Sentence examples for formal pose from inspiring English sources

IN FORMAL pose, he was always fastidious.

What constitutes a formal pose in modern life?

But there are a couple of pictures of her where she was caught in a less formal pose, and a smile rearranged her features.

When I arrived, an obvious outsider with a camera, each family gathered instinctively into a dignified formal pose, ready for my photograph.

A traditional oil painting of a Victorian figure in formal pose on a pedestal, by Andrew Sendor, hangs near what at first seems like a simple mop and broom propped against a wall, perhaps by a careless janitor.

Memorable among the less renowned people who sat for Washington was Huldah Welles Wolcott of Wethersfield, whose portrait was taken for her 90th birthday -- a dour image of a reluctant subject -- and the unidentified picture of a plump, round-faced boy with his hands in his pockets, a departure from the formal pose of most sitters.

In this casual setting, the girls strike self-consciously formal poses, staring directly at the camera, unsmiling.

The opening, The Barbarians in Love, cuts formal poses into ragged bopping, like images of courtiers beamed into a dancehall.

The tension between tradition and individuality is striking: while Duprels holds the formal poses of a geisha in Act I, Cio-Cio San's words are notably indiscreet.

In their formal poses, they seem as conscious of their status as the objects of an artist's gaze as any Renaissance Pope or Regency monarch.

Early in her career, like many professional photographers at the time, she used a Rolleiflex, a much larger, heavier camera, most suited to formal poses.