The figure in the picture, standing with uplifted glass and drunken pose at the head of the tablewith bestial, lust-worn face, disease-shrunken limbs, and dying, licentious eyes fixed upon the beautiful girl musicianmight easily have been Mr. Taine himself.

He had a thin, lined face; his shoulders were bent, and his pose was slack.

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.

His pose was that he didn't care, and Johan's counter-pose was that he didn't know what Keith was driving at.