Word: poseur
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...SPLENDID POSEUR (310 pp.)-M. M. Marberry-CrowelI...
Biographer Marberry wastes no time shoring up this literary rubble. Instead, he focuses on the flamboyant poseur who fashioned it, a man with the instincts of Barnum, the imagination of Munchausen, and the verbal aplomb of W. C. Fields...
...Lawrence said of it: "If it is the book of a demon, as ... contemporaries said, it is the book of a man demon, not of a mere poseur. And if some of it is caviar, at least it came out of the belly of a live fish." This week, for the first time in 27 years, one of the major literary curiosities of modern times was reissued on the U.S. literary counter. Hadrian the Seventh might seem caviar to some, to others only a mess of purple eggs laid by a very odd fish indeed. To all, however, it offers...
...vigorous wit is not reserved for public occasions. Indeed, all his personal and artistic quiddities are backed by a natural robustness of temperament which smacks of his native Lancashire, still strongly accented in his speech. With a roving eye, an eloquent eyebrow and the general air of a grand poseur in the Edwardian manner, he is a brilliant and exhilarating after-dinner speaker. ("Winston and I are the two best speakers in England!") On his 70th birthday, he announced that all his exhibitionisms to date were merely "the overture" to what he intended to be "a deadly, unstoppable and indefatigable...
...into this hand, so unmistakably the limp and clammy hand of an effeminate curate, that little boys were to put theirs trustingly .. . This was the pietistic poseur-the very spit of every disgusting little 'teacher's pet' . . . that we were to take as the earthly evidence of what The Everlasting God is like...