Word: poseur
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...Russian liberal class whose hopes for democracy were crushed by triumphant Bolshevism. Scorn for tyrants is etched on many of the pre-World War II Berlin stories, as well as others written during the '40s and '50s after he immigrated to the U.S. And woe to the poseur whose influence is based solely on personality. From Spring in Fialta: "Lean and arrogant, with some poisonous pun ever ready to fork out and quiver at you, and with a strange look of expectancy in his dull brown veiled eyes, this false wag had, I daresay, an irresistible effect on small rodents...
...Belle, a spoiled 18-year-old daughter; Lloyd, a rotten 11-year-old son; and a useless, not-quite-divorced husband. Not all biographers have seen things this way, as McLynn admits, but he is persuasive. Fanny was 40 when they met, 10 years older than R.L.S., an artistic poseur given to spiritualism and hypochondria who tried to cut Stevenson off from his wide circle of literary friends and often acted as censor; she successfully bulldozed him into burning an offensive first draft of Dr. Jekyll...
Kamarei plays Claudius (Galen Weston) as an effete poseur complete with absurdly exagerrated regal costume. His amusing interpretation suceeds thanks to Weston's magnificent mincing. Similarly, Sarah Tuttleton pulls off a fantastic performance as a panting, moaning, breast-rubbing nympho Ophelia...
...Square, a hive of cigarette-filled psuedo-bistros and bullshit conversation, the mug of coffee is no longer an un-self-conscious staple of a social gathering. Instead, it is the dainty focus of 1980s pretention--tiny china thimbles of eight-dollar espresso, or perhaps Ethiopian Harrar for the poseur with an international social conscience...
...weekend Mr. Baker had me drive him to Dorset, Vt., where he was to judge a play competition between one-acters written by former pupils of his. The other judges were poet Alfred Kreyin borg and critic, wit and, in Baker's opinion, arch-poseur, Alexander Woollcott. Just as Mr. Baker had told me he would, Woollcott--even out in the sticks--insisted on holding the curtain 15 minutes, so he could make a dramatic appearance, swooping down the center aisle, complete with opera cloak and gold-topped walking stick...