Example Sentences

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In his kindly gaze and gentle hands, Arthur, who initially comes across as a bad-boy literary posturer, is both bemused bystander and acutely sensitive soul.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2023

She’s the cool pragmatist to his melodramatic posturer, and they share the drolly restricted worldview of people who live for the theater.

From New York Times • Aug. 12, 2019

John Noah Hertzler's Pentheus is less a king than a kinglet, a petty tyro tyrant, and Christopher Rich's Dionysus is no god but a godlet, a prancing posturer devoid of awe, might and mystery.

From Time Magazine Archive

A cross between poet, pirate and posturer is Gabriele d'Annunzio, snatcher of Fiume for Italy, first in the romantic hearts of millions of his countrymen.

From Time Magazine Archive