The difficulty with avant-garde writers of any generation is that to succeeding generations they can appear rather stilted, self-conscious poseurs or just silly. |
She is the only really strange figure in this group of poseurs. |
Gardner turned to defending reason and science from an onslaught of fads, fallacies, charlatans and poseurs. |
While the politics of the event will be childish, at least the music on offer will be immeasurably better than the '80s new-wave poseurs who dominated Live Aid. |
It was a wonderful time of peace and diversity, where punks, poseurs, happy shiny couples and twitchy loners and could coexist long enough to gobble pancakes. |
But those days are gone, along with some of the models favored by poseurs. |