How To Use Posture In A Sentence

Overextension in the lower back results in this 'duck-like' posture. Times, Sunday Times
His posture improved so much that his clothes no longer fit.
The basic principle is to keep an upright, erect posture.
The government has adopted an aggressive posture on immigration.
He had a swashbuckling posture; but such was his powerful physique and piercing look, it seemed natural rather than boastful or proud. Seminary Boy

Given the completely negative associations nihilism has for many of us, simply to have it redefined as a theological posture is worth the price of the book.
But her body-language seems to go beyond that into "domineering" posture, which turns me off without regard to gender or creed. Weird twitches
My usual aftershow posture was a position I call Transcension: prone on bed with bottle (s) of beer and good sounds on the box, friends in the room, TV on, sound off. ɘloЯ
The relationship between body posture and suppressed past trauma or emotions was touched on in the section dealing with cervical reintegration.
Often, the muscles used to maintain body posture are affected, namely the muscles in the neck, shoulders, and pelvic girdle, including the upper trapezius, scalene, sternocleidomastoid, levator scapulae, and quadratus lumborum.
First there was his erect posture. Times, Sunday Times
The occurrence of trees with decumbent stem form was also noted and leaning of the stem from a vertical posture was visually assessed.
In particular, where a stimulus is applied to the most rostrally situated regions, the cat adopts the normal posture for the physiological deposition of faeces; therefore the stimulus activates the skeletal musculature, which is innervated by the cerebrospinal axis, and which is also responsible for the abdominal muscular pressure. Walter Hess - Nobel Lecture
However, they also believe that many health problems can be caused by poor posture and misalignment of muscles and joints (and, with chiropractic, particularly the spine).
It might appear from the above that postures, breathing techniques and sensory control automatically purge the mind of distractions and bring about equilibrium and calm.
But, most of these figures have a limited range of posture, with the bent head, suggesting defeat, or failure.
From everything I have seen of Mr. Mandela, and from the memories I have of meeting him personally on several occasions, Mr. Freeman gets everything right: the walk, the cadences in the voice, the out-front and straight-ahead posture and the inner radiance that connect his thoughts and his words with visible facial computations — many of the qualities that make Mr. Mandela an inspiring leader. I'm Cheering for Morgan Freeman
This is a defense posture they use in the wild, as they are heavily armored from top to sides with sharp thornlike scales.
It is helpful here to perform the postures against a support such as a wall.
Learn how to use your posture and gestures to get ahead at work. Times, Sunday Times
Most were related to anesthesiology or surgical techniques or to the endocrine responses to changes induced by body posture.
Exercise improves posture, aids weight loss, increases flexibility and relieves emotional stress and tension.
Not necessarily: Ratzinger's role under John Paul was one thing; now that he is pope, he will perhaps assume a more pastorly posture. The Vision of Benedict XVI
It's a dynamic and vigorous yoga that uses the breath to flow from one posture into another. The Sun
This pose is often repeated during other yogic postures and is also done at the end of each session. SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 642
Giuliani’s sole reliance on military force and attacking people rhetorically is in fact a defensive posture that won’t work. Thinking in Real Time
The way the director uses details like the character's cringing posture conveys a sense of loss and deep emotional wounds.
Do most members want the Institute to adopt politically controversial postures?
My feelings were jumbled, which is not a good posture for a clinical psychologist during a crisis. Critical Conditions
You can see her posture change at certain times. Times, Sunday Times
Mustering one great final effort, he threw himself towards the table, landing on his knees in crumpled posture. December 18th, 2007
Lenape, "their worship consists of two parts, sacrifice and cantico," the latter "performed by round dances, sometimes words, sometimes songs, then shouts; their postures very antic and differing. The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America
Some studies have shown that a consistently round-shouldered posture may cause a shortening in one of the shoulder ligaments (the band of tissue that connects the bones).
Aidan took several steps toward Julius, his posture casual, nonthreatening. Haven
We started with some yoga positions, including 12 postures of suryanamaskar.
I saw nothing of the man but his posture of loose-limbed, helpless drunkenness and the ill-assorted covering of filthy clothing that concealed it.
This pose is very easy to perform and is also a good meditative posture for it allows the mind to relax and gain strength. SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 642
In my previous impostures in the English department, I had picked up some of the rudiments of Romanticism, but one idea that intrigued me was Edmund Burke's theory of the sublime.
Many of the bathers exhibited the bulk and the posture of wallowing hippopotami. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
The unstable surface triggers the muscles surrounding the spine and pelvis, helping the participant to maintain an upright position, improving gait and posture. The Sun
At a greater distance from the throne are the inferior nobles, also standing in the same posture of profound reverence.
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
Ter Borch's later full-length portraits depict sitters with reserved yet confident postures.
Learn how to use your posture and gestures to get ahead at work. Times, Sunday Times
Help may also be had through physiotherapy, advice on improving the posture, use of a soft surgical collar, advice on avoiding bending or stooping and on how best to carry weights.
It crops up on the Insta feeds of yogis who like doing difficult postures on a rock by a blue sea. Times, Sunday Times
Sometimes the road to illusion is created by hoaxers, people who engage in deliberate acts of trickery with the aim of proving how gullible other people can be when a skillful imposture is presented.
He bade us keep in a ready posture.
You can make your stomach look flatter instantly by improving your posture.
It is among a clutch of the men, striking postures of lofty, measured, keyboard generals that there is a doolally atmosphere. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
The "how ya like me now" chinstroke is feminine self regard; the calf over the handlebar is a weak posture; the assbag likewise. From the BSNYC Culture Desk: Nerds and Bikes
At the risk of seeming to fantasticate I confess that the Pope's having built the viaduct -- in this very recent antiquity -- made me linger there in a pensive posture and marvel at the march of history and at Pius the Italian Hours
Poses like sun salutation and warrior are held for a length of time as each posture works related areas of the body.
Poor posture, sitting or walking slouched over, compresses the body's organs.
Lean forward from your hips keeping a good posture with your back. The Sun
This is partly a defensive posture, partly an aggressive one. Times, Sunday Times
In others he is praying, or striking a military posture, or looking pensive and scholarly. Times, Sunday Times
In her Scurved posture, draperies gathered to one side of her body, we recognize the Gothic ivories and stone portal figures that were her ancestors.
This, in turn, leads to a flexed section of spine and a pronounced "kyphosis" - a curve in the lower back - creating the hunched posture that you have noticed. Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph
Academic institutions and professional societies would maintain a posture of organizational neutrality.
Many large corporates have taken commendable steps to improve workplace posture and healthcare.
He speaks about God from what we call the prophetic posture. CNN Transcript Feb 6, 2005
His eye met a beautiful heliotype, standing on the bureau in the light of the lamp; from the middle of the room, in a motionless posture, Kranitski gazed at the face of the woman, which was enclosed in an ornamented frame. The Argonauts
She assessed my desk, sitting and standing postures, before telling me that I was basically fine, but did I by any chance sleep on my side?
Leading by example, the United States announced a review of its nuclear posture - forswearing the use of nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states, so long as they are in compliance with the Non-Proliferation Treaty. Jim Luce: Ground-Breaking Speech by Ban Ki-moon on Eve of NPT Review
The receptor organ of posture and equilibrium is a composite one located in the semicircular canals, the utricle, and the saccule of the inner ear.
Yoga postures, specific yogic stretches as well as the breathing exercises can relieve the symptoms of stress.
The tone of the feminist speakers suggested they were adopting a rather defensive posture.
Ali rolled her eyes, imagining being ordered to read and copy chapters about having proper posture.
He posed a nude model to fix the exact posture of Salome in the water-colour version of The Apparition in the Louvre.
When by our continued posture in sleep, some uneasy sensations are produced, we either gradually awake by the exertion of volition, or the muscles connected by habit with such sensations alter the position of the body; but where the sleep is uncommonly profound, and those uneasy sensations great, the disease called the incubus, or nightmare, is produced. Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life
In the first he saw a yogi, in lotus posture, deep in meditation.
Bruno thinks it's too "skippy," but loves the posture and confidence. TVGuide.com: Breaking News
There is no doubt that any set of procedures and presumptions will shape the negotiation and litigation postures of the parties to a custody dispute.
An effective free weight program can strengthen your body, enhance your motor skills and improve your posture.
The pamphlet also doles out information on correct postures to prevent body aches while using the computers.
An observant doctor can often detect depression from expression, posture, and movement.
Western women, fully accoutered with nail polish (which is incompatible with manual work), high-heeled shoes (disastrous for the posture and hence the back, and quite unsuitable for walking long distances over bad roads) and brassieres... denounce female circumcision without the shadow of a suspicion that their behavior is absurd. Nomad
The man in the brace position struggled back into an upright posture. Times, Sunday Times
A Courtesan is played by an Asian girl hardly older than three, whose comehither gesture and coy posture, rouged lips and beribboned hair, faithfully mimic the conventions of Chinese painting.
Many of the bathers exhibited the bulk and the posture of wallowing hippopotami. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
He sat in the squared posture of a hearty Englishman, amusing himself with everything they passed on the road self-congratulant on the knowledge and experience he had been storing, joking as often as he spoke. The Emancipated
The clean-shaven gentleman on the couch, with the excellent posture, the pastel golf shirt, and that strangely chaste yet fiery look in his eye?
The military machine is ready to change its defensive posture to one prepared for action.
She remains voiceless but the postures and the expressions convey the intense desire to break out of conventional modes, a desire to burst forth from the shackles of male suppression.
Her posture is shocking and it betrays her negotiatory position immediately. Times, Sunday Times
I hope the press photographer was able to catch this unguarded posture.
What I called an "imposture" for a critical edition was precisely the impression given of a single, clean, definitive text in large type. 'Romantic Originals': An Exchange
He tends to adopt a defensive posture towards new ideas.
My posture and gait become those of an elderly lady. Times, Sunday Times
In speaking to them, however, they always used the most abject language, and the most humble tone and posture – "Please your honour, – and please your honour's honour," they knew must be repeated as a charm at the beginning and end of every equivocating, exculpatory, or supplicatory sentence – and they were much more alert in doffing their caps to these new men, than to those of what they call good old families. Castle Rackrent: An Hibernian Tale
Your mate will consider this a personal put-down and will immediately move into a defensive posture.
On the contrary, the patient, like one provoked by interruption, changed her posture, and called out with an impatient tone, "Nurse -- nurse, turn my face to the wa ', that I may never answer to that name ony mair, and never see mair of a wicked world. The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete
As the Ciceronian model of republicanism made explicit, the goal in adoring one’s civic order is to assume a posture vis-à-vis the state like that of a dutiful child to a parent. [ Patriot Acts: The Political Language of Henrich von Kleist
This "imposture," in Rosen's opinion, has an intimate connection with bibliography, though he never explains how bibliography causes the editor to take down the 1850 Prelude from the shelf (an easy, objective choice, according to Rosen) instead of the 1805 model (an awkward, subjective motion). 'Romantic Originals': An Exchange
And bowed down to resume his strange rump-in-the-air and face-in-the-sea posture.
This technique is about solving back pain caused by poor posture. The Alexander Technique Provides Short-Term Relief From Back Pain | Lifehacker Australia
Proper standing posture, no slouching and do lean against the wall.
More importantly, these animals may also take advantage of heat saving postures that could potentially lower radiant heat losses to cold night skies.
Skele drops various skillbooks such as Aran's 'Freezing Posture 20', Angel Ray, Sharp eyes, etc. WN.com - Articles related to 3D TVs new battleground for plasma, LCD display makers
Often these causes are things you may do before you actually swinging the club, like an incorrect grip and bad posture.
We have adopted postures and gestures and manners that pronounce our chosen status. Fools Rush In - A Call to Christian Clowning
The tone of the feminist speakers suggested they were adopting a rather defensive posture.
Gathering himself, the acquisitor effected a posture of arrogance. Legacy
Strong gluteal muscles are also crucial for better posture and faster walking or running. Times, Sunday Times
He continued in a kind of cataleptic stupor, so that he would remain for hours in any posture he was placed, either in his chair, or in bed; and did not attempt to speak for about a fortnight; and then gradually recovered. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
Have someone watch to insure your posture is good and have them measure your elbow height. Is working in your kitchen a pain in the back?
Beds, couches and other furniture became higher with changes in sitting posture, since people began to sit on chairs with their legs hanging down.
You can become incontinent, your organs descend and you have bad posture. Times, Sunday Times
Ghost World realistically portrays the often obsessive, compulsive and maladjusted postures of youth.
The military machine is ready to change its defensive posture to one prepared for action.
A form is a predetermined pattern of techniques that ties together proper posture, balance, coordination and timing.
My posture and gait become those of an elderly lady. Times, Sunday Times
Still, I try to accept Europe's moral absolutism on the death penalty in good faith -- the criminological equivalent of pacifism, not a cheap anti-American posture. Europe's dangerous death penalty gesture
The artist asked his model to take a reclining posture.
“The inclination of the axis of the earth is so duly proportionated for the making it as habitable as it can be, that the wit of man cannot imagine any posture better” (p. 162). COSMIC FALL
An outwardÂ-focused posture of humble servant leadership is more commendable than a life of egotistic achievement. Sheldon C. Good: What Would Jesus' Commencement Speech Say?
When Galactica hits Dolly Parton's high notes, her squinting eyes reflect the challenge, and the scatted breakdown of "Bye Bye Blackbird" by Rachelle Ferrell has the diva in a bent posture, shaking her clenched fists. Galactica performance perfectly in sync in Fringe Festival's 'Irrelevant Acts'
Fillies began ovulating and advertising estrus by adopting a distinctive posture between one and two years of age.
Achieving a relaxed, balanced posture in the upper spine is critical during the crunch.
Poor posture can cause neck ache, headaches and breathing problems.
They encourage better posture and promote a sense of well-being.
It was common for painters at that time to make use of photographs as aide-memoire to capture specific gestures, postures, and facial expressions.
On such occasions the Beeb's presenters adopt the posture of a keening relative, waxing lachrymosely about the dead woman and her "devastated" relatives. Undefined
With his own unconscious collusion, she had used him treacherously in an imposture which denied his separate identity and threatened to undo entirely the life work of individuation separation implied in identity formation.
I'm more of a flinger than a floater, so my teacher catches my hips, then he stands there and counts slowly to twelve while subtly, telepathically adjusting my posture and watching for signs of collapse.
Called chikungunya, from an East African tribal word describing the contorted postures of its pain-wracked victims, the pathogen has been the focus of intense scientific interest ever since a 2006 outbreak on the island of La Reunion in the Indian Ocean infected about 266,000 people, killing 260 of them. The Daily News - News
Belief in increasing archosaur homeothermy stems from the earlier discussion of the apparent change in posture.
We do not accuse the authors of the imposture of relativism.
This system of inner discovery begins with asana, sitting quietly in yogic posture, and pranayama, breath control.
There's the pulled-up ballet posture striving for ever-increased elevation.
Though he was now touched by the first papery brittleness of old age, his shoulders were still broad, his biceps showed bulges, his posture was mostly erect, and he seemed relaxed.
Back pains can be the result of bad posture.
A businessman in a suit, jutting jaw and stern posture, is at the head of the table.
-- Then, Signiors, it keeps you in confidence, and Countenance; and whilst you gravely seem to take a snush, you gain time to answer to the purpose, and in a politick Posture -- as thus -- to any intricate Question. The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II
Given the upright but slightly curved posture of the rice leaves, this point was well exposed to prevailing light conditions.
In a variety of mammals, females must adopt a receptive posture for sexual intercourse to occur.
The squeeze on consumption prior to 1969 now led to trade unions adopting a more militant posture in wage negotiations.
Kate is the epitome of ladylike elegance with poker straight posture, a svelte figure and a confident yet warm personality.
The receptor organ of posture and equilibrium is a composite one located in the semicircular canals, the utricle, and the saccule of the inner ear.
Here posture is better, suitings thicker and footmen are said to survive behind oaks up the odd gravel drive.
The grave expression it held seem to not fit the youthful appear of his posture.
To be sure, force may no longer take the form of plunder and extortion, and fraud may no longer appear as deliberate imposture and chicanery.
The posture is somehow defiant, although her expression is anything but.
Oh,'tis imposture all: And as no chemic yet the elixir got, THE CALLIGRAPHER
The complicated postures are such as no freestanding statue of the time could show, and the sculptor has had great difficulties.
Several of these half-starved creatures had their heads thrust out over the low pound wall, as if to solicit the interference of passengers, while others, resigned to their fate, stood in drooping postures in the centre of the enclosure, quite chop-fallen.
Lounging on the divan, his arms placed unguardedly before him, he had none of the tense, high-strung, honour-obsessed posture of his people.
‘I will be frank with you,’ she declared, her expression and posture rather uncivil.
It is a language which invites the mind to rebel against itself causing inflamed ideas grotesque postures and a theoretical approach to common body functions.
The cryptic posture might make these skinks invisible to tree-dwelling predators as well.
They rightly fear that the adventurist posture may prove very costly to their own interests, even to survival.
The men were still exquisite, postured with their arms draped over their heads in stillness or lunging and leaping in wild fits as the Tchaikovsky score crescendoed. Susan Eley: Hooters to Swan Lake During One Week in New York
The Presidents's bellicose posture arose from weakness, not strength.
After a while her posture lent itself a graceful, long-legged lope when she ran, or a silent stride when she was walking.
Cut"; at which the musick sounding again, the carver humour'd it, and cut up the meat with such antick postures, you'd have thought him a carman fighting to an organ. The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter
The position or posture adopted for meditation is of importance. The Beat Fatigue Workbook - how to identify the causes
Body training consists of various gentle stretches and meditation postures to open the meridian lines.
However, the end of the Cold War gave a strong boost to a more pronounced liberal posture.
The way the animal holds its long hindlimbs (referring here to the photo showing the animal from behind) and the suggestion of a patagium now make sense, and the unusual curving shape of the long tail matches the tail posture reported for giant flying squirrels (Meijaard et al. 2006, p. 321) and is unlike that of viverrids and other carnivorans. Archive 2007-01-01
Because improving the Law School's posture is perceived as essential to the University, the Provost has agreed, as well, to match the Law School's effort with six more faculty lines to be paid for out of central resources. Discourse.net: Yes, We're Hiring
The military had placed the island city in the best possible defense posture, considering the inherent weakness of its geographic position.
I improved my posture - with my legs more flexed and my upper body more upright, I'm not over the ball as much.
With their erect posture and heavily lidded eyes, the Eastern screech owls we are examining at the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Laurel look like imperious matrons. Duck, duck, owl: Patuxent research center is for the birds
Mindfulness feels rather like hatha yoga without the physical postures. Times, Sunday Times
The effect is weird, and weirder still is the conjunction of the figure's grimace with her pigeon-toed posture.
Corinth, the Corinthians having received certain intelligence by their spies that he with a numerous army in battle-rank was coming against them, were all of them, not without cause, most terribly afraid; and therefore were not neglective of their duty in doing their best endeavours to put themselves in a fit posture to resist his hostile approach and defend their own city. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
Learn how to use your posture and gestures to get ahead at work. Times, Sunday Times
The way you angle your feet determines the posture of the lower body.
It's staying focussed for long periods of time and the invariable effects on posture, concentration and sense of wellbeing.
The late Verna Wright, then co-director of bioengineering at Leeds University, called the claim that upright posture is the culprit for frequent back problems in humans ‘nonsense.’
Washington's motives are widely distrusted and its various foreign policy postures are viewed suspiciously, even by long-standing allies.
The upright, wardrobe-like posture and rectangular headlights of the seventies Mercs speak to me of a style and distinction that is somewhat missing from the cars of today.
Gentleman was as diligent to do Justice to his fine Parts, as the Lady to her beauteous Form: You might see his Imagination on the Stretch to find out something uncommon, and what they call bright, to entertain her; while she writhed her self into as many different Postures to engage him. The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays
The two votaries transitioned from their standing posture to a kind of rhythmic bowing and finally into a repetitive genuflecting motion.
It adopts no postures of phoney charms to placate its visitors.
He found Pelagia, apparently paralysed into a contorted posture that had left her neck ricked backwards. Captain Corelli's Mandolin
In 1871, Walter W Skeat published a complete and critical edition of Chatterton's poems, carefully dividing the poet's acknowledged work from his medieval impostures.
He had a funny walk, kind of loped, and he had - his posture wasn't great and so on. Philip Roth: On Writing, Aging And 'Nemesis'
He bid us keep in a ready posture.
The dancer, with her eyes shut and lips slightly parted, is in the posture we associate with the can-can—except that her legs are at an awkward, anatomically almost impossible, position to each other. The Artistry of Toulouse-Lautrec and His Dancing Muse Jane Avril
The government has adopted an aggressive posture on immigration.
Lee Myung-bak on Wednesday expressed a desire for dialogue with Pyongyang, saying Seoul's tough military posture alone will not ease tensions on the Korean peninsula.
His posture was impatient, peevish and annoyed that he had to answer to anyone.
A Chinese military posture that is too aggressive could produce a countervailing coalition among its neighbors, thereby weakening China's hard and soft power.
The dystonic twisted posture of his neck had become so bad that he could only ‘look at the world on his right side.’
He bid us keep in a ready posture.
We sense that their postures represent mixtures of the human emotions of fear and aggression.
If an itch arises, don't lift your hand to scratch it. If you lift your hand to scratch it, don't mentally react berating yourself for ten minutes about breaking the posture.
At this comment, Laura's body posture changed from a relaxed one, to a more tense one, with her arms crossed.
A form is a predetermined pattern of techniques that ties together proper posture, balance, coordination and timing.
Different yoga postures can help a variety of ailments, from arthritis to digestive disorders, but many people use it as a simple relaxation tool.
His gestures and movements are excessively self-aware in postures of cool and defiance, and for this very reason betray the emotions and vulnerability beneath.
A brown-suited instructor with ramrod posture and an air of self-important officialdom points at a blackboard covered with indecipherable scrawls.
Laura's glowing face was fairly radiant with beauty, and her figure was unconsciously displayed in such a variety of bewitching attitudes and dainty postures, that even a pair of frisky kittens, that had been chasing each other round the grassplot and up and down the stems of the cherry-trees, ceased their gambols and lay still, crouching in the grass, and watching her graceful motions, as if taking heed for future imitation. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858
Liege (or rather Tongres, for Liege was not then built) that she was spreading wide her tenets, unpersecuted and unrestrained, for she was too far removed from idolatry and imposture to be regarded. Olla Podrida
Six have previously known effects on wing veins, wing bristles, or wing posture, but none were known to affect wing shape.
Students can view their hand positions, posture and essentially take each lesson home with them for review.
His life-sized but nonetheless obviously fake trees are colored to emphasize the imposture - jarring industrial green or gleaming silver and bronze, for instance.
He held his broad shoulders erect in a proud military posture, and his soldier garb was pleasingly butch—shined combat boots, a black crewneck pullover with shoulder patches, and camo pants that were fitted around his narrow hips and muscular legs. Dreams of a Dark Warrior

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