Sentence examples for social posturing from inspiring English sources

During the Enlightenment, this emphasis on culinary naturalness took on a strong political dimension, as philosophes like Denis Diderot, the Chevalier Louis de Jaucourt and Jean-Jacques Rousseau railed against the aristocracy's inauthentic social posturing and wasteful spending habits.

But your interest in the decline of the Baekelands as they wander down the path from sarcasm and social posturing to abandonment, incest and murder never rises above the level of prurience.

Using clothes as shorthand for social posturing, subcultures ranging from Regency fops to '60s Mods and Thatcher punks have both asserted and subverted the traditions of polite English society.

There is not a trace of anachronism in the Pearl's production to prod such comparisons, just a deep understanding of the text, revealing how contemporary Wilde can seem in this endlessly funny comedy about courtship, hidden identities and social posturing among deliciously superficial people.

It's nightlife aimed at a monied, Silicon Roundabout kind of clientele who enjoy the social posturing of being seen to go out without any of the unsavoury bits (fighting, tough music, the danger of getting your Flyknits ruined).

It's nightlife aimed at a monied, Silicon Roundabout kind of clientele who enjoy the social posturing of being seen to go out without any of the unsavory bits (fighting, tough music, the danger of getting your Flyknits ruined).

They subtly uncover genuine feeling beneath social postures, and interacting with them, Mr. Mays comes close to appearing human.

I think it is unwise to apply such clear-cut descriptions to a period when homosexuality was only just emerging as a bohemian social posture.

In addition, its social posture is excellent, and quite unique in corporate America, of which Wal-Mart is yet another sordid example.

My social posture has become one of harried, irritated inwardness, a ?what more do you want I'm not giving any more to you', ?get out of my way if you can't help me' kind of angst.

Unfortunately, his social media posturing also sparked a good chunk of laudatory coverage.