peacocking

The peacocking of one’s ability to appreciate culture deeply.

"His professional wrestling peacocking had run its course, so he switched poses and kept it going.

The results of this newfound "peacocking" have been resounding.

A catwalk front row is a microcosm of all the narcissistic peacocking that exists in any industry.

"Somebody's watching me," sings Michael Jackson from the turntables, like a sly subtext to the peacocking.

Peacocking peculiarities of their mother's reproductive system love to say the horoscope sign Gemini is a celebration of twins.

Regardless, Mayer the musician is in charge here, and he keeps his peacocking in check throughout "Paradise Valley."

Maybe earnest peacocking naturally ran its course in rock; maybe R&B has seized it for good, preserving it in humor.

Given his sonically misty, emotionally bloodshot new record "Take Care," though, the tough-guy peacocking underlined the strange task he had in headlining Cali Christmas.

His dancing was so zealous that it brought to mind the punk forebear Iggy Pop, who's always approached the art as half visionary trance, half pro wrestler-style peacocking.

The researchers call this "peacocking," drawing parallels between the good deeds that a man does to impress women and the extravagant display of tail feathers with which the peacock tries to impress a mate.

The loathing the show has engendered probably has a great deal to do with ethnic misunderstanding -- what functions as peacocking within the community documented on the show seems to others like outright buffoonery.

And yet, she had the common sense to know that the eating thief was mentally unstable and that peacocking her authority and enacting an arrest over $3.71 would not be in CVS's best interest.

He added that the president dislikes East Room news conferences not because he is afraid to answer questions, but because of the "pomp and circumstance" and what Mr. Bush considers the "peacocking" of reporters.

By this period the huge freeholds that pastoralists such as the Wienholts had amassed under earlier selection Acts (via various "peacocking" and "dummying" practices), and which tied up much valuable agricultural land, were proving expensive to sustain.

Red carpet peacocking is harder than it sounds — for decades after his first Academy Award nomination in 1973, Al Pacino looked wary and pained during the obligatory stroll past armies of camera crews that Oscar attendees must make into the ceremony.

Los Angeles Times reviewer Randall Roberts wrote that "the musician is in charge here, and he keeps his peacocking in check", and that "The best part: When he does reveal his instrumental flair, he does so as someone whose natural-born skill warrants the display."

But they are about more than superficial peacocking too.