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Stance   Listen
noun
Stance  n.  
1.
A stanza. (Obs.)
2.
A station; a position; a site. (Scot.)
3.
(Golf, Baseball) The position of a player's feet, relative to each other and to the ball, when he is making a stroke or at bat.
4.
The mental attitude, position, or approach a person adopts in respect to something.





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"Stance" Quotes from Famous Books



... the world sprang to their feet and proffered their seats with due observance of form. Unfortunately, the laborer, being unacquainted with the code of neckties and tallyhos, failed to follow their example, and one young lady was left at an embarrassed stance. Fourteen eyes glared reproachfully at the barbarian; seven lips curled slightly; but the object of scorn stared stolidly into the foreground in sturdy unconsciousness of his despicable conduct. Samuel was the most violently affected. He was humiliated that any male should so conduct ...
— Flappers and Philosophers • F. Scott Fitzgerald
... after impressive preliminaries that should have intimidated any golf ball, far but not straight. After his shot he lectured instructively upon its faults. When he had done they knew why he had sliced into the miry fen on the right. Then with an expert eye he studied his brother's stance and swing. The ball of Wilbur went low and straight and far, but the shot was prefaced, apparently, by no nice adjustment of the feet or by any preliminary ...
— The Wrong Twin • Harry Leon Wilson
... and acted. When all the ungrateful sons and daughters had gone to a preaching, the old man went to a green knoll where his grandchildren were at play, and pretending to hide, he turned up a flat hearthstone in an old stance,[86] and went out of sight. He spread out his gold on a big stone in the sunlight, and he muttered, "Ye are mouldy, ye are hoary, ye will be better for the sun." The grandchildren came sneaking over the ...
— Folklore as an Historical Science • George Laurence Gomme
... which partly shut off the view of it from the direction of our cave. The place was perfect for my purpose, for between the boulder and the wall of the tower was a narrow gap, through which I could hear all that passed on the platform. I found a stance where I could rest in comfort and keep an eye through the crack ...
— Mr. Standfast • John Buchan
... notches. According to the author he had been in his youth a fine bat, but this statement has been cruelly discredited by the artist who illustrated the book, and who placed the gentleman in an attitude (or 'stance,' as they say now), and gave him a grip on the handle, from which nothing but ridicule and disaster could result. Mr. Bedford is not like this. Mr. Bedford is one of those rare artists who ...
— Forgotten Tales of Long Ago • E. V. Lucas


Words linked to "Stance" :   attention, viewpoint, erectness, mental attitude, posture, point of view, attitude, address, standpoint


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