It takes too much energy for me to put on airs, so I don't.
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"Liz doesn't put on airs," her friend Rebecca Eisenberg, a professor at the University of Michigan Law School, says.
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He made a point of walking (or "trekking," as Nigerians say) to locations to show he did not put on airs.
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Even now, some of that mentality still sticks with me in my push to put on airs in order to "feel" ahead in uncomfortable spaces.
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"I noticed a certain seriousness about him, but he didn't strike me as someone who put on airs or had a big ego," she said.
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He doesn't boast, doesn't continuously remind his students or friends or bosses of his worth as a trainer and fighter, doesn't put on airs of superiority.
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The episode's plot is an old sitcom classic: the well-meaning heroes put on airs for company, then have to scramble to keep from getting exposed as liars.
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It's a small heartbreak every time he sees the surprise on the faces of black people he meets: is he trying to put on airs, to be better than them?
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The British Airways Concorde Room at London Heathrow, for example, has private tall booths with waiter service (don't feel you have to put on airs; I had a cheeseburger and champagne).
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He said he drove one because he had always regarded a Buick as a quintessentially reliable American car that signified a certain level of middle class prosperity but didn't put on airs.
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If you're a Sean Hannity fan who likes to put on airs at a Tea Party rally, Scruton's book will tell you everything you need to know about the thinkers it so confidently dismisses.
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But he and the Kiplings did not get along—among other things, he thought his sister put on airs—and one afternoon a drunken Beatty came across Kipling, who was out riding his bicycle, and threatened to blow his brains out.
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She didn't exactly put on airs, but we picked up on her feeling of superiority, not to my father himself—whose virtues of mind and character were not lost on her—but to his unfortunate roots, his late exposure to Taussig ease and elegance.
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"He doesn't put on airs and likes getting down in the dirt with ordinary soldiers, to know what their lives are like, how they are living and what they are eating," said the source, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter.
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Bourdain does it a little differently; ever since his voice emerged first in the New Yorker and then in his best-selling Kitchen Confidential, he's built an audience around his unique charm—the guy knows food and loves talking about it, but doesn't put on airs and isn't afraid of getting into the thick of it.
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For instance, he hated patent medicine, people who put on airs, late night noises (both human and natural), and the cats and jays that killed his beloved song birds.Moore, xiii, 263, 147-48, 260-61, 154-55, 262-63, 317.
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He is a rash man who tends to put on airs. He was a lover of Goldie during his school days. He drives a Fiat Panda. ; and :Voiced by: Hyōsei and Tokuyoshi Kawashima (Japanese), Nicole Oliver and Richard Ian Cox (English) :Cappy's owners who run a craft store.
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Sam Bisbee (W. C. Fields) is an optometrist and an amateur inventor. His daughter Pauline (Joan Marsh) is in love with Bob Murchison (Buster Crabbe), but Bob's upper-class mother (Kathleen Howard) wants nothing to do with anyone related to uncouth Sam Bisbee. Even Sam's wife Bessie (Louise Carter) is ashamed of him, because he prefers to be himself rather than put on airs.
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Scene 1: Brandino's house Ricardo visits Valeria at Brandino's house. Playing to the widow's stated distaste for men who wear make-up and put on airs, Ricardo claims that everything about him is genuine. Francisco and Attilio sneak into the room and observe the conversation from a hiding place. Ricardo tricks Valeria into holding his hand and making what might be construed as a betrothal promise.
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Its motto is "Don't put on airs; Just seek the truth" (不扮高深 只求傳真). The final print edition of the Hong Kong Next Magazine was published on 15 March 2018. Next Magazine Taiwan branch was established in 2001 and its first issue was published on 31 May 2001. With strong TV advertising support, the first issue's print run of 270,000 sold out within four hours.
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Owen Gleiberman of Variety gave the film a positive review, writing, "Steven Soderbergh's Logan Lucky is a high- spirited, low-down blast." Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter gave the film a positive review, saying, "This is a good-times film that doesn't put on airs, dress to impress or pretend to be something it isn't. It just aims to please and does a pretty good job of it." Matt Zoller Seitz of RogerEbert.
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Regent Sonam Rapten appointed Norbu as Governor of Shigatse in 1644. Lobzang Gyatso wrote that most people began to call him 'Desi' or 'Depa' and he put on airs of being the Regent's brother.Karmay 2014, p. 187 'Depa' ('Governor' or 'Commissioner') was in current use but 'Desi' (Regent, Administrative Ruler or Prime Minister) was hardly used during Lobzang Gyatso's lifetime; it was only retrospectively applied to his Regents from the early 18th century.
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968722 Joseph also came up with four basic rules of the share market that are still of the greatest relevance today.Portions Descriptive of the Amsterdam Stock Exchange Selected and Translated by Professor Hermann Kellenbenz Hochschule fur Wirtschafts und Sozialwissenschaften > The first rule in speculation is: Never advise anyone to buy or sell shares. > Where guessing correctly is a form of witchcraft, counsel cannot be put on > airs. > The second rule: Accept both your profits and regrets.
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The Parianeros, realizing Viceroy Garibay's control over his countrol, they put on airs as saviors of the fatherland. They organized militarily, under the name Realistas Fieles (Faithful Royalists) or Patriotas de Fernando VII (Patriots of Ferdinand VII). They adopted blue jackets like shopkeepers' robes, and for this reason were mockingly known as Los Chaquetas (The Jackets). Viceroy Garibay not only controlled the government; he also tried to prevent the Parianeros from committing outrages and abuses against anyone they singled out.
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She affects to put on airs, insisting that she will never sleep with him again now she has tasted the life of the rich. He is a little worried but happy to reflect on the prosperity that lies ahead once he is rewarded. George enters, with an invitation for the couple to come to Camlet's wedding: he has decided that he too wants a divorce, and has taken up with a new woman. They tell Mistress Camlet and she is furious, resolving to go and kill everyone involved in her jealous frenzy.
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Helen is a prude who disapproves of Molly's developing figure and healthy interest in boys, particularly Johnny Hunter, who is also attracted to Molly. Ken is much more relaxed and permissive, and tells his daughter that her natural desires are not shameful. Helen also tries, unsuccessfully, to put on airs and impress the upper class residents of the island, while Ken is not interested in pretense and is even happy to talk with older people who remember him from when he worked as a lifeguard. As it turns out, Ken and Sylvia were lovers twenty years ago, when they were teenagers.
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De Gaulle was admired by the later President Nixon. After a meeting at the Palace of Versailles just before the general left office, Nixon declared that "He did not try to put on airs but an aura of majesty seemed to envelop him ... his performance—and I do not use that word disparagingly—was breathtaking." On arriving for his funeral several months later, Nixon said of him, "greatness knows no national boundaries".Time, 23 November 1970 Lt. General Vernon A. Walters, a military attaché of Dwight Eisenhower and later military attaché in France from 1967 to 1973, noted the strong relationship between de Gaulle and Eisenhower, de Gaulle's unconditional support of Eisenhower during the U-2 incident, and de Gaulle's strong support of John F. Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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It is little wonder that in his later political life he was described as an Asquithian Liberal.K O Morgan, Wales in British Politics, p295 However Roberts and Lloyd George were as one in their opposition to the Boer War. with Roberts being described as a ‘sentimental politician’ on the issue and a member of the ‘extreme peace party’.John William Auld, The Pro-Boer Liberals in Britain During the Boer War, 1899–1902; National Library of Wales, 1977 p277 Some historians have disparaged Roberts as complacent and plodding, noted his tendency to put on airs and graces or pointed out an inherent cautiousness.Morgan, Wales in British Politics: 1868–1922 p58 In the view of John Grigg, Roberts was “too awkward” to succeed, never becoming a minister or rising higher than a county court judge despite having a good political mind and being an excellent lawyer.
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