Sentence examples for being a poseur from inspiring English sources

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To pose as Oscar Wilde, perceived as one who posed at being a poseur, is a hellishly postmodern challenge.

And if you can't, can you live with being a poseur, a phony, a sellout?" Grunge's sound partly results from Seattle's isolation from other music scenes.

Avoid being a poseur.

If anyone tries to insult you, or accuses you of being a poseur, just shrug it off.

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"How can I be a poseur if I am just being myself," she screams.

I'm a poseur, a potzer – not a writer in the sense that matters.

"Jeyaretnam," he writes, "is a poseur, always seeking publicity, good or bad".

GOLSON -- I guess I wouldn't want anybody to think I was a poseur.

When she finds that her Albrecht is a poseur, actually betrothed to a princess, she goes mad and dies.

"Everybody in the world is a poseur — I am, and so are all the people who'll be reading this article — but it's the degree.

In any case, she's sure that he's a poseur and an opportunist, disguising his self-seeking with a veneer of piety.

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