posture
Example Sentences
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“I can tell you right now with full certainty, we are not postured to, nor do we intend or expect to take any military action in Venezuela at any time.”
From Los Angeles Times
I know that posture, those jeans, that casual cotton shirt.
From Literature
An Onset representative said the fraud committed by Patrick James “is simply staggering” and his “effort to recast himself as a victim and shift blame to Onset is nothing more than factually unsupported posturing.”
The defense-industrial base can surge for a strike; whether it can sustain the posture required to deter, reassure and hold coalitions together is a different question.
Not only do we tend to mirror each other’s movements, postures, facial expressions and gestures; we also uncannily sync up our heart rates, blood pressure, pupil dilation and hormonal activity.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
