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Example sentences for "poses"

Lexicographically close words:
poscit; pose; posed; posen; poser; posesiones; posible; posie; posies; posing
  1. But for Gall of the A1, triple X brand, commend me to the little pot-house politician who poses as a political prophet and points out to wiser men their public duties.

  2. That's because she poses so much for Dad's pictures.

  3. Music as the manner of accentuating, of strengthening, and deepening dramatic poses and all things which please the senses of the actor; and Wagnerian drama only an opportunity for a host of interesting attitudes!

  4. Brahms is touching so long as he dreams or mourns over himself in private—in this respect he is modern;—he becomes cold, we no longer feel at one with him when he poses as the child of the classics.

  5. So he poses for my picture amidst the raw beginnings that were never to be completed.

  6. I began to dream more and more of beautiful situations and fine poses and groupings with her and for her.

  7. Hence, he who poses as a teacher of the people will not be tolerated.

  8. Her poses in the saddle were simply exquisite, and they appeared unstudied.

  9. Of all wild creatures he is one of the most graceful in action, and he poses with the skill of an experienced model.

  10. Löwe-Weimar is very well treated at Court, and poses as an aristocrat.

  11. Thiers every morning with a bundle of letters from England, that he poses as a man of importance, and that he and his wife are intriguing more vigorously than ever.

  12. We saw one or two of our diplomatic friends disporting themselves at one of the theatres where there were "poses plastiques" very well done.

  13. It was very long getting the poses all right so as to show everybody in an advantageous light; and as it is (judging from the cliche) Francois de Corcelle looks as if he was throttling me.

  14. The comic poses of architecture, which come to him from abroad, together with its tragic structure, he accordingly tones down and neutralizes as far as possible.

  15. It is truly English, in one sense, to fume against England, individuality tearing its own nest; and often these frantic poses neutralize one another and do no harm on the whole.

  16. We should be constantly original without effort and without shame, somewhat as we are in dreams, and consistent only in sincerity; and we should gloriously emphasize all the poses we fell into, without seeking to prolong them.

  17. Another organisation declares: "The Fabian Society poses as a Socialist organisation, for we are told that this Society 'consists of Socialists.

  18. Socialism often poses as Liberalism and is accepted as such by the unwary.

  19. He played wild airs to them, and studied their poses and gestures with such success that his gipsies seem actually to dance in the engravings.

  20. With the superb poses of a trained athlete, the Nude swings a fowl by the neck, and shortly it is plucked and potted, together with certain vegetables of the proper affinities.

  21. William Jennings Bryan lives there and if he, the man who poses as a friend of the people, had opened his mouth against the saloon he could have made this great cause more than the sixty votes.

  22. Since then, our tea is duty free No Briton dare attach it; While the new woman in the case, Now poses with the hatchet.

  23. I feel, of course, rather fettered at having to observe rules so strict and imperative concerning the poses of my figures, which, I hope, will have much action.

  24. I'll tell you how: O-possum re-poses up a gum tree.

  25. The paintings show some of the poses to have been exceedingly graceful, and there were character dances enacted in which the figures must have been highly dramatic and artistic.

  26. The women sometimes danced naked, to show off the grace of their poses and the suppleness of their muscles; sometimes they were decked with ribbons only; and sometimes they wore transparent dresses made of linen of the finest texture.

  27. In a week she had arrived at classic poses in Greek robes.

  28. Mr. Edam studied her poses and smiles for days before he got her at her best.

  29. Yet an interesting man, a romancing idealist, a deceiver of himself as well as of the women before whom he masquerades and poses in the rôle of the misunderstood and persecuted.

  30. This legacy of the romantic movement of 1830 really came across the water in Byron's poses of wickedness and heroic mystifications.

  31. Her helpless silences were actually terrifying; her poses most pathetic.

  32. The poses of the women were as various as their bodies and souls.

  33. There were portraits of Persis in various poses and costumes.

  34. Over a glass of (illusory) rubicund wine and (spectral) juicy steak, he poses the main dilemma of the movie.

  35. It poses all the right metaphysical riddles and presses the viewers' intellectual stimulation buttons.


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "poses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.