Sentence examples for a posturing from inspiring English sources

The more satirical "Poll Tax Country" (1945) pits a posturing group of white Southern racists against a crowd of black laborers.

She nevertheless made the most of what she had — a doe-eyed gaze, a deep husk of a voice, a posturing manner — and, in the heyday of the intimate West End revue, she made her mark.

The book promises eclectic back stories, a defining event, and a dose of postmodern self-consciousness: think of it as a hybrid of Ben Lerner's Leaving the Atocha Station (the plight of a posturing poet let loose in Madrid) and Donna Tartt's The Secret History.

I did an Any Questions with Rod two or three years back, and more recently we partnered up for an Intelligence Squared debate where we opposed the motion "This House Believes We've Never Had It So Good", roundly trashing its proposers, a posturing Tory MP absurdly dubbed Jesse Norman, and professional sibling-cum-popinjay Rachel Johnson.

This exuberance and gratitude didn't fit the aloof, no-big-deal-ness of a posturing band out of Brooklyn.

The show, billed as the "the largest exhibition of cat-inspired artwork for sale ever exhibited," explores the cat as lovable companion and artistic muse, the latter a posturing even "dog people" can't attest to.

Such a posture provoked an often visible postural physiological tremor.

The facts warrant such a posture.

A posture is not a complete strategy.

Trump maintained a posture of indifference.

This is partly a posture, of course.