Sentence examples for as a posturing from inspiring English sources

Roger Rees and Alex Timbers direct a cast that includes a priceless Christian Borle, as a posturing pirate (2 10).

Writing in The Times, the fearless Parker Knoll warrior deconstructs Ed's conference speech to paint him as a posturing student politician of the kind who might answer every University Challenge question with "Trotsky".

The sweet and salty people he hoodwinks (or tries to) include Suzie Toase as the woman with the bosom, Oliver Chris as the toff whose mind never left boarding school and Daniel Rigby as a posturing "dangerous actor" who is in love with a seriously dimwitted bird (Claire Lams), who is the daughter of a mild-mannered career criminal (Fred Ridgeway).

Amy Morgan suggests the waif-like quality of Rose stranded between two worlds; Susannah Fielding lends a go-getting rival an impish seductiveness; and there are striking contributions from Daniel Mays as a posturing thespian and Daniel Kaluuya as the harbinger of the new movement based on the dramatist Tom Robertson.

Oliver Chris as the snooty Stanley, Daniel Rigby as a posturing actor with echoes of Olivier and Brando and Jemima Rooper as the besuited Rachel are all first-rate: I especially enjoyed Rooper's dismay at the prospect of exile to Australia and "a terrible outdoorsie life, sustained by lager, barbecues and opera".

Bernard Zuel of The Sydney Morning Herald described "Ring the Alarm" as a "posturing and eventually annoying" track.

She is drawn to the vitality of the younger boomer generation, which is bound to hers by what Fox depicts as a posture of mutual contempt.

Only if that fight comes from who you are, rather than as a posture a college applicant believes will appeal to an admission office.

The budget to finance it passed only this week.Mr Valls denounced the unions' walkout as a "posture", and said he believed in "social dialogue", a bedrock of French democracy.

The unusual activity is identified as a posture that does not correspond to normal postures.

Some adorn themselves with Santa Muerte imagery as a "posture of rebellion," Roush said.