Ballerinas' poses

Usage examples of attitudes.

Imagine it: Those rigid, shock-headed figures, with corpsy complexions and fish glass eyes, occupying one side of the table in the constrained attitudes and dead fixedness that distinguish all men that are born of wax, and this wrinkled, smoldering old fire-eater occupying the other side, mumbling her prayers and munching her sausages in the ghostly stillness and shadowy indistinctness of a winter twilight.

Claudine found it difficult to define in a single word, which further confused her: irritated her professionally, because professionally she was supposed to be able to analyse attitudes and behaviour and give them a name-tag.

Poland in 1939 ended one epoch as surely as the great slump of 1931 ended another -- one can look back and see more clearly than was possible a few years ago the way in which literary attitudes are affected by external events.

He it is who punctures your fine attitudes and urges you to look after Number One, to be unfaithful to your wife, to bilk your debts, and so on and so forth.

Because, rightly hating violence, they do not wish to recognize that it is integral to modern society and that their own fine feelings and noble attitudes are all the fruit of injustice backed up by force.

Both attitudes have their advantages, but Kipling was never able to move forward from one into the other.

The life of an English gentleman and the moral attitudes of a saint can be enjoyed simultaneously.

Nearly everybody was abroad, chatting, singing, romping, or massed in lazy comfortable attitudes in the doorways.

He moved from his distant place, and threw himself in one of his usual careless attitudes on a nearer chair.

Dushau-shipboard Sentients, or Dushau attitudes toward Allegiancy law.

But every one of those Oriental worlds was already committed to its own style of mythological thought, and the objective, realistic, inquisitive, and experimental attitudes and methods of the Greeks were let go.

They resemble in their dress and attitudes, furthermore, the shamans of our later primitive tribes, and were undoubtedly associated with rituals of the hunt and of initiation.