attitudinize

In fact, because of a psychological predisposition, he was bound to arrive at the functionally desirable result, yet because he had to “attitudinize to himself,” he “wast[ed] time, proceed[ed] unnecessarily by indirection, and burn[t] up his energies needlessly.”

Pound at Large and at Bay Dan Ernst 2008

In fact, because of a psychological predisposition, he was bound to arrive at the functionally desirable result, yet because he had to “attitudinize to himself,” he “wast[ed] time, proceed[ed] unnecessarily by indirection, and burn[t] up his energies needlessly.”

Archive 2008-09-01 Mary L. Dudziak 2008

Here and there a more or less circular space has been swept clear, and on each space a batch of skaters whirl and attitudinize, the uncleared interspaces of snow-covered, impracticable ice given up to miscellaneous loafers.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 Various

"What a burst of eloquence!" exclaimed Frank, who, on the first sound of the kingly voice, had begun to attitudinize; while Trevannion gazed on his friend with a quiet, gentlemanly air of inquiry, that was not to be put out of countenance by any circumstance how ludicrous soever,

Louis' School Days A Story for Boys

We are compelled to let several English sailors pass before us, decked out in their white drill clothes, fresh, fat, and pink, like little sugar figures, who attitudinize in a sheepish manner around the shafts of the columns.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

In the same church I had the misfortune to see in the boxes a pair of horrible mummies, decked off with robes and ornaments -- a count of Nassau-Saarwerden and his daughter, according to the custodian -- an unhappy pair who, having escaped our common doom of corruption by some physical aridity or meagreness, have been compelled to leave their tombs and attitudinize as works of art.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 Various

Thus the newspaper man, wearily certain that regardless of what he asks or how he asks it, he will hear for answers only the clumsy asininities behind which the personalities, leaders and sacred white cows pompously attitudinize, gets so that he mumbles a bit incoherently.

A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago Ben Hecht 1929

She was very corseted, very mannered, and quick to attitudinize.

Star-Dust Fannie Hurst 1928

A bird seldom sings when watched, and Nature is no coquette, and will not ogle and attitudinize when stared at.

Our Friend John Burroughs Barrus, Clara, 1864-1931 1914

Effeminacy, softness, and caprice attitudinize before us.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913