How to Use exhibitionism in a Sentence

exhibitionism

noun

• Most scat singing over the past 50 years has been rote exhibitionism, a cheap thrill that puts hip listeners to sleep.
  — Will Friedwald, WSJ, 16 Mar. 2021
• But then again, exhibitionism, or lack thereof, doesn’t matter in the court of law.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 8 Dec. 2022
• With this kind of exhibitionism, de Waart had nothing to do.
  — Marcus Overton, sandiegouniontribune.com, 10 Mar. 2018
• Then, in a burst of exhibitionism, some of them expose their breasts or other body parts in exchange for cheap plastic beads.
  — Doug MacCash | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 3 Dec. 2020
• By all means, go to mother! and enjoy its roller-coaster-of-weird exhibitionism.
  — Laura Beck, Cosmopolitan, 12 Sep. 2017
• One day, a woman came in, removed her top and bra and sat there naked in what Ms. Marshall saw as a display of power, not exhibitionism; the scene is replicated in the movie.
  — New York Times, 17 Mar. 2020
• The clubs can also be popular spaces to hook up, an exhibitionism looked down upon by some.
  — New York Times, 18 Aug. 2022
• To shy away from the universality of that theme risks treating her work as exhibitionism.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 17 Apr. 2020
• Shrum believes that ritual disrobement is more than mere exhibitionism, and that beads are crucial to the custom.
  — Doug MacCash | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 9 Dec. 2020
• In one unsettling scene, Mitzi, in a moment of exhibitionism, dances in her nightgown during the Arizona camping trip, and Bennie turns on the car headlights to give Sammy light to capture it on film.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2022
• His eagerness to speak and theirs to listen created a vortex of exhibitionism and voyeurism that sucked in millions of viewers in the pandemic’s early weeks.
  — Molly Fischer, The New Yorker, 13 June 2022
• Hemingway, demonstrating yet again the quality of his friendship, denounced the essays as an act of puerile exhibitionism.
  — Christopher Buckley, WSJ, 2 Sep. 2022
• Her exhibitionism and honesty seem entirely normal for a now-adult Disney star trying to shed the suffocating image of a chirpy teenager.
  — Robin Abcarian, latimes.com, 21 June 2019
• His Lola perfectly epitomized the classic drag queen’s panache for exhibitionism and camp.
  — Tirdad Derakhshani, Philly.com, 4 Oct. 2017
• How pitifully unprepared poor Mike is for the world — of exhibitionism, prostitution, alcohol, and drugs — in which his brother thrived.
  — Michael Washburn, National Review, 24 Oct. 2021
• Any whiff of vanity, of self-satisfaction, of unchecked exhibitionism, was distasteful to her.
  — Katie Roiphe, The Atlantic, 15 Jan. 2023
• This is supposed to be the season of unleashed, exuberant exhibitionism.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 18 June 2021
• Airline passengers, international tourists and even airplane pilots got more than a bit lively this year too, with fisticuffs, high jinks and underclad exhibitionism breaking out all over the place.
  — CNN, 31 Dec. 2022
• This is a movie about the oppositional thrills of secrecy and exhibitionism, the frisson between watching and being watched, and the visceral jolt of giving into an attraction that can no longer be contained.
  — Vulture, 14 Mar. 2022
• As biologists have understood since Charles Darwin, such exhibitionism evolves when females choose to mate with males that have the most extravagant appearances and displays—a proxy for fitness.
  — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 3 Mar. 2021
• Then again, the exhibitionism associated with these programs has always required a certain kind of personality in the first place.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 15 Apr. 2020
• There’s plenty in common, of course, between the spaces kinksters use for exhibitionism and literal exhibition spaces.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 3 Feb. 2021
• While taking black American social conditions as his subject, his movies are primarily about his out-of-the-closet exhibitionism.
  — Armond White, National Review, 3 Mar. 2021
• The drag queens and gender-nonbinary youth at such events can appear preoccupied with their own ecstatic exhibitionism.
  — Andrew Solomon, New York Times, 27 June 2019
• The film begins with diversion — a triangle involving Juan’s teenage son — and moves on to Juan’s voyeurism, encouraging Esther to fornication and exhibitionism.
  — Armond White, National Review, 20 June 2019
• As Su’s landlady observes, Chow and Su don’t hide their gossip-inducing interactions perfectly; there is a hint of exhibitionism in their performance.
  — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2023
• The modern technology, with its direct link to social media, amplified certain elements of bravado and exhibitionism that were already part of the performance.
  — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• Somewhere beyond exhibitionism and voyeurism—in the oceans beyond the bikinis and sunglasses—Instagram hints at the possibility of real intimacy with landscapes and humans.
  — Collier Meyerson, WIRED, 24 June 2019
• Officials have also noted that voyeurism and exhibitionism will not be tolerated.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 31 Aug. 2017
• As the pendulum swings toward maximalism, a look characterized by a profusion of pattern and design exhibitionism, the candid expressiveness of nudes seems fresh.
  — Julie Lasky, WSJ, 27 July 2017

Last Updated: 22 Aug 2024