Hence the twisted logic of fashion in a furniture showroom, where instead of sofas in the windows models posed in hand-painted muslin tunics and Degas-like skirts wound with shredded macramé belts.
When President Bush laid out the potential threat that unconventional weapons posed in Saddam Hussein's hands in his State of the Union address in January, he became tongue-tied at an inopportune moment.
His new album is called "Suffering From Success," and on the cover he's posed in profile, head bowed, hand on forehead, as if in anguish.
Ashley Montagu, an anthropologist, has defined a sign as a "concrete denoter" possessing an inherent specific meaning, roughly analogous to the sentence "This is it; do something about it!" The most common signs encountered in daily life are pictures or drawings, although a human posture like a clenched fist, an outstretched arm, or a hand posed in a "stop" gesture may also serve as signs.
This is a classic pose in which hands and feet are flat on the floor, knees are straight (though not locked) and the body is bent at the waist at a right angle.
The vice president did not just pose, spatula in hand, for the requisite photo opportunity behind the grill cooking Iowa-raised beef.
Elizabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun – Self-Portrait, after 1782 The artist exhibits the naturalness and freedom that were admired in 18th-century France as she poses, palette in hand, dressed for the outdoors in a straw hat with her hair loose.
People will stand and pose, flute in hand, and stare into the lens.
First sentence: "In an 1889 engraving for the frontispiece of London Street Arabs, Dorothy Tennant is posed in profile, her jewelry-laden left hand just grazing her plumpish chin". .
And we can tell by her sassy pose in the photo, hands at waist and legs crossed, that she knew how to work the runway.
Picasso: No, seriously, the fan was chosen because it is a symbol of femininity, because it balances the picture compositionally, and because I posed her hand in the classic religious position referencing Leonardo's "Madonna of the Rocks," except I wanted her to be holding a secular object.
