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posturing::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | conceit, conceitedness, vanity |
Examples of posturing
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So get ready for more posturing and more confusion, but it could happen quickly.
From the stltoday.com
Of course, political posturing and partisanship will never disappear completely.
From the dailyherald.com
Amid the posturing, pandering and juggling of symbols, one sound bite rang true.
From the time.com
Some suggest that this is mere posturing, designed to fetch a higher sale price.
From the economist.com
The case for some urgency has been strengthened by the posturing of Mr Harawira.
From the nzherald.co.nz
If you can see past the political posturing, you'll find that this is important.
From the forbes.com
You did not express your view, you are just posturing and wasting people's time.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Geithner politely suggested that congressional posturing has played a role, too.
From the kentucky.com
But most disputes are resolved at the last minute after posturing by both sides.
From the stltoday.com
- Pose: behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others; "Don't pay any attention to him--he is always posing to impress his peers!"; "She postured and made a total fool of herself"
- Position: the arrangement of the body and its limbs; "he assumed an attitude of surrender"
- Carriage: characteristic way of bearing one's body; "stood with good posture"
- Model: assume a posture as for artistic purposes; "We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often"
- Position: a rationalized mental attitude
- Military capability: capability in terms of personnel and materiel that affect the capacity to fight a war; "we faced an army of great strength"; "politicians have neglected our military posture"
- The way a person holds and positions their body; A situation or condition; One's attitude or the social or political position one takes towards an issue or another person; The position of someone or something relative to another; position; situation; to put one's body into a posture or series ...
- The attitude of the body. Posture is maintained by low-grade, continuous contraction of muscles which counteract the pull of gravity on body parts. Injury to the nervous system can impair the ability to maintain normal posture, for example holding up the head.
- Ability to stand upright automatically against gravity; controlled by the vestibulospinal, reticulospinal, and tectospinal pathways
