty and one my own age, just preened when they were riding around in that car.” Perspective | Some people love cars so much they’re sad to see them go — and miss them still 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z The work is at once absurd and touching: tweaking the preening self-satisfaction of the ultrawealthy, while at the same time painting the city with the giddy, dramatic affect of the teenagers she is studying. What Comes Next for an Artist Whose Work Goes Viral? 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z All that’s visible if you lift the lid is the soft, yielding rice on top, fluffy and preening. The Thrilling Dare of Scorched Rice 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z In the meantime, preening politicians like Abbott will continue trying to exploit the situation as best they can. Column: Gov. Abbott says Texas can solve California's port logjam. As usual, he's blowing smoke 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z An 82-year-old aviator, an 18-year-old student, an artist, a billionaire, a celebrity actor, all resplendent in their shiny, new space suits, preening in spectacles aired on prime time. As NASA and SpaceX prepare to fly another crew to the space station, engineers are fixing a leaky toilet on the spacecraft 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z After it became clear that the Diva twins were still preening, the House progressives naturally felt a little bit stung. Fighting to preserve Trump's legacy: Manchin and Sinema cement his only legislative achievement 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z Bill Murray, 23 years after his exquisite turn in Anderson’s “Rushmore,” here delivers another quiet gem, as a nonshowy editor in an office full of preening writers drawn in various shades of diva. 5 movies open Oct. 22 at Seattle-area theaters; here’s what to see 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z And Murray, 23 years after his exquisite turn in Anderson’s “Rushmore,” here delivers another quiet gem, as a nonshowy editor in an office full of preening writers drawn in various shades of diva. ‘The French Dispatch’ review: Star-studded cast delivers in Wes Anderson’s elegant magazine tribute 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z As a portrayal of preening male vanity and misogynistic hypocrisy that exists to this day, “The Last Duel” reaches at relevancy with admirable ambition. Beneath the chain mail and bad hair, ‘The Last Duel’ is a movie about mansplaining and toxic masculinity 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z The birds are now clean of oil, and experts have observed them eating insects and preening their feathers as they prepare to return to the wild. Cleansed of oil, birds harmed by O.C. spill take flight in Huntington Beach 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z The message: If football can be improving, for a certain brand of privy-council young alpha male it’s also an excuse never to grow up and remain a preening, self-impressed bully forever. Perspective | Football made Jon Gruden. Now the NFL must reckon with its creation. 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z The plovers will eventually be placed under a drier, where they can preen and align their feathers. Snowy plovers, already a threatened bird, are caught up in Orange County oil spill 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z So when they get oiled they start preening. Tar balls, oiled birds, and months of cleanup on California’s beaches 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z Birds keep their feathers fluffed — and therefore protective — by preening. Orange County oil spill sparks race to save wildlife 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z On Sunday, brackish ponds were rife with great blue herons, brown pelicans, double-crested cormorants and western gulls preening along shores stained brown by oil. Oil spill seeps into O.C.'s coastal wetlands, a critical link along migratory bird route 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z This is a severe disability, as kea use their dramatically long and curved upper beaks for preening their feathers to get rid of parasites and to remove dirt and grime. Bruce Is a Parrot With a Broken Beak. So He Invented a Tool. 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z The performances viewers see are not mimed to a studio recording that was made in advance and preened to perfection with editing. Respect: Jennifer Hudson on embodying soul legend Aretha Franklin 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z International allies are upset, adversaries are preening, and many Afghans feel betrayed. As they did on the battlefield, the Taliban outlasted the U.S. at the negotiating table 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z Since Trump began his campaign of self-centered, self-entitled whining, preening and racist "straight talk" in 2015, hate crimes and violence against women have exploded by around 20 percent. The QAnon crowd looks familiar: Right-wing cults have long plagued American politics 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z In concert, his frowning expression and rigid posture behind the drums called to mind Sam the Eagle from the Muppets — a welcome comic counterpoint to all the rock-star preening going on around him. Appreciation: Always just enough and never too much: The steadfast genius of Charlie Watts 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z Still, it is enraging to watch a parade of dunderheads preen on cable — anchors and generals and chatterers — the same people whose cheerleading ensnared us in 20 years of quicksand in Iraq and Afghanistan. Opinion | A Rough Beast Returns 2021-08-21T04:00:00Z After two previous performances in the role, in the 2016 “Squad” and in 2020’s “Birds of Prey,” she’s now completely comfortable in the part, saucy, preening, preternaturally cheery and utterly demented. ‘The Suicide Squad’ review: New supervillains add to the bloody-minded fun 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z Whittaker’s team has focused on preen oil, which birds secrete from a gland at the base of the tail and rub onto their feathers. Textbooks say most birds can't smell. Scientists are proving them wrong 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z He acts like a preening buffoon with pretensions of grandeur — doltish and delusional in equal measure. Opinion | Too many people are still underestimating the Trump threat 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z Organized crime, in the place that liked to preen that it was the simon-pure “white spot” of America? Why was the mob in L.A. so much quieter than Chicago or New York? 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z It’s easy to dismiss it all — the copious tears, the never-ending queues, the ever-larger wreaths being carefully placed and preened over — as so much political theater. New movies to stream this week: ‘Georgetown,’ ‘Making ‘The Overcoat’ ’ and more 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z Under a best-case scenario for the governor, a comeback story line from the recall might even help Newsom discredit the image popularized by his GOP gubernatorial rivals of a preening lightweight. Newsom’s spending binge reshapes California recall election 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z He is also, in the eyes of some, a preening prima donna and serial diver. Neymar - does the good outweigh the bad? 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z By then, L.A. was preening itself over movies’ magnificence and munificence. Financial ruin. Possible destruction. What will be the Cinerama’s Hollywood ending? 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z “The rebels took over the establishment,” she writes, “only they wanted to keep preening like revolutionaries as they wielded power.” Opinion | America Has a Ruling Class 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z So maybe a better example would be one of those preening players who was so sure of himself that, just before crossing the goal line, he turned to taunt a pursuing defender. Editorial Roundup: North Carolina 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z Hagler’s Marvelous nickname was bestowed by a Lowell, Mass., journalist when he fought there as an amateur and preened in the ring, emulating Muhammad Ali. Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Middleweight Champion of the 1980s, Dies at 66 2021-03-13T05:00:00Z The "distressed" bird was spotted preening and trying to clean the substance off in a pond off Mane Way on Friday before being rescued on Saturday. White swan turned black by 'printer toner' dumped in pond 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z Instead, he has taken to the favorite medium of our debased age — Twitter — to polish his battered reputation and preen for the possible pursuit of the presidency. Opinion | ‘Pinocchio’ Pompeo is trying to rewrite the history of the past four years 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z “Not exactly two birds of a feather but both with preening pretensions to reaching the heights of former glories.” Tottenham Hotspur v Leeds United: Premier League – live! 2021-01-02T05:00:00Z Runner-up: All of those preening for the sideline videoboard shows when a penalty erased the big play. On Football: From 2020’s best play to its weirdest incident 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z Practically vogueing, he stares, preens and swoops into the shallow stream to wash and flick his feathers. ‘I Had to See That Owl’: Central Park’s New Celebrity Bird 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z We don't want a president to preen over himself. Trump is going overboard in his final days 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z Donald Trump was then, and remains, a vengeful, preening peacock sent by God knows whom to make that reality obvious to one and all. State of chaos: Trump knew us better than we knew ourselves 2020-11-15T05:00:00Z Donald Trump was then, and remains, a vengeful, preening peacock sent by god knows whom to make that reality obvious to one and all. State of Chaos: Donald Trump knew us better than we knew ourselves 2020-11-14T05:00:00Z Trump preens when the stock market soars, as he did on April 10th, when 16 million Americans had just filed for unemployment. The nightmare that Joe Biden could inherit 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z It was a grotesque sight: the president of the United States preening from the White House balcony, his mask pulled defiantly off his face, able to infect anyone around him with the novel coronavirus. How Trump Exemplifies Our Ableist Culture 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z Trump tried to clean up his remarks on Wednesday, but his inconsistency on the topic risks emboldening these groups who are preening from the newfound attention. Editorial Roundup: New York 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z Adesanya preened back at Costa, but largely kept his distance and tagged Costa with kicks. Adesanya defends belt, Błachowicz wins title at UFC 253 2020-09-26T04:00:00Z The project was not about money or energy but about preening diplomacy. Hitachi failed its nuclear test. If only it had the vanity of HS2 | Simon Jenkins 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z With her father’s approval, Ivanka dragged another woman’s rightful spotlight on to her preening superior self without a thought for how it diminished Melania. Relationships, advice, careers… so much of life is lost when you work from home | Barbara Ellen 2020-08-29T04:00:00Z I also hope that the reign of this century’s bipartisan obsession with vulgar preening will be bookended by these two photos of Guilfoyle. Column: Can Kimberly Guilfoyle put American politics back on track? 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z It's clear that Trump hates the press except for his need to preen before the cameras. Too much news coverage of Trump is just sound and fury, signifying nothing 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z There were no gleaming Cadillacs with the hoods pulled down, packed full of preening teenagers with eyes on each other rather than the film. No gleaming Cadillacs as Scotland goes to the drive-in 2020-08-01T04:00:00Z They were so fast that it was impossible to focus on their facial expressions or watch them preen through binoculars. The Mysterious Life of Birds Who Never Come Down 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z Finishing fifth with Leicester hardly counts as failure, except in the context of all that preening over release clauses amid vague interest from Arsenal. Premier League 2019-20 season review: our writers’ best and worst 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z I chatted with two brothers who held aloft a giant kite emblazoned with photographs of themselves, preening, and the soccer star Mohamed Salah, who was beaming. Cairo Badly Needed a Detox. Lockdown Supplied One, at a Steep Price. 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z But there were no altercations, even as dancers strutted and preened inches from officers’ faces and flashed the middle finger at police at the end of performances. D.C. protesters dance outside mayor’s home, demanding she defund police 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z Trump's daily briefings, which for a while afforded him uninterrupted time to preen and attack the press on live national TV, were the best available substitute for the rallies he so craves. Trump makes campaign rally attendees promise not to sue him if they contract the coronavirus 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z White House officials can't settle on a coherent narrative for a simple reason: Trump's decision to tear gas protesters exposed the lie behind his tough-guy preening, showing that he's actually a sniveling coward underneath. Trump's trapped in his own bunker of fear — with his fan base of right wing cowards 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z As always, the elderly, and the heroes who care for them, have been abandoned by policymakers such as Mr. Cuomo who cut care funding while preening for cameras. Opinion | Deciding when and how to reopen 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z In between they sleep and preen and sometimes migrate. Opinion | 7 Tips for Watching Birds During the Spring Lockdown 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z These are lost skills in American politics, atrophied in the modern-day rush to preen and tweet. Review | Nancy Pelosi is an anachronism — in a good way 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z |
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