Sentence examples for adopt a pose from inspiring English sources
Before a job interview, adopt a pose like Wonder Woman – feet apart, hands on hips, shoulders back – and your stress hormones will fall, testosterone will rise, you'll feel a surge of boldness, and have more chance of landing the job.
Yet the belief endures, from Armstrong's time and before, that visible, affluent African-American entertainers are obliged to adopt a pose of ceaseless gratitude — appreciation for the waiver that spared them the low status of so many others of their kind.
Monosubstituted arenes adopt a pose in which the alkyl chains maximize the London dispersion interactions with minimal steric clashes, giving an explanation for the observed trend in the benzylic hydroxylation yields.
Quite possibly, Cameron's tone had something to do with the British yen for adopting a pose of sang-froid toward anything short of a nuclear attack.
The express targets are "emos", short for "emotional": a western-derived identity, teenagers adopting a pose of vulnerability, along with tight clothes and skewed hairdos and body piercing.
Additional free-energy simulations suggest that the presence of the catalytic domain leads to a reorientation of the α2 chain such that it adopts a pose that is complementary to the enzyme's active site.
They "flash" this when attacked, adopting a pose that exposes the vivid colouring on their bellies.
However, you cannot conquer terror by indulging in magical new age affirmations or sitting in the zendo adopting a pose of non-attachment.
They know that it's wise to adopt a public pose of reform.
For many authors, it was bad enough when, once every book, you had to slick on makeup, hire a photographer and adopt a writerly pose — hand on chin, furrowed brow — for the book jacket portrait.
From an Op-Ed by Antonio Maria Costa, the executive director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, in The Observer: Amy Winehouse might adopt a defiant pose and slur her way through 'Rehab', but does she realise the message she sends to others who are vulnerable to addiction and who cannot afford expensive treatment?
