How To Use Posturing In A Sentence
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Hunt was also to write that he and Millais used to stand in front of the Raphael cartoons (then at Hampton Court) and judge them fearlessly, also that they condemned Raphael's Transfiguration (which they had never seen) 'for its grandiose disregard of the simplicity of truth, the pompous posturing of the Apostles, and the unspiritual attitudinising of the Saviour.'
Cosa Nostra
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This process must proceed with dispatch, without posturing, without grandstanding, without empty words.
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Music has always had a tendency to glance back over its shoulder at the past, but the last few years has seen an unabashed spate of revivalism, from 60s garage rock posturing to the soi-disant Electro Clash phenomenon.
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Not a fraudulent posturing designed to once again coverup a corporate takeover of a regions sole method of funding their growth as a country or region.
Think Progress » A Progressive Exit Strategy
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Mayor Ray Nagin is halting a push to revamp New Orleans 'approach to retaining and attracting businesses, citing a lack of diversity on the board that would guide the effort, posturing for control and what he called a minimal funding commitment by the private sector.
Undefined
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There is still something almost mythical about a piece of metal that can inspire and assuage all the bitterness of political posturing and stray dog culls.
Times, Sunday Times
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When we worship in the spirit, we are opposed to religious rituals and ceremonial posturing, and to the showiness of the symbols of office, and external worship.
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In this way we shall proceed with the good of students at the centre and not revert to posturing - on both sides.
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Think of it as a miniature Camden Crawl with less townie posturing, and no need for wristbands.www.treorchytown.co.ukFrank's Café and Campari Bar is set in an insalubrious multistorey car park in Peckham, but don't let that put you off.
The insider's guide to free arts
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His writing has been dismissed as mere intellectual posturing.
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If a painfully hip novel set in the European fashion industry didn't contain the requisite amount of preening egomania, airy-fairy posturing and general preposterousness, you would probably ask for your money back.
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There should be no room for the political posturing we have seen so far.
The Sun
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So while some of the kingpins are posing and posturing with flash and flurry, behind the scenes the big debate on the whys and wherefores of possible arrests is going on.
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He was gazing idly at the baroque Italian candelabra in the painted dome above his head and reflecting how much more jolly it would have been if the posturing Loves and gilded amoretti had been replaced by lifelike models of the Board of Directors, when a subdued feminine voice in his ear startled him to attention.
Sweet Danger
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Without such a justification, is there a danger of having the work dismissed as pretension or posturing or, at worse, accused of naiveté?
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Moneyrunner: Comity takes another pratfall at the Kirkland household with this compelling argumentArthur then makes the case for partisan posturing rather than principle.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Recalls of U.S. Senators Are Unconstitutional
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It means that we let go of posturing and pretence and live simply as we are, in truth, at ease with ourselves and with others, not having to worry about who's up or who's down, who's in or who's out.
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Of course, combining these requires some effort, but I wonder if most of their pricing is a result of market failure, such as high barriers to entry, political posturing, traditional brand adherence.
The Volokh Conspiracy » God Forbid That Some For-Profit Business Should Benefit While You Help People
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Her liberal views were soon revealed as mere posturing.
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I think that Bob Carr is using you to score political points and any vestigial respect I felt for him has vanished in a puff of political posturing.
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The electorate is growing tired of his posturings.
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Stupor or catalepsy, mutism, posturing/grimacing/stereotypy, echolalia or echopraxia and excessive motor activity were the main catatonic features.
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Svenson was not normally given to such arrogant posturing, but he felt sure that the two were not men of violence — that indeed, they were educated and accustomed to clean cuffs and uncalloused hands … rather like himself, actually.
The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters
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Her posturings, bizarre behaviours, withdrawal and guardedness lead me to consider schizophrenia.
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Are we to see “convoys” of fat guys in pickups and camo posturing on our streets?
Cheney: Investigating CIA interrogations a political move
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The level of patriotic indignation in China against posturing by American and European politicians over Tibet is already so high that a long-term clamp-down in Tibet seems inevitable, while public support in China for continued cooperation with the West can no longer be taken for granted.
Israelated - English Israel blogs
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The terminal illness is characterised by deep coma and decerebrate or decorticate posturing.
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All preparations having been slowly completed the day for departure arrived, and Chin, with much bowing and ceremonial posturing, having wished his wife and little son adieu, embarked with Wang, taking the equivalent of five thousand dollars [2] in sycee shoes and gold-dust, and amidst valedictory fusillades of fire-crackers, as well as a beating of gongs, the flotilla cast off and sailed away down river.
Life and sport in China Second Edition
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He manages to avoid the revisionist, anti-establishment, overwhelmingly negative posturing.
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He’s a postcard president posturing for a good photo op and a one sentence sound bite so the chances of him severing his tongue with an incisor is minimized.
Think Progress » From “Mission Accomplished” to “Tough Days Ahead”
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In the second week since the Wall Street crash, [ "Black Monday," October 19, 1987] this posturing is all-pervasive.
Quote Of The Day–”A Man That Breeds A Family …”
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Revisionist history and silly displays of pro-feminism posturing, liberal agendas and the whitewashing of historical figures and places has no place in public education.
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In the absence of immobility, mutism or stupor, at least two of the following that can be observed or elicited on two or more occasions: stereotypy, echophenomena, catalepsy, automatic obedience, posturing, Gegenhalten negativism, ambitendency
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
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Teresa knows very well that the explanation she is about to give is inspired; the `aw, shucks "posturing is pure rhetoric.
RIDDLE ME THIS
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Many people were disquieted about the macho posturing about the fire-fighters.
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Snide remarks laced with pomposity is not appreciated by most, nor is sarcasm punctuated by right/wrong posturing; therefore, I will just try and share my limited information as best I can and if you wish to comment, it will be welcomed.
Living in Mexico
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The posturing calls in Congress for rollbacks in federal fuel taxes will die out, as will the ad hoc consumer protests.
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There's going to be a lot of yelling and posturing from the right and nothing is going to get done.
Stu Kreisman: A Letter From a Progressive to President Obama
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Enough of this pseudo-intellectual posturing, these pretentious literary musings!
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Put aside the saber-rattling and military posturing; any electable candidate would do the same this year.
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Whether the posturing turns into something good is a question of whether the culture of pressure on artists lessens.
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I seem to remember a lot of guys with cheap macho posturing about killing them all and letting God sort them out, and so forth.
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The report makes it clear that despite the haughty posturing of national security heavyweights, we do not have adults watching the store.
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Let no one accuse us of idle posturing.
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This hearing is about posturing from the right and the left.
Senators signal fierce ideological debate in Sotomayor hearings
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The silly, dancing, posturing, wiry movements, and the facial distortion observed in Huntington's chorea would hardly be mistaken by a careful observer for athetosis.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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Peace was the mission of idealistic youth movements of the 1960s and 1970s, and the cause of peace may even have been hurt by overdone sloganeering and posturing.
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Empty posturing, artistic commodification and media faddism must all face the force of his opprobrium, not to mention talent corrupted.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The England management had clearly had enough of their star player's posturing and provocative behaviour.
Times, Sunday Times
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Stop posturing in front of that mirror and listen to me!
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I find the only way to challenge the chauvinism, sexism, sexual innuendo and macho posturing there, is to be more rude and more graphic than the guys.
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I am getting a bit perturbed with all the posturing and spinning about the patch out there in CME land.
Thoughts on the Contraceptive Patch and Blood Clot Risks
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FOR all the recent posturing Capitol Hill, financial reform is coming.
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And from there we can begin an intelligent discussion, without the posturing, the sarcasms, and the agitations.
Must Watch: Bill Maher's Religulous Trailer! « FirstShowing.net
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I think I've found a yellow streak amidst your red, white, and blue posturing.
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The tremor may resemble both essential and cerebellar tremor in that it is present more on tonic posturing and movements.
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Maybe the flummery and camp of our political institutions and our enthusiastic approval of layering and posturing have helped us to achieve our multiculturalism.
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There was yelling and posturing, but no threats of violence or physical contact.
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THAROOR: But Richard, where haven't we be generous -- look, after the Mumbai attacks, India deliberately chose not to adopt and beleaguer (ph) on military posturing.
CNN Transcript May 10, 2009
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The law firm holiday parties have been blowing and going since mid-month in a near-blizzard of big-bucks spending and legal-eagle posturing.
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A plaintiff with a serious grievance will send a writ without wasting time posturing first.
Times, Sunday Times
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Think of it as a miniature Camden Crawl with less townie posturing, and no need for wristbands.www.treorchytown.co.ukFrank's Café and Campari Bar is set in an insalubrious multistorey car park in Peckham, but don't let that put you off.
The insider's guide to free arts
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Of course it is needless to say this was dressed up with faux-creative writing skills, accompanied by the kind of smarmy posturing and ad hominems that so frequently characterizes the attacks from “the left”.
2009 April 22 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
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The fans imagined they knew Lennon through his posturing, sincere or not; McCartney through his matey charm; Starr through his scouser-comic bit.
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All that posturing and strutting about wasn't for me.
Times, Sunday Times
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Kyle Soller as the posturing Khlestakov is an extraordinary, ginger-haired beanpole whose fastidiousness is undercut by his intemperate greed.
Government Inspector – review
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Stop posturing in front of that mirror and listen to me!
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Posturing is in fact all it is, in this case posturing for want of a cogent argument.
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For all the talking and posturing, there is something likeable about Mayweather.
Times, Sunday Times
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In these uniforms, banners and slogans, in this posturing and stridency, there was something curiously unreal, theatrical.
IN LOVE AND WAR
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But I cannot stand the posturing of fanatics of any religious or political group.
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Don't believe their workerist posturing.
The Sun
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The movements may vary from hardly noticeable choreiform twitches or dystonic posturings to nearly constant restless activity of extremities and trunk.
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If ministers and their statutory bodies really want this review to have any credibility, they must stop posturing and place an immediate moratorium on all wind farm developments pending its completion.
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He laughs again to show he's not posturing, he's kidding around.
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As we sauntered forward I noticed all about lesser circles where the yellow-girted ones were drawing delighted laughter from good-tempered crowds by tricks of sleight-of-hand, and posturing, or tossing gilded cups and balls as though they were catering, as indeed they were, for outgrown children.
Gulliver of Mars
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For all the political posturing, the battleground issues between the parties are relatively few.
Times, Sunday Times
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He makes a further crack about his rival's empty posturing.
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Daniel Hannan does a fairly decent analysis of the state of play on the treaty "quadrille" this morning in Brussels Journal, the oh so predictable and tedious posturing of member states some of them as we lead up to the IGC and its equally predictable outcome.
Archive 2007-10-01
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While occasionally posturing as a friend of the working man, Kelly climbed the social ladder and hobnobbed with the rich and powerful.
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I suspect his obstruction of Johnson's appointment due to the abortive toxics study is related more to political posturing than to anyone's health or safety.
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His writing has been dismissed as mere intellectual posturing.
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In order to make yourself clear, you might be forced into a mime show, gesticulating and posturing dramatically so as to convey your meaning.
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Other bands don't: they eschew the arty deliberations of the underground in favour of an all-out assault upon preconceptions and asinine posturing.
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Unity, when it comes naturally, would be of far more value to the Party and the country as a whole, if it is meaningful and not simply posturing to impress the masses.
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The England management had clearly had enough of their star player's posturing and provocative behaviour.
Times, Sunday Times
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Insomnia, Nolan's entrance into major studio film-making, was an empty and purposeless work, again, nearly all posturing.
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The Transbad Saints, on the other hand, are a slick crowd of phoneys led by the posturing, epicene Helmet Al Weaver, who steal a No 1 hit from Keva and head for the States.
Powder – review
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So while some of the kingpins are posing and posturing with flash and flurry, behind the scenes the big debate on the whys and wherefores of possible arrests is going on.
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A 14-year-old boy with a pre-existing history of autism exhibited stupor with mutism, akinesia, rigidity, waxy flexibility, posturing, facial grimacing and involuntary movements of the upper extremities.
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Amongst other animals, and specifically amongst vertebrates, ethologists classify violent behavior (aggressive posturing, attacking, hurting, killing) into two types: predatory and territorial.
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Stupor or catalepsy, mutism, posturing/grimacing/stereotypy, echolalia or echopraxia and excessive motor activity were the main catatonic features.
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But I am posturing here, I suppose, when all I should be saying is that plot is not the opium of the artless masses…
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Belief and unbelief, so important to the intellectual posturing of modern existence, are innocuous, vacuous terms.
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Which means, someone needs to get fired over this, or all apologies and posturing about being responsible are null and void.
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Her liberal views were soon revealed as mere posturing.
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Machtpolitik posturing, from certain people, with an agenda.
Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk
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Instead it appeared, at least to some Americans, as if the promise of the United Nations had collapsed in a miasma of bureaucratic inertia and rhetorical posturing.
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His highly polished boots and the ivory-handled revolvers strapped to his hips were all part of this posturing, as was the profanity of his language.
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A clueless cad tries to woo a lady with his self-produced song and macho posturing, interpreting her disdain as approval.
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Daniel Hannan set the tone, describing the posturing as the "quadrille" and latterly, Fraser Nelson on the Spectator blog picked up the theme, with a short but pointed post, headed: "How Barroso and Brown could stitch up the press".
Archive 2007-10-01
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Generalized tonic seizures may mimic decerebrate and decorticate posturing.
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Lud - Thats a very good point IMHO the Mail and the DT have both been very soft on Brown for these reasons but in fact the posturing is all fraud.
Cameron`s Tactics are Working
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Any calls for a new UN resolution are largely political posturing.
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When we worship in the spirit, we are opposed to religious rituals and ceremonial posturing, and to the showiness of the symbols of office, and external worship.
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Then there's Congress on both sides of the aisle and presidential candidates hawkishly posturing for whatever they imagine it gains them.
Middle East Madness
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Using his early films, like Vinyl, to document dance styles, such as the frug, Warhol records different ways of posturing.
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As progression occurs, the pain will cause decorticate posturing (flexion of the upper extremities with lower extremities becoming rigid and extended). g.
Recently Uploaded Slideshows
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In article one, we learned about posturing ourselves wisely to make friends.
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There is no hocus-pocus, no aggressive posturing or screaming for effect.
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The film's web site is remarkably preachy, posturing the movie as a landmark in the battle against sexual harassment.
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Why didn't any of the Trojans build something to hit Achilles from a safe distance while he was posturing out on the plain?
2008 Lenten Read-a-Thon Day 34
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The deadpan humour behind their stone-faced radical posturing and deliberately obtuse lyrics were certainly overlooked by many.
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It means that we let go of posturing and pretence and live simply as we are, in truth, at ease with ourselves and with others, not having to worry about who's up or who's down, who's in or who's out.
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Great science is so much more than a tool to score political points with, and it is a tragedy that so many people miss out on science because Darwin is used for political posturing. piscator
Happy Darwin Day
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I fear it still sounds that way to me, even in this simpler version, which retains all the sweaty climaxes and empty posturing of the original, musical features that make the play's overcooked melodramatics even harder to take.
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A country that wants to see real improvements in real services - not posturing and pretence.
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I retain the keenest sympathy and something inexplicably near to envy for my own departed youth, but I should find it difficult to maintain my case against any one who would condemn me altogether as having been a very silly, posturing, emotional hobbledehoy indeed and quite like my faded photograph.
In the Days of the Comet
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The Army Campaign Plan provides the necessary strategic vision and direction to execute today's missions while posturing the Army for the future.
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Put aside the saber-rattling and military posturing; any electable candidate would do the same this year.
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When we arrived in Paris, we searched in vain for evidence of its anti-American posturing, its supposed rudeness to all who fail to be Parisian and its intolerance of any language other than its own.
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Art today is rich in witless posturing, philosophical boilerplate, ostentatious anger, and conventional shock.
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You gave yourself away with all your he-man posturing and strident super-patriotism.
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There was a bit of macho posturing - the ones who were not good at sport were picked on a bit.
Times, Sunday Times
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They are too often reminiscent of desultory common-room conversation on those first nights at college, when no one knew anyone and everyone was defensive, posturing, or simply uninterested.
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He described an initial, short-lasting episode of motor symptoms characterized by immobility, posturing, and waxy flexibility that ended in a hyperkinetic state; a second stage of melancholia often with stupor; a third stage of “exaltation and rapid and pressured speech” “a certain pathos-filled ‘ecstasy’ this entrains a compulsion to talk in oratorical style”; and, finally, after recurrent exacerbations and remissions of states of passivity and exaltation, an end stage of dementia.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
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Testifying" this morning -- (if you can call prevaricating, lying, and posturing "testifying") -- to another toothless Beltway body called the "Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission" were the four horseman: Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase, John Mack of Morgan Stanley, Brian Moynihan of Bank of America, and Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman Sachs.
Joseph A. Palermo: Defiant Wall Street Welfare Kings Come to Washington
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All of this adds to recent speculation of increased posturing and counter-espionage ongoings between Israel and Hezbollah (along with the Lebanese intelligence services) involving the destruction of telecommunications towers in Southern Lebanon and the break-up of an Isreali spy ring earlier this year.
Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet: Weekly Foreign Affairs Roundup
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She was found to have a reduced level of consciousness, posturing consistent with a decorticate state, and unequal pupils.
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Much interest lies in how Eggers reinvents the posturing put forth in the hardcover text.
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Martha Plimpton at least adds some ballsiness to Claire's preening and posturing.
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His writing has been dismissed as mere intellectual posturing.
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At the same time he is often criticized for undermining his creative gifts through political posturing.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The unreality, we're told, is just for diversion - people understand the difference between movie posturing and the real world.
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Belief and unbelief, so important to the intellectual posturing of modern existence, are innocuous, vacuous terms.
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Oversimplification, misdescription and political posturing bring such assessment into disrepute.
Times, Sunday Times
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There should be no room for the political posturing we have seen so far.
The Sun
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The patient's condition continued to deteriorate, with decorticate posturing to painful stimuli.
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I wondered if she was posturing herself like that on purpose.
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HPFacebookVoteV2. init (421688, 'Defiant Wall Street Welfare Kings Come to Washington', '\ "Testifying\" this morning -- (if you can call prevaricating, lying, and posturing \ "testifying\") -- to another toothless Beltway body called the \ "Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission\" were the four horseman: Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase, John Mack of Morgan Stanley, Brian Moynihan of Bank of America, and Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman Sachs.
Joseph A. Palermo: Defiant Wall Street Welfare Kings Come to Washington
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Any calls for a new UN resolution are largely political posturing.
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Just a bit of pie - in - the - sky posturing of the sort that often occurs in high - altitude Davos ?
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The big issues - such as the kind of economy we want and the extent to which the state should provide for its people - are scarcely debated in parliament; all that is left is the jostling and posturing.
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The Colts huddle is pure posturing, no need for it, zero practical use whatsoever.
The Peyton Puzzle: Redskins Week 6 preview
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A country that wants to see real improvements in real services - not posturing and pretence.
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The show reeks with tension, treachery, and posturing to gain favor.
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Top hats and black malacca canes are the visual signature of a show that combines cartoon posturing and a commitment to articulating the text.
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Political posturing and faux diplomacy may be all we can expect.
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However, the film does not overindulge in political posturing or preach, and is frequently punctuated by humour.
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This hearing is about posturing from the right and the left.
Senators signal fierce ideological debate in Sotomayor hearings
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The worst sort of pretentious posturing," said the professor of counting and arithmetic at the University of London, adding "that for all this Newton's so-called arithmetical expertise, there is just nothing in this book that indicates that it has any relevance at all to the real data of astronomy.
Monty Python it is not - The Panda's Thumb
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Correct me if I’m wrong but it looks like Specter is just like all the other Republicans and simply posturing, blubbering in feigned indignation, and mugging for the camera’s in the wake of the November elections.
Think Progress » Specter Caves, Proposes Blanket Amnesty For Illegal Government Surveillance
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Linking the entertainment industry and violence is misleading, he said, and plays into election-year posturing.
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Rather than expending vast sums on political posturing, we may in-stead choose to invest in potentially profitable space enterprises.
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Stupor or catalepsy, mutism, posturing/grimacing, stereotypy, echolalia or echopraxia and excessive motor activity were the main catatonic features.
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What both men were really playing at was political posturing.
The Sun
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Without refining the "disapprove" group into WHY they disapprove, this is political posturing.
The Rasmussen "Presidential Approval Index": Is This Newer Measurement Worth Anything?
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An active and informed public is the true guardian of freedom and democracy, and the posturing of politicians mere bubble and froth along the way.
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It's the extreme confidence - not arrogance - and posturing that does it.
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He loves the posturing and the verbals and considers it all part of his job as a member of the entertainment business.
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Posturing while she checks her lip gloss.
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They are, in a word, shams designed to lull users into a false sense of security - a form of sham which we believe you press on us solely as posturing, rather than out of any genuine concern for users.
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This is followed by the posturing and digital equivalent of the "verbals" with no contribution to the original thread.
Army Rumour Service
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There are always going to be people writing commentaries explaining that the posturing is in some sense ironic and that therefore only the hopelessly unhip who need be alarmed.
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A conceited thespian, he treats every introduction as a stage entrance and every conversation is a source of high drama and shameless posturing.
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Arianna may have blown her chance for a television career with strident, shrill posturing.
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Posturing seems to be the main proclivity of our right wing today.
Standing Pat
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Postural tremor-present primarily on static posturing, i. e., with the arms outstretched but not moving. 3.
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Gradually, the patient developed dystonic posturing of limbs and trunks, had difficulty in walking, dysarthria, drooling of saliva with tremor of limbs.
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For many worried about Vladimir Putin's divide-and-rule authoritarianism — including leaders in East Europe, the Nordic countries and tougher politicians like Britain's clearsighted foreign secretary, David Miliband — a Washington that had few illusions about Russia's Soviet-style aggressive posturing would be welcome.
What If McCain Wins?
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Stop posturing in front of that mirror and listen to me!
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Kyle Soller as the posturing Khlestakov is an extraordinary, ginger-haired beanpole whose fastidiousness is undercut by his intemperate greed.
Government Inspector – review
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There and elsewhere in the story, Hemon nails the macho posturing that prize judges often reward, though his tale is more than a sendup of pomposity.
2009 September 07 « One-Minute Book Reviews
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There's so much macho posturing in this book that it would be campy if there were any humour.
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Stop posturing in front of that mirror and listen to me!
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He has total confidence in his alpha maleness and finds her posturing inconsequential at best.
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Many people were disquieted about the macho posturing about the fire-fighters.
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Their idea of ‘democratisation’ is in fact little more than posturing, designed to boost their own moral authority rather than install anything like democracy around the world.
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He set forth with much 'eclat' and a little innocent posturing and ritual, in which a cornet and a violin figured, together with a farewell oration by the Cure.
The Money Master, Complete
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Yes, she keeps you on your toes, what with that ever changing hairstyling, onstage handjobs, terrible films, obnoxious husbands, pseudo lesbic posturing and always updated dance pop trash
Crib sheet: The British press's enduring love affair with Madonna | Megan Carpentier
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The same posturing and gesturing, typical of sentimental comedy, is found in La conjuracion de Venecia.
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Enough of this pseudo-intellectual posturing, these pretentious literary musings!
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Stupor or catalepsy, mutism, posturing/grimacing/stereotypy, echolalia or echopraxia and excessive motor activity were the main catatonic features.
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While posturing giants dissolved in drifts of smoke.
Memorial Day II - Swampland - TIME.com
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Toufic may have been Christian, but he was nonetheless Arabic and thus subject to the sexual insecurities that among men of the Middle East achieved titanic, even earth-changing proportions; insecurities that had spawned veils, shaven heads, clitoridectomies, house arrest, segregation, macho posturing, and three major religions.
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates
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Separate dancing, all its posturing, had seemed to him an empty sort of display -- late fifties and sixties stuff hung on too long.
STONE CITY
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It is vital that consideration for their future is not lost amid the international posturing and diplomacy.
Times, Sunday Times
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The president conveyed strength and reassurance and firmness, without bombast, without posturing.
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The auld enemy, England, was, in fact, their saviour, and - but for the chattering-class nationalist posturing - could still be so now.
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On such occasions, these episodes were usually settled by negotiations in which, after posturing on both sides, the Chinese acquiesced to a modified set of Japanese demands.
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Suddenly, tracks such as If I Die Tonight cease to sound like mannered posturing and take on a peculiar prescience.
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All that posturing and strutting about wasn't for me.
Times, Sunday Times
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The electorate is growing tired of his posturings.
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The England management had clearly had enough of their star player's posturing and provocative behaviour.
Times, Sunday Times
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For all his posturing, the Governator doesn't seem to understand that there's more to strength then simply being a muscle-bound gym bunny and posing in nothing but thong underwear and a thick coat of oil.
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What this sardonic study of mutual fawning and posturing among the talking heads and editorial sages of Parisian society shows is a system of connivance based at least as much on ideological as material investment in the market.
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And for all the freneticism of its presentation, the piece remains inert: just so much pointless posturing and prancing.
Times, Sunday Times
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He dismissed the Senator's comments as ' political posturing '.
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I've always said (to myself, of course) that the day some critics begin to drop the posturing is the day I would be happy to do so likewise.
When Mixing Science and Theology is OK
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Much of this appears to be little more than posturing for the cameras, recognizing that bad behavior in this context (the title notwithstanding) is rewarded with increased airtime.
Variety.com
