posturing
Example Sentences
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Posturing, perhaps, ahead of negotiations by each country to get their best deal.
From BBC • Jul. 28, 2023
Here we find a different formative lesson: Posturing with bared teeth will cow your foes into submission.
From Slate • Jan. 24, 2018
Posturing aside, when Rubio talks about the “insecurity” that “has coiled itself” around the lives of hard-pressed people, he actually sounds like he understands it.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 13, 2014
A Rapper Trades Hermès Style For Old-Fashioned Posturing In 45 minutes of almost nonstop bluster at the Nokia Theater on Thursday night, Lloyd Banks squeezed in one minute for another mode of persuasion: humility.
From New York Times • Apr. 30, 2010
Posturing like one of those old Grecian discus-throwers, he sent his scalping-knife handle foremost to glide snake-like through the grass to stop at Margery's feet.
From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Lynde, Francis
