Dignified admission that one’s putting on an act?

Usage examples of imposing.

Donhauser, imposing in her elegant yet practical satin jumpsuit, was the Anabaptist envoy to our Hope Nation colony.

Spanish moss from the pillared veranda of an antebellum mansion by an imposing liveried black, the sun gleaming on the strong lineaments of his brow arching disdainfully as a decrepit horse and buggy bearing an aging woman and a handsome intense young man standing to snap his whip imperiously came close for an exchange of unheard words to be pointed scornfully on their way, glimpsed from behind a curtain by a ravishingly beautiful young woman in negligee in their retreat back down the drive.

Spanish moss from the pillared veranda of an antebellum mansion by an imposing liveried black there he is!

Medium height, thick build which might show overweight but for the superb cut of his uniform, Beaumont made an imposing figure.

Towering over the seated Staff, he was an imposing figure in his bemedalled dress uniform, and his voice was imperious.

Indeed, Gragg was physically taller and more imposing than Burkitt, with wide shoulders and a blocky head that seemed to fit seamlessly onto his shoulders without benefit of neck.

The church steeple and the Chilian flag gleamed for an instant among the trees, and then the strait wound on between huge granitic masses which had an imposing effect.

Stone Dances on their way, and on the third day they came in the evening to a village that rested some five hundred paces away from the largest and most imposing of the Stone Dances they had yet encountered.

The mountains--the Bavarian Alps, from what Dominick had told her--filled the horizon with their imposing mass.

Soon after arriving at the Pentagon, Rumsfeld met with General Hugh Shelton, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a former Special Operations Forces commander and an imposing physical presence.

Small cherry wood tables, a pair of fruitwood tub chairs cushioned in brown, an imposing secretary in Russian birch, a black and white Portuguese needlepoint rug, recessed lighting, bunches of fluffy white chrysanthemums, and an assemblage of both modern and ancient statuary created a portrait of a man appreciative of the past, but not so overawed as to dismiss the accomplishments of the present.

A little glamourie to let it look important and imposing, but not too important or imposing, of course.

I expected someone imposing, as if all his wealth and power would be manifest in a physical form sculpted from bronze, but Hannover turned out to be amazingly ordinary: short and paunchy with a receding hairline, skin the color of a mushroom, wispy fine hair, eyes glazed into a dull stare.

A gargantuan holoportrait of him hanging in the vast echoing front court stared down at Leyytey as she was shown through the imposing polished heartwood double doors.

But the Judaizing party bore a heavy preponderance in the early Church, and has succeeded unto this day in imposing on ecclesiastical Christendom its own test: namely, a sound dogmatic, belief in the supreme personal rank and office of Christ, as the only means of admission to the kingdom of heaven.