| Poet and poseur he was, the strangest combination ever seen in man. |
| During these four years, he distinguished himself not only as a Classical scholar, a poseur, and a wit but also as a poet by winning the coveted Newdigate Prize in 1878 with a long poem, Ravenna. |
| In reality, however, he may be little more than an adroit poseur who has successfully exploited the decadence of late modernist vanguardism to his own advantage. |
| He is a sort of repetitive poseur who takes pleasure in a set ritual. |
| More important, Wells presents the data that make the case that Ellsberg is a mythomaniac and a poseur. |
| When she finds that her Albrecht is a poseur, actually betrothed to a princess, she goes mad and dies. |
