He approached, posturing himself operatically, with perpetual new verses, rhymes to Danvers, rhymes to Madame Sybille, the cook.
Only the posturing lower natures, on the level of their buskins, can pluck out the pocket-knife of sentimental spite to cut themselves loose from her at heart in earnest.
She saw the murk of smoke and shadow, the light of flicker and flare, the shrilling voice, the posturing figure.
She could see the murk of smoke and shadow, the light of flicker and flare on the circling faces round the shrilling voice or posturing figure of a woman.
He thought this might remind her of the moment when she came out of the little church at Siena and found her daughter posturing to an unknown painter.
For the first few moments it strikes you only as queer, the odd posturing of the garlanded, cross-legged figures, with their weavings and inter-weavings of arms and the rhythmic writhings of the glistening brown bodies.
In no Samoan dance is there anything comparable to the stiff-muscled toe-work and the frozen posturing of the modern French ballet, nor yet anything similar to the frenzied acrobatics of the Russian.
In a flash I saw myself befooled, tricked into playing the patronising amateur, complacently posturing for the derision of gods and men.
She hated singing and only half enjoyed character dancing, but in posturingshe was in her glory.
He had relieved himself, and had attained his object of stripping some self-respect off that man who had inconveniently discovered him posturing in a gold-embroidered court costume before a mirror.
The ladies go through a series of posturing evolutions euphemistically called dances.
There is no posturing and fantastic dancing, but genuine acting.
Then at last a strange figure burst from the forest and came skipping and posturing towards the corpse.
With an unsteady rickety gait the beldame hobbled after her rapidly retreating son, who turned round from time to time, skipping and posturing derisively as if to taunt her, and then hurrying away again westward.
Whether the whinny heard from birds, many of which are posturing on the sand is a modification of the nuptial song or rather a partial reproduction of it, I do not know, but I am inclined to think it is.
There are no songs or aerial displays; no posturing by the male; no mutual ceremonies; no special courtship notes.
The next day the birds from the sea all performed the posturing dance in the air, but did not descend.
The wu dance is a posturing dance for which special, very elaborately embroidered dresses with long streamers are worn.
That broke the spell, he drew himself up, hopped about the tree, flew to a shrub, all the time posturing and jerking wings and tail in extreme excitement and no doubt happiness to the tips of his toes.
In this place he stood posturing in much excitement, and uttering at short intervals his sharp "click.
All this until spring began to stir his blood and tempt him occasionally, after long posturing and many feints, to deliver a gentle dig at a neighbor's ribs.
The dances, composed entirely of posturing and grouping, are most monotonous, and the music is distinctly an unpleasant noise from a European point of view.
Oh, I knew well enough that patience would coax a flame from those twigs without my paper's aid, but to be patient does not afford the posturing which youth loves.
Music (it is called by that name) and posturing fill up the intervals.
Think how hateful it would be to see a hideous old woman posturing and pretending and making eyes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "posturing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: affectation; pose; posing; pretence
