Sentence examples for posturing away from inspiring English sources

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On the home front, Cecil is portrayed as a tough, caring father to his two sons, but in the all-important work arena, he is a submissive son to a succession of hammy daddy figures, posturing away behind the Oval Office desk.

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I felt my contempt for his Peter Pan posturing slip away as hormones seized my body.

These results suggest that keypad designs aimed at promoting performance for single-handed use should avoid placing frequently used functions and keys close to the base of the thumb and instead should consider key locations that require a thumb posture away from its limits in flexion/extension, as these postures promote motor performance.

A sycophantic snob and posturing dandy, he frittered away his youth -- and his father's money -- trying to ingratiate himself with the idle rich; in his masterpiece, "Remembrance of Things Past," he would transform those frivolous experiences into a luminous meditation on the nature of time and memory and loss.

The US, Baker told me, will "go into full frontline alert posture right away anyway, because it's going to have to anticipate a North Korean response, and it's going to scare the North Koreans away from that response by putting everything on full operational posture".

Cats generally like people who tend to ignore them, since their posture (turned away, slumped shoulders) seems relaxed.

Unapologetic fans of 1970's glam rock, the Everyothers reach back to the music while stripping away some of the posturing.

It brings out a fun side to the club goers that certainly ignites a silly side that takes away from the typical club posturing.

A large, free-running dog tends to keep the cats away, and birds are generally unimpressed by canine barking, posturing and headlong charges.

Alternately timid and aggressive, solemn, hormonal, posturing, helpless, Houellebecq tosses stones through the windows of European polite speech and attitudes, then runs away.

Once I stepped inside, the doors closed behind me; I was swept away from the camaraderie of my colleagues and enveloped in a world of administration and posturing.

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