Sentence examples for critical posturing from inspiring English sources

Rasputia uses it derisively, and only derisively — as a socially-acceptable substitute for something between "How do you like them apples?" and "Up yours!" Macmac007, who obviously loathes "Norbit," suspects that my praise of the movie is "the worst kind of critical posturing nonsense".

Despite his overt critical posturing in relationship to the cultural chauvinism of the West, Shoja Azari reaffirms the artistry, however much he mocks the colonialist stereotyping, of European Orientalist painters such as Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863), Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904), Théodore Chassériau (1819-1856), Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps (1803-1860), and William Holman Hunt (1827-1910).

This critical posture, of course, can end up being a criticism of the liberal project itself (see Sandel 1982).

"Where the Stress Falls" provides the most extensive evidence yet of a parallel shift in critical posture.

Instead, Mr. Codey has himself taken a critical posture, in part, because he is unimpressed with Mr. Harvey's record on public corruption.

And if faith inspired the struggle against injustice, it may also have discouraged the critical posture that would have allowed people to detect and challenge malfeasance, abuse and prejudice by those in positions of religious authority.

Finally, some associations can be related to the emotional: critical attitude, critical commitment, critical posture, critical use.

However, combining the three most-used terms in the emotional field (critical attitude, critical posture and critical use) we only obtain 37 references.

The specific tasks identified during which critical postures occurred should be targeted by designers in order to improve the activities.

A few books (by science popularizers or journalists) are less fully informed and, given their potential to mislead readers or to reinforce cultural ideologies, should be marked for receiving a more critical posture.

Critical postures accounted for 3% of cooking and 10% of laundry, occurring primarily during retrieving from and putting in lower cabinets, the refrigerator, laundry basket or washing machine as well as disposing into the waste bin.