Sentence examples for become a pose from inspiring English sources

But lyric poetry is for the young, and the trouble with a poetic style is that, with age, it can become a pose.

But melancholy did not become a fashionable pose until a full century after Burton took up the subject, and when it did become stylish, we must still wonder: why did this particular stance or attitude become fashionable and not another?

An actor who changes from serious to comic roles doesn't have problems with the audience (the audience loves seeing actors shed their dignity, which has generally become a threadbare pose long before it's shed); it's the change from comic to serious that may confound the audience's expectations.

" 'I don't know what I'm doing with my life.' 'I hate feeling fat all the time.' " But the heightened abrasiveness and the lurches into absurdity intimate that the posture of the angry, foul-mouthed black stand-up has become a constricting pose.

Some elements disdained the aesthetes, but their languishing attitudes and showy costumes became a recognised pose.

Reno — Ms. Kushner's descriptions made her resemble in my mind the singer Cat Power — works in a film shop and becomes a model of sorts, posing for what are known as color-timing control strips, headshots attached to the beginning of a film to help technicians establish accurate flesh tones.

In the 70s, when Bukowski became more successful, the depictions of misogynistic behavior in his work "became more of a pose than a conviction.

Will it become an iconic Olympic pose?

Nothing we can say will do it justice, so just watch and be transported to a time when Vogue was the greatest song in the world and you could become a man by striking a pose.

While GPS is not always available and pose estimation based solely on Inertial Measurement Unit drifts, image-based navigation may become a cheap and robust additional pose measurement device.

While GPS is not always available and pose estimation based solely on Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) drifts, image-based navigation may become a cheap and robust additional pose measurement device.