Sentence examples for comic posturing from inspiring English sources

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(Who says the Farrellys aren't romantics?) VIOLENCE -- Some comic posturing.

The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra doesn't fit the profile of the recent swing-dance revival: it lacks the bright clothes, comic posturing and manic energy that would make it part of the fad.

The veteran mezzo-soprano Ann Murray, as Marcellina, and the blustery baritone Andrew Shore, as Bartolo, who have their own reasons for trying to derail Figaro's marriage to Susanna, bring not a trace of stock comic posturing to their winning portrayals.

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Ruhl, in her plays, contends with the pressing existential issues; her stoical comic posture is a means of killing gravity, of taking the heaviness out of her words in order to better contend with life.

These comic postures range from frequently brilliant (Beastie Boys, Eminem) to endearingly dumb (Kid Rock) to monumentally witless (Insane Clown Posse), but what is notable is the apparent consensus among white rappers about their need to play hip-hop for laughs.

A gallery of types — a kindly aunt, an ingénue, a been-there-done-that comic dame — posture and proclaim, as Philip considers his future.

I still read a lot, and never understood the prejudice against comics, except as posturing by insecure people wanting to appear high-brow in their literary tastes.

The show's second tune was "Singer-Songwriter," an acerbically comic attack on privileged posturing.

About approaching Thor's fighting style, he remarked, "First, we looked at the comic books and the posturing, the way [Thor] moves and fights, and a lot of his power seems to be drawn up through the ground.

This was an episode of comic incompetence, with a little posturing, pressuring and politics thrown in.

What the 2000 production, directed by Daniel Sullivan, brought out so affectingly was the extent to which the comic shenanigans are so much posturing — clownish roles assumed to keep harsher truths at bay.

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