Sentence examples for affects a pose from inspiring English sources

Rather than risk being called a softy, he affects a pose of weariness".

Seeing me go hatless many of populace suspect me of affecting a pose.

Mother was right behind them, affecting a pose of superiority in the way she leaned back, the better to be seen.

(Of Eleanor Powell: "Like many performers of her time, Powell habitually affected a pose of ecstatic pleasure, head back and mouth open. In some close-ups, she looks ready to eat the camera").

Black teenagers affect a "cool pose," but their innermost desires and values -- carefully hidden, even from themselves -- are practically middle class.

Venezuela's authorities have since prevented her from re-entering the country, Ms Montero says.Rock'n'roll artists are expected to affect a rebellious pose.

Those whose compassion compels them to confront and combat daily its utter absence are, of necessity, often forced to affect a passionless pose.

But Wilde also delighted in affecting an aesthetic pose; this, combined with rooms at Oxford decorated with objets d'art, resulted in his famous remark, "Oh, would that I could live up to my blue china!" In the early 1880s, when Aestheticism was the rage and despair of literary London, Wilde established himself in social and artistic circles by his wit and flamboyance.

Although Robb often narrates various sections from the point of view of his characters, inhabiting them and fudging, to a certain extent, the line between traditional history and make-believe, his characters don't sound alike, which can be a hazard when a historian affects the pose of a novelist.

The nearest one pauses, just 10 metres in front of us, swivels in the dust and affects a cocky, legs-apart pose, ears flapping, trunk swinging.

Miller's argument that bohemianism is a pose affected by "shabby upper-class boys who think squalor is very romantic" doesn't always come over clearly.