attitudinize

They never do anything that I can see, except attitudinize.

From The Jonathan Papers by Elisabeth Woodbridge Morris

He was compelled the while to attitudinize incessantly as a genius.

From Art in England Notes and Studies by Dutton Cook

When I went in it seemed to me that he was inclined to attitudinize in the orthodox pose of a statesman, and I felt that he was not himself.

From Forty Years of 'Spy' by Leslie Ward

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 A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) by Mrs. Sutherland Orr

A jay would alight in the entrance of the hole, and flirt and peer and attitudinize, and then fly away crying "Thief, thief, thief," at the top of his voice.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 by Charles Dudley Warner

While two yellow-robed girls stood sentry-like at each side of the chancel, Miss Schirmer postured, gestured and attitudinized.

From Time Magazine Archive

Fountains that tossed up coloratura bubbles of sheerest aria and a sort of Greek frieze of youth attitudinized toward herself.

From Star-Dust by Fannie Hurst

While the bombardment was going on at Avron he exposed himself freely to the fire, but instead of superintending the operations he attitudinized and made speeches.

From Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris by Henry Labouchere

They attitudinized also, with a kind of childish poetry that did not quite convince, for the fountain rained on them, and some of them shivered as cold gouts of water smote their shoulder-blades.

From We Can't Have Everything by Rupert Hughes

He received occasional assistance from his companions, who struck up choruses or attitudinized with mirthful effect.

From The Man with the Book or, The Bible Among the People. by John Matthias Weylland

With deft tonal shifts and acrobatic attitudinizing, Pinchot charges in at a pace rather fast for audiobook narration, but perfectly matching Kidd’s hyperkinetic prose.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 7, 2022

With all its spinning and attitudinizing to a jazz track by Wynton Marsalis, it can seem like simple release.

From New York Times ● Jun. 24, 2021

Dixon’s direction of the white actors’ performances exposes the dual meaning of the term “bad actors”: the officials’ fat-cat presumptions and facile attitudinizing are mocked in the characters’ exaggerated B-movie cadences.

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 20, 2018

Wars in Liberia, Nigeria, Afghanistan and Libya — the world's open wounds — were vocation destinations for this English photojournalist, whose pictures had the impact of stark truth stripped of political attitudinizing.

From Time ● Apr. 21, 2011

Guynemer was living his life in perfect confidence, feeling no personal ambition, not inclined to enjoy honors more than work, ignoring all affectation or attitudinizing, never politic, and naturally unconscious of his own simplicity.

From Georges Guynemer Knight of the Air by Louise Morgan Sill