Sentence examples for fashionable pose from inspiring English sources

Presumably, these beautiful and ancient languages are meant to confer on their hosts an air of profundity, but in the execution they just come off as a shallow, fashionable 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?

The Elizabethan picture is confusing, with melancholia being recognised as a fashionable pose, a disorder of the mind, a sign of genius and a precursor of psychosis, but it was hardly more diversely understood than it has been since modernity offered us psychoanalytical, physicalist and cognitive versions of the experience of what is now officially called "major depressive disorder".

"I am aware it's easy and may be fashionable to pose with a slum child, and the irony of getting the media along means that it can come across as disingenuous," she says.

On the dust jacket of "Comfort Me with Apples" (1956) is a photograph of a smiling man with dark hair who appears to be in his mid-forties (De Vries was born in 1910), his arms crossed in a fashionable authorial pose.

And when the Phoenix Suns decided to wear "Los Suns" jerseys as a gesture of solidarity with Arizona's Hispanic population, Brewer writes that they were merely striking a "fashionable political pose" and promoting "their marketing campaign" to attract more Latino fans to the sport.

Swofford's own sense of disorientation came to be shared by civilian media commentariat, contributing to a once-fashionable liberal pose - endorsed by Jean Baudrillard and the late Bill Hicks - which was that the 1991 Gulf war was a postmodern TV phenomenon which didn't actually happen.

Mr. Wiley is known for paintings of young African-American men dressed in fashionable street wear posing against richly patterned backgrounds like heroic figures in Renaissance paintings.

But these aren't just "2015 wedding photo idea trends" -- this is about capturing photos that are timeless and meaningful for you, not just ideas that look fashionable now but posed later.

Even those truly, madly, deeply irritating souls who pose with their laptops in fashionable cafes aren't actually collaborating with the baristas.

Here, women dressed in the clothes fashionable during the Ghajar period in Iranian society (1794-1925) pose before painted backdrops, exactly as they would have for formal photographic portraits during the late 19th and early 20th century.