attitudinize

She was very corseted, very mannered, and quick to attitudinize.

From Star-Dust by Fannie Hurst

He was compelled the while to attitudinize incessantly as a genius.

From Art in England Notes and Studies by Dutton Cook

One of the rare women who never pout or attitudinize, she could fling her glove gracefully—one might add, capturingly under every aspect, she was a handsome belligerent.

From The Amazing Marriage — Complete by George Meredith

The passing of Lola sent a quiver through them and they were ready for the first available opportunity to attitudinize about her chair.

From The Rustle of Silk by Cosmo Hamilton

One of the rare women who never pout or attitudinize, she could fling her glove gracefully— one might add, capturingly under every aspect, she was a handsome belligerent.

From The Amazing Marriage — Volume 5 by George Meredith

While two yellow-robed girls stood sentry-like at each side of the chancel, Miss Schirmer postured, gestured and attitudinized.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was soon landed by the stalwart Martha and Alec, and, while he attitudinized for draining, the Professor amused himself with taking an instantaneous photograph.

From Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 by Various

Goethe knew he was drawing his portrait, and attitudinized accordingly.

From Hyperion by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There seems to me to be too much of the blown lock and the wistful glance, too much of the attitudinized poet, lacking, I may even say, in true refinement, often.

From Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets by Marsden Hartley

He was a languid, good-looking youth of three-and-twenty, who assumed blasé airs and attitudinized for their benefit.

From Shawl-Straps A Second Series of Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag by Louisa May Alcott

With deft tonal shifts and acrobatic attitudinizing, Pinchot charges in at a pace rather fast for audiobook narration, but perfectly matching Kidd’s hyperkinetic prose.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 7, 2022

With all its spinning and attitudinizing to a jazz track by Wynton Marsalis, it can seem like simple release.

From New York Times ● Jun. 24, 2021

Dixon’s direction of the white actors’ performances exposes the dual meaning of the term “bad actors”: the officials’ fat-cat presumptions and facile attitudinizing are mocked in the characters’ exaggerated B-movie cadences.

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 20, 2018

It's not a Jerry Bruckheimer action-adventure movie but a European art-house film, with its emphasis on attitudinizing, sullen tempers and long takes of people scurrying to get nowhere.

From Time ● Jul. 10, 2010

The energy that goes towards attitudinizing is always wasted, while that which expends itself on the legitimate fulfilment of tasks contributes something of real importance to life.

From The Life Radiant by Lilian Whiting