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How to use ego in a sentence

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His wishes were granted, his teeth brushed, his ego massaged, his grapes peeled.
This second figure suggests an alter ego who is critical of the housewife's servile predicament.
Princess Ai is a great character because she feels like my alter ego, but in a fantasy setting.
A psychiatrist advised the police that there was no generally accepted psychiatric disease which would permit a person to blame an alter ego.
Quality leather and period clothing is required, as is a unique registered Cowboy Action name to match your cowboy alter ego.
Jekyll ends up unleashing the worst of his personality and physically transforms into his evil alter ego, Mr Hyde.
Many times one gets the impression he would rather live life as his schizoid alter ego, a sulky, moody 12-year-old trapped in a man's body.
It seems, then, that there is uncertainty from the start as to whether the apparently original self or its alter ego is the double in question.
Valen's counterfeit mutated into a destructive alter ego that was usually kept safely secluded in the subconscious.
An individual may need a crisis to shatter his ego and thereby overwhelm the yetzer hara.
It is a self-conscious abdication of responsibility, for the sake of an individual ego.
That writer's not an alter ego, though how much she shares with her creator is one of the device's loitering teases.
This film is all about ego clashes that couples usually have and how pride often comes between two people.
The physical body is a temporal miscreation, the result of our choice to listen to the ego.
The bhakta can so get immersed in these roles so as to completely lose his outer identity or ego.
There is a big ego at work here, one that takes umbrage at being patronised and is not averse to bad-mouthing anyone he deems incompetent.
In a world filled with bossyboots barging about and ego heat approaching nuclear intensity, appoint yourself your only boss.
It's nice to know there is world music beyond the intense musical colonization of Gabriel's production and Byrne's ego.
They walk down the red carpet of fame with this tremendous halo of ego surrounding them, and they give very little back, if anything.
All kinds of rationalizations for my failure come to mind, apparently designed to protect my ego.
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In my analysis of this tripartite division I shall identify the rational soul with the ego, or self-obsessed reactive mind of Buddhism.
He was utterly obsessed of course and had a splendid ego but he's a master artist.
It was certainly a boost to the ego to have all those female fans idolising you, but it did get a bit out of hand sometimes.
But the point of ego dissolution required to exist in a state of selfless divine love is also one of death and rebirth.
Time has pulled back the veil and what we see is an ego, full of himself, floundering in the winds of change.
The authors suggest that aggression by narcissists is an interpersonally meaningful and specific response to an ego threat.
Why would anyone for the sake of their ego want to change the structure of what is going on?
The success of the vineyard, which Grace admits was a boon for his ego, coincided with personal and emotional meltdown.
What happens if the fans start taking it all for granted and forget to massage his ego?
If the client is too busy massaging his or her ego to hear what the artist has to say, trouble lies ahead.
Take away the desire for a challenge stuff, the only other reason I'm involved is to massage my ego.
Grant is self-centered and after ten years of massaging his ego, Dana is just about wiped out.
The weights are there to help you sculpt your body, not to massage your ego.
These people just knew exactly what he wanted and massaged his ego continually.
The machine happens to be extremely complimentary and massages your ego, which we all love.
Psychological bullies must also have their quota of sycophants, always ready to massage the bully 's ego.
Therapists may benefit from working with, rather than against, ego inflation.
His lack of experience and seamanship, coupled with that outlandish ego, made him a terrible leader.
A manager on an ego trip will see a forceful employee as an opportunity to wield her power and influence.
As it turns out, Dr. Jekyll has invented a chemical formula that can turn a person into his alter ego.
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It's the first try to get the message over that Dracula was a real person and in no way less brutal than his fictional alter ego.
The perfect setting for a little ego death on the Nile before hopping the sleeper train back to Cairo.
The Rajguru, the king's main political advisor, is a man with a colossal ego and doesn't like Raman stealing his thunder.
Out of this process, the breakdown of the anaclitic identification with the mother, the ego emerges.
Your ego used to be the only thing that got bruised during pickup basketball games.
Nor could it have been good for the ego when Toibin promptly steered the conversation back to Eddie Hobbs.
When the male ego feels under threat from the anima, Jung postulates, it may project the attacking motive onto an external woman or women.
Because of the neural link between sensory perception and motor activity, the ego controls voluntary movement.
A kind of ego annihilation is followed by euphoric reintegration and a sense of extended understanding.
Of course, once bitten, twice shy, and on top of that, he's got the whole male ego thing telling him not to take another risk.
But if your ego is vulnerable to start off with, it will bruise harder and for longer.
As gorgeous as he was I could not date a guy with an ego as large as the Statue Of Liberty.
To his critics, he is an anachronistic, dangerous buttinsky, motivated more by ego than civic good.
Perhaps he just wished to feed an ego that sought a central place on the world stage.
Oh, so you found new brain-dead idiots to follow you and they somehow just made your ego so big that it can't fit through our front door?
If only he could have put his bruised ego to one side and managed something similar.
An arrogant person, on the other hand, is mostly concerned with his own ego, his own pride, his own money.
I am truly sorry from the bottom of my heart, and I will try to keep my ego in check.
The unbruised adolescent ego likes its angst to be clear-cut and attributable to the denigrations of an insouciant universe.
Make use of other men's we-should-protect-demure-damsels-in-distress ego thingy and make sure the molester becomes pulp.
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What was the point of the interview with the athlete other than to inflate the already expanded ego of one of rugby's most overrated players?
I'm sure it takes a monstrous ego to be a White House speechwriter, but do these guys really believe their own promotional blurbs?
More importantly, like everything else the individual ego is dependently originated and conditioned.
There are so many ways the ego tries to dismantle real love, and its favorite is to perseverate on a single question until it tires itself out.
The election for the chairman in year 2000 gave rise to these ego clashes that have continued to simmer.
When the implications of tathata are deeply understood, the ego naturally becomes neutralized.
The person with a bloated ego is a show-off who thinks the world of himself.
Working for the Man often means subsuming your ego to that of the organization.
Be flexible and elastic about plans and ideas and avoid emotional or ego conflicts.
I recount this, not to boost my ego nor to base my belief in the goodwill of youth on this single and isolated incident.
He is a braggart with an ego so inflated that he often speaks of himself in the third person.
An older, gorgeous married man wanting to sleep with you can seem like a fabulous compliment and ego boost.
Behind the anecdotes, Manahan gained the tough hide of ego necessary to survive in the uncertain world of acting.
Heaven forbid we damage someone's fragile ego by telling them the truth about their capabilities or who they are!
In truth, she knew he probably did indeed possess that strength but it made her feel a little better by trying to bruise his male ego.
And he took his medicine, and learned from his mistakes, and didn't take his wounded ego to the media.
After having dominated a sport for some time, that would have been a huge knock to her ego, to her self-esteem as a player and a person.
Letting go of the ego, the persona, the rational mind is a central experience in mystical traditions.
The effects of a shift in identity from the ego to the inner self are dramatic and remarkable.
In this being the empirical ego has its origin, and through ethical conduct it returns to its source.
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According to Heidegger, a tendency to suicide is the ontological essence of human ego.
The subject is not referable to questions of the ego, to notions of the self.
Is your ego so overinflated that you would think one kiss in the dark would make me weak in the knees and swoon?
I suppose it was a bit of an ego trip in some ways but I didn't look at it like that.
I still don't know whether it was more of an ego trip or just refusing to settle for what I saw as less.
The New York Times has repeatedly chastised his campaign as nothing better than an ego trip, one damaging to the Democrats.
Anyone with a fanciful idea of how big a star they are might want their own website, but it's often more of an ego trip.
Your natural reactions to circumstances encourage success and the healthy growth of your ego and self-esteem.
A human person develops his ego and forms a new product as a result of the interaction between the push and pull factors.
The child and ego within him have never been able to resist the lure of a bag of sweets.
These sometimes terrible flubs were due largely, if not entirely, to Wilson's rigid personality and outsized ego.
Unlike many precocious talents he was relatively free of ego and willingly shared his gifts with the less gifted.
This is not an off-roader that will go head to head with the overdeveloped ego of a Chelsea tractor.
Ironically, last year Bolt was sheltered from heated competition at the World Championships in order not to have his ego bruised.
For all the intricacies of the spat, it smacks of political one-upmanship, petty power play and a healthy dose of ego juice.
Few things massage a worker 's ego like being praised in front of his peers.
It was so like James to use every opportunity possible to boost his own ego.
Delibidinization serves as a defensive function to the fragmented ego of the psychotic child.
Delibidinization serves as a defensive function to the fragmented ego of the psychotic child.
Any magical suggestions on how to banish this alter ego from my subconscious would be more than appreciated!
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His hubris is unequaled and his ego is unequaled, and he absolutely takes no advice.
Apparently winning a national championship, with top tier teammates, swole his ego up a little.
I'd sustained a concussion, hyperextended my back and hip, yanked a ligament in my knee, and had my ego shattered.
That the other is another transcendental, world-constituting ego is essential if there is to be genuinely transcendental intersubjectivity.
Obviously, people will resist or try to subvert change that hurts them in the ego or in the pocketbook.
Mohammed dreamt up his alter ego working behind the counter at a drugstore, pining for something to freshen the job's tedium.
The monk's legendary alter ego was a rebel against his feudal leaders, fighting with supernatural strength, cunning, and skills.
She rocketed to fame as her alter ego Jordan, the nation's much loved and best known glamour model.
It is very flattering and a big boost to the ego to receive compliments from someone like Stacey Jones.
Some weeks, your ego gets a little boost when someone sends you an e-mail about something you wrote or approaches you in person.
My ego is nicely boosted now, more so because I didn't expect it to happen.
The council is proposing a near ten per cent rise in council tax, yet is wasting valuable resources on what is little more than an ego trip.
And since I don't have anyone on an ego trip working for me, I've never run into this problem.
This film is far more than just a simple ego trip and absolutely worthy of its Oscar for Best Picture.
Some find such festivals an opportunity for judges to go on an ego trip, and to be frank, some judges sometimes come over that way.
Not to sound strange or anything but I can't help thinking this is a disgusting ego trip for the scientists and doctors involved.
Critics say this is just the latest evidence that he is on an extended ego trip.
The otherness of ego enwraps each of us like a prison, but the magus takes all of earth as his body.
It's tiring and exhausting to constantly have to boost an ego due to whatever reason.
He has a sense of humour, is highly intelligent and blessedly was quite free of that terrible aura of ego that surrounds all ranking politicians.
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No one has learned the meaning of living until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow men and women.
Then of course there is Spidey's arch nemesis, the supervillain Green Goblin, the alter ego of Norman Osborne.
The anima is the Jungian concept of the female image within the male, which acts as a mediating force between the ego and the unconscious.
A guy who surfs on his belly did much more than just bruise the ego of one who stands.
Here she's at her best, in a part that requires her to be tough and crude, a relentless force of pure ego.
The ego is itself the centre of consciousness and it is what we refer to when we use the terms I or me.
He makes his presence small, flattens his childish ego into something still and insignificant.
The archives will be shipped with a full-scale reproduction of Mailer's ego for articulate Third Wave feminists to whittle down in a nanosecond.
At emergence, the seeker may reconstruct the ego under the Will, that the ego will in totality reflect the true light.
The sculptor's Lilliputian alter ego was evidently having trouble staying organized.
He has admitted harbouring ill-feelings towards his former co-star who, he claims, has a huge ego and hogged the limelight.
Remembering them daily, learning from them how to sublimate our petty ego to reach the higher self, we transcend sin.
Like most front-men, he had an ego that could swallow the battered planet, and didn't want any lip from the troops.
It didn't help his ego that Ty was doing better than him in the rodeos this year.
Sounds like Helen might have had quite a little ego trip sitting in the back seat.
Your arrogance, presumption, and ego come through very clearly in this message.
The corollary is that when shown what debases us, our soul compresses and our ego inflates.
In a lot of western magic discourse the ego is confused with the core of the being.
Saving a bet is neither dramatic, nor ego satisfying, nor likely to rouse the envy of your peers and adversaries, but it's spendable cash.
Many people are now asking why he would do such a thing, blaming his famous ego for getting the better of him, as it has before.
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He hates you for ruining his life, by burdening him with a responsibility that his weak male ego was unable to bear.
Given that the abnegation of the ego is enjoined by almost every spiritual tradition, this becomes relevant across the spectrum of faiths.
De Niro delivers an incendiary performance as Johnny Boy, in the process supplanting Keitel as Scorcese's ideal on-screen alter ego.
Adolescents' developmental phase and their available ego strength determine their willingness to seek help.
It may be painful but is always crucial to separate the fragility of the ego and the effectiveness of the writing.
With most artists of his stature, this would more than likely involve a clumsy catharsis resulting in a crude ego trip.
I've assured and reassured him a hundred times that this isn't true, but then, there's only so much you can say to salvage a hurt ego.
Your ego was bruised by a former flame, and you're having trouble shaking it off.
She will not regard it as lowering herself, or pandering to the male chauvinist ego.
Food is a fixation here, as it is in bourgeois culture in general, because it is an easily manipulated projection of narcissistic ego.
I had to work through my pride and ego and humble myself and pray a lot, but I am a better person for it.
And it cuts us to the bone when people dismiss our musings as the products of ego and petty hatreds.
After three days of recuperation in the ICU, I was released from the hospital, walking feebly and trying to salve my ego.
He becomes a practising mystic using wise passiveness and transcendental experience as methods of breaking his ego chains.
Do they visit in empathy, or is it something deep within the deepest well of their own ego that sends them on their mission?
He had grown his intellectual ego, by learning the art of retrospection and sober second thought.
Two decades on, Mesnel is a millionaire, albeit a very polite and amicable one, and without, it seems, a single element of ego.
In our normal transactions and interactions with others, our ego seems to play a major role in determining how we treat them.
When the chance came up again to run one of London's big clubs, ego replaced common sense.
If towering long irons and fairway woods are the goal, I'm afraid no ball will restore your ego.
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For example, the agency instituting repression must be derived from the ego, the conscious part of the mind.
Harriet practically worships Emma, which is the last thing Emma's ego needs.
It's a problem, and it's often more than a matter of not wounding a buddy's ego.
They are teenage lads and they need a bit of ego to get up on stage but they take it in their stride.
The ego that actually does the writing, the sleeping self, is buried so deep that he's not affected by anything that happens in the real world.
Because of that you felt that you were part of a movement, your ego got the best of you.
Consequently, any boss who puts his shareholders above his own ego should be applauded.
His mind does not remain aloof from the page, it enters the page and is absorbed in it, because it is not blocked by the ego.
Beckham's ego, in contrast, is in danger of undermining and jeopardising England's potential as a team.
When emotions run hot or when circumstances are high pressure and there is ego, fear or frustrations boiling over, people often act physically if words fail them.
The rules also state the actors take their characters seriously enough and forgo the ironic winks that provide a safety net for their ego, but can pop the bubble of the plot.
If a teacher starts in on a child about religion or other such things or starts to shun a child, it is very damaging to the ego and to the self esteem.
Later, he nurtured a more secure literary alter ego in his acclaimed zuckerman novels.
You can no longer rely on his ineptitude to prop up your fragile ego.
It talked about relaxing the grip of your ego and emptying your mind.
This completely shattered my pride and punctured my ego and self-respect.
Given his alter ego, it may not come as a surprise that Goyeneche is into antiquities, especially of the pre-Colombian variety.
Even you with your insanely bloated ego wouldn't stand a chance.
This diacritically marked subject experiences splitting of the ego.
He may finally be ready to subsume his ego and ideology for the sake of his country.
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He has a big personality made for TV, plenty of moxie, ego and mental sharpness.
It is the first in a string of references that he makes to male icons, from top athletes to racing drivers, suggesting his ego has a lot to live up to.
Leave your ego and impatience behind and it'll work out just fine.
All I had in those days was a monstrous lack of ego which therefore required huge injections of actorly ego and misled people.
Billions were spent on the ego trip to the moon and the Space Shuttle.
Believe me, after time your ego will not be bruised because you have said no, and you will learn to give others credit for taking on the extra tasks.
Despite what Peggy always used to say, even my ego can be bruised a bit.
He excels when playing the unselfish alter ego of his actual character as he tries to win back the heart of his lost love through familiar romantic gestures of old.
Albertine was never to him anything more than a means toward the satisfaction of his own needs, ego needs and sensual needs.
Revealing herself as both Miriam Weeks and alter ego Belle Knox made her feel vulnerable.
So full of ego and brashness, Stu finagles his way around town, pumping up his clients and manipulating anyone who can get him one step further in life.
Most analysts would agree that autocannibalism stems from the time when the mother's breast is still regarded as part of the body ego of the child.
Unlike most front men in rock and roll, he doesn't have a huge ego.
Self-promotion improves the self for McCarthy, but how effective, and healthy, is this inflation of the ego?
The TV comedienne known for her alter ego, Rhoda, says she may only have three months to live.
The wealthiest Republican Party boosters will resent the assertion that peer pressure and ego motivate their giving.
He was my father, my mentor, my alter ego, my irreplaceable best friend.
LeBron James has been vilified for his ego, self-indulgence, and the free-agency spectacle of The Decision to join the Miami Heat.
Why would they question their master, their life was good and cushy and as long as they massaged his ego they would continue to dine at the top table and drink the best rum.
Acquiring siddhi through Tantric discipline does not really rely on a physical partnership because transcendence relies on devotional practices and surrendering of the ego.
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Sarah makes it clear she's very different to her screen alter ego.
She was as stubborn as a mule with an ego as big as the Pacific Ocean.
To be able to interact consistently with these children, he turns to the virtues of compassion, generosity, mindfulness, love, and the transcendence of ego.
By using an alter ego, he liberates himself, relaxes himself so he can invent freely.
It appears obvious to me, that Mr Normal has neither the ego nor the wish to become an Aunt Sally, at whom all and sundry are entitled to throw their posies or brickbats.
But his logic dissolves any sense that he is just massaging his ego.
If Berkovic imagined his move to Ewood Park would mean an instant recall to first team duties he must indeed be blessed with a hugely inflated ego.
Even at superstar level, most rock bands are cesspits of raging ego, petty bitterness, monstrous vanity, sordid self-abuse and very bad hair days.
So Buzz Lightyear is only an animated character but heck, even the occasional cartoon character has an ego, and Buzz Lightyear is one of those cocky characters.
From racial perception and discourse to the solitudinarian discoveries, grumblings and reflections, these writers serve as the British alter ego at the margins of the known world.
Her own ego explodes a little when she realises how many men desire her.
Consider the steady-handed neurosurgeon with the outsized ego, the larger-than-life CEO, and, yes, the Teflon-coated politician.
Donaldson's alter ego was a wet fish merchant who specialised in writing brash, outrageous letters to eminent public figures, enclosing a one pound note.
The immense power of the trade unions was often ego and macho driven, and on many occasions that power was wielded mercilessly for short-term gain.
And if others notice you, it might polish your bruised ego a little.
In my personal practice of Tai Chi I find a well executed form shifts my awareness from ego chatter to a greater sense of integration with the macrocosm.
Some players can get sucked into an ego trip and try to milk the media.
Napoleon took his forces on what was, in every sense, an ego trip.
Then, of course, we can hear the buttons popping from Newt Gingrich's shirt as his ego swells to Macy's parade size.
Lacan took up or rather transposed Freud's definition of hypnosis on this second degree level of dialectical reflection between the reciprocally engaged egos and ego ideals.
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Remember the primary drive for the ego from the Adlerian perspective was to overcome a fundamental sense of inferiority derived from childhood experiences.
To a cynical eye, it all seems more like an ego trip for some regional powers and international would-be players rather than a genuine attempt to reform the organisation.
He had not a thing in the world but bluff and his own ego, his own will.
The reflection she sees is slimmer and more beautiful, thus her ego is equated to the potent drug.
When you add to this a jumped-up ego, fuelled by the environment and training given to firearms officers, the result is clearly depicted by this sad case.
The difference between the two first sentences is the difference between a high-spirited epic of self-assertion and a slender account of the threadbare ego.
At this, Lance's ego seemed to be punctured slightly, but he kept at it.
When the ego is thought, it is defined in the first onto-theo-logy as a cogitatio sui, and in the second as an ens causatum, that is to say, a substantia creata.
The technique transfused her ego with indirect suggestions of being elegant, refined, and of possessing discriminating taste, sophistication, prestige, and elitist status.
If they calmed Tim Wheeler's ego down then they would be safe from harm.
Well, there is certainly ego in the Renaissance artists and, further back, in the self-promotion of a salesman such as Columbus.
His rivals in Washington looked for the slightest indication of his famed ego or misbehavior.
Roger's ego is soon resuscitated when he receives a surprise visit from his sixteen-year-old nephew, Nick, who needs some help in dealing with the ladies.
Some girls think he's mega cute as well, but I personally think he's mega pompous and needs someone to stick a pin in that over inflated ego of his.
She tore me apart, demeaning me and bruising my ego greatly.
Just as chametz makes bread look bigger than it is without adding any substance, so too an ego filled with self importance is ultimately nothing but hot air.
Suprisingly, Heidegger argues that there is little trace here of a subjectivist metaphysics in which being as such has to be orientated by the self-posited ego as subject.
She is sensuous, grasping, self-absorbed, fierce, greedy, megalomaniacal, and utterly certain that she is entitled to have her ego, her power, and her way.
One can only hope that his ego gets the best of his common sense this off-season, compelling him to exercise his free agent rights and sign with another team.
That all-embracing fear and its corollary, the urgency to succeed, creates the fragile ego and the insecurity that underlies all crimes of passion.
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Being mistaken for Kate's mother didn't dent my ego too much. Huh.
I had an intimate encounter with just such a seared ego, recently burned by his once-trusted chronicler.
For Lacan, the ego is not the central agency of the personality but a false self haunted by the unconscious and conceptualized around linguistic signs.
Or it can be an up-close lesson in the kind of self-absorption and political ego that can trip up some in Washington.
But the major difference that I find in those days and today is that rishis had control over ego, control over anger.
In vexatious Latin America, they knew that a blue chip ego was an asset.
Or more accurately, her animated alter ego tells my on-screen avatar.
You can psychoanalyse that to delusions or a big ego but when I have something in my mind it is just a case of doing it.
He's not a grandstander or somebody who is going to worry about his ego needs.
The batrachomyomachian cure for the superhuman ego is to chop it off at the knees and cut it down to a human, preferably humane, level.
In the well adjusted person the ego is the executive of the personality and is governed by the reality principle.
The empirical ego is an object in the world, and, insofar as it is experienced and known, it must be subject to worldly causality.
Absolutely voiceless and baggy-eyed from hours of sour singing, no sleep, and a froggy throat from yelling in ego to be heard atop the rest.
Around this time he developed a pseudonymous alter ego for his prose, Brunette Coleman.
He's scornful of her big, overswollen ego and her big overswollen movie ideas. But he'll scavenge off her leavings.
The ego is recognized as having a spaciotemporal position, from which other spaciotemporal points can be accessed.
Hodiernally, ego noticed present discussion's complete quiet. Novel ideas, compatriots, concerning Romanglic development?
The ego as an organ which seeks to synthesize thoughts in the psyche is said to be driven by libido or eros.
The purified ego of early modernity was correlated with an epistemic ideal of apodicticity and necessary truth.
This can deflate your ego or spark competitive antics or both.
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The primal scene is the site at which the issues of ego differentiation become translated into the issues of the oedipus complex.
Just tell her that she is naturally xanthodontous. It will not make her teeth any whiter, but it will exalt her ego.
Sherwood is a brash, chippy wisecracker, with a well-polished ego and a touch of the old-school little Englander about him.
He elaborates this by references to an example of his own somatisation, and to Anzieu's theory of a skin ego.
The previous owner, Kevin Alderman or better known as alter ego, Stroker Serpentine, put the Amsterdam sim on sale two months ago.
Funny and forthright, he seems nothing like his small screen alter ego, brooding, up-tight Jack in Lost.
On this level the battle being played out is a productive tension within Ernest Hemingway between the two halves of his bisexually riven ego.
The princess's horse is hilariously named Frimplepants, and its alter ego is named Blacky, exactly what a 6-year-old might choose.
His evil alter ego, Scarper, is back, and Montmorency struggles to resist his world even as London faces new threats from bombers.
Another reason I think people have children is to glorify their own ego.
She lets her ego get the better of her once she has a little hard-earned luck at the game.
Additionally, be careful about overexerting, and don't let ego push you into a problem.
But with Souness and Flitty around, there is no way the Next Big Thing's ego will over-inflate.
But Chuck Bass's alter ego Ed Westwick says he doesn't want to be typecast.
In Super Ex-Girlfriend, Uma is more than a little peeved when her alter ego is dumped by her boyfriend.
It was, however, as Charles Darwin's alter ego, an attack dog for the theory of evolution, that Huxley gained his greatest notoriety.
It's like, I need to clear my headspace but I can't do that with him around because he's just ego, you know? He dumps on me. So that's it.
In 2004, Amber birthed her alter ego, a stripteaser named Oosha Boom.
She has been there ever since in the role of big sister and alter ego.
Yet the day belonged to the Tampa Bay defense, a braggadocious bunch that backed up every bit of its ego.
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For all her bolshy talk and the fact she carved out a successful career for herself as a glamour girl, she needs a man by her side to boost her ego.
The device is intended to bring in chance and, I suppose, free up the control of the ego, but it's not the cultural anthropology that her fans claim it is.
However, there is aglimmer of hope for fans who want to see more of Brent and co Gervais revealed he resisted the temptation to kill off his alter ego.
The suit joins a long line of court encounters between sharp reviews and the restaurateurial ego, and, if the earlier cases are a reliable guide, it is doomed.
The IRS was unable to satisfy the full personal tax assessment against David and filed a lien against Bantu Nebraska citing the corporation as David's nominee or alter ego.
The resulting feud between Hoffman and the Weiders, where money, power, and ego were at stake, consumed about two decades, as both parties vied for control of muscledom.
Quixotic zillionaires seeking a vanity project that might one day pay off financially, but in the meanwhile serves as a handy outlet for ego gratification and self-promotion.
In order to traverse these objectified notions of self, one must subjectify that otherness by shattering the fundamentally limiting and incomplete ego.
These constraints are symbolized by the chametz, the leavened products that are banished for the holiday, and which allude to the spiritual impediment of ego puffery.
Hence, the recovery of the boy's primary narcissism through the ideal ego is now a heterosexist as well as a desexualised version of that previous narcissistic stage.
That's a critical step in getting their maladapted ego out of the way so they can learn to engage life on its own terms and thereby become functional.
Really, no other word for this sad sack of a woman, desperately trying to cling on to a man who only ever wanted her around as decoration for his yachts and ego.
One possible explanation for using a separate term to mother's brother might be that under cross-cousin marriage, the ego becomes closer as affinal kin.
The structural theory doesn't only focus on the negations, repressions, disavowals, and deadenings of the ego in the face of its encounters within and without.
The virginity of Mary means that incarnation is about the conception and birth of higher consciousness without the intercedence or necessity of any human agency i.e., ego.
The absolute goal of all phenomenological inquiry is pure consciousness as it manifests itself in the transcendental ego, the source of all intentional acts.
But in any event, if my judgment is clouded here, it's clouded by my inflated ego, not by filthy lucre.
Tried out the Super Ego, and I don't know how else to say this, but it's just not my bag.
Next is the Sephira of the Self, the Holon of the Ego, the sephira that denotes how we are both one whole and yet a single part amongst many.
Ego wins the day, and another pair of biceps is left to wilt for the glory of a heavy barbell curl.

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