attitudinize
Americanverb (used without object)
verb
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Etymology
Origin of attitudinize
1775–85; attitudin- ( see attitudinarian) + -ize
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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 cause requires a youth to "stalk, and bustle, and attitudinize;" and he clearly thinks this is all the youth before him wants to do, whether conscious of the fact or not.
From A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) by Mrs. Sutherland Orr
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 — 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
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 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
He received occasional assistance from his companions, who struck up choruses or attitudinized with mirthful effect.
From The Man with the Book or, The Bible Among the People. by John Matthias Weylland
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
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 evil of unnaturalness which such attitudinizing brings with it, is enhanced by light effects drawn from the same source.
From Tieck's Essay on the Boydell Shakspere Gallery by George Henry Danton
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