A clueless cad tries to woo a lady with his self-produced song and macho posturing, interpreting her disdain as approval. |
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Nonetheless, there will be lots of jabber about posturing about the value of precedent at the Senate hearings. |
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Now, the Janus-faced posturing of post-Grimond Liberalism is no longer adequate. |
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Much interest lies in how Eggers reinvents the posturing put forth in the hardcover text. |
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I think I've found a yellow streak amidst your red, white, and blue posturing. |
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Whether the posturing turns into something good is a question of whether the culture of pressure on artists lessens. |
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He manages to avoid the revisionist, anti-establishment, overwhelmingly negative posturing. |
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The son seems to have made posturing against his father's accomplishments and beliefs his life's work. |
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The posturing calls in Congress for rollbacks in federal fuel taxes will die out, as will the ad hoc consumer protests. |
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True, I generally don't spend much time in that region of the musical landscape where rootsy earthiness crosses into rock dynamics and posturing. |
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Some of the young stags early in a hunt may turn and stand at bay for short periods as a sort of posturing, as it were, to the hounds. |
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I seem to remember a lot of guys with cheap macho posturing about killing them all and letting God sort them out, and so forth. |
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Top hats and black malacca canes are the visual signature of a show that combines cartoon posturing and a commitment to articulating the text. |
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The writing on the author's UNICEF role is a case in point of this schizoid mixture of the posturing and the pure. |
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Suddenly, tracks such as If I Die Tonight cease to sound like mannered posturing and take on a peculiar prescience. |
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Martha Plimpton at least adds some ballsiness to Claire's preening and posturing. |
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There was yelling and posturing, but no threats of violence or physical contact. |
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Until then, the danger is not Tory shroud-waving or Lib Dem posturing but Labour doubt. |
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Belief and unbelief, so important to the intellectual posturing of modern existence, are innocuous, vacuous terms. |
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Art today is rich in witless posturing, philosophical boilerplate, ostentatious anger, and conventional shock. |
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The president conveyed strength and reassurance and firmness, without bombast, without posturing. |
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Enough of this pseudo-intellectual posturing, these pretentious literary musings! |
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In place of a posturing virile hero, Sayles presents a boozy social recluse, the first in his lowlife parade of outsiders. |
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I will draw a veil over the following three years of delays and denials and posturing and game-playing, although it was no game to me. |
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He loves the posturing and the verbals and considers it all part of his job as a member of the entertainment business. |
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Which means, someone needs to get fired over this, or all apologies and posturing about being responsible are null and void. |
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There's so much macho posturing in this book that it would be campy if there were any humour. |
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The deadpan humour behind their stone-faced radical posturing and deliberately obtuse lyrics were certainly overlooked by many. |
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The report makes it clear that despite the haughty posturing of national security heavyweights, we do not have adults watching the store. |
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It appears that after months of debate and political posturing, none of the four options was chosen. |
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Arianna may have blown her chance for a television career with strident, shrill posturing. |
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You gave yourself away with all your he-man posturing and strident super-patriotism. |
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However, the film does not overindulge in political posturing or preach, and is frequently punctuated by humour. |
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While occasionally posturing as a friend of the working man, Kelly climbed the social ladder and hobnobbed with the rich and powerful. |
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Andalucia is a traditional, rural society where, despite all evidence of macho posturing, the power of the matriarch holds sway. |
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Posturing is in fact all it is, in this case posturing for want of a cogent argument. |
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But I cannot stand the posturing of fanatics of any religious or political group. |
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He has total confidence in his alpha maleness and finds her posturing inconsequential at best. |
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The law firm holiday parties have been blowing and going since mid-month in a near-blizzard of big-bucks spending and legal-eagle posturing. |
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Linking the entertainment industry and violence is misleading, he said, and plays into election-year posturing. |
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Many people were disquieted about the macho posturing about the fire-fighters. |
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In article one, we learned about posturing ourselves wisely to make friends. |
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The film's web site is remarkably preachy, posturing the movie as a landmark in the battle against sexual harassment. |
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The Army Campaign Plan provides the necessary strategic vision and direction to execute today's missions while posturing the Army for the future. |
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Using his early films, like Vinyl, to document dance styles, such as the frug, Warhol records different ways of posturing. |
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In order to make yourself clear, you might be forced into a mime show, gesticulating and posturing dramatically so as to convey your meaning. |
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Generalized tonic seizures may mimic decerebrate and decorticate posturing. |
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She was found to have a reduced level of consciousness, posturing consistent with a decorticate state, and unequal pupils. |
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The terminal illness is characterised by deep coma and decerebrate or decorticate posturing. |
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The patient's condition continued to deteriorate, with decorticate posturing to painful stimuli. |
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This process must proceed with dispatch, without posturing, without grandstanding, without empty words. |
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Insomnia, Nolan's entrance into major studio film-making, was an empty and purposeless work, again, nearly all posturing. |
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A conceited thespian, he treats every introduction as a stage entrance and every conversation is a source of high drama and shameless posturing. |
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There is no hocus-pocus, no aggressive posturing or screaming for effect. |
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I suspect his obstruction of Johnson's appointment due to the abortive toxics study is related more to political posturing than to anyone's health or safety. |
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The limitation is, particularly in female mice, is all you can study is lordosis, or the posturing of the female mouse receptive to male sexual function. |
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Maybe the flummery and camp of our political institutions and our enthusiastic approval of layering and posturing have helped us to achieve our multiculturalism. |
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Astonishingly, no one falls prey to the posturing or preening that haunts most Western conferences. |
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But if you can sift through all of the legal posturing, a fairly accurate portrait of Sterling himself does begin to emerge. |
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Peace was the mission of idealistic youth movements of the 1960s and 1970s, and the cause of peace may even have been hurt by overdone sloganeering and posturing. |
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I wondered if she was posturing herself like that on purpose. |
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Revisionist history and silly displays of pro-feminism posturing, liberal agendas and the whitewashing of historical figures and places has no place in public education. |
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But some are irked by the extensive political posturing around rape, notably survivors and rape-crisis-center workers. |
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The four-lad outfit turned in a stunning thrash metal performance complete with guitar posturing and indecipherable lyrics delivered in a satanic growl. |
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On such occasions, these episodes were usually settled by negotiations in which, after posturing on both sides, the Chinese acquiesced to a modified set of Japanese demands. |
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That would make all of the posturing more like kabuki theater and less like trench warfare. |
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Instead it appeared, at least to some Americans, as if the promise of the United Nations had collapsed in a miasma of bureaucratic inertia and rhetorical posturing. |
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They treated his rantings as a tasteless form of benign political posturing. |
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Luckily for them, the science runs directly against his thoughtless posturing about the importance of children. |
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The show reeks with tension, treachery, and posturing to gain favor. |
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When we worship in the spirit, we are opposed to religious rituals and ceremonial posturing, and to the showiness of the symbols of office, and external worship. |
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I find the only way to challenge the chauvinism, sexism, sexual innuendo and macho posturing there, is to be more rude and more graphic than the guys. |
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Gradually, the patient developed dystonic posturing of limbs and trunks, had difficulty in walking, dysarthria, drooling of saliva with tremor of limbs. |
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One danger of disingenuous posturing is a tendency to overshoot the mark. |
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His highly polished boots and the ivory-handled revolvers strapped to his hips were all part of this posturing, as was the profanity of his language. |
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Please clearly understand that the contents of this correspondence are not open for negotiation or reference to any third party and the company is not posturing. |
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The poem's breathless momentum and brio defy ironical posturing. |
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Ergo, Netanyahu's bellicosity was posturing, intended to put pressure on Washington. |
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They are neither formal nor distant, the button-down shirts open at the collar signaling vulnerability rather than posturing. |
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Unity, when it comes naturally, would be of far more value to the Party and the country as a whole, if it is meaningful and not simply posturing to impress the masses. |
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An active and informed public is the true guardian of freedom and democracy, and the posturing of politicians mere bubble and froth along the way. |
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First, he clumsily inserts nakedly political posturing that seems altogether out-of-place in the context of the High Holy Days. |
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So while some of the kingpins are posing and posturing with flash and flurry, behind the scenes the big debate on the whys and wherefores of possible arrests is going on. |
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He laughs again to show he's not posturing, he's kidding around. |
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But Sciortino cut her teeth in that world of excess irony, cynicism, and posturing. |
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So when Democrats decry money in politics are they really being serious, or are they just posturing? |
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I think that Bob Carr is using you to score political points and any vestigial respect I felt for him has vanished in a puff of political posturing. |
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Gibbs knows the people in the pressroom are posturing before they raise their hands. |
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Political posturing and faux diplomacy may be all we can expect. |
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Instead, this is all about election year posturing for both sides. |
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But actually, of course, that's a lot of deflationary posturing to level an opinion that finally confirms art-world consensus. |
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Such disincentives have left some to interpret the breakdown in talks as last-minute posturing. |
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Those with tonic muscle overactivity producing sustained abnormal posturing were found to be most at risk of adaptive shortening. |
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As in most other mammals, communication among eastern gray squirrel individuals involves both vocalizations and posturing. |
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Guttural grunts and posturing is used with all but the most determined of predators with great effectiveness. |
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She said that the breathing and posturing activate the parasympathetic nervous system and reduce emotional chaos and cognitive dissonance. |
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There was no acting, no posturing, as Ben delivered the news. |
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But that familiar posturing, those staged acts of showmanship, those hissy fits when someone is not on his wavelength are still there. |
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If you're finished posturing in front of the mirror, can I use the bathroom now? |
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After a period of diplomatic posturing and jockeying for position, open warfare broke out. |
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The archaeobotany cannot be ignored and will alarm, and amelioration needs action not political posturing. |
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James Hetfield actually sings here, holding notes with poise without descending into gruff posturing. |
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They, not the worshippers of a discredited, posturing Blackshirt or a Georgian butcher, who must excite our imagination and capture our support. |
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Mussolini is remembered mostly as a second banana to Hitler, a posturing dictator whom the Italians got rid of. |
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No index learning, no tourist's guide, no modish or tautologous postcolonial posturing here. |
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I haven't seen so much posturing since Miss World contestants teetered in front of a microphone to breathily claim all they want is world peace. |
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Decorticate, decerebrate and opisthotonic posturing and seizures in Kenyan children with cerebral malaria. |
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Agonistic behaviour typically occurs between sexually mature males over territory or mates and may involve displays, posturing, chasing, grappling and biting. |
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The stimulus posturing, debating and finagling is now over, a done deal. |
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Dolphins also use nonverbal communication by means of touch and posturing. |
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