0 behaviour or speech that is intended to attract attention and interest, or to make people believe something that is not true:
His writing has been dismissed as mere intellectual posturing.
She rejects his posturing and quickly moves to the next day's nuptial arrangements.
In the first instance, evidence reveals that 'ethical posturing' emits signals capable of acknowledging intrinsic motivation.
In general, however, boundary dispute posturing had many facets whereby that process's village identity production mechanism was not always so evident.
What enables this is an attitude of playfulness: more precisely, of playing at, of posturing: a ludic stance that creates ironic distance from the real.
As a result of guaranteed stalemate, both sides freely played the political game of rhetoric, symbols, and public posturing.
This has given a whole new dimension to sectarian posturing.
No catatonic patient was able to give an account of the position in which he kept his limbs, thus remaining unaware of posturing.
Posturing can occur in limbs ("classic posturing"), head ("psychic pillow"), and eyes ("staring").
