Roy H. Williams

Have you heard of this new thing called the internet? It's giving people new expectations. It's allowing them to become their own expert. Knowledge lies anxious at their fingertips. Gloss over the truth in your advertising and you'll quickly be dismissed as a poser.

American Businessman

Peter Criss

Musicians play music because you love... I loved to play drums since I was five. It's all I ever wanted to do. Rock stars, or as we call them, posers, guys who want to just look great, dress great. They're not musicians; they're looking for the fame.

American Musician

Mark Helprin

If Shakespeare thought comedy worthwhile, that means the rest of us can take a break from tragedy now and then without betraying our calling, even if the modern professional intellectual, a poseur by nature, has yet to discover this.

American Novelist

John Mayer

Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being a poseur by selling out and playing blues music, but that's just not going to happen in my lifetime.

Samara Weaving

You have to go with it and be a bit of a poser on photoshoots. You're embarrassed at first, but you just have to deal with it.

Australian Actress

Andy Biersack

As you get older, you realize you're not that cool. You also realize the people you called posers are just people like you.

Abbey Clancy

I've always been a bit of a poser. I was chucked out of ballet lessons for looking in the mirror.

British Model

Billy Corgan

I was part of a generation that changed the world, and it was taken over by posers.

Dhani Harrison

I'm still getting used to being called a composer. A poseur, maybe.

English Musician

Shenaz Treasury

American Actress

The term 'poser' often bears a negative connotation in youth subcultures, particularly in the music scene.

Cultural Context

Calling someone a 'poser' suggests they are not genuine, and can be quite insulting.

Social Perception

Some posers can be convincing, using specific jargon or clothes, but lack authentic knowledge or skill.

Not Always Obvious

When 'poser' refers to a problem, it implies an intellectual challenge that requires thought.

Intellectual Challenge

Look for context clues like 'problem' or 'challenge' to understand 'poser' in the sense of a tough question.

Context Clues

This definition of 'poser' is less common and can sound old-fashioned or literary.

Rare Usage

 all the high-power posers. "We don't want to hire these people. We also evaluate these people much more positively overall." But what's driving it? It's not about the content of the speech. It's about the presence that they're bringing to the speech. Because we rate them on all these variables

Your body language may...

 it chatter so he's hidden a little bits at the moment he was up in a tree and came pounding down as we gotcha and then darling to the grass wait he's now lying completely obscured so I'm horse on I like normally he's a little poser and his look likes to stay up and

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