And the Ailes scandal is no mere navel-gazing media story.
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I don't think there's a lot of navel-gazing here. Yeah.
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Back at it again with the nice chords and obtuse navel-gazing.
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"When you're trying to make music, it's so navel-gazing," Styles says.
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It's full speed ahead at all times; no BS -- or navel-gazing -- allowed.
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This all begs the question: Who's watching Succession besides navel-gazing media professionals?
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The political class—journalists as well as politicians—is more navel-gazing than ever.
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But when a friend's 50th-birthday party turns amusingly violent, existential navel-gazing ensues.
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But when a friend's 50th birthday party turns amusingly violent, existential navel-gazing ensues.
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If this sounds like an exercise in Hollywood navel-gazing, well, you're not wrong.
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The trend is both an easy commiseration over our past lives and peak navel gazing.
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And one might add to that, exploration is better than staying at home navel-gazing.
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"There is a sort of navel gazing, which is a dead end," Mr. Kispal said.
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Another atrocious, navel-gazing laughingstock — Walt Whitman — published the first edition of Leaves of Grass.
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Nonetheless, the play has enough biting, aware humor to move us past the navel-gazing aspects.
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She proves that criticism is an art of navel-gazing in the best and worst ways.
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Every profession is prone to the occasional bout of navel gazing, and graphic design is no exception.
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The film certainly criticizes that navel-gazing, Us Weekly culture and lifestyle, but it also fetishizes it.
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It's an exuberant, intelligent, confidently delivered record that never falls into navel-gazing self-satisfaction or cliché.
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The big ethical questions of sex robots are, at least for the moment, just hypothetical navel-gazing.
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Short-term, it means Republicans will be navel-gazing for some time and Democrats will be celebrating.
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And unlike navel-gazing yappers like Hunter S. Thompson, Anderson doesn't splatter himself all over the story.
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"I take the wig off and have dinner with my children, who tolerate zero navel-gazing," Blanchett says.
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GREENING CHINA'S BELT AND ROAD PROJECT: Westerners are great at navel-gazing, but that's a classic sustainability mistake.
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Their apolitical navel-gazing is unlikely to curry favour with academics looking to hip hop for social idealism.
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This is Beto O'Rourke's navel-gazing, self-involved, rollout of a possible rollout of a possible presidential campaign.
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To be sure, the media can be prone to navel-gazing when it comes to Trump's anti-press rhetoric.
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"The people rose up, and the artists were so behind—the artists were still navel-gazing," Hampton told me.
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And Britain's navel-gazing continues more than three and a half years after it voted to leave the European Union.
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Her essays are personal in the way of Montaigne or Virginia Woolf: bold, humane and more imaginative than navel-gazing.
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A compelling documentary about the Battle of Okinawa lies at the heart of this feature-length exercise in navel-gazing.
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I'm not just stuck — I'm wasting my time navel gazing about a midlife crisis when there's suffering all around me.
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Zaman's writing seems to have inspired her — she tells us so — but it's too navel-gazing to inspire the reader.
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JR: I think this is all a little too raw for that kind of navel gazing to go on yet.
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A related debate unfolds in "Angels", when Louis, a hilariously navel-gazing character, delivers a monologue to Belize, who is black.
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I don't react if people call me stupid or navel-gazing in my work, because I know that's not true either.
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Europe's navel-gazing arguments have little bearing on the lot of Bangladeshi workers in the Gulf or Zimbabweans in South Africa.
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All too often, those negative feelings don't lead anywhere productive, and we can feel like we've wasted our time navel gazing.
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At *Worst'*s start, Englishman Jimmy Shive-Overly (Chris Geere) is a navel-gazing novelist in the middle of a sophomore slump.
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He issued one of the great literary manifestos: Stop your navel gazing, get out your notebook, there's a world exploding out there .
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Yes, Covenant is being marketed as a pivot away from the existential navel-gazing of Prometheus and back toward Alien's horror roots.
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It can, at times, veer on mopey, but her brand of navel gazing can also be super celebratory if you let it.
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One question that interests me a lot is, who's that in service to, and how does it not get so navel-gazing?
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In the "reformed John" interviews and subsequent apologies, I still see a man far too focused on navel-gazing than looking outward.
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His dementia heightens his intense personality; his own daughters claim that even before he went "mad," he was a rash, navel-gazing king.
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This is the generation that indulged in New Age navel-gazing, declared that "greed is good" and more than doubled the divorce rate.
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But when a friend's 50th-birthday party turns amusingly violent, life's niggling disappointments explode into vivid relief, and some serious navel-gazing ensues.
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But judging from the title track and first single, this doesn't feel like an overwrought, navel-gazing examination of heartbreak, it sounds triumphant.
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A new group show called "Being" moves away from last year's navel-gazing digital obsession to explore reality-based portraiture, politics and gender.
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The whole thing is a wry joke on self-obsession and navel gazing: A New Yorker's world begins and ends in New York.
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But if the company really wants to fix itself in 2019, it'll take far more than retrospective navel-gazing to get it done.[CNBC]
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This endless navel-gazing is, of course, catnip for some, but in the spirit of expedition let us move on to something more practical.
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And, even knowing that, Trump delivered a navel-gazing, self-championing, victimhood-seeking speech that reeked of tone-deafness and out-of-touch-ism.
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That dynamic has until recently been the stuff of insider-y media trade stories and navel-gazing panel discussions, but the 383 election changed everything.
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That meant six (yes, six) hours of sceptered-isle navel gazing courtesy of two fecund and inventive young British playwrights, James Graham and Mike Bartlett.
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But overall, the evening could have been mistaken for a grimly satirical parody of Hollywood awards ceremonies at their navel-gazing and backward-looking worst.
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Variously called "navel gazing," a "slick, sarcastic joke," and worse, it seems that much of the point (satirizing our hyper-technological present) was lost on critics.
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But, even with the warm "Tiny Dancer" scene and rock 'n' roll historicizing, Almost Famous, like Stillwater itself, stagnates in self-love and musical navel gazing.
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This unerring sense of purpose in the globalised world is at odds with Britain's own navel-gazing about its role, as it contemplates retreating into isolation.
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Indie movies are more likely to be philosophical and navel-gazing about otherworldly invasion, with essentially vacant aliens pinpointing deeper nuances of life as a person.
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Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back: Sissy vs Justice Kevin Smith's wacky navel-gazing 2001 comedy might be the most combat-heavy stoner flick ever made.
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Analysis: Beto's adventure drips with white male privilege This is Beto O'Rourke's navel-gazing, self-involved rollout of a possible rollout of a possible presidential campaign.
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Despite these points, I think the navel-gazing value of Twitter to the tech industry is so high, I seriously doubt they'll let Twitter actually die.
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The worry, he added, is that the Democratic candidates get mired in navel-gazing punditry while Trump continues his straight-to-the-gut pitch to voters.
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"Press", a BBC One drama on the travails of two newspapers that aired its final episode on October 11th, provided the perfect opportunity for industry navel-gazing.
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Many of these writers are also interested in navel-gazing Great American Male questions, and the Nobel has moved on since it gave the prize to Hemingway.
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This narrative inconsistency playfully answers the charge that the personal essay is just navel gazing, as she imagines new and productive ways a writer can observe herself.
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The writers of the constitution could have included all manner of philosophical navel-gazing in the prefatory clause: "The right of self-defence being inalienable…" and so forth.
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That tone, and that balance… You've got characters talking about the meaning of life, and God, and all that stuff which could be really preachy and navel-gazing.
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Somewhere along the way, the navel gazing revealed that my answer to this question had changed: Would I rather play great and lose or play bad and win?
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While bands dipped into bottomless recording budgets to fill up album sides with long, ponderous suites of progressive rock, journalists kept pace by writing sprawling, navel-gazing reviews.
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Michael Ian Black is an actor and the author, most recently, of the children's book "I'm Sad," and the memoir "Navel Gazing: True Tales of Bodies, Mostly Mine."
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A new photography show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York moves away from "navel-gazing digital obsession" to explore reality-based portraiture, politics and gender.
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In the hands of lesser performers — and in defiance of Chris Dapkins's clear, bright cinematography — this debut feature would feel unbearably hermetic, its navel-gazing angst wearyingly indulgent.
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Her well-attended Thursday lecture on the history of cyberfeminism, and women's greatly overlooked roles in the development of the internet, was informative without being dry or navel-gazing.
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Just have a shower, put on a mix by the DJ you're making all this navel-gazing effort to see, and pour yourself a half-decent gin and tonic.
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All of these internal conflicts are folded into an emotional narrative of Shakespearean proportions replete with breakups and hookups, navel-gazing and drunk dialling, concerns of allegiance and backstabbing.
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Many of the passengers' realizations, though, are rife with trite, self-help clichés about "finding" oneself — sentiment that can turn off more cynical viewers with its navel-gazing impracticality.
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If therapy has a reputation for navel gazing, this powerful moment has joined men in the room, forcing them to engage with topics that they would have earlier avoided.
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The book's central issues — white privilege and transracial adoption — are lived with but not fully reckoned with, either dramatically or even, for all of Rebecca's optimistic navel gazing, internally.
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The opposing group has pointed out that these decentralized efforts never work out, and the API-focused service I wish existed is the fevered dream of navel-gazing geeks.
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Navel-gazing about Bitcoin's future aside, many people have recently bought into Bitcoin due to its skyrocketing price, and presumably many of those people just lost a lot of money.
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Several studies at the University of Southampton suggest that people who indulge in navel-gazing nostalgia end up feeling less depressed and lonely, and could be better at creative thinking.
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As finance minister under former President Nicolas Sarkozy, she attracted criticism early in her tenure by suggesting that the French had become work-shy and that navel-gazing hindered reform.
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Our projects aren't ivory-tower theoretical navel-gazing; we're answering questions that will affect the lives of hard-working people in every state in the country, and around the world.
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Barabas, meanwhile, cheerfully tells his conspirator that "we are villains both" and goes on to act like a villain for the rest of the play without any more navel-gazing.
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That's not always a welcome trait — navel-gazing tends to be unattractive in both lovers and nations — but I've been thinking lately about what Australia is so eager to protect.
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I could have done with less "I remember the first time I saw them" navel-gazing and more focus on the music; a little nostalgia can go a long way.
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The international bartending community is divided by a debate about whether "artisanal" or "impurity-free" ice is a legitimate concern for alcohol aficionados or a ridiculous fixation for navel-gazing hipsters.
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Written off as jumbled, navel-gazing, and overreaching, it has a critic score of only 20 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, and it holds the spot as Boyle's single worst-received endeavor.
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Dear So Sad Today, How do we survive amidst the mainstream trash of generation K (K for Kardashian), the age of pointless affectations, excessive navel-gazing, and existing only for looks?
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In Preacher, the silences between Tulip, Cassidy, and Jesse are mundane miscommunication; Jesse's navel-gazing pursuit of the divine leaves him unable to talk to, or care about, his own friends.
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In their navel-gazing parochialism, Brexiteers seem not to have considered that the same populist forces sweeping them to victory in their EU referendum are also sweeping every other Western democracy.
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In a series of non-chronological vignettes, the book moves through enough snappy, barbed anecdotes to save it from navel-gazing, and enough harsh soul-searching to rescue it from triviality.
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Today is the tenth anniversary of the iPhone going on sale, so there's lots of navel-gazing about the impact the iPhone has had on the industry — and pretty much everything.
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But less navel-gazing and more accountability to those of us who keep the social network's coffers flush with billions in profit might behoove Facebook as it navigates its latest existential crisis.
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Right, and then the tech world in general loves navel-gazing, so if you write ... Just like the same way media loves to talk about media, tech likes to talk about tech.
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There is certainly a risk — of which many of them are aware — that all this conversation will just devolve into navel-gazing, an expression of privilege rather than a challenge to it.
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" That essay argued that "a kind of moral panic about racial, gender and sexual identity" had turned liberals into navel-gazing do-nothings, "narcissistically unaware of conditions outside their self-defined groups.
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"In the context of Brexit there was a lot of navel-gazing happening at the time in Britain over what it means to be young and disenfranchised in rural England," Allen said.
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Daniel Rossen retreated into upstate New York anonymity, collected firewood, considered his place in the world, read a ton, and wrote a bunch of dark navel-gazing songs that he mostly hated.
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Even though the journey through the first season is tedious, at least by the finale, the show has brought together the characters who matter, and taken them past their most navel-gazing reactions.
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Those who were intrigued by the commercial found more headbanging, post-modernist navel-gazing awaiting them on the company's Medium blog, where a post entitled "Why Our Super Bowl Ad Failed" greeted them.
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Some reviewers took Cameraperson to be an exceptional clips reel or navel-gazing "this is your life" sequence, but that's a category mistake, and may reveal more about the critic than the filmmaker.
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But — for all his talk of "building global community" — he offers no clear fix for how Facebook can help break users out of the AI-enabled, navel-gazing circles its business model creates.
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On the theory that his Joyce-venerating late father wanted him to write a novel worthy of his name, Leopold vacillates between a navel-gazing update of "Ulysses" set in 1992 Cambridge, Mass.
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Joaquin Phoenix plays an East Coast philosophy professor in the midst of a navel-gazing crisis who decides to help a stranger by committing a crime that no one will suspect him of.
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What'll be interesting is it's going to force some navel-gazing around antitrust because antitrust law has largely been driven by the notion if it's good for the consumer, it's good for society.
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And while we live in a Silicon Valley bubble that dreams big and is sometimes pretty navel-gazing, given the pace of change in artificial intelligence and autonomous driving, there may be something there.
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That aside, though, the book's publication does show a certain amount of self-interest, navel-gazing, and even arrogance from Apple — themes that were also present in September's unveiling of the new MacBook Pros.
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"Whenever women write about sex, whenever they write about their relationship history, there's a sort of rush to judgment that it must be navel gazing, it must be frivolous, it's unimportant," Ms. Valenti said.
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While the TUC leadership seems capable mainly of organizing symbolic marches, and Labour MPs give navel-gazing speeches about how to placate racists, migrants are fighting the battles that are defining the British workplace.
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However in my own navel-gazing period of looking back on growing up, one that maybe someone reading this also shares, the music produced loosely between 2008 and 2012/3 holds a special place.
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The news of her departure has not sent the industry into the tailspin of "what now?!" navel-gazing that even the rumor of her rival Anna Wintour's retirement provoked more than a year ago.
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As a rehabilitated English literature major from a small liberal arts college, I am inclined to avoid books about the sort of overwrought navel-gazing I found (and engaged in myself) during those four years.
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Depending on your feelings on lots of different issues, The Walled Off Hotel is either an interesting, awareness-raising initiative, or a weird, navel-gazing type thing that feels extremely Banksy and therefore extremely passé.
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Can Ella make the cut without alienating her Beau Brummell-y agent boyfriend or betraying her British BFF, a mimosa-swilling rising star whose steamroller flamboyance could flatten Jemima Kirke's navel-gazing Jessa on "Girls"?
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Rather than just navel-gazing on social media — something the DSA has an unfair reputation for — these activists are building on past political movements while working through the thorny issues facing progressives in their "out" years.
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But it also facilitates a breeding ground for a particular kind of navel-gazing and reflection—there's a reason the uncontainable energy of teens has always felt at odds with the somewhat stifling architecture of suburbia.
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" Emanuel and Reed cautioned that the party can't "rely entirely on one side's enthusiasm or the other side's disenchantment," and that "Democrats don't need to spend the next year navel-gazing over how to motivate their base.
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Privilege or not, any comedy that's willing to showcase the navel-gazing survival strategies of parents struggling to keep it all together while raising caring and decent human beings is a welcome addition to the pop culture landscape.
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Luckily, a few brave TV networks are providing an alternative to the cable news navel-gazing we've been subjected to this election season, whether you're in the mood to laugh or just pretend it's not happening at all.
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Often it seems that the point of all the articles and news segments isn't to reach a satisfactory conclusion, but rather to indulge in the navel-gazing necessary to keep them involved as players in the larger narrative.
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Momentum Movement, which entered politics with its successful referendum campaign to stop Budapest's 2024 Olympic bid earlier this year, said in a statement it was this kind of "navel-gazing" that meant a new political generation was needed.
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In accepting a citation for excellence in reviewing, the book critic Michelle Dean urged her fellow writers not to become complacent about politics or lapse into solipsistic, navel-gazing work that fails to engage with pressing social issues.
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But the last thing that America needs is further economic turmoil and navel-gazing in a major trading partner and an indispensable ally when the "free West" needs to act as one, for instance by sanctioning Russia or Iran.
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But as the offense of navel-gazing has evolved to something more like tender and fastidious navel-grooming (I would know — I once had the most well-tended navel on the prairie!), I wonder if there's something being missed, here.
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And then there's Hollywood's affinity for getting lost in the safe space of navel-gazing at its own reflection, and slapping self-congratulatory Best Picture prizes on films about making art: Birdman over Selma, or The Artist ahead of The Help.
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Transparent Now that we've watched the third season of "Transparent" — and sobbed over Shelly's cabaret rendition of Alanis Morissette's "Hand in My Pocket" from the finale — it's time to take stock of yet another season of the Pfeffermans' ceaseless navel-gazing.
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Of course, saving the souls of everyone's favorite humans — self-professed "trash bag" Eleanor (Kristen Bell), mortally indecisive Chidi (William Jackson Harper), navel-gazing socialite Tahani (Jameela Jamil), and Jacksonville, Florida's very own Jason (Manny Jacinto) — isn't quite that easy.
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I couldn't tell you the first song I heard by Bright Eyes, or the first time I saw a picture of Conor Oberst—the band's founder, primary songwriter and inadvertent posterboy for navel-gazing kids in hoodies and the people who fancied them.
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It was an inadvertent study in tech-world navel-gazing: as hundreds of immigrants were splashed across the Internet attacking Uber, Wired described how Mr. Kalanick had been working for two years on the logo, immersing himself in organic color schemes and kerning.
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The reason Putin is on the prowl is because he believes that the Europeans are weakened by the tsunami of refugees and Brexit; that populists and the extreme right are on the rise, that the U.S. is navel-gazing during the election season.
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The crisis has revealed how reluctant organizing bodies are to inconvenience themselves and how navel-gazing club officials can be, wondering whether their players will be overloaded by makeup games when there is a possibility the season itself might have to be canceled.
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" Mark Hudson, art critic for The Daily Telegraph, said that, unlike its predecessors, this year's show had "less emphasis on glitzy star-making, less intellectual navel-gazing and more of the themes and ideas that the non-art specialist might actually care about.
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President Donald Trump seems to have come up with one good idea that was long overdue among his series of tweets Friday morning: Getting rid of the wasteful and often excruciating daily exercise in political class navel gazing known as the "White House Gaggle."
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The pair would ultimately kill 248 students and a teacher before taking their own lives and shaking a nation to its core, sending it a navel-gazing spiral that sought answers and someone to blame for the violence, from video games to Marilyn Manson.
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Others grapple with H.I.V. or its destructive legacy: a New York deputy health commissioner suffering from manic episodes; her gay heartthrob of an intern, who grows disgusted with the ossified bureaucracy as the disease wreaks its toll; and the artists' navel-gazing writer friend, Drew, in California.
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Our navel-gazing politics also feed into something more subtle and psychic that was crucial to Trump's rise: A narcissistic national assumption that America is the most important country in the world, and that American people are inherently more deserving of resources and attention than others.
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Whether I Love Dick ends up being at least partially therapeutic for Kraus doesn't really matter, ultimately; the result is much more than vanity or navel–gazing, and proof that the narcissistic impulse need not be scary, as long as you put it to good use.
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Such an attitude is atmospheric in "Linda Vista," and it manifests in an assortment of casual cultural references: to a true crime television show (about a sex slave in a basement); comic book superhero movies; humiliation porn; and that monumental work of navel gazing, "My Struggle" by Karl Ove Knausgaard.
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In the artiste's (navel-gazing) eyes, according to numerous Tweets, this went from being the definitive "album of the life" to "ONE of the greatest albums," but TLOP is worth taking a few steps further—it's merely a good album, far from being worth the supposed legacy that its creator preaches.
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Having such certainty in the boundless fascination of your own inner depths is a quality that can lead to navel-gazing or self-indulgence, but that's not at all the case in The Tale, where Jennifer's insistence on self-exploration and on her place at the heart of the film is essential.
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And, well, if Trump is seeing lots of bad news about himself (when he searches for news about himself) let's just say we're sure that Freud would have had a field day unpicking the knotted implications of Trump having such navel-gazing obsession with news sources he continually professes to hate and claims are "fake".
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The blame lies not just with the privilege framework in the abstract, but also with a media landscape that—for reasons that have as much to do with what readers want as with production costs—favors the churning out of "privilege" content (celebrity gaffes, navel-gazing from the ordinary-but-privileged) over, say, war reporting.
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If you've heard a Chainsmokers song—which is to say, if you've listened to the radio at least once in the last 12 months—you know what to expect here: twelve songs that pair faux-navel-gazing lyrics with music that capably walks the line between festival-ready EDM and beige-hued pop-rock.
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There has been much hand-wringing and navel gazing since the election about how liberalism was blind to a rising and hidden populism, about how identity politics were liberals' fatal flaw, about how Democrats needed to attract voters who were willing to ignore Trump's racial, ethnic and religious bigotry, his misogyny, and his xenophobia.
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THE last thing that America needs is more economic turmoil and political navel-gazing in Europe, a continent which—for all that it disappoints and maddens officials in Washington—remains a major trading partner and indispensable ally when the "free West" needs to act as one, for instance by sanctioning Russia over its actions in Ukraine.
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Overlooked amidst this tactical navel gazing is a clear, undebatable win-loss calculation: Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE won social media.
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By immediately highlighting the over-the-hill, navel-gazing égoïste Ben Vautier and a certain Maison Rouge bête noire lodestone with a piece by Jacques Lizène, glaring issues of cultural appropriation, typical of wealthy White male privilege, came flooding back from my experience of the rabid culture surfing and anti-identity-confirmation sampling within La Maison Rouge's Theatre of the World show.
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Critic's Pick Michael R. Jackson's gutsy, exasperated musical is set within the mind of a black, queer man who's writing a musical about a black, queer man who's writing a musical … Navel-gazing becomes a highly invasive procedure — a full-on laparoscopy of the heart, soul and loins — in Michael R. Jackson's "A Strange Loop," which opened on Monday at Playwrights Horizons.
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Fluency in one's own secret language of the self requires a lot of navel-gazing and brutal honesty about everything from what you like to eat and read to how you get it on, but when you've been socialized in a world that tries to train you how to be from birth, scheduling time to get to know yourself feels downright liberating.
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Below is a flavor of opinions on Twitter's #20173 experiment surfaced from the tech space — which runs a pretty full gamut of views on mega tweets — from supportive (and/or sarcastic) to indifferent to excited to horrified to snarky to creative to critical to navel-gazing to, well, hopeful that the change might finally break the addictive spell of Twitter… Can't wait for #bringback140.
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I started to get suspicious that this might not be the case around 1970, with the fractionalization of the "movement" into Balkanized racial, ethnic, and gender-based identity politics; self-actualization navel gazing; back-to-the-land urban desertions; self-help and fitness programs; herds of gurus and yogis — all of which were ostensibly calculated to produce the kind of human who could achieve the enlightened political state while achieving an enlightened spiritual state.
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Take a step back, and the whole Trump-bashing riff by Mrs Clinton, delivered on September 9th against the slightly unhelpful backdrop of a fund-raising gala in Manhattan, points to a dreadful dilemma that the Republican presidential nominee represents for the entire political establishment, meaning not just Mrs Clinton and the Democrats, but principled and thoughtful Republicans, and (at the risk of navel-gazing) journalists trying to report fairly on this election, too.
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His composer is so given to bellyaching and navel-gazing, however, that the novel gains power and resonance when it steps outside its hero's head, and instead uses Shostakovich's story to probe such favorite themes as the relativity of history and the subjectivity of experience (the same themes that animated earlier Barnes novels like "The Porcupine" and "A History of the World in 10½ Chapters"), and to chronicle the absurdities that artists suffer under totalitarianism.
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And as Kevin talked about how his sister helped him realize that holding on to his grief over his dad's death (which happened 20 years ago) wasn't helping him, or her, or their other brother, Randall, or their mother, I realized that TV critics like me, who are fond of navel-gazing, might not be the best audience for a show about a bunch of people who couldn't find their navels with a belly button detector.
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You can hear it, when she goes for broke on the self-penned song "I Fell in Love with the Devil" (ostensibly not about her Nickelback ex Chad Kroeger, who co-writes on the album) and "It Was in Me." The subject matter runs a very short gamut, from self-actualization to romantic idealization, with one common thread: A lot of navel-gazing and hand-wringing that leave the listener unsure if Lavigne is the victim or heroine in her own story.
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