Sentence examples for bleak posturing from inspiring English sources

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A review in LA Weekly stated that "The guitar on 'Internal K-Dart' and 'Fork Lift' is patently similar to Big Black and [Dinosaur Jr.], but Pavement steer clear of the former's pretentiously bleak posturing and the latter's dreary self-pity".

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Power – set, like Empire, in the music industry – suffers from the bleak, violent posturing that has come to define the African American experience on screen and in the media.

"A black humour vision of politics at its bleakest, in which both sides have been co-opted by money and special interests and are reduced to posturing, subterfuge, grandstanding and photo ops.

If "The West Wing" was a fantasy of hyper-competence, "Veep" is its opposite: a black-humor vision of politics at its bleakest, in which both sides have been co-opted by money and special interests and are reduced to posturing, subterfuge, grandstanding and photo ops.

Just posturing?

"It was just posturing.

Both men were posturing.

"You posturing poltroon!

Macho posturing.

Rodriguez postured.

If the too much woman is a cliché of femininity, so is the affectless, Botoxed one, and that is what its narrator increasingly comes to resemble: a woman who seals herself into a posture of bleak, chic passivity to avoid the risk of pain, of humiliation, of disappointment until she, too, begins to seem more pose than person.

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