Attitudinised

The elegant Sparkins attitudinised with admirable effect, until the family had crossed the room. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The signing and so forth were completed; the prisoner, unbound, stood between two watchful guards, who attitudinised as though ready to pounce and grapple him upon the least movement. ❋ Perceval Gibbon (1902)

When he rent chains, and poised prodigious weights above his head, she thrilled at his prowess, but the next time he attitudinised in the tiger-skin she turned up her nose. ❋ Leonard Merrick (1901)

Tres hyemes quater attigerat, and the whole history of the martyrdom is attitudinised and bedizened in the same fashion. ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)

It used to be my ambition to be described as a "tall, slim girl," and now I turned, and twisted, and attitudinised before that glass, and, honestly, that was just exactly what I looked! ❋ George De Horne Vaizey (1887)

Now he pirouetted like Paul, and now he attitudinised like Albert; and now Miss Fane eclipsed all his exertions by her inimitable imitations of Ronzi ❋ Benjamin Disraeli (1842)

Yet the repeated soprano riff, the electronica, the discord and assumed assurance all betray a sound of the insecure, the attitudinised and the vulnerable, the persona of power stuffed with emptiness. ❋ Unknown (2008)