Scattered around the space like frozen visitors, Virginie Barré has placed dressed mannequins in strangely threatening postures.
All the big names and powerful forces are arrayed on various sides, posturing, threatening, offering to trade chits for chips.
We discriminated three degrees of intensity of aggressive interactions: (1) threatening [birds taking up a threatening posture (bill open and/or feathers bristling and/or wings/head lowered) but without observed physical contact], (2) threatening with physical contact (besides the threatening, brief physical contact took place) and (3) fight (longer and intensive physical contact).
Secretary Powell has no taste for the posturing, threatening, theatrics and histrionics that have often characterized such negotiations, and if he has dramatic new proposals to offer, he has kept them secret so far.
Thus began a second straight night of jawing, posturing and threatening between Avery and the Islanders.
Such a tactic may simply be posturing to threaten Dubai World with a long legal process.
Don't worry, so the line goes, Tsipras was just posturing when he threatened default and promised to rehire government workers, raise wages and pensions, and open the spigot of public spending.
After failing to push cybersecurity legislation through Congress last August, Obama promised to leverage executive authority to update national security standards, but his unilateral posturing threatened to revive many of the regulatory and civil liberty concerns that killed the original Cybersecurity Act.
Along with the military posturing, Moscow is threatening economic sanctions.
They cited China's portrayal of itself as a newly confident and rich power on the world stage, a posture that seems threatening to Americans and Europeans.
