How To Use Poseur In A Sentence
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When you take your laptop to the neighborhood coffee shop you can't help but feeling like a wretched poseur because the very act of taking a laptop to a coffee shop is completely redolent of conspicuous artiness and flat-out fakery.
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Alice especially despised those sorts of affected fools found in disproportionately large numbers in academe: bloviators, bad photographers, bad writers, poseurs.
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In my mind an e-book was little more than a species of niche electronic ephemera designed to sit within a tiny ecosystem of highly-tech-friendly but not particularly tech-savvy over-monied poseurs.
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But unlike the playa poseurs and iced-out bling-bling rappers still living in their parents' basements, this group had no delusions of grandeur when they wrote songs about living the high life.
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He was a braggart and a poseur, who frequently tripped himself up by telling inconsistent versions of the same story.
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No more hiding behind a façade of hauteur, that's for poseurs.
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The truth of the matter is that real sport takes place in winter; summer sports are for poseurs who affect to enjoy sport, but treat it mainly as an excuse for socialising.
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Will calls Webb a "boor" and a "pompous poseur" (two phrases that might have popped into Will's mind while shaving in the mirror that morning) and asserts Webb has "patent disrespect for the presidency".
George Will Faults Former Navy Secretary for "Making Waves"!
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There was a strange mix of fresh-faced punkers, aging hipsters, fashionista poseurs, prom queens, mean drunks and confused jocks at the Opera House on this chilly autumn night.
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It was a wonderful time of peace and diversity, where punks, poseurs, happy shiny couples and twitchy loners and could coexist long enough to gobble pancakes.
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Here he is, a debut author, lounging around Paris cafés and smirking at the hordes of "leonine" Hemingway poseurs.
A Writer’s Brush With Fate
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So you're a poseur if you use a currier bag, and "gay" if you use a basket.
Sexy and Bold: Life on the Street
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Alice especially despised those sorts of affected fools found in disproportionately large numbers in academe: bloviators, bad photographers, bad writers, poseurs.
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i couldnt believe some of you here .. and his english may tungang langang like u said? but it was what we called bahasa pasar, dia bukan buat english writing pun kat fb .. and i see poseur in your comment .. ko pun nak cakap english .. so what?
Planet Malaysia
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Weingartner seems to be agonised by the fact that today's twenty-year-olds are the ‘used car generation’, voyeurs and poseurs who have nothing to express but a lack of confidence and narcissism full of envy.
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I suspect that Rich is disturbed that his matinee idol is suddenly being called a poseur by respectable people whom Rich might meet at a dinner party.
John R. MacArthur: More and More, Obama Seems a Faux Liberal
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By mid-career, he was a narcissistic, dandiacal poseur, although Kelly finds it hard to see him as such.
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Catpewk Diary Entry
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I'm not one of these indie poseurs who only feels self-validation when they are listening to a band playing a series of bad, distorted chords that they and only two other poseurs in the world have even heard of.
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But after that, she declined into a fog of faux gaiety; of endless tedium alleviated by white-trash boyfriends, spongers, snobs and poseurs.
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While the politics of the event will be childish, at least the music on offer will be immeasurably better than the '80s new-wave poseurs who dominated Live Aid.
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He's clearly a shallow, narcissistic poseur - surely we're not supposed to feel sympathy for him?
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With a market that's quick to call a poseur a poseur, authenticity was a real concern, so the licensing program was surrounded by a slew of supplementary initiatives that support the audience.
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Go into the Young Adult section of the bookstore and you'll be bombarded by any number of titles centering on the fashion world (Catwalk, Airhead, Violet on the Runway), as well as characters that are notorious fashionistas (Clique, Poseur, and of course It Girl and Gossip Girl).
Regina Brooks: From Fiction to Fashion Statement: YA Books Spawn New Fashion Trends
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If that idea catches on, it may be the only way to tell real New Zealanders from shame-ridden poseurs: The genuine article will have his clothes on right-way-out.
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The word poseur has appeared in 10 Times articles over the past year, including in a December 11, 2009 theater review of "Love's Labors Lost" headlined
NYT > Home Page
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Some people admired him greatly while others considered him a poseur.
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The difference between a true scholar and a poseur is that true scholars are open about what they don't know and seek help from colleagues who are strong in those areas.
Inferior medievalists
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How often the woman or man with a God-given sense of the beautiful, the fitting, harmony between costume and setting, is described as poseur or poseuse by those who lack the same instinct.
Woman as Decoration
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He is a smug political poseur, whose commentaries are factually vapid but filled with obtuse and flowery language, designed to obscure his insecurity about being known as a sportscaster who is pretending to know anything about history, politics, or policy.
Think Progress » President Bush is “ticked off big-time”
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They are both useful additions to the daily reading, since the authors have specific expertise (as well as a cunning way with words) with which to amaze and intimidate us poseurs.
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No scented lavendar fool's cap for this bad boy—he was a true poete maudit, no MFA poseur.
Me and Lord Byron at Last Call
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I was forced to face the truth that I had, for years, been denying: I was a poseur, a fraud, an artist manqué, and always would be.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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Thank goodness for the debunkers like Hymes who ferret out the frauds and expose the poseurs.
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I think that was all probably kind of childish and stupid but by this basic standard (a poseur is one who postures) isn’t the whole New Republic thing (with the exception of the unabashedly lib pieces) pretty much a national journal of poseurdom? joe from Lowell Says:
Matthew Yglesias » Endgame
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En fait on voit pas sur la foto mais la chambre etait totalement vide puisqu'on attendait le poseur de lino ...
Pinku-tk Diary Entry
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Maybe he was afraid his film wasn't yet arty enough for the poseurs at the festivals.
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Some call them a joke, poseurs who pastiche the look, moves and sound of classic, brothel-creeping rock'n'roll; others call them the coolest band in the world.
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- Spotted in Engadget: Let it be known: we liked the Zune HD beforeit was popular, before all the poseurs jumped on the bandwagon with their tight-fitting jeans and their hairstyles.
Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
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… the Amazing Larri, ‘a prestidigitator, an escapist extraordinaire, and the greatest living exposeur.’
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More important, Wells presents the data that make the case that Ellsberg is a mythomaniac and a poseur.
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Although a lot more rock elements can be heard on this third album, it's when they bash away at punk that they really show up the major-label pop punkers as the poseurs that they are.
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Mr Wood, who visited Petrus and got involved in an argument with the staff, wanted the restaurant to be given only four rosettes describing it as an ‘expensive poseur's restaurant’.
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A poseur is someone who dresses like you, but doesn't know the difference between the words 'poser' and 'poseur.'
Archive 2008-02-01
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As a nonscientist, which is my standard disclaimer, I can’t get into the technical debate or tell the real technical people here from the poseurs.
The Volokh Conspiracy » ClimateGate Fallout Continues
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January 21st, 2010 at 7: 04 pm tombaker says: i’m sure jeff skilling was thinking “they’d never let me take the fall” too. and he was an actual bigshot, not some vain poseur on a website.
Think Progress » Will Scott Brown Stick By Birther Candidate Who Compared Obama To Osama Bin Laden?
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It savages venal music industry poseurs and also takes a dig at the clash between ‘art’ and pop culture.
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After all, the essence of the thing is to have simple, unaffected people; the poseur is the ruin of genial intercourse, unless he is
The Upton Letters
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Maybe he was afraid his film wasn't yet arty enough for the poseurs at the festivals.
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No scented lavendar fool's cap for this bad boy—he was a true poete maudit, no MFA poseur.
Me and Lord Byron at Last Call
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The Mayan usually caters to these turtlenecked poseurs who don't care about quality so much as they care about seeing something 'important'.
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For what's supposed to be the cream of our creative and cultural communities, the seemingly endless parade of poseurs parroting the same anti-free trade mantra showed a distinct lack of creativity.
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Catpewk Diary Entry
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I don't go into a pub to be seen by a mob of bleedin’ style poseurs, I go there to have a pint with me mates.
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Nobody can understand your "leaks" but 8th year English Lit majors and most everybody's stopped reading them already -- since they're nothing more than mastubatory prose that tickles the poseur proser, more than it relays information.
Weezy's Shady Corrupt Housing Games
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Hairy-chested poseur and Sarkozy foreign-policy adviser Bernard-Henri Levy sneeringly referred to "the chambermaid," brayed about DSK's high standing, and called him "a friend to women.
A Week of Shocks but Few Surprises
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I have slowly come round to the view that Australians are right to distrust intellectuals (by which I mean cultural poseurs, not the simply clever).
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Yes, there are poseurs who distract with meaningless, pseudo-esoteric verbiage, just as there are economists who seek to turn the trivial into the important by unnecessary mathematization.
Eschew Sesquipedalian Obsfucation, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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The group he headed were dandies and poseurs.
Times, Sunday Times
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The man who doesn't believe that blogging is a revolution or is financially sustainable is one of many sceptics and countercultural poseurs who like to preach certainty where the only certainty is that there is none.
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He was a braggart and a poseur, who frequently tripped himself up by telling inconsistent versions of the same story.
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So, I would say your colleague is full of crap and a poseur in violation of the Stolen Valor Act if he is in possession of those medals and is claiming them as his own.
Heroes or Villains?
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There comes a time in the life of many a voting citizen when one frowns, shrugs and mentally dismisses the lot of them - right, left and centre - as opportunists and poseurs, all equally unfit to wear the mantle of Honorable Member.
