Sentence examples for attitude straight from inspiring English sources

Shoulders hunched, chin thrust forward, gaunt frame poured into jet-colored jeans, he affected an attitude straight out of Poe.

This sentence gives us a pretty good impression of Holden's attitude – straight to the point and just dripping with razor-sharp irony.

In "Alios Itzhak," a 2011 canvas that is part of the artist's series "World Stage: Israel," for instance, Mr. Wiley depicts a handsome Ethiopian-Israeli man in a T-shirt and blue jeans, one hand on his hip, staring with attitude straight at the viewer.

But when Beckett came up in 2001 and in his first major league inning went right after Sammy Sosa, others began to see that attitude channeled straight down the chute from mound to plate.

Both his shtick and his attitude come straight out of the juke joints of 1950s America: musicians sang for their supper, always put on a show and usually carried a gun.

Even Channel 4 News and the posh papers had succumbed to "news with attitude", in which straight reporting was marginalised by commentary, Mullin observed.

Gregg Jarrett -- co-host of a designated "news" program that Fox wants you to think is objective -- claimed that Brennan "keeps making false accusations, apparently," and asked Republican Rep. Pete Hoekstra, "Shouldn't this guy, who advises the president, resign?" That's an attitude that comes straight from Fox News management.

A third friend took him in various attitudes -- looking straight, looking left, with a jacket and without, looking stern and still more stern.

He signed players with renegade attitudes and nicknames straight out of pro wrestling: Ken (the Snake) Stabler, Jack (the Assassin) Tatum, Ted (the Mad Stork) Hendricks.

"[Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender] mental health is a real and significant problem," says Matthew Todd, editor of Attitude, whose forthcoming book Straight Jacket deals with the subject.

There are obviously women and LGBTQ people who feel similarly, but why is this attitude so prevalent among straight men in particular?