Word: preening
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Statesmen preen with the conceit that they can alter the forces of history and cool the passions of humanity with their bold leadership or clever diplomacy, and on occasion they do. But in the case of ingrained historic hatreds, true change can come only from the volition of the peoples involved. For reasons that can be explained by hardheaded circumstance -- though not fully understood -- men wake up one morning exhausted by their enmity and replace it with more rational considerations, a resetting of the psychic gyroscope that finally counts the cost of hatred too high. From that point, peace...
Gradually it filled Cerda's grid, which is now the world's greatest museum of 1900s architecture. The big Catalan mercantile families who made their piles after 1850 and ran the city tended to preen themselves on being modern versions of Renaissance princes -- all the more so since most of their grandfathers had been artisans or colonial hustlers. There was a lot of pent- up vigor and ambition itching to glorify itself...
...guys that we invited to our "I'm Too Sexy for Your Party" party a week ago were simply not willing to do what we women do almost every day of our lives: preen to be seen...
...Vide. The three muscular men who make up Right Said Fred objectify themselves in the most beautiful of ways. They strut, they preen, they flex, they "shake their little tushes on the catwalk." Delicious...
...through the arduous business of telling her he loves her and hopes to see her soon again. To a handsome student who sports a box cut despite his straight hair, she says, "I think we should exchange hairdos." Nice, and just naughty enough. He and his post-Mod buddies preen like princelings...