Sentence examples for physical stance from inspiring English sources

Mr. Kline's very postures accent the passivity in Trigorin and the attendant shirking of moral responsibility, turning spinelessness into a physical stance and an existential choice.

Mr. Fonte's use of stage space, dramatic physical stance and gesture, and changing subgroups brought out the Expressionist pressures in Zemlinsky's music, but often without serious response to its detail.

The syllables of the artist's name unfurl evenly and effortlessly, with lilting, measured grace, like the line that flows over and around his exquisitely nuanced figures, moving the eye through shifting tones of light and shadow and across alpine topographies of drapery, always with equal emphasis to surface and volume, detail and whole, physical stance and facial expression.

"I'm going to tell them to stay low, and get ready," he told me, taking up the physical stance of a fighter ready to absorb a blow, or deliver one; it seems like good advice even for those of us not treading the boards).

One method, which involves taking what Dennett calls the "physical stance", is to apply our knowledge of physical law.

As such it is an anthropomorphic instance of the so called design (functionality) stance, contra the physical stance, towards systems.

Mr. Mitchell works very, very hard, but all he really gives us is the physical equivalent of these abstractions: a handsome baritone voice that thunders and shouts, and a set of melodramatic physical stances.

Sit with your back straight, look people in the eye, hold your arms out -- those strong physical stances increase the hormones that allow people to be more confident.

This is the typical phenomenological stance: physical entities are mind independent, but we have no way of knowing how they are in themselves apart from the way we perceive and conceive them.

Here, too, the actors have physical traits -- stances and gestures -- that matter as much as their words.

Despite this clear occasionalist stance toward physical objects, Berkeley firmly maintains that spirits, both infinite and finite, are causally active.