During intermission, he finds her posing formally for a photograph.
In the photographs - just family photographs, some posed formally, some snapshots - we see the child as the focus of someone's admiration, someone's deep regard.
On the fireplace mantel I have a photograph of the Dursts posed formally on the front porch, hand-feeding their pet deer.
The picture was a head shot, formally posed, that looked to be a couple of years old.
Although he specialized in realistic, intense portrait busts, Davidson did not require his subjects to formally pose for him; rather, he observed and spoke with them.
The overall result indicates a presence both physically and culturally far greater than that posed formally.
You are about to say as much when, snickersnee, Diamond pushes the button and brings up another view of the gate, this time with a group of a dozen or more Westerners posing formally in front of it.
It is "The Statuary," a 1925 neo-classical work in which a female figure poses formally beside a modeling stand on which rests a bust of an elderly man.
We all posed formally in front of bits of furniture, strung together on a high family tree like so many forgotten party balloons caught in the branches.
Posing formally, arm in arm, mocking their own formality.