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Määritelmät
Substantiivit
- The way a person holds and positions their body.
- A situation or condition.
- One's attitude or the social or political position one takes towards an issue or another person.
- (rare) The position of someone or something relative to another; position; situation.
Verbit
- (intransitive) to put one's body into a posture or series of postures, especially hoping that one will be noticed and admired
- (intransitive) to pretend to have an opinion or a conviction
- (transitive) To place in a particular position or attitude; to pose.
Esimerkit
- As if that whatsoever god who leads him / Were slily crept into his human powers, / And gave him graceful posture.
- ...walking in a most dejected posture, without a band, unbraced, his arms a-cross his open breast, and his eyes bent to the floor;
- Rise, sir, from this semi-recumbent posture. It is most indecorous.
- Even as I was reading these fables of my millions, there lay on the desk before me a statement of the exact posture of my affairs...
- Uncle Jim stopped amazed. His brain did not instantly rise to the new posture of things.
- ...that is, their Forts, Garrisons, and Guns upon the Frontiers of their Kingdomes; and continuall Spyes upon their neighbours; which is a posture of War.
- But it is not true, no sane person can call it true, that man as a whole in his general attitude towards the world, in his posture towards death or green fields, towards the weather or the baby, will be wise to cultivate dissatisfaction.
- The Moon beheld in any posture, in respect of the Sun and us, sheweth us its superficies ... always equally clear.
- If you're finished posturing in front of the mirror, can I use the bathroom now?
- The politicians couldn't really care less about the issue: they're just posturing for the media.
- to posture oneself; to posture a model
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