It is impossible for me to express the several gestures, the strange ecstasies, the variety of postures which these poor delivered people ran into, to express the joy of their souls at so unexpected a deliverance.
A celebrated courtesan, who was skilled in twelve different postures of Venus.
Every now and then they halted, when they exhibited immodest postures and actions, accompanied with songs and speeches of the same character.
The grimaces and strange postures of the jougleurs seem to have had great attractions for those who witnessed them.
The dancing women are as lewd as can possibly be conceived; indeed, obscene postures are the principal features of their entertainments.
Lewd women showed themselves at their windows in a state of nudity, and shocked public decency still more glaringly by their postures in the streets.
They consist of little more than contortions and twistings of the limbs and body, and of throwing themselves into postures which, as they are mostly performed by females, are highly conducive to immorality.
The dress in which they perform is very immodest, but they seldom descend to such obscene and degrading postures as may be witnessed in other Eastern countries.
They are merely posing, and find their classical postures wearisome.
These naked bodies, twisting themselves in the most varying postures of pain, give proof by their correct draughtsmanship of the most painstaking anatomical studies, yet after all they are nothing more than inverted Laocoons.
The postures of war I never learned; my weapons are spiritual and not carnal, for with carnal weapons I do not fight.
I told him I had never learned the postures of war, but was clear and innocent as a child concerning those things; and therefore was bold.
He could not have worked out all those postures from the living model.
It is easy to remark that those strained postures and writhen limbs may have perverted the taste of lesser craftsmen.
The postures of coition, ethnologically curious and interesting, are subjects so extensive that they require a volume rather than a note.
Down a precipice, deep down he casts them all; The mimic shapes in several postures fall: But then (mad fool!
All the posturescontemplated are different ways of sitting cross-legged.
It is difficult to see how the latter adjective applies to many of the postures recommended, for considerable training is necessary to make them even tolerable.
I suppose that his postures were much the same with the Publican's, as were his prayers, for the substance of them.
For verily, all these postures signify sense, sight of a lost condition, and a heart in good earnest for mercy.
So, for instance, postures in prayer, such as kneeling, bowing, standing.
In the centre of the avenue, and on the borders of the canal stood in long rows, respectfully silent and in postures of humility, all the chief Officers, Khans, Governors of towns and districts.
They appear mostly in postures of supplication; and, I should suspect, are representations of vanquished people.
We hand the Lord over to be crucified, and then we practise the postures and gait of the saints.
Mithridates, throwing himself into such postures and motions of his body as he had formerly used when he was in battle, with frequent shouts and loud cries.
The avoidable factor in their causation is, with some modification, not unlike that of the simpler feral movements and faulty attitudes, carriage, and postures in children; viz.
Another yet closely correlated ideal is that of economic postures and movements.
Many postures and attitudes are assumed and many movements made that are never called for in life.
Many of these postures resembled those of the modern ballet, and the pirouette delighted an Egyptian party 3,500 years ago.
Amongst the earliest representations that are comprehensible, we have certain Egyptian paintings, and some of these exhibitpostures that evidently had even then a settled meaning, and were a phrase in the sentences of the art.
There is nothing new in the postures illustrated, which may have originated thousands of years ago.
The same custom is also found in Australia, where, however other postures are also adopted.
From the frequency with which they have been adopted by various peoples as national customs, most of the postures in coitus here referred to must be said to come within the normal range of variation.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "postures" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
