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Shelton brings a calculating sexiness to the role of Madeleine, while Orth, as the collector, and Vinnie Jones, as a preeningly overconfident artist (whose work incorporates hilarious pieces of taxidermy) steal all the scenes they're in.

Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: (Untitled) Is Artfully Funny 2009

This gives us a moment of relative silence to ponder what he - and his ilk of professionally insulting, preeningly non - "P.C.," overpaid media bloviators - bring to the world.

Nina Burleigh: Don Imus and the Rage of the Viagrans 2008

It's all here, from the pious jerkwater Christianity that flaunts its ignorance and waits for applause, to the dimpling, sexy-winking speeches not only devoid of content but actively, preeningly demagogic.

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It's all here, from the pious jerkwater Christianity that flaunts its ignorance and waits for applause, to the dimpling, sexy-winking speeches not only devoid of content but actively, preeningly demagogic.

Ellis Weiner: "McSame?" Try "McShame" 2008

She thrust the last pin into her hair and tipped her head preeningly before the big triplicate mirror -- the first time she had ever encountered this luxury outside of a ready-made clothes shop.

The Bent Twig Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918

She seemed to accept their devoirs -- not piquantly, as one courted and attended; nor preeningly, as many of her sex unworthily reap their honours; not yet stolidly, as the ox receives his hay; but concordantly with nature's own plan -- as the lily ingests the drop of dew foreordained to its refreshment.

Heart of the West [Annotated] O. Henry 1886

The lengthy entries awarded to éamon de Valera and Seán Lemass (both by Ronan Fanning, both excellent) were rather preeningly highlighted by the current Taoiseach, Brian Cowen, at the Dublin launch of the Dictionary; perhaps fortunately for the purposes of Fianna Fáil's continuing enterprise of self-congratulation, Charles James Haughey died too late for inclusion.

Top stories from Times Online 2010

Sarah Brink, for whose tiny daughter Tassie does child care, owns Troy's most preeningly pretentious restaurant, Le Petit Moulin.

JSOnline.com 2010

It's all too cerebral, too introspective, too preeningly sagacious, too wise.

Film | guardian.co.uk Joe Queenan 2010

Rather preeningly, Ronell quips that it's fine that the other philosophers in the film are restricted to 10 minutes each, but she should not be subjected to such an indignity, and then launches into an extended monologue about the healthy uses of anxiety and meaningless in the postmodern world.

Salon 2009