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attitudinize
(redirected from attitudinising)

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at·ti·tu·di·nize  (t-tdn-z, -tyd-)
intr.v. at·ti·tu·di·nized, at·ti·tu·di·niz·ing, at·ti·tu·di·niz·es
To assume an affected attitude; posture.
attitudinize, attitudinise [ˌætɪˈtjuːdɪˌnaɪz]
vb
(intr) to adopt a pose or opinion for effect; strike an attitude
attitudinizer , attitudiniser n
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Verb1.attitudinize - assume certain affected attitudesattitudinize - assume certain affected attitudes    
attitudinise
posture, pose - behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others; "Don't pay any attention to him--he is always posing to impress his peers!"; "She postured and made a total fool of herself"
Translations
attitudinize [ˌætɪˈtjuːdɪnaɪz] VI → tomar posturas afectadas or teatrales
attitudinize
vi → so tun, als ob, posieren (geh)
attitudinize [ˌætɪˈtjuːdɪnaɪz] vi → posare, assumere un'aria affettata
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For all his attitudinising as a tribune of distant masses and "the other," the truth was that Rushdie was in his heart and mind entirely a man of the West -- a truth he unwittingly demonstrated.
The Rushdie Affair and Reflections on a Fatwa by Khaleej Times (Dubai, United Arab Emirates)
So, the overall conclusion that Windschuttle is obliged to draw, is that the main body of the attitudinising of the New Historians concerning the history, origins and motivations of the White Australia Policy and the tendentious conclusions which they have drawn and insistently disseminated, is fallacious and professionally incompetent.
Keith Windschuttle on White Australia by Teichmann, Max / National Observer - Australia and World Affairs
The very faults of the picture are characteristic of Giorgione, to whom a chromatic glow was everything: the thick rotundity of the adultress; the cryptic and even clumsy attitudinising, repeated elsewhere in his work, as in The Concert in the Louvre.
Picture galleries outside London by Bruce, Donald / Contemporary Review
 
 
 
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