How To Use Attitudinize In A Sentence
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Here and there a more or less circular space has been swept clear, and on each space a batch of skaters whirl and attitudinize, the uncleared interspaces of snow-covered, impracticable ice given up to miscellaneous loafers.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873
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She was very corseted, very mannered, and quick to attitudinize.
Star-Dust
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They attitudinized also, with a kind of childish poetry that did not quite convince, for the fountain rained on them, and some of them shivered as cold gouts of water smote their shoulder-blades.
We Can't Have Everything
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It made them think that bounders and attitudinizers could never get the better of them.
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There seems to me to be too much of the blown lock and the wistful glance, too much of the attitudinized poet, lacking, I may even say, in true refinement, often.
Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets
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While most of the other panelists attitudinized, he got down to brass tacks.
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The play attitudinizes, pontificates, mystifies, and bores.
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In the same church I had the misfortune to see in the boxes a pair of horrible mummies, decked off with robes and ornaments -- a count of Nassau-Saarwerden and his daughter, according to the custodian -- an unhappy pair who, having escaped our common doom of corruption by some physical aridity or meagreness, have been compelled to leave their tombs and attitudinize as works of art.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873
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They vilified him with passion and charged him with being a shallow attitudinizer.
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I have periodically been charged with being an attitudinizer ever since I began writing criticism twenty years ago.
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In his novels of this period, as in his dress and manner, he deliberately attitudinized, a fact which in part reflected a certain shallowness of character, in part was a device to attract attention for the sake of his political ambition.
A History of English Literature
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In fact, because of a psychological predisposition, he was bound to arrive at the functionally desirable result, yet because he had to “attitudinize to himself,” he “wast[ed] time, proceed[ed] unnecessarily by indirection, and burn[t] up his energies needlessly.”
Pound at Large and at Bay
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Even small Frances, most self-conscious of Madigans, in a costume so inadequate that Bep's doll would have been scandalized at the idea of wearing it, posed and attitudinized as a Dewdrop.
The Madigans
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One evening when Lilly arrived home from the hospital she found Zoe squatting in bed, her face naughtily screwed into a little grimalkin knot, elbows pressed into her sides, palms up, and all attitudinized to emulate a Chinese god.
Star-Dust
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She attitudinized dramatically: '_Yes, in my first terror!
CHAPTER 14
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He was soon landed by the stalwart Martha and Alec, and, while he attitudinized for draining, the Professor amused himself with taking an instantaneous photograph.
Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885
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The poser and attitudinizer whose] individuality remains undeveloped might become all too common in the sophisticated, complicated modern world, he feared.
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What a burst of eloquence!" exclaimed Frank, who, on the first sound of the kingly voice, had begun to attitudinize; while Trevannion gazed on his friend with a quiet, gentlemanly air of inquiry, that was not to be put out of countenance by any circumstance how ludicrous soever,
Louis' School Days A Story for Boys
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There was nothing in the least melodramatic about him; he never posed or attitudinized -- it would have required too much patience; but he was always piquant.
Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History
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He's as empty as a drum, a conscious attitudinizer, a hollow pretender, a mere humbug.
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He posed, attitudinized and vapored, so that the camp and the country were filled with stories of the wonderful coolness with which he contemplated his approaching fate.
Andersonville
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We are compelled to let several English sailors pass before us, decked out in their white drill clothes, fresh, fat, and pink, like little sugar figures, who attitudinize in a sheepish manner around the shafts of the columns.
The French Immortals Series — Complete
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A bird seldom sings when watched, and Nature is no coquette, and will not ogle and attitudinize when stared at.
Our Friend John Burroughs
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Effeminacy, softness, and caprice attitudinize before us.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
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He loved to strike poses, to attitudinize, and in these last years allowed his imagination to run riot.
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Thus the newspaper man, wearily certain that regardless of what he asks or how he asks it, he will hear for answers only the clumsy asininities behind which the personalities, leaders and sacred white cows pompously attitudinize, gets so that he mumbles a bit incoherently.
A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago