Example sentences for: posturing

How can you use “posturing” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • They don't drool or wear their shirts backward, but they do expend insane amounts of energy on ridiculous "politics," dissipating most of it through meaningless infighting and petty posturing.

  • As a youth, he evidently fantasized about living in London's "swinging" '60s, portrayed in movies as an era when ugly, posturing little guys could routinely make it with long-haired, short-skirted hippie chicks who'd dance ecstatically while the camera zooms in and out.

  • Directed by Larry and Andy Wachowski, it's a mishmash of Hong Kong sword-fighting ghost epics, Kafkaesque virtual reality fantasies, Cronenbergian visions of cybernetically enhanced flesh, Alice in Wonderland surrealism, post-apocalyptic urban grunge, Terminator -like battles of man vs. machine, and portentous lumpen-Zen posturing ("I can only show you the door.

  • The problem with all this is that posturing about Southern "truckstop/trailer park chic" can sometimes be little more than that--posturing.

  • Sometimes I'm amused by all the religious posturing, and sometimes I'm quite discouraged.


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