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Take a quick look at the strength in posing from some Chuck Jones drawings:
(source: “Chuck Reducks”)

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Not only do they have amazingly clear silhouettes, wonderful line of action, and incredible sense of movement, but they also convey emotion.

Note how in the “confident swagger” and “egotistical trot” the upper body is rotated backwards and puffed out.  It’s not a coincidence.  His choice of adjectives, confident and egotistical, both indicate an inflated sense of self – which is exactly what I read from those two drawings.  That’s not to say that the descriptions are perfect; because given those two drawings with no captions I would not be able to tell you that one was ‘egotistical.’  That said, however, I still find them incredibly appealing, and they are two totally different ways to indicate that ‘inflated sense of self’ he was going for.

I have also entirely fallen in love with that last pose.  The “irresistible all-out gallop” is really fun;  the facial expression is great, the forces are awesome, and for an upright character – he is COMPLETELY HORIZONTAL!