self-dramatisation

There were rumours that he had shot a man, but given that he was very good at a form of subtle self-dramatisation, I am not sure now I believe them.

Bosses I Have Known « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

In depicting himself in such a melodramatic fashion, Bayard became not only the first photographer to take a self-portrait, but a pioneer of the kind of obsessive self-dramatisation that has come to define conceptual photography in recent times.

Photography: self-portraits as an art form 2010

I'm automatically suspicious of any urges to self-dramatisation in myself 1 and going on about something like a leg-break would have felt yes, I know self-dramatising.

grahamsleight's Journal 2009

‘Virginia Cherrill is utterly charming,’ gushed one critic, ‘and takes unto herself a perfect genius for the absurd self-dramatisation which the part demands.’

Chaplin’s Girl Miranda Seymour 2009

I'm automatically suspicious of any urges to self-dramatisation in myself 1 and going on about something like a leg-break would have felt yes, I know self-dramatising.

grahamsleight: One particular bit of thanks grahamsleight 2009

Fan: I'm escaping my marketised, atomised identity through a unconscious act of self-dramatisation and constructing a new nexus of social relationships with my fellow consumers of the sporting experience.

Comment Central - Times Online - WBLG: 2007

Fan: I'm escaping my marketised, atomised identity through a unconscious act of self-dramatisation and constructing a new nexus of social relationships with my fellow consumers of the sporting experience.

When philosophy and football collide 2007

Fan: I'm escaping my marketised, atomised identity through a unconscious act of self-dramatisation and constructing a new nexus of social relationships with my fellow consumers of the sporting experience.

Comment Central - Times Online - WBLG: 2007

One does not desire that people should unduly indulge themselves in self-dramatisation.

Where No Fear Was Arthur Christopher Benson 1893

Peter Mandelson's memoirs predictably fixate on gossip, intrigue, backbiting and self-dramatisation.

New Statesman Peter Hain 2010