Raising his arms over his head, assuming poses, brandishing the putting iron like a sword.
None of the characters, with the exception of Frank Raiter's decrepit family retainer, are at ease in their assumed poses.
Ms. Winslet is not asked to act -- she simply assumes poses, the better to be shaken out of them.
On the evening of the Council of Fashion Designers of America awards gala, at the New York Public Library, the little courtyard in front was crawling with beautiful women making faces, and assuming poses not found in nature, for the cameras clicking all around them.
We are well into the second generation of reality shows, and it is no longer news that these are about assuming poses: let's pretend we're in boot camp, let's pretend the cameras aren't there.
And when a tape recording of an excerpt from "La Mer" gave way to "L'Apres-Midi d'un Faune," dancers assumed poses inspired by Greek vase paintings reminiscent of those that Vaslav Nijinsky incorporated into his celebrated ballet to this score.
In the largely wordless "Pageant," which runs through this weekend, these women (played by Stacy Dawson, Jesse Hawley and Beth Kurkjian) take turns assuming poses that embody phases of the Virgin's life, from the Annunciation to the Assumption, while a slyly solemn Archangel Gabriel Darren Andersonn) acts as M.C.
A quick Google search for "high school wrestling photos" yields a barrage of buff young men assuming poses of aggression and victory ― a steady stream of fist bumps, muscle flexes and fingers pointed to symbolize "No.
Clearly Mark Burnett, feeling deeply stung after reading my column last week (Mark lives or dies by my slightest comment), traveled back in time and replaced the about-to-shoot challenge (a round of "Playing Statues," in which the Survivors assumed poses, and when they made so much as the slightest twitch, were eliminated) with this wonderful version of Sit On It and Spin.
The resulting grasp can be far from the assumed pose at planning time due to uncertainties in real systems, which results in wrong contact information and therefore wrong estimation of grasp quality.
