attitudinize

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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

Fascism also arrived in the form of apparent buffoons: Adolf Hitler, shabby and sullen, and Benito Mussolini, whose almost desperate displays of masculinity struck many non-Italians, including one foreign journalist, as “absurd attitudinizing.”

From Washington Post

But those two pieces, each insubstantial while laden with surface attitudinizing, occurred before the intermission.

From New York Times

The play sustains this tongue-in-cheek attitudinizing almost until the end.

From New York Times

“All we get is fatuous attitudinizing about how ambition, success and money always lead to rack and ruin,” Mr. Rich wrote.

From New York Times