Here and there a more or less circular space has been swept clear, and on each space a batch of skaters whirl and attitudinize, the uncleared interspaces of snow-covered, impracticable ice given up to miscellaneous loafers. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873] Reference
We are compelled to let several English sailors pass before us, decked out in their white drill clothes, fresh, fat, and pink, like little sugar figures, who attitudinize in a sheepish manner around the shafts of the columns. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
"What a burst of eloquence!" exclaimed Frank, who, on the first sound of the kingly voice, had begun to attitudinize; while Trevannion gazed on his friend with a quiet, gentlemanly air of inquiry, that was not to be put out of countenance by any circumstance how ludicrous soever. From Wordnik.com. [Louis' School Days A Story for Boys] Reference
Effeminacy, softness, and caprice attitudinize before us. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock] Reference
She was very corseted, very mannered, and quick to attitudinize. From Wordnik.com. [Star-Dust] Reference
He was compelled the while to attitudinize incessantly as a genius. From Wordnik.com. [Art in England Notes and Studies] Reference
A bird seldom sings when watched, and Nature is no coquette, and will not ogle and attitudinize when stared at. From Wordnik.com. [Our Friend John Burroughs]
One of the rare women who never pout or attitudinize, she could fling her glove gracefully -- one might add, capturingly under every aspect, she was a handsome belligerent. From Wordnik.com. [The Amazing Marriage — Complete] Reference
The cause requires a youth to "stalk, and bustle, and attitudinize;" and he clearly thinks this is all the youth before him wants to do, whether conscious of the fact or not. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)] Reference
Then we have to let several English sailors pass before us, decked out in their white drill clothes, fresh, fat and pink like little sugar figures, who attitudinize in a sheepish manner round the shafts of the columns. From Wordnik.com. [Madame Chrysantheme] Reference
They can call up the figure of a friend and make it sit on a chair or stand up at will; they can make it turn round and attitudinize in any way, as by mounting it on a bicycle or compelling it to perform gymnastic feats on a trapeze. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.] Reference
Thus the newspaper man, wearily certain that regardless of what he asks or how he asks it, he will hear for answers only the clumsy asininities behind which the personalities, leaders and sacred white cows pompously attitudinize, gets so that he mumbles a bit incoherently. From Wordnik.com. [A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago] Reference
I have seen the goats on Mount Pentelicus scatter at the approach of a stranger, climb to the sharp points of projecting rocks, and attitudinize in the most self-conscious manner, striking at once those picturesque postures against the sky with which Oriental pictures have made us and them familiar. From Wordnik.com. [In the Wilderness] Reference
Educated, when educated at all, at third and fourth-rate seminaries, where they imbibe a smattering knowledge of Greek and Latin, with the slenderest possible amount of the humanities, they yet fancy that they are cultivated in the highest degree, and strut and attitudinize equal to our Western Congressmen, evincing as much pride and self-importance as any English. From Wordnik.com. [Social relations in our Southern States,] Reference
"proverbs," to attitudinize, to produce a "sensation" -- all these are purposes of ambition in foreign circles. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843] Reference
He is afraid of the commonplace; he won't face it; and the revenge life takes on people who do that, people who are really afraid, people who attitudinize, is to infect them in some subtle, mocking way with the very thing they are trying to escape. ". From Wordnik.com. [A Fountain Sealed] Reference
Nine times out of ten they can neither tie a string nor fasten a button with ordinary deftness, for they have a trick of using only the ends of their fingers when they do anything with their hands, as being more graceful, and altogether fitting in better than would a firmer grasp with the delicate womanliness of the character; and the less sweet and more commonplace woman who does not attitudinize morally, and never parades her womanliness, beats them out of the field for real helpfulness, and is the Charity which the other only plays at being. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868)] Reference
How we all attitudinize to ourselves!. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Elsmere] Reference
attitudinize. From Wordnik.com. [Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day] Reference
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