I once dated the most pretentious guy who's ego filled up every room he stood in.
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Chef's Table is the most pretentious show I've ever seen, and I love it so, so much.
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They came up with these crazy names drawn from the most pretentious notions around European heraldic badges and stuff like that.
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The event was sponsored by the world's most pretentious brand, Williams-Sonoma, so maybe gin and juice has finally classed itself up after all.
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" Robert Christgau, the self-proclaimed "dean of American rock critics," was, if anything, more dismissive: "These guys are as stupid as their most pretentious fans.
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It is elegant and energized, and tastes like what I expect to be "Chateau-like" (which is up there in the most pretentious shit I've ever said).
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I think they were right, because I thought the two leads were the most pretentious people alive when I watched the show, and the abstract Arcade Fire posters were the cherry on top.
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Initially, my real interest in the club was anthropological; it was the most pretentious club imaginable, and I thought I might catch a glimpse of a dying breed of aristocratic youths in their element.
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You could play the track at a party and trick even the most pretentious guest into giving his approval, at which point you would pull back the curtain and embarrass him for his subconscious poptimism.
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In this middle of this vortex, if you're lucky, you find moments of savage beauty that make the whole clusterfuck worth it—like the time Migos ordered pizza for everyone in New York's most pretentious club.
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Only the most pretentious Kanye West connoisseur would hail the constant public revision as, oh I don't know, a Triumphant Reinvention of the Album as Form, but coming from an artist known both for self-reinvention and a commitment to the album as form, not making a cryogenically frozen masterpiece is a good way to self-reinvent.
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The album was ranked number 1 on NME magazine's list of The 10 Most Pretentious Albums Ever.
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Year 7&8 voted most likely to not finish school. Year 9 most likely to be with PE teacher. Year 10 most pretentious. Year 11&12 most likely to end up in jail.
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In 2010, TechCrunch asked: “Does Quid have the most pretentious website of any startup ever?” The jab followed a debate on Quora discussing the website’s use of Latin, arcane typefaces, and an overly academic tone. The company has since updated its website.
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On Monday, October 13, 1919, the largest Columbus Day celebration in Utah's history occurred. The Salt Lake Telegram labeled the parade as "one of the most pretentious pageants ever held in the city." It was reported that every group in the community enjoyed the celebration.
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Charles Champlin of the Los Angeles Times described it as "one of the longest, slowest, most pretentious and self-congratulatory ego trips ever put to film. The running time is an excruciating three hours, which make you wonder what the five count 'em five credited editors did for their pay."Champlin, Charles (November 13, 1974).
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The airport was soon a financial success. A smaller airport in nearby Jackson Heights, Holmes Airport, was unable to prevent the expansion of the larger airport and closed in 1940. Newark Airport began renovations, but could not keep up with the new Queens airport, which TIME called "the most pretentious land and seaplane base in the world".
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In the 2012 Sight & Sound polls, it was ranked the 17th-greatest film ever made in the critics' poll (tied with Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai) and 13th in the directors' poll. In 2017, The Daily Telegraph called Persona one of "the most pretentious movies of all time" and a "wholly subjective" exercise. The film has an 90% approval rating at Rotten Tomatoes, based on 49 reviews.
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Gene Stratton-Porter, her husband, Charles Dorwin Porter, and their daughter Jeannette, moved from Decatur to Geneva, Indiana, after Jeanette's birth in 1887. Construction began on their new, two-story home at 200 East Sixth Avenue in Geneva in 1894. Stratton-Porter designed the home, which was described as "the most pretentious dwelling in the Geneva area," with the help of an architect.Long, p. 132.
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The act was styled as Germany's most pretentious and confrontational synth-pop duo. His 2007 solo show, My Confessions, won critical acclaim at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Inspired by his father's stroke and recovery, it won the Best International Show category at the New Zealand International Comedy Festival. In his show the following year, titled Joy, Cook talked about his father's diagnosis with pancreatic cancer and his subsequent death.
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The Baton Rouge City Club, also known as the Old Post Office, is a historic building at 355 North Blvd in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It was built in 1895 as a U.S. post office building. It is a three-story building. Its NRHP nomination asserts: > The Old Post Office is one of the finest and most pretentious examples of > turn-of-the-[20th]-century Renaissance Revival architecture in the state.
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" Rolling Stone awarded the album a 4 out of 5, claiming that "Sing the Sorrow is not exactly a concept album, but it does have a singleness of dark purpose that builds in momentum as the disc progresses." In further support, The New York Times rated Sing the Sorrow as the tenth-best album of 2003. Conversely, Entertainment Weekly gave the album a 'D', commenting that "The songs combine the most pretentious and overworked elements of their influences.
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Eventually he went over his budget, and spent at least $26,000 more on furnishings and interior decoration. This seasonal "cottage" had sixteen bedrooms, a library, billiard room, a wide surrounding veranda and ample quarters for housekeepers, nannies and cooking staff. It was once described as "the most pretentious and elaborate villa in Newport," and Barreda's wife later claimed that she supervised up to eighteen servants there. Shortly after the mansion was completed, Barreda was named Peru's minister in Washington.
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He built the Commercial Hotel at a cost of £2000, and it was at the time the most pretentious building in Auckland. During the Flagstaff War, he employed about 300 Māori in gumdigging and was credited by other colonists as keeping them from joining Hone Heke. With his brotherinlaw John Macfarlane, he formed the firm of Henderson and Macfarlane. They operated a mill from around 1847, after Governor Robert FitzRoy granted a land claim by them.
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Rolling Stone would describe it as "one of the most pretentious albums ever released by a major label." Nevertheless, despite not gaining mass exposure at the time, it steadily garnered a legacy throughout the decade and beyond as one of rock music's great albums. In September 1994, Suede announced that 17-year-old Richard Oakes was to be the new guitarist. After reading about Butler's departure, he had sent a demo tape to the band's fanclub.
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The Carnegie branch had been under construction in 1904 when it was described in a Free Press article as "most pretentious of our civic buildings…There are not many buildings with an all-[lime]stone exterior. Hitherto, such buildings have been considered too expensive for the city." The Library was officially opened in October 12, 1905 by Lady Evelyn, Earl Grey, daughter of the Governor General of Canada. The branch was closed after the Centennial Library opened in the spring of1977.
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Gother Than Thou: The Most Pretentious Card Game Ever Made is a card game that parodies the goth subculture. It was first published in 2000 by Savant Garde Entertainment. Gother Than Thou appeared on the 2001 Games magazine Games 100 list and was nominated for the "Best Graphic Presentation of a Card Game" category of the 2002 Origins Awards. The game is played with a deck of 55 cards, which contain three types of Points, which are Goth Points, Sickness, and Money.
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The 20,000-square foot Overlook, or "Seely's Castle", home of Fred Loring Seely, who designed Grove Park Inn, described as "one of Asheville's most pretentious private residences", became part of Asheville-Biltmore College in 1949. The house, no longer part of the college, was named to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. In 1961 Asheville-Biltmore College moved to the present UNC Asheville campus in north Asheville. In 1963 it became a state-supported four-year college, and awarded its first bachelor's degrees in 1966.
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According to Tuttle in the Record, "Oak Ridge...while not the most pretentious in appearance, probably excites interest more than any other house in the park, and more firmly impresses itself on the mind. It is a beautiful structure, irregular and rambling, as it should be, but so well held together, withal, that it may be viewed and judged in its entirety."Bartlett, "The Houses of Lawrence Park" Smedley was elected to the National Academy in 1905. He maintained a studio in New York City and his home in Bronxville had two studios.
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In 1859 he scored his first success with the tragedy of De Soto, produced at the Broadway Theatre, New York City, and during the same season his comedy, Mary's Birthday, was performed. In 1859 Señor Valiente earned the distinction of being presented in New York, Boston, and Baltimore on the same night. During the season 1860-61 the Seven Sisters, based on the theme of Secession, was produced at Laura Keene's Theatre, New York City. Other dramatic ventures were not so successful, and his most pretentious effort, Cromwell, a Tragedy, remains unfinished.
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Nevertheless, Simon was credited with co-writing the season one episodes "The Telltale Head," "The Crepes of Wrath," and the season finale "Some Enchanted Evening." "Some Enchanted Evening" was intended to be the show's premiere but was delayed due to substandard animation. Simon adapted Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven for the third segment of the season two episode "Treehouse of Horror." Groening was nervous about "The Raven" because it did not have many gags, and felt it would be "the worst, most pretentious thing [they had] ever done" on the show.
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In the US, Suede never matched the moderate success of their first album. This was principally due to the mix-up over the band's name and because Dog Man Star "was one of the most pretentious albums ever released by a major label," according to music journalist Rob Sheffield. In contrast to the positive reception at home, the album had a mixed reception in the US, with many comparing it unfavourably to their first album. Mark Jenkins of The Washington Post felt that the band had fashioned the record for the rock-opera house; with "bombastic" lyrics and "grandiose" musical settings.
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" Sullivan showed the outline to Ince, and Ince decided it was worth investing a million dollars. In April 1916, the Los Angeles Times wrote: > The next large feature looming on the horizon is the Ince photoplay, > 'Civilization' ... It was nearly a year in the making , and is the most > pretentious of the Ince features. Many hundreds of persons took part, and it > is said that the film contains some of the most beautiful photography ever > shown on the screen. At the time of its release, it was described as "the ultimate achievement of the Ince studios.
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Although every episode is entitled Treehouse of Horror, the first was the only episode that actually used the treehouse motif. During production of the first episode, Matt Groening was nervous about "The Raven" segment, and felt it would be "the worst, most pretentious thing [they had] ever done." The Treehouse of Horror episodes are difficult for both the writers and the animators. The episodes were originally written at the beginning of the production run, but in later seasons they were written at the end and aired at the beginning of the next season as holdovers, giving the animators more time to work.
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When Lieutenant Edward Ord made his plan of the City of Los Angeles in 1849, he took as the initial point of his survey the northwest corner of Carrillo's house that stood on this lot; and his bearings from a point opposite that corner gave direction to the lines of the city's streets, and virtually to the plan of the city. The building was begun in 1822 and completed in 1825. It was the most pretentious and aristocratic residence in the Pueblo de Los Ángeles at that time. A lot of entertaining occurred at the Carrillo house, as well as political discussions as its owner was a politician and an entertainer.
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Two young people, Henriette and Clitandre, are in love, but in order to marry, they must overcome an obstacle: the attitude of Henriette's family. Her sensible father and uncle are in favour of the marriage; but unfortunately her father is under the thumb of his wife, Philaminte. And Philaminte, supported by Henriette's aunt and sister, wishes her to marry Trissotin, a "scholar" and mediocre poet with lofty aspirations, who has these three women completely in his thrall. For these three ladies are "learned"; their obsession in life is learning and culture of the most pretentious kind, and Trissotin is their special protégé and the fixture of their literary salon.
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Diane Holloway of the Austin American-Statesman felt it offered a new take on the standard Western, and praised the series for its "beautiful" cinematography. The Philadelphia Inquirers Ken Tucker heavily criticized the series when it premiered considering it "one of the season's most pretentious bombs" and feeling "everything about [it] is overdone" including the acting. Considering it a rip off of the films Young Guns and The Long Riders, Tucker considered the series failed at period authenticity and thought the riders dressed no different from 1980s young adults. Writing for The Atlanta Journal, Phil Kloer agreed with Tucker, also calling the series a rip off of Young Guns.
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The entrance is near the street corner, sheltered by an open gable- roofed wood frame vestibule; a short wood-frame tower rises through the roof above. Portland's Abyssinian Society was founded in 1828, and originally met in the Abyssinian Meeting House, one of the nation's oldest surviving African- American churches. A separate African-American congregation, the Fourth Abyssinian, was split off from the Second Parish Church in 1835 and merged into the Abyssinian in 1842. This church was built for that congregation in 1914, and was described in contemporary reports as "one of the most pretentious churches for a Black congregation in New England".
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Mavis Manor was constructed of most Chestnut and Oak timbered in nearby Summers County, milled in Hinton, West Virginia then transported by horse-drawn wagon via the Grayson-Raleigh-Wythe turnpike. The inspiration for the manor came after Miss Sue Tickle visited Bramwell, West Virginia. Probably the most pretentious Lilly home was built by Dr. Lonnie Lilly at the Flat Top Post Office and on the Mercer County line, very much on the inspiration of his wife, a Miss Sue Tickle, who was said to be from the Bluefield area. She first married a McCormack, who was killed in an accident shortly after their marriage (in a buggy accident) and then married Dr. Lonnie Lilly.
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In anticipation, one newspaper reported: "The most pretentious broadcasting program ever presented, featuring among other stars of the theatrical, concert and radio field, some of whom have never been heard on the air, will mark the introduction of the National Broadcasting company to the radio public Monday evening", with NBC president Merlin H. Aylesworth characterizing the event as "a four-hour program beginning at 8 p.m., which will live long in their memories as an occasion marking another milestone in the history of radio broadcasting"."Program Planned by Radio Company", The Pittsburgh Press, November 8, 1926, page 18. Carl Schlegel of the Metropolitan Opera opened the inaugural broadcast, which also featured Will Rogers and Mary Garden.
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In contrast to their debut album Suede, which exhibited the influences of David Bowie and the Smiths, Dog Man Star exhibits a more various aesthetic and draws from a wider range of influences. Although it did not sell on the same scale as its predecessor, it reached number three on the UK Albums Chart and was certified as gold by the BPI in November 1994. Described by Rolling Stone as "one of the most pretentious albums ever released by a major label," the record was released in a different UK musical climate to their hitherto discography. Out-of-step with the mainstream music scene, it featured the band diverting away from the "Britpop pack" of bands.
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The segment was based on Edgar Allan Poe's 1845 narrative poem "The Raven". During production, Simpsons creator Matt Groening was nervous about "The Raven" because it did not have many gags, and felt it would be "the worst, most pretentious thing [they had] ever done" on the show. American actor James Earl Jones guest starred in the episode as a moving man, Serak the Preparer (one of the aliens) and the narrator of "The Raven". Unable to work with the rest of the cast, Jones recorded his lines at the Village Recorder in West Los Angeles; he chewed on a cookie close to his microphone to perform drooling sounds for the aliens.
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With his wealth, Dufayel amassed an art collection and bought a house on the avenue Champs-Elysées that had previously belonged to the Duchesse d'Uzès. He demolished the house and started to build an even grander mansion, designed by architect Gustave Rives, who had also worked on the Grands Magasins Dufayel. "One of the most expensive and most pretentious town houses in the world, it was built for the millionaire furniture merchant Dufayel shortly before the [First World] war, but he felt that it was too gorgeous to be lived in and until his death he resided in a more modest dwelling abutting on the court of the palace.""Oil Giants Buy French Palaces", New York Times, December 8, 1920, p. 9.
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The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4½ stars and stated "Although some historians have characterized the early '50s as Duke Ellington's 'off period' (due to the defection of alto star Johnny Hodges), in reality, his 1951-1952 orchestra could hold its own against his best. This set has many classic moments... One of the great Duke Ellington sets".Yanow, S. [ Allmusic Review] accessed May 24, 2010 Tom Hull, writing in his July 2004 "Jazz Consumer Guide" for The Village Voice, commented briefly on the release: "Hodges-less, coming out of his most pretentious composerly period, scratching and kicking to hang on." The extended piece "A Tone Parallel to Harlem" (also known as "The Harlem Suite" or just "Harlem") has often been singled out as one of Ellington's great achievements.
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Originally the Dudley C. Stone School, the two-story structure soon had its name changed to Dudley Stone School "Called Him a Jackanapes," San Francisco Chronicle, June 25, 1896, page 7 to match the wording that had been set above the four ionic columns facing Haight Street between Central and Masonic avenues. The schoolhouse stood on an elevation above Haight Street and consisted of a basement 10 feet high and two stories each of 15 feet in height, with the capacity of having another floor added. Designed by Thomas J. Welsh and opened in fall 1896, the building was noted as "the most pretentious of the kind yet erected by the Board of Education" with "special pains" taken "to make the school perfect from a sanitary standpoint.""The Dudley C. Stone School," San Francisco Chronicle, April 24, 1896, page 7 > Two large entrances lead from the street to the basement, which is paved in > bitumen.
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