Synonyms:
position, posture, attitude
Meaning: the arrangement of the body and its limbs; "he assumed an attitude of surrender"
Synonyms:
carriage, bearing, posture
Meaning: characteristic way of bearing one's body; "stood with good posture"
Usage examples
I launched out in this posture, and rowed towards the ship.
Helen Mayle was still asleep, and she had not moved from her posture.
Sociologically speaking...." She stopped and looked at Brion's straight back and almost rigid posture.
But the change of posture had permitted Duncan to exchange glances with the firm and piercing eyes of Uncas.
He slept sitting, with his head bowed between his knees, and, indeed, in this posture he passed most of his time.
And as I gazing round me come among them, Upon a yellow pouch I azure saw That had the face and posture of a lion.
And one by one dropped the revellers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall.
The parliament, in order to repair their broken condition, and put themselves in a posture of defence, now exerted to the utmost their power and authority.
Fortunately, the lad gripped the pommel with his right hand as he felt himself going, and little by little he pulled himself once more to an upright posture.
A premium is put on physical quietude; on silence, on rigid uniformity of posture and movement; upon a machine-like simulation of the attitudes of intelligent interest.