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the tough poses and attitudinizing". Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote "Though its story elements are all too easily reduced to a simple outline,...

to Rocky. Vincent Canby of The New York Times (who, ironically, had written one of the harshest reviews of Rocky) called it "a phony, attitudinizing,...

it would be reasonable to expect that his life would be reviewed with fresh empathy. But no; the same malignant attitudinizing that might have been applied...

1915–1967 (1968), and the posthumously published Late Poems: 1968-1993 Attitudinizings Verse-wise, While Fending for One's Selph, and in a Style Somewhat...

arbitrary, attitudinizing piece of claptrap." In time, however, Petulia developed a passionate cult following, and many critics and writers came to see it...

a flower or attitudinize like Patience on a monument, she is grief from the first stricken bewildered gropings of her head and torso to the last moment...

and empty of quality, and her gestures of shock and frustration are attitudinized. Crowther is no more charitable towards Gene Kelly, who "performs her...

violence to make its impress. Unfortunately, this heightens the synthetic flavor of the picture and accounts in large measure for the attitudinized nature...

here worth reading, if you can put up with the silly I'm-such-a-rebel attitudinizing that taints the whole project". The book received the Firecracker Alternative...

describing The Brothers Karamazov as "anti-artistic, superficial, attitudinizing, irrelevant to the great problems" and said the dialog was ""impossible, completely...

the book "has intelligent things to say", its "historical virtues are compromised by more adjectival attitudinizing than a chronicler of history should...

time-honored conventionalisms are given up there. Mouthing, ranting, and attitudinizing are not in vogue; and men and women appear and act as such, and represent...