He's not yet a poster man for self-confidence, but he knows it.
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Jacott is a one-man study in self-justifying paralysis (the movie's funniest scene is his quivering interview for a video-store job).
This can destabilize the marriage: When his mother and his wife are battling, a man's self-preservation instinct tells him to hide.
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Mr Danto, a jolly, bearded man with a self-deflating sense of humour and an old-fashioned taste in clothes, is the last sort of person you would think of as an authority-figure in the world of contemporary art.
They were called there after a fire alarm, and found a dead man with an apparently self-inflicted gun wound.
Had she ever seen this man as a younger self, been taken in by those strikingly interrogative eyes, received?
Petropolis group, the second largest brewery and beverage company in Brazil owned by self made man Walter Faria, has been very successful with TNT brand, growing 262% in three years and reaching sales of 60 million cans in 2011.
Mr Brooks had been a self-made man, raised on a hardscrabble tobacco farm in South Carolina.
Either he is a self-aware man with a dose of humility or a shrewd manipulator of his audience.
He is the classic self-made man, having started 40 years ago when a building boom led to a shortage of window frames.
Wang was thin and angular, with the bearing of a self-made man.
The 86-year-old Mitchell, the son of a Greek immigrant, father of ten, and self-made man, ranks as the 347th richest man in the world.
In the last six months there have been natural disasters of epic proportion, but the worst disasters are man-made and causing self inflicted wounds.
After making several comments under his breath about how no self-respecting man would be caught dead using this, he proceeded to put it together.
There is no such thing as a self-made man.
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That sort of de haut en bas can get out of hand of course: one self-made man, Michael Heseltine, has been sneered at because he bought his own furniture rather than inheriting it.
With Vincent Cassel as perhaps the most liberated (and self-destructive) man in Europe.
The characters in The Office willingly take risks, worry about job stability and watch as Scott exemplifies the unguarded emotional instincts of the un-self-examined working man.
That's what Douglas Carter Beane does with "The Nance, " a dead-serious comedy set in New York circa 1937 in which Nathan Lane plays a self-hating gay man who makes a living playing outrageously effeminate gay men on the burlesque stage.
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Bruce's Obi-Wanish trainer, a man named Ducas who is played by Liam Neeson, peddles self-realization nostrums like a cross between Cecil Humphreys's holy man in "The Razor's Edge" and Doctor Phil.
Photos of Saddam Hussein in captivity after being fished out of his hiding hole showed a frail afflicted man, a shell of his former self.
The man discovers that, because his onscreen self did his work so well in the past couple of days, he is now done for the week.
Mr Moran said the words were reminiscent of the early sections of Neruda's great 1945 poem Heights of Macchu Picchu, which contrasts the "spontaneous and ceaseless self-renewal of Nature with Man's impermanence".
It has often been said that a man with no memory can have no sense of self.
Remember this when you hear some self-proclaimed friend of the working man imploring that we accept inflation as a means to expand employment.
To check it is the duty of every self-respecting, law-abiding man.
Imagine a truly artificial, man-made heart, one that is completely self-contained and is able to adapt itself automatically to the body's needs--whether taking a nap or running for a bus.
He wears a quilted silver jacket with a gold scorpion embroidered on the back, and keeps on wearing it when the fabric is smeared with gore, but why would a man so clearly defined elsewhere by the spirit of self-effacement take such a risk?
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