attempts to impress others by assuming a
particular attitude,
character or manner. He
acts the part of a snob in his long-tailed coat and his flowing
gestures and his poseurs with his hands over the keyboard and all that sort of thing.
attempts to impress others by assuming or affecting a manner, degree of elegance, sentiment, etc., other than one's own. He
acts the part of a snob in his long-tailed coat and his flowing
gestures and his poseurs with his hands over the keyboard and all that sort of thing.
- Studying Data Assimilation (9 July 64) n. certain
gestures or
fixed or held
postures, especially those assumed for artistic effects or
purposes. Poseurs is a variation of the
word poseur, a person who attempts to impress others by deliberately assuming an affected mental or social
attitude and manner; one who is affected and insincere in his actions.
attempts to impress others by assuming or affecting a manner, degree of elegance, sentiment, etc., other than one's own.