I thought of a similar example to you for big-low-status, but I couldn’t think of an example I was happy with for small-high-status. Every example I could think of was one where someone is visually small, but you already know they’re high status. So I was struck when your example also used someone we all know is high status! Is there a pose or way of looking which both looks small and communicates high status, without relying on some obvious marker like a badge or a crown?
Buckley is interesting in this regard. If you watch old Firing Line episodes you often see him slouched in his armchair like a rag doll casually tossed onto it, mumbling his words, trying to let his interlocutors have their say, but very very confident that you will listen to him and regard him as a Serious Public Intellectual anyway.
See my response to PeterBorah above—the main thing that comes to mind for me is how overall comfortable you seem with the situation. Agree with Benquo’s comment as well.
I thought of a similar example to you for big-low-status, but I couldn’t think of an example I was happy with for small-high-status. Every example I could think of was one where someone is visually small, but you already know they’re high status. So I was struck when your example also used someone we all know is high status! Is there a pose or way of looking which both looks small and communicates high status, without relying on some obvious marker like a badge or a crown?
Buckley is interesting in this regard. If you watch old Firing Line episodes you often see him slouched in his armchair like a rag doll casually tossed onto it, mumbling his words, trying to let his interlocutors have their say, but very very confident that you will listen to him and regard him as a Serious Public Intellectual anyway.
See my response to PeterBorah above—the main thing that comes to mind for me is how overall comfortable you seem with the situation. Agree with Benquo’s comment as well.