posturing 的 2 个定义
- speech or action that is artificial, hypocritical, or calculated to mislead:I'm fed up with the reaching-across-the-aisle posturing intended to make politicians seem like they’re working hard for bipartisan reform.
- engaging in or characterized by such speech or behavior:He cynically believes that anybody trying to live up to an ideal is either a posturing liar or a simple-minded fool.
posturing 近义词
display an attitude
posturing 的近义词 16 个
- affect
- attitudinize
- display
- fake
- masquerade
- playact
- pose
- do a bit
- do for effect
- fake it
- make a show
- pass for
- pass off
- put on airs
- put up a front
- show off
posturing 的反义词 1 个
更多posturing例句
- In between the razzle-dazzle of his card tricks and puzzles, he explained why it’s crucial to read the audience’s posture, hand positions, and gestures when delivering a presentation.
- While the cerebrum is responsible for higher cognitive functions like vision, hearing, and thinking, the cerebellum integrates sensory data and governs movement, balance, and posture.
- Today my posture is better than it has ever been—and feels better—all day long.
- I also noted their postures, their proximity to one another, and which way they were looking at every moment.
- It’s unclear what effect that shortage would have on future rates, because the Fed might take more extraordinary measures to hold its benchmark artificially low, a posture that could depress yields on all bonds.
- It was a new voice, and in contrast to the ham-handed posturing of “Officer Hernandez,” the threat was direct and more aggressive.
- There was no acting, no posturing, as Ben delivered the news.
- Luckily for them, the science runs directly against his thoughtless posturing about the importance of children.
- But if you can sift through all of the legal posturing, a fairly accurate portrait of Sterling himself does begin to emerge.
- But Sciortino cut her teeth in that world of excess irony, cynicism, and posturing.
- Even if the whole school is obliged to attend the club-swinging and posturing and the other nonsense, little good is done.
- The classical posturing which still lingered, a disturbing element, in the Plague picture, has been put aside 212 completely.
- Remember that while you're posturing in your little hour of glory on Athena and Earth.
- To exhibit it posturing, writhing, and gasping in mere hysteria is to lower it beneath the standard of wholesome and worthy art.
- The sequel to this heroic posturing of the chief magistrate is one of the most humiliating chapters in American politics.