Mr. Struth's failures have been contrivances: deploying friends around the Pergamon Museum in Berlin or the Pantheon in Rome, or posing himself beside Dürer's self-portrait.
Sometimes, it's as if he's deliberately posing himself problems of musical congruency, such as the assembly of ukulele, oboe, piano, guitar and sleigh bells in "There's Nothing Underwater", or the way the stalking bass and tiptoeing pizzicato strings of "Faculty of Fears" are relieved by chummy country-pop chording.
The question he poses himself, contemplating the West Bank, is how to stop this happening a third time.
Many a straight man had to pose himself even straighter so that his artistic activities would not seem suspect.
Doleful, and smoking as if I might be threatening to take the packet away, Emre poses himself a series of questions.
Le Pen poses himself as the anti-elitist, a rebel voice speaking for the "true" French white underclass; he believes in the superiority of the French and the inequality of the races.
In his political TV special "America... You're Too Young to Die," Falwell posed himself against a gentleman-farmer backdrop of rolling green fields, fine wooden fences, and a handsome old barn with a wooden cask in it.
As Michael Pietsch points out, in choosing the I.R.S. as a subject Wallace had "posed himself the task that is almost the opposite of how fiction works," which is "leaving out the things that are not of much interest".
White describes Kennedy watching the election returns in Hyannis Port: "The candidate posed himself in the corner of the room... too tense to sit... clutching back to back two paperback books".
Tate Modern, London The idea behind the title is as old as photography itself, as shown by the elaborate tableaux created by the likes of F Holland Day, who posed himself as Christ.
And Mr. Harris posed himself a conceptual problem, which, I suspect, would have bedeviled him if he were working in any dance form: he made Jewels, his Juliet character, an invisible figure who was talked about in the dialogue that was part of the production but never seen in the flesh.
