Both sides have stepped up their public posturing as lawmakers eye next week's deadline.
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Kelly was posturing as incensed for the benefit of the audience, and it was effective.
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But please don't insult our intelligence by posturing as an innocent purveyor of social benefit.
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It's also not a trendy restaurant posturing as a diner for the sake of nostalgia.
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So, I stopped physically posturing as a man, and I finally gave myself permission to relax my body.
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Much is (rightly) made these days of toxic masculinity and prescriptive male posturing as a system of social control.
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There is nothing about them that is posturing, as if they deserve a viewer's attention for merely being culturally authentic.
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China on Friday warned the U.S. and North Korea to cool their aggressive posturing as tensions rise on the Korean Peninsula.
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I think that is maybe political posturing as maybe the senator is somewhat concerned about how caucus night may go for him.
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The social media use, first of all, would be nothing but familiar; LA is just as full of digital posturing as New York.
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So why aren't promises to save service jobs as much a staple of political posturing as promises to save mining and manufacturing jobs?
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Much of Bloomberg's appeal to people in tech was his posturing as a pro-business moderate — a social liberal who would curb burdensome government regulation.
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The comedian Nick Fraser, a Vine star turned Instagram personality, drapes himself in luxurious robes, do-rags and furs, posturing as a frivolous, opulent character.
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Even amid an era of American politics rife with absurdities, President Donald Trump's posturing as a champion for people with preexisting medical conditions stands out.
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But the Indonesian government was in wait-and-see mode, Kalla said, adding Trump's comments could be seen as posturing as part of his presidential campaign.
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Essentially, Trump is actively working to dismantle HHS and other government agencies that respond to outbreaks like the coronavirus while falsely posturing as their generous benefactor.
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It's part of his broader posturing as a post-Trump populist who sees himself as a defender of the middle of the country against the so-called elite.
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When we as a nation are willing to pay extra so that we can lock people up and rip apart their families, that's gratuitous cruelty posturing as policy.
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He's posturing as an advocate for a long, thorough trial that includes witness testimony, but is not objecting to Senate Republicans stonewalling Democratic efforts to make it happen.
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Sessions is expected to bring a different perspective, given President-elect Donald Trump's dire campaign warnings about crime in America and his posturing as a law-and-order candidate.
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The disconnect underscored the reality that the shutdown has become as much about political posturing as it has about immigration, government funding or the business of running the country.
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In terms of the actual football, supporting Fulham is never going to represent an easy association with success, and accordingly is about as far from tedious posturing as one can possibly get.
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This is the first time the Russian and Philippines navies have officially come into contact, but for Duterte it is just the latest posturing as Philippines relations with the U.S. continue to weaken.
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Originally meant to start Monday, the negotiations were delayed until Friday over "posturing," as U.N. special envoy Staffan de Mistura put it, and a lack of clarity over who would represent the opposition.
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This is the first time the Russian and Philippines navies have officially come into contact, but for Duterte it is just the latest posturing as Philippines relations with the U.S. continue to weaken.
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For all his posturing as a jaded, middle-aged relic of a less-woke time, though, Ellis exudes the same youthful spirit he's always had: of irreverent amusement, quiet irony, indefatigable artistic curiosity.
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And it was also predictable that they would return to deficit posturing as soon as the deed was done, citing the red ink they themselves produced as a reason to cut social spending.
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From his early days as a Social Security reformer to his mid-career posturing as a deficit hawk to his rebranding as a person deeply concerned with poverty, he's been the Jack Abernathy of Congress.
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The president, for all his posturing as a man of humble beginnings, and his promises of change, is a governor's son and the patriarch of a dynasty that retains power through favors and administers justice arbitrarily.
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And yet he is refusing to let reality stop him from posturing as something he clearly isn't — or making empty promises about what will happen if Republicans retake control of the House following this November's elections.
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Posturing as a statesman being undermined at home by amateur politicians, she demanded a clear mandate from the voters to crush her opponents and demonstrate to European leaders that she was backed unequivocally by the British people.
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Star Trek is a franchise that believes in institutions, and it's fascinating to see Picard acknowledge that institutions don't just fail, they can become co-opted entirely while still posturing as a force for the public good.
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Jared Leto's posturing as the Joker in Suicide Squad trailers already seems stale; give McKinnon some green hair dye and lipstick and let her grin like she does here, and she already seems crazier — not to mention more entertaining and appealing.
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Outfitted in the national colors, posturing as they dance around heritage sites, the video for "Tajikistan" by Adaba, Mr. Skap, and Sam Salamov plays out like a tourist board advert, celebrating everything from the national airline to the Tajik soccer team.
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Whatever they may have said, they never actually believed that the tax cut would be deficit-neutral; they pushed for a tax cut because it was what wealthy donors wanted, and because their posturing as deficit hawks was always fraudulent.
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But when I was watching that display of self-aware enthusiasm and posturing as part of a Keanu-inspired revisitation of the series, I had a minor epiphany: there's really no other comedian who approaches fight fandom the way that Jordan Peele does.
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They likely once read to many as gutsy and authentic, but now they read to me as posturing: the boy pretending to be more bad-ass than he knows how to be, and the photographer posturing as the embedded, audacious chronicler of crusty, unconventional ways of being.
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On Pro Football On the last day of a year in which football will be remembered as much for sideline posture — and posturing — as for on-the-field play, there were fewer than 20 N.F.L. players kneeling or sitting for the national anthem, according to reports.
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All of it—the rank reactive cowardice posturing as toughness, the sophistries and cynicism that excuse a constellation of self-serving cruelties great and small, the weakness for any comforting lie over every troubling truth—will still be here when Trump is, once again, a face in the crowd.
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For the third time in a week, the Senate lurched into a morass of parliamentary and political posturing, as Republicans engineered a rare veto override, and Democrats countered with a renewed push for consideration of bills on reproductive rights, leading to several Republican senators to sharply criticize Ms. Hochul's handling of the chamber.
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Wrong, I know the subject well & want victory for U.S. Despite's Trump's posturing as the ultimate "closer," together the reports painted a picture of a disorganized White House, a president without any relevant policy expertise, and a botched attempt from pro-Trump groups to twist arms that had congressional Republicans rolling their eyes.
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Or even to some extent the way of Donald Trump, who is white and technically a Protestant but not, not any kind of WASP, combining instead the worst of meritocratic self-deception (the rich kid with a Wharton degree posturing as a self-made man) and the worst of the populist reaction that it summons up.
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Walton's tirade, which came less than eight minutes into the game, had it all: copious use of the word "motherfucker," a bit of "hold me back" posturing as his own player tried to steer him toward the locker room, a dash of rage-stripping while heading back to the locker room, and a creepy, thousand-yard serial-killer stare reminiscent of Patrick Bateman in American Psycho.
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" The letter continues with blistering criticism of the retail giant's moral shortcomings: "Amazon has a gruesome list of flaws — from worker's rights, environmental impact, enabling xenophobic government agencies, and predatory pricing on all types of products, to the more literary concerns of their overt antagonism towards book shops and indifference towards counterfeit materials — but they still overwhelm us with extreme convenience and occasional posturing as a champion of consumer freedom.
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Balmont's posturing as a political immigrant was ridiculed in Russia at the time, but years later researchers found evidence that the Russian secret police considered the poet a 'dangerous political activist' and tried to spy on him abroad. Balmont returned to Russia only in 1913 after an amnesty on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty was declared.
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"We > always suspected" he writes, "that [Mossadeq] was a British agent, a > suspicion his further posturing as an anti-British nationalist did not > diminish." The British, together with the oil companies and "reactionary > clerics" had engineered the Islamic Revolution in retaliation for his > championing of OPEC and the Palestinian cause. The Palestinians, as well as > the Israelis, would have been surprised to hear that.
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Unlike his debut album, which was solely produced by Marley Marl, Kane himself produced the majority of the album. Production was also provided by Prince Paul, Easy Mo Bee, Teddy Riley, Mister Cee, as well as Marley Marl. In character with his first album and many other albums of the day, It's a Big Daddy Thing branches out into different styles, from battle rhymes to love ballads and more. His later posturing as a self- proclaimed ladies' man is somewhat foreshadowed by the hit song "Smooth Operator".
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He was also emerging as a public critic of recent cultural and artistic trends that he saw as empty, phony, or corrupt. His targets included the fusion and avant-garde movements in jazz (including his own participation in the latter) and works of letters that he saw as hiding their lack of merit behind racial posturing. As a writer for the Voice from 1980 to 1988, he was known for his blunt criticisms of his targets and tendency to excoriate their participants. It was during this period that he became a friend and intellectual mentor to Wynton Marsalis, and an advocate of the neotraditionalist movement that he saw as reviving the core values of jazz.
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Obama attempted to further distance himself from Wright, as he expressed outrage and shock at a press conference on April 29: > I am outraged by the comments that were made and saddened by the spectacle > that we saw yesterday ... The person that I saw yesterday was not the person > that I met 20 years ago. His comments were not only divisive and > destructive, but I believe that they end up giving comfort to those who prey > on hate, and I believe that they do not portray accurately the perspective > of the black church. They certainly don't portray accurately my values and > beliefs. And if Reverend Wright thinks that that's political posturing, as > he put it, then he doesn't know me very well.
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Accessed: July 22, 2013. Film critic Bosley Crowther dismissed suspension of disbelief in his review, "People who picture reporters as dashing young fellows, all named 'Scoop,' whose lives are just rounds of excitement in what such people call the 'newspaper game' will find the ideal of their illusion in the newshawk Alan Ladd plays in Paramount's Chicago Deadline ... But for those other level- headed people whose knowledge of newspaper men—and, indeed, of life in general—is a little more sober and sane, this fancy will surely seem a mish- mosh of two-penny-fiction cliches, recklessly thrown together in an almost unfathomable plot. Flashbacks and narrative descriptions will fascinate them no more than will Mr. Ladd's ridiculous posturing as a brilliant newspaper man-sleuth."Crowther, Bosley.
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In the 1980s the presence of women in rock, and in particular in heavy metal bands, was usually considered by press and fans more for glamour and sexual exploitation than for the musicianship showed. Doro Pesch was one of the few exceptions; her qualities as vocalist and songwriter in Warlock, her commitment in promoting their music and her avoidance of posturing as a sex symbol won the respect of a solid fan base in the expanding European metal scene of that period, ensuring a long string of favorable articles and covers on the principal European metal magazines. In an interview in 2006 Doro remembered how "we lived in paradise and had not noticed it, (...) we thought at the time, that now it goes on and on and the success would continue automatically, (...) then came the great awakening". Warlock were starting to make a solid reputation in the US, when the taste of the audience for classic metal acts shifted in favor of grunge, leaving the singer's mission to conquer the American market incomplete.
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