And so to the unconvincing pose of being an independent this time round.
In "Black Mirror," the danger is not complacency, or, at least, not that alone: it's letting your outrage turn into contempt, a pose of transgression that is, in the end, more deadly than any desperation to be loved.
He celebrated by crouching into a pose of prayer before being tackled in a bearhug by his coach, while Lyu gave a wry smile for the cameras.
As much as I love that kind of storytelling, the reflexive dependence on a pose of sober nobility is just too tempting to ignore.
The blank stare he trains on his patients is not a therapeutic technique, a pose of studied indifference — it's actual indifference.
What it is selling, essentially, is a pose of knowing, cool detachment.
That's a pose of resistance, but not a particularly effortful one.
This was a pose, of course, and perceived as such by one and all.
It is a pose of receiving rather than rejecting life.
He puffs out his chest in a comic pose of Offence Being Taken.
