Sentence examples for literary posturing from inspiring English sources

Yes, I know this book is purposely about bad sex, but why dress it up in literary posturing?

This wouldn't be fatal if the film didn't festoon its literary posturing and its contrived "Columbo -style narrative with the trappings of politiColumbo -style

In his other essays appears a further meaning of the phrase: the vacuum is due to empty literary posturing, "a kind of feverish present‐mindedness and self absorption," a passionate style coupled with a of content.

A devastating and acid satire of literary posturing, resentments and rivalries, "The Boys of Winter" has been misinterpreted as almost an insider's handbook.

Only about a third of "The Stranger's Child" is set before the Second World War, but the later sections are so turned back toward the subject of Cecil Valance, in a posture of literary whodunit, that the novel struggles to escape an old-fashioned, period feel, troublingly akin to, if better written than, A. S. Byatt's last novel, "The Children's Book".

The last great taboo I see standing is money, and it accounts for some of the extraordinary posturing by our literary people.

If you want to understand sexual corruption in the corridors of power in Washington, London or Paris, read Balzac; if you want to understand money-grubbing and posturing in the literary salons and art galleries of fin-de-sicle Manhattan, read Balzac's Cousin Bette; if you want to understand the hypocrisies of the self- appointed watchdogs of the press, read Lost Illusions.

So I thought I'd share with you the confessions of a people loving, small talk hating introvert: When I fly by myself I immediately do one of the following: a) put my earphones in b) close my eyes and pretend I am asleep c) open a book and try to assume the posture of complete literary absorption, or d) open my laptop and try and appear very important and busy.

You're an intellectual!" She always downplayed such claims, "avoiding the New York literary life, which so many writers take postures on... to me, New York is quite another thing - a home town, a habitat, full of ordinary people and their parties".

This literary fanaticism never felt safe in school, and so the posturing took over.

(Thus n+1's frequent and unapologetic references to literary theory and continental philosophy, presented in language free of jargon and ideological posturing).