65 adjectives to describe poses

Or does long standing in the "Position of a Soldier" (vide "Tactics" for a view of that graceful pose) increase a man's capacity for bread and beef so enormously?

His figure, manner, and habitual poses proved that he was a scion of a noble family, and that his early education had been based on aristocratic traditions.

Your life is nothing but a succession of posesshallow, foolish poses meant to hoodwink the world and at times yourself.

She felt the necessity of being adorable, of falling into an artistic pose as though she were on a stage.

Clever, good-looking, versatile, imperious, fond of the romantic pose, Wilhelm was exactly the hero in shining armour that would capture the enthusiasm of this innocent people.

As she reached her climax he had come out of his languid pose.

Osborn's muscles relaxed and he sank back into his limp pose.

In the whole expanse, no movement came but when a distant bird, leaving his philosophic pose, plunged downward after a fish.

The Romans were intensely dignified and wore the toga, pallium and tunic; the Antiochenes affected to think dignity was stupid and its trappings (forbidden to them) hideous; so they carried the contrary pose to extremes.

She was a girl of the lowest class, hardly clad in black rags, and there she lay with hanging jaw, in a very crooked and awkward pose, a jemmy at her feet, in her left hand a roll of bank-notes, and in her lap three watches.

There was something very becoming in her passion, in the defiant pose of her dainty head, and the magnificent scorn with which she glanced at her rival.

Reduced to its elements, such nonsense turns out the absurd pose of the theorist desperate to épater le bourgeois or to cover up hidden defects in his or her make-up.

She tried holding her nose and breathing with her mouth, but that was hardly a dignified pose for the Queen of all Oz.

The head, considered in its three direct poses, presents three conditions or states.

He would pay He straightened, put his enormous hand upon his chest, elbow out, and took a dramatic pose of the head.

All the afternoon he strove with her sweet gentleness and exaggerated consideration for him; he tried to make her see that there was no necessity for this elaborate pose and pretense.

But every few minutes he springs up into the air to the height of twenty or thirty feet, the white wings flashing in contrast to the black body, screams and gyrates, and then instantly returns to his former post and resumes his erect pose of waiting.

" He flopped down on his knees in an exaggerated pose of humility, and put up his hands first to me and then to Lillian.

There was no false pose, no romance here.

The packet consisted of four note-books, quite crowded throughout with those giddy shapes of Pitman's shorthand, whose ensemble so resembles startled swarms hovering in flighty poses on the wing.

It is of Jeanne d'Arc, and I only regret that the photograph I took of it is too small to show its fire and spirit and the mad rush of the horse, and the glorious, generous pose of the noble martyr's outstretched arms, as she seems to be in the act of sacrificing her life to her country.

I think a real genuine pose often makes a man do better work in the world than if he was drearily conscious of failure.

It is of Jeanne d'Arc, and I only regret that the photograph I took of it is too small to show its fire and spirit and the mad rush of the horse, and the glorious, generous pose of the noble martyr's outstretched arms, as she seems to be in the act of sacrificing her life to her country.

I like people to be a little redundant, and a harmless pose is pure redundancy: it only means that a man is up to some innocent game or other, some sort of mystification, and is enjoying himself.

In the "Adoration of the Magi," carved upon his Pisan pulpit, Madonna assumes the haughty pose of Theseus' wife; while the high priest, in the "Circumcision," displays the majesty of Dionysus leaning on the neck of Ampelus.

65 adjectives to describe  poses