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Example sentences for: preening

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These idiots can never measure up to the city's most superheroic crime fighter, Captain Amazing (Greg Kinnear), a preening egotist who soars around on a jet pack trashing supervillains, his uniform emblazoned with product placements.
The right thinks Beatty is a ridiculous, preening glory hound who would preach limousine-liberal ideas.
The Dole and Clinton campaigns, having blessedly dumped the usual panel of preening journalists, selected Lehrer as sole moderator for a reason.
A preening Italian-American sports agent (Al Palagonia) declares that he has no mob ties and that he resents being stereotyped, shortly before delivering a stereotypical (and very funny, Scorsese-esque) recitation of the luxuries (Ferraris, Rolexes, mansions) that await Jesus if he signs on the dotted line.
His volcanic rages don't have the put-on quality of post- Raging Bull Robert De Niro or the preening self-consciousness of Al Pacino; nor is he a simple-minded bully boy, like Harvey Keitel.