Sentence examples for tough pose from inspiring English sources

It was a tough pose, masculine - with the exception of the very high heels she was wearing - and some would say, aggressive.

The goal was to strike a tough pose, tacking to the right in an effort to capture the center while staying just to Republicans' left.

Tapper presses on China next, asking Portman if Romney can continue to take some "get tough" pose with China, even as he continues to profit from enterprises in China.

Under less pressure to strike a street-tough pose, perhaps, the women in the anthology allow their characters a measure of tenderness.

This is why inversions and other tough poses come in handy.

Harsh light and tough poses on the street give this campaign the rather nostalgic look of a 1980s new wave pop video or perhaps a scene from Zoolander.

"They put these incredibly tough poses in front of you, and it bugs you that others can do it and you can't".

Rather than an actor's "tough guy" pose, the stance was simply Cagney's natural posture the result of a "great deal of weightlifting from boyhood on".

Scholar John Strohm suggests that they did so by creating personas of a type conventionally seen as masculine: "They adopted a tough, unladylike pose that borrowed more from the macho swagger of sixties garage bands than from the calculated bad-girl image of bands like The Runaways".

In "Reader, Meet Author", Morrissey in his tough-guy pose sang that "Books don't save them, books aren't Stanley knives".

Ending blows to the head would mean ending the Milbury-Cherry tough-guy pose that the networks have apparently decided works for their fans.