attitudinize

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

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

A jay would alight in the entrance of the hole, and flirt and peer and attitudinize, and then fly away crying “Thief, thief, thief!” at the top of his voice.

From Locusts and Wild Honey by John Burroughs

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

When I went in it seemed to me that he was inclined to attitudinize in the orthodox pose of a statesman, and I felt that he was not himself.

From Forty Years of 'Spy' by Leslie Ward

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Fountains that tossed up coloratura bubbles of sheerest aria and a sort of Greek frieze of youth attitudinized toward herself.

From Star-Dust by Fannie Hurst

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

From Hyperion by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

While the bombardment was going on at Avron he exposed himself freely to the fire, but instead of superintending the operations he attitudinized and made speeches.

From Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris by Henry Labouchere

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

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

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

New musicals on Broadway today are mostly audience-pleasing machines manufactured from cultural spare parts: a movie screenplay, a rock songbook, the self-conscious attitudinizing of late-night comedy.

From New York Times ● May 21, 2011

Wars in Liberia, Nigeria, Afghanistan and Libya — the world's open wounds — were vocation destinations for this English photojournalist, whose pictures had the impact of stark truth stripped of political attitudinizing.

From Time ● Apr. 21, 2011

"What part am I to spoil?" he asked, as he entered the green room, where several excited young gentlemen were costuming and attitudinizing.

From Behind a Mask, or a Woman's Power by Louisa May Alcott