| 单词 | poseur |
| 例句 | “This chump is so broke that he has to bum rides to Greyhawk, just so he can kill kobolds for copper pieces! And he’s calling me a poseur!” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Which ones were the real artists and which ones were the poseurs? Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Or better yet, maybe he was just a selfish poseur, using his daddy as an excuse to be wack. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z Like I said, he was a total poseur. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z He heard their excited argument, and then, an intentional poseur, he shook each paw daintily in turn, stepped delicately down from the rocks, and vanished from the men’s sight. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “OK. Let’s see who the real poseur is,” he said. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Sure, for the most part they might be annoying poseurs in tweed outfits, but in this case they're absolutely right. Typewriters: an illustrated guide and a debt of thanks 2012-11-22T09:08:55Z Such fresher faces aside, some of the day's line-up has a slightly ageing feel, typified by black-clad doom rock poseurs Interpol, whose dreary set feels like it has been going on since 2002. Elbow and Muse weather the storm at Leeds festival 2011 2011-08-27T11:50:15Z At the very least, Sam Green was a fabulist, an unabashed poseur blessed with good looks, a natural flair for storytelling, a knack for self-promotion and a markedly elastic relationship to the truth. A Collector of People Along With Art 2011-04-06T23:34:47Z “But pretension and flab came up fluorescent in this merciless scan, and certain writers suddenly seemed like hothouse poseurs. They became unintentionally hilarious.” Review: ‘Barbarian Days,’ by William Finnegan, Details a Surfer’s Pilgrimage 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z His friends were legion, an endless roll call of the geniuses, provocateurs and poseurs who gave the decade its distinctive cultural tang. Bill Berkson, Poet and Art Critic of ’60s Manhattan In-Crowd, Dies at 76 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z The art world may be full of poseurs, pretentious twits, rapacious entrepreneurs and the forces of corporate homogenization, but in key ways, it is still a different social and economic world than the movie business. Perspective | Netflix’s ‘Velvet Buzzsaw’ is a revenge fantasy against elites — making it perfect for the age of Trump 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z In a milieu populated by poseurs and wannabes, Peabody’s bohemian cool was the real thing, a hard-earned byproduct of four decades at the epicenter of the underground Washington literary scene. ‘The Richard Peabody Reader’ 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z The modernizing helps: Fops and poseurs and senators and generals are more easily recognizable in pinstripe suits than Greek chitons. A First-Time Visitor Inhales Stratford’s Theatrical Perfume 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z But the notion of natural wine producers as independent bohemian artisans is tough to maintain when the genre’s popular breakthrough radiates dollar signs, not only to corporate bean counters but also to small-business poseurs. France Defines Natural Wine, but Is That Enough? 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z I had been instantly transformed, from sexual reject to desirable poseur. Modern Love: In a Divorce, the Clicks of a Mouse - Modern Love 2011-11-04T18:48:01Z We were roundly defeated by other poseurs, a guy group who put on wigs and dresses for “Our Lips Are Sealed,” hilariously squeezing their legs shut for the song’s chorus. The Go-Go’s Gave Us the Beat and So Much More 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z Instead of truly manifesting awkwardness, they are poseurs of inelegance. Ivy Baldwin Unveils 'Oxbow' at BAM Fisher 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z Wilde, the clever but somewhat vacuous celebrity poseur, became an increasingly passionate presence on stage and an engaging quote machine for the anarchic American press. Review | Surprising influences on Oscar Wilde’s greatest works 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z His gummy smile is the rictus of a poseur second-class; his musk is of flop sweat. Oz the Great and Powerful: Mostly, It’s Wicked Bad 2013-03-06T16:10:03Z But alone, Degas suffers from doubt about his work because he is “not gifted, is not prescient, he is not an auteur, he is only a draftsman, a servant, a plodding poseur.” ‘I Always Loved You’: the flames of an artistic passion 2014-01-29T23:40:36Z The plot is fueled by arch archetypes that infuriate the main character, Alceste, who prides himself on telling these poseurs the truth, no matter the cost. Review | ‘A Misanthrope’ brings Molière’s fabulous fakes into the 21st century 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z The last thing I wanted to do was look like some poseur. Ta-Nehisi Coates Asks: Who’s French? Who’s American? 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z Compared to them, the Stones are art-school poseurs dabbling in Satanic imagery. Drugs, paranoia and a creepy Charles Manson connection: Why we’re still fascinated with the dark drama of the Beach Boys 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z Throughout there is an unavoidable sense that a good deal of Gauguin's self-projection was, precisely, a pose, yet one that confounds our sense of the poseur by the repeated production of works of genius. Gauguin: Into the mystic 2010-10-01T23:06:00Z Where Cameron and Clegg, public schoolboys both, seem natural working partners, the deeply serious, moral Gladstone was the emotional antithesis of the novelist and Romantic poseur Disraeli. Cameron and Clegg: the improbable coalition 2010-05-12T15:22:00Z The am-dram poseur is an archetype dear to the hearts of sardonically sentimental playwrights. Review: In ‘Happy Talk,’ Susan Sarandon Escapes Into Amateur Acting 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z He thinks that the readers of poetry are just poseurs, that there is nothing constant about human identity. Theater Review: ‘The Designated Mourner’ by Wallace Shawn, at Public Theater 2013-07-22T02:00:02Z I’m not going to be a poseur and say, “Yes, I love this period, blah blah blah,” but I felt that his art was truly beautiful. David Chang Loves Beethoven’s Ninth (but Won’t Finish ‘Infinite Jest’) 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z He was not a hypocrite or a wannabe or a poseur. Why I tried to be a punk 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Wright was a “cad,” a “poseur,” a “liar” and a “cheat.” Frank Lloyd Wright: Separating the Life From the Work 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z We spoke of the writer who had read his work—a poseur, she thought. “This Is Pleasure” 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z The stranger reminds viewers that, in the West, “dude” is an insult—the naïve and citified dandy who’s a mere tourist or poseur in a place of rugged action and broken-in casualness. What to Stream Over Thanksgiving: The Best Film by the Coen Brothers 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Not saying that all people who reject sweet wines are poseurs or afraid to trust their own taste, but it's true for a lot of Americans, for sure. Thrilling and Joyless? The Polarity of Sweet Riesling 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z The Driller Killer Abel Ferrara directs himself as a tortured NY artist who kills and drills arty poseurs. The Evil Dead, The Living Dead and the dead wrong 2010-10-15T23:22:00Z Just as there are too many insufferable language pedants and poseurs. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Leading the fight against mispronunciations 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z Part of the delight of Cole's book is how it exploits refinement until Julius reveals himself as a poseur through intellectual over-reaching, disclosing an irony for which readers may not be prepared. Open City by Teju Cole ? review 2011-08-17T09:00:03Z I am quoted in the book as saying to Shakespeare: 'I absolutely deny to the end of my days that Bruce was a fraud, a poseur and a sham.' Critical eye: book reviews roundup 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z Wherever Korine's name is found in print, some variation on the word "provoke" is not far off, as often as not in the company of charlatan, fraud and poseur. The most hated man in art-house cinema 2010-05-07T20:15:00Z We have watched a restless day of rest in the park of the title, where an assortment of flâneurs and poseurs have become steadily more fractious and discordant. Review: ‘Sunday in the Park With George,’ a Living Painting to Make You See 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z On the other, they fed the Western appetite for exoticism, presenting yogis as primitive poseurs and yoga itself as a primitive form of theater. Art Review: ‘Yoga: The Art of Transformation’ at Sackler Gallery 2014-01-02T22:01:19Z "Gob Squad's Kitchen" implicitly skewers the holier-than-thou coolness of Warhol's poseurs — deliberately chosen by the artist for their attractive shallowness — and the numbing banality of the unscripted screen opuses they wafted through. Gob Squad skewers and pays tribute to Warhol's Factory 2012-09-28T22:12:05Z Fallaci was sometimes criticized for being a poseur and a narcissist. The Life of Oriana Fallaci, Guerrilla Journalist 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z His logorrheic, hyperkinetic charm quickly gave him a foothold in an insular world, where poseurs are typically snubbed or mocked, Mr. Samuels said. His Own Best Character 2011-05-18T20:55:46Z The irony is that, as awful as he is, he’s the only one left at the end of the action to grieve the useless poseurs he hated. From the Schlump With the Shiv, Two Plays Turned Podcasts 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z After all, what self-respecting Brooklyn poseur can be proud to comb his lip caterpillar now that the Biebs has one? Justin Bieber Killed the Mustache 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z It had a “vulgar honesty” to it that Greenwich Village, already overrun by tourists and poseurs by the time he arrived there, did not. America’s forgotten poet 2012-10-04T20:02:00Z The story tells of mousy Tatiana, who falls in love with Onegin, a wealthy young poseur, and is cruelly spurned by him. Onegin – review 2013-01-27T00:06:11Z Now that the DJs have been outed as performance poseurs, will fans continue to be willing to dole out serious cash to watch them act? Beat Boys: The Rise of the Superstar DJ 2012-06-26T10:45:22Z But he comes off like a rich poseur trying to make idealism his #brand, manically quoting progressive catchphrases the way he spat bad rap at a Season-2 party for Logan. ‘Succession’ Returns, With No Real People Involved 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z But perhaps you have read all this and thought: this Times critic is as bad as the poseurs at the fair! A (Grudging) Defense of the $120,000 Banana 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z Maybe an inability to distinguish the pose for the poseur, the medium for the message, led me astray. Glam! at Tate Liverpool: through a mirrorball darkly 2013-02-06T19:30:01Z The university social scene is treated with a particular disdain by Rooney as a place of privileged poseurs. 'The stakes were really high': the stars of Normal People on bringing Sally Rooney's novel to TV 2020-04-12T04:00:00Z There was a time when I think we would have ignored such talk as the cosplaying of a bunch of online poseurs but after January 6 you can't brush this kind of talk off lightly. Ron DeSantis pays for Donald Trump's crimes 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z There is only Trump and certain poseurs pretending to be him by acting like narcissists and bullies. Will Trump fans dump him to win? 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z Sadly, the answer is simple: Infantile poseurs in the House Republican majority are threatening to block an increase in the federal debt ceiling. Column: The U.S. economy is again being held hostage to our ridiculous federal debt ceiling 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z Does this purveyor of nonfiction cinema have any real truth to express, or is he just a poseur, a sham, a sellout? A critic takes a second look at Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s ‘Bardo’ — and is thankful he did 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z Like trolls and sanctimonious poseurs, influencers goose Twitter's algorithm by appealing to base instincts. Elon Musk must be stopped! If Twitter is to be a true "town square," it's time to socialize it 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z Caruso’s ascendancy in the race – polls show him closely matched with Bass — has alarmed longtime Democrats who are attacking him as a poseur trying to buy the job. Liberal Los Angeles could take right turn in mayor’s race 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z That is, the world is a gullible circus, dragged down by poseurs who appropriate the false values of show business. Review | ‘Catch Me If You Can’ fizzled on Broadway. A new Arena Stage production loses altitude in much the same way. 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z “Putin the poseur on horseback is hiding in his remote bunker, while Zelenski, the former comedian, is risking his life on the frontline,” he said. Smartphone in hand, Ukraine's president takes centre stage in a capital under attack 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z She chanted the couplet cry of the insider outsider: “I am a poseur and I don’t care, I like to make people stare.” A complicated, groundbreaking punk heroine gets her due in new documentary 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z Her main complaint was with the poseurs — people who took photos with bags or cars that they did not actually own. In China, Bragging About Your Wealth Can Get You Censored 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z You would call Urban Meyer a poseur, but he’s too evasive to hold any pose for long. Perspective | Nobody believes Urban Meyer. That’s why he’s failing. 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z She gets it: Standing by Cuomo means being a hypocrite and a poseur. Kicking Cuomo to the curb: Democrats evolve on the politics of #MeToo 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z There’s little to gussy up the performance of the truck, but poseurs might embrace the exclusive grille, the 19-inch wheels and the sport steering wheel. Hot Hatchbacks: Party in the Front, Business in the Back 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z By identifying masks and social distancing as liberal shibboleths, he created the us-vs-them battlefield that political poseurs need. Column: I never 'agree to disagree' — I just tell you when you're wrong 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z Groups like the Proud Boys are only the most extreme example of the "patriotic" poseurs, parades, and pageantry in the U.S.A. of 2020. Reclaiming American idealism 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z Strong evidence exists that Trump is both a poseur and a cheat, as we've shown again and again at DCReport since we published Trump's 2005 income tax return three years ago. How income-tax secrecy benefits Trump and hurts you 2020-09-20T04:00:00Z But there's not even a poseur version of it. What's antifa? Journalist Talia Lavin on the reality behind the media's "pernicious lies" 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z Not only are the band in tin-can costumes discovering that family events pay better wages than indie clubs, they are also learning to appreciate a new fanbase: one that is refreshingly lacking in poseurs. Indie turns to Kindie as post-punk German bands woo pre-schools 2020-04-12T04:00:00Z As I've said from the beginning, I absolutely hope I'm wrong about Trump, but so far, he's proved many of my worst concerns about his poseur presidency to be true. Dr. Trump's medicine show: Why is he pushing an unproven drug? Follow the money 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z It’s just Trump — the poseur who once needed three tries to accurately spell “hereby.” Donald Trump's new "fire and fury": More madman cosplay, with no exit strategy 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z Williams, the county supervisor, once used the term “environmental poseurs” to describe the gap between Santa Barbara’s talk on the environment and its actions. California climate change: Fires, floods and a fight over free parking 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z Yet he’s too often regarded as a tough guy, a poseur Mafia don who’s osmotically absorbed too many gangster movies. Donald Trump is the weakest incumbent president in decades: If Democrats don't screw this up 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z Republican politicians and right-wing pundits got to work denying that Trump's racism is racism and instead trying to frame his critics as bad-faith poseurs. Don't buy Trump's disavowal of the "send her back" chant: His fans definitely won't 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z It would certainly be interesting if he was supposed to be a kind of poseur using those markers as a way to woo women, but this film is too earnest for that. Review: Shahidi shines in so-so ‘The Sun Is Also a Star’ 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z In many of her stories, intellectuals are depicted as grumpy poseurs, mean and homely failures who can’t get on with life and are often driven into the ground by its brutality. Flannery O’Connor’s Revelatory Honesty 2001-01-22T05:00:00Z But this much is true: In Washington today, at this moment, all those poseurs cashing government paychecks better watch out. Donald Trump returns staff accountability to White House 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z He is an ambassador or a poseur, a visitor out of time and place, his manner ruthlessly aloof, his impression of his surroundings comically unreadable. The Artists Who Brought Asian-Americans Into the Annals of Contemporary Art 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z During the lakeside competition she felt inhibited by the male poseurs. Frankenstein: the monster that never dies 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z He's a poseur who smiles a lot but that's about it. From City Hall to the White House? Eric Garcetti May Try to Defy the Odds 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z “White is deemed by many to be a deceptive poseur, who is long on self-promotion and short on substance,” he said in an email. The televangelist advising the White House says she led Trump to Christ 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z One wonders whether these poseurs know anything at all about the man they’ve targeted. Opinion | Teddy Roosevelt didn’t deserve this 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z He was already dismissed by nonbelievers as a poseur, as a vain young man in a hurry rather than a pragmatic messiah capable of reforming France and rescuing Europe. Macron needs more than makeup to be the new De Gaulle | John Lichfield 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z So I blame Kuhn for poseurs who babble about “paradigms” and wrap air quotes around “scientific truth.” Did Thomas Kuhn Help Elect Donald Trump? 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z Ultimately, the soccer culture is as diverse as the country itself: from the Europhilic poseurs in gentrified Brooklyn to the Latin American immigrants who devour Spanish-language broadcasts. 'A slap in the face for many Mexicans': our writers on the 2026 World Cup bid 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z But it’s an insult to their supposed tribe of Smart Women as well — after all, Ms. Fey thinks they’re all a bunch of poseurs who, God forbid, watch HGTV. Trumpmageddon 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z The current wave of killings was the work not of the police or vigilantes, he said, but rather of criminals themselves — “drug lords, drug syndicates, drug poseurs.” President Duterte’s List 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z A top media mogul dismisses all three as outsiders: “No one here thinks of the Clintons as New Yorkers, and Donald is a bridge-and-tunnel person. He’s always been a poseur in New York.” When Hillary and Donald Were Friends 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z Not these grubbly poseurs, these people who’ve never had a thought but only a sensation: Christians are backward, I saw it in a movie! America’s Decadent Leadership Class 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z What Mariucci was acknowledging was that NFL players have listened to coaches since childhood and can easily spot phonies and poseurs. More prankster than screamer, Redskins Coach Jay Gruden carves his own path 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z Trump the outrageous poseur becomes sadder and more real in this fine book. Portrait of a comical, chilling and somewhat sad Donald Trump 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z According to the Guthrie poseurs, if liberals fail to cry crocodile tears for their idealized version of the “white, working class,” they are actually responsible for the putrid rise of Trump. We must shame dumb Trump fans: The white working class are not victims 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z And in the capital of the world-weary poseur, New Yorkers don’t do desperate. I'm campaignin' here! Just how New York are the presidential candidates? 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z He's a poseur and a shape-shifter who reveals a different side of himself to different people. Rubio’s Exit and the G.O.P.’s Spoiled Buffet 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z Marco Rubio is a political poseur, who like all the Republican nominees displays a blatant "mediocrity and incompetence" with everything he says and does. The End of Marco-mentum 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z Junkies, models, poseurs and performance artists feed off each other in a battle to be the most fierce, all the while unaware that tiny aliens are harnessing their ecstasy. “Liquid Sky”: This glam early-’80s sci-fi masterpiece that predicted the AIDS crisis could disappear forever 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z Jogging through a now gentrified neighbourhood – which you helped “settle” by the way – only to be halted by some yuppie poseur who rammed his baby stroller into you. Angry runner screams insults at 'white privilege' couple with baby stroller 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z Malice and delusion combine to produce the refrains: “Those fancy people in their Georgetown cocktail parties,” “Those left-wing poseurs in their apartments in Brussels.” The Migrants and the Elites 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z In fact, this song is needed more than ever, now, as gentrification and regeneration spread, and communities and cultures are eradicated by wealthy poseurs who want to play at slumming it. Pulp: 10 of the best 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z He points out the bicoastal separation between his life in Los Angeles and the nation’s capital — of a Hollywood culture populated by poseurs versus the real McCoy in Washington. Maz Jobrani, Iranian-American comedian, makes Middle East stereotypes laughable 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z In a sea of hair metal poseurs and dirty, depressed, flannel-wearing grunge rock, Jellyfish stuck out like a sore thumb — a majestic, Technicolor sore thumb. Roger Manning Jr.: From Jellyfish to Beck Grammy nominee 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z But his cases involve no grand heists orchestrated by Rat Pack poseurs, no Julia Roberts in on the game. Sought in Vegas, a Swindler Is Dealt a Losing Hand Far From Home 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z We commonly employ terms like “wannabe,” “poseur,” “social climber,” and “sellout” to keep people in their place. How LeBron James Is Just Like Us 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z But the larger, more troubling issue is what poseurs like the NAA are doing hiding in plain sight anyway. Chili’s Burns Anti-Vaxxers: That’s What Happens When You Kill and Maim Kids 2014-04-07T16:58:16Z I was nothing but a poseur trying my best to fit in. Schrodinger’s Rats and The Search for Ultimate Reality [Excerpt] 2014-01-31T15:00:00Z “The road, to me, represents all that is sordid in our modern business world, money-grubbing poseurs putting on airs, until the handcuffs are slapped on.” Home-Price Economics: The Gadfly of Greenwich Real Estate 2014-01-25T18:26:03Z Good historians eventually nailed the poseurs, weaklings, and paranoids who then pretended to heroism. Manipulated by power: What is wrong with the New York Times? 2013-09-06T15:35:00Z Your best defense: Keep the poseur involved as you increase your list of contacts at the customer site. 8 Customers You Should Avoid 2013-05-06T14:45:00Z The attributes of the “star ecosystem” that followed is familiar to any recent observer of the technology industry: gossip press, gatekeepers, herd effects, fad investing, poseurs. Silicon Valley Is The New Hollywood: Ignore The Hype And Keep Working 2013-03-11T19:51:24Z None of the grifters or poseurs at FreedomWorks is entitled to read Powell out of it. The right’s Colin Powell freakout 2013-01-16T00:04:00Z Action separates the real entrepreneurs from the wannabes and poseurs ... of which there are many. The seven deadly sins of social enterprise 2012-12-13T13:45:00Z She describes how Valerie eventually unraveled Beth’s deceit and then was befriended by yet another internet cancer poseur — and also interviews both of the women who perpetrated the frauds. Munchausen by Internet: Faking Illnesses Online 2012-12-01T05:05:22Z In the PR biz, we’ve witnessed far too many incidents featuring PR peeps as poseurs advocating for their paying clients or employers. Chick Filleted on Facebook 2012-07-25T19:53:39Z Bunthorne's first appearance should be done in such a way as to stamp him definitely for what he is—an affected "poseur." The Secrets of a Savoyard 2012-04-08T02:00:19.727Z Now he’ll show people the difference between the lunatic poseur who manages the team and a Hall of Fame lunatic pitcher. Big Z perfect fit with Ozzie in Mouth Beach 2012-01-05T16:06:00Z A poseur she undoubtedly was, but affectation had already become a more or less natural trait in her, a sort of second nature. The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) 2012-01-02T03:00:27.980Z Even in "De Profundis" the poseur supplemented the artist, and the truth was not in him. Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z To half of us he was a rather Quixotic hero—to the rest a sort of cheap poseur. Mortmain 2011-09-09T02:01:10.217Z The peculiar charm of these Letters is that they are so evidently private; there is nothing of the poseur about them. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, October 15th 1887 2011-05-24T02:00:14.667Z It is the philosophy of the poseurs in pessimism that for every happy moment we have in life we pay at a later date a greater price. Bat Wing Bowles 2011-05-20T02:00:33.310Z It is the poseur who is soft—soft at the very top, where Henry Ford is hard. Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street 2011-04-27T02:00:23.800Z I don't think I ever saw a more consummate actor,—what the French call poseur,—with all the outward semblance of perfect indifference to display and complete forgetfulness of self. Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II 2011-04-15T02:00:16.987Z His unaffectedness and sensitive delicacy were touching, and there was a freshness of feeling about the man which has never yet been found in any poseur, as some people have elected to call him. Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music 2011-04-12T02:00:25.667Z To dismiss Marler as a mere poseur would be a serious mistake. Harlequins prop Joe Marler insists rugby is no laughing matter 2011-04-01T21:00:00Z Sal had posed for this effect, and Jim took it all in—but it was a genuine pose, which is not the case with poseurs of the present day. Settling Day 2011-03-08T03:00:36.623Z He had little in common with the Bohemianism of the poseur, and the Bohemia of letters and art has been largely made up of that sort of thing. Dumas' Paris 2011-02-02T03:00:23.057Z Indeed, prisoners in general are such poseurs, in one respect or another, that not much faith can be put in conclusions as to their literary tendencies deduced from their selection of books in prison libraries. Notes of an Itinerant Policeman 2011-01-24T03:00:19.187Z Better he be typed as a Simon Cowell-esque nasty rogue—the kind of rude headmaster America still falls for—than an oily poseur. Piers Morgan's 'O'-Level: A Cheeky, Odd Introduction 2011-01-18T09:00:00Z "He's not a bit like an actor; he's natural and not a bit of a poseur." My Actor-Husband A true story of American stage life 2011-01-03T03:01:07.697Z It has three cup holders, but one of them is really a poseur. You're the Boss: My Cup Holders Runneth Over 2010-10-15T11:00:00Z While lacking that crucial H word, the song brutally teases London's poseurs and the video animates shots taken from Hackney Hipster Hate and latfh.com, among other sources. Why do people hate hipsters? 2010-10-14T19:30:00Z He mocked Newt Gingrich as a moral poseur for ending the practice of delivering buckets of ice to congressional offices in the evenings. Remembering Rosty 2010-08-12T11:00:00Z They are the same disgusting poseurs that in the middle of a snowstorm come out with cross-country skiing on your block. Armstrong calls radio host an 'f-ing idiot' 2010-03-18T12:30:00Z Conservatives who bashed liberal judges for "legislating from the bench" and disrespecting precedent are now exposed as unprincipled poseurs. 2010-01-23T00:09:00Z Defense lawyers, meanwhile, wasted no time trying to tarnish the reputation of Mr. Mineo, calling him a scam artist, a poseur and a “packaged product.” 2010-01-22T07:22:00Z Of course, ridiculing young poseurs isn't an especially new thing to do. Why do people hate hipsters? 2010-10-14T19:30:00Z By some he seems to be regarded chiefly as a poseur. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius It is not for prudes, nor for parsons, nor poseurs. The Home Life of Poe He keeps himself much as a hermit might in these days, but I am sure that the portion of the story I know is not that of the vain man or of the poseur. The Key to Yesterday What more distinguished end for an incurable poseur? Sonnets from the Patagonian What Was the Hipster? is a 200-page collection of American essays and discussions, which assesses the significance of these turn-of-the-century poseurs. Why do people hate hipsters? 2010-10-14T19:30:00Z Elbow your way out of all those frauds—poseurs, spongers, leeches, fleas, and bugs—who try to fasten themselves to you. Rambles in Womanland A good deal of a poseur he wore gold-rimmed glasses, aped the absent-minded manner of the student, and spoke in vague terms of big things he was about to accomplish. John Marsh's Millions As to his personality, it seems to be that of the poseur—almost of the snob. The Key to Yesterday He had exhibited each year with increasing success at private exhibitions, but never at the Salon, and had been called "poseur" because of his reluctance to expose his work in national academies. Fairfax and His Pride They were inclined to think he was somewhat of a poseur at first, but later they came to like him—all of them. The "Genius" The male, a poseur among birds, strikes strange attitudes with bill pointing skyward, and with apparent effort forces out hoarse whistles. What Bird is That? A Pocket Museum of the Land Birds of the Eastern United States Arranged According to Season The stock excuse among foreign poseurs for the two to one preference of Europe to America is that "America lacks the picturesque, the human, the historic." Through Our Unknown Southwest Mr. Bellton was at heart the poseur, but he was also the fighter. The Key to Yesterday An inhuman philosopher or a strong, silent poseur might affect to treat with indifference his leave from the Front. Cavalry of the Clouds He played miserably and absurdly enough--but at least the role corresponded to himself, and the former poseur now for the first time came on the stage without his mask, not to his advantage. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 The fellow was a poseur and an impostor, Rochester told himself vigorously. The Moving Finger But I had a deal more of finesse than he had, made very much better use of my opportunities, and was a far more practised poseur. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography “The poseur, never out of his r�le,” murmured his audience there. The Missourian Whitman showed just enough intention, or premeditation in his life, dress, manners, attitudes in his pictures, self-portrayals in his poems, etc., to give rise to the charge that he was a poseur. Whitman A Study It rendered him a poseur, vain and snobbish, but it also spurred him on to contend, with phenomenal energy, against almost innumerable difficulties. Paul Jones He is a poseur with borrowed manners, flamboyant, a quack medicine man of the market place. The Moving Finger But he was also, what seems almost incompatible with this ferocious truthfulness, excessively self-conscious and morally attitudinising, a thin-skinned poseur. The Countess of Albany Not for scoundrels, but for pedantic poseurs, ‘haunted by profound, unsolved doubts.’ The Brothers Karamazov She still fancied that Lord Reggie was nothing more than a whimsical poseur, bitten by the tarantula of imitation that preys upon weak natures. The Green Carnation She tolerated him good-humouredly, as women so often tolerate ninnies and poseurs. The Lost Girl He had only one desire—the desire of the born poseur—to extricate himself from his present position with something which might, at any rate, seem like dignity. The Moving Finger Hawthorne hints that Thoreau was a delightful poseur—he posed so naturally that he deceived even himself. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 Alexander was a man of ideas, a sentimentalist, and a poseur, but he had an eye to the main chance. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry Rather, it was the stride of a poseur—like nothing so much as that of the old-time tragedian, made famous by the Henry Irving school of actors. Ruth Fielding Down East Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point But that got me into trouble, for only kings can make pawns into knights, and I had to appeal several times to the Associated Press to save myself being dubbed poseur. A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell Her silence while he crossed a considerable space of carpet, would have been embarrassing to a less accomplished poseur. The Moving Finger Hence the comic characters with whom he falls in are comic characters in the same key; they are a band of strolling players, charlatans and poseurs, but too humane to be called humbugs. Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens All his life long he was addicted to attitude; all his life long he was a poseur of the purest water. Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation "Once a poseur always a poseur" is a rough-and-ready formula not invariably applicable even to a poet. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 He was not a poseur; he was merely sensitively conscious of himself and of life as an art. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) Poet and poseur he was, the strangest combination ever seen in man. The Daffodil Mystery I used to think you were too good to be true—that you must be a poseur. Everyman's Land When I told him of Miss Cobbe's description of Borrow as a poseur, he said to me, 'I told you the same scores of times. George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends I suspect the new note to be a poseur, not quite of the usual species, but a poseur. The Way of Ambition Good examples are his letters to a reviewer, who, criticizing him without knowing him, wrote as if he were either an insensible athletic optimist, or a sufferer who was a poseur. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) And she married Bernard Graves—a man who has degenerated into a poseur before women's clubs. The Henchman She herself suspects him as a poseur, yet she judges me careless of his needs—which I should find funny, if it didn't make me furious! Everyman's Land Yet it is not without surprise that one sees D'Annunzio join this distinguished company, and one's admiration grows as it becomes plain that he was not a mere poseur. History of the World War An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest War He is, in brief, a hollow and incompetent creature, a strutter and poseur, a popinjay, a pretty one.... Damn! A Book of Calumny How often the woman or man with a God-given sense of the beautiful, the fitting, harmony between costume and setting, is described as poseur or poseuse by those who lack the same instinct. Woman as Decoration "Dear old poseur; he's keen enough on his own house," Gordon answered drowsily from the depths of the hammock, in which he had almost fallen asleep. The Loom of Youth Eternal poseurs themselves, they adjudged his modesty a pose, yet somehow could not forgive it. Winner Take All The poseur with his mask off, at last! The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Bronson Alcott seems to have been by nature what the French call a poseur; or, as one of his own not unkindly intimates has described him, "an innocent charlatan." Life of Father Hecker No, that I deny," replied the Critic, "but as I am no poseur, I will own that I wrote it years ago, and rewrote it so often that I never could forget it. Told in a French Garden August, 1914 To this community of poseurs Lady Durwent jingled her town house and her title—and the response was instantaneous. The Parts Men Play His enemies called him a dilettante and a poseur. Nobody's Man There is the futurist, post-impressionist poseur who more than half believes in his own pose. Greenwich Village Unless he is a poseur of uncommon skill, he will appear best thus. The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) They were not emotional or poseurs like some other nations, and Hector Bracondale was essentially a man of the world, and rather a whimsical cynic as well. Beyond The Rocks A Love Story A poseur, no doubt, he was, but not a charlatan. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 192-06-30 The poseur's mask which he habitually wore slipped aside and the real man peeped out. The Moon out of Reach They were devotees of learned music; “poseurs,” others said, who pretended to admire works they did not understand at all. Musical Memories But young university men of Thackeray's time discovered that Byron was a poseur; Thackeray himself describes him as "a big, sulky dandy." A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century Perhaps," he said, quietly, "I am what you are doubtless thinking me—something of a poseur. The Lighted Way Like most actors, he was a great poseur. Twelve Men I meant to brand that sprinkling among them who are poseurs. A Daughter of the Snows Surely, if a poseur, he might have posed when bereavement touched him; he might have assumed a high philosophic calm. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 All the same, if I ever decide to 'be somebody,' I'm going to be Francis Charles Boland, and not a dismal imitation of a copy of some celebrated poseur—I'll tell you those! Copper Streak Trail It was an age of poseurs—the age of the "professional air." George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians Yes, she understood that Kitty had behaved like a little goose with that poseur Cliffe. The Marriage of William Ashe "Although possibly something of a poseur in his choice of subjects...." The Great Adventure Deep in his heart is a suspicion that people who get enthusiastic about Sir Thomas Browne are vain and conceited poseurs. Literary Taste: How to Form It With Detailed Instructions for Collecting a Complete Library of English Literature At the same time she thought she understood why Falloden, and Meyrick, and others called the youth a poseur, and angrily wished to snub him. Lady Connie Then the bizarre, brilliant poseur forgets his rôle, and reveals his highest aspirations. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 We know how the poseur works mischief to every cause, and we can see the poseur on every side. Principles of Freedom Of course the man was a poseur, a most horrid mountebank and ego-maniac. Emerson and Other Essays He must put himself in opposition to the overwhelming body of public opinion, and resign himself to being regarded either as a poseur, a crank, or a fool. The Human Machine Many consider Tolstoy a poseur, but he sincerely believes in himself. Abroad with the Jimmies He was such a poseur, his simulation of emotion was so melodramatic that I wondered if he really imagined I would be impressed by it. Revelations of a Wife The Story of a Honeymoon The special pleader and the poseur lack all these things, and they make themselves and their work foolish. Principles of Freedom Poseur, perhaps, but an emperor these days may need to be a poseur in order to wear the ermine of Divine Right convincingly to most of his subjects. My Year of the War Including an Account of Experiences with the Troops in France and the Record of a Visit to the Grand Fleet Which is Here Given for the First Time in its Complete Form There was nothing whatever of the gallant poseur in his manner, whatever were the words. Dawn of All There is nothing poseur or dramatic about him. The Reflections of Ambrosine A Novel Grumblings that being a poseur is not as easy as we think. The Cyberpunk Fakebook The Byrons and Brookes who had defied life from mountain tops were in the end but flaneurs and poseurs, at best mistaking the shadow of courage for the substance of wisdom. This Side of Paradise I confess that in the beginning this brilliant, pitiless lawyer, this consciencelessly powerful advocate, at once mocker and poseur, all but failed to interest me. A Psychological Counter-Current in Recent Fiction Thus I was not only a genuinely keen student, but also a little of a prig and poseur in those days—and the latter kept the former at it, as London made clear. Tono Bungay She looks very beautiful with her face upturned in the moonlight; but don't say a word about it, for there's a little of the poseur about all the daughters of Eve. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 They were a relief to her—they were not whispering that she was a poseur. Main Street This fact fixes Mr. Wells's honesty and proves him to be no poseur. Heretics I suspect him of being a good deal of a poseur and a fakir. The Conflict Any one who should sit quietly in his place until the vehicle had come to a full stop, would be regarded by the slave-driver and his cargo as a poseur who was assuming airs. Worldly Ways and Byways "René" had been her laughing name for him—her handsome, melancholy, eloquent poseur! The Case of Richard Meynell Manisty,' said the young Count, flinging away his cigarette; 'he is a poseur of course. Eleanor The canny old poseur was on his way to an immortal martyrdom. The Man in Gray He is a religious actor and a poseur. The Christian A Story The kaiser is a poseur in love with himself. Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4 His father would shrug his shoulders and call him a poseur; his brothers would laugh at him and eat his portion. Jean-Christophe, Volume I She had under her thumb a good-looking boy, Léopold Graillot, a journeyman mechanic, who was clever and rather a poseur: he was the esthete of the company. Jean-Christophe Journey's End He may be named only to be cursed as wanton and mocker, poseur, trifler and vagrant. Ezra Pound: His Metric and Poetry Now, gentlemen, let me sell you George—a first-rate bricklayer—excellent poseur de briques—bears an excellent character—only he absconded once from his master for a few days. American Scenes, and Christian Slavery A Recent Tour of Four Thousand Miles in the United States Shelley found his way to Thorwaldsen's studio, and made mention that the Master was a bit of a poseur. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists I find him good, clever, cultivated, not a poseur, in short charming, and "with talent." The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters I wondered whether there might not be a good deal of the poseur about him, too. The Treasure-Train I cannot help feeling that the man was a poseur, and that his affectations were the result of living in a small and admiring coterie. The Upton Letters Nero got drunk on popularity, and heredity aiding where the prince had been emerged the cad, a poseur that bored, a beast that disgusted, a caricature of the impossible in a crimson frame. Imperial Purple Whistler has been called the greatest poseur of his day; and yet he is the most sincere and truthful of men—the very antithesis of hypocrisy and sham. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists He is virtually unknown in that strange bedlam composed largely of social climbers and official poseurs called Washington society. The Mirrors of Washington Deep in his heart is a suspicion that people who get enthusiastic about Sir Thomas Browne are vain and conceited *poseurs*. Literary Taste: How to Form It With Detailed Instructions for Collecting a Complete Library of English Literature It may be argued that Borrow was merely posing as a great traveller, but the foregoing remarks are too casual, too much in the nature of asides, to be the utterances of a poseur. The Life of George Borrow It served this one-armed, conceited American poseur right. Tales of Trail and Town And he had an instinctive reliance on her fellow poseur's ability to detect it. Susy, a story of the Plains There were, then, two Doyles, one the poseur, flaunting his outrageous doctrines with a sardonic grin, gathering about him a small circle of the intelligentsia, and too openly heterodox to be dangerous. A Poor Wise Man "I shall begin to think that you are a poseur!" she exclaimed. The Zeppelin's Passenger He's a poseur, a demagogue, and one with a vicious streak in him. The Vision Splendid At the back of his mind there was a vein of theatricality, hitherto unrevealed, that might, under sufficient stimulus, transform him into a poseur. Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War Now he might have passed for no more extravagant a thing than one of those poseurs in art and music who affect such oddity of guise. Roads of Destiny Most Bohemians, so-called, are poseurs and conventionalized to their marrow. The Foundations of Personality How can one escape becoming merely an intellectual like those wordy Fabians, those writers, poseurs, and sham publicists whose wrangles he had attended? The Research Magnificent |
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