East 63rd Street: Upper east side charm without the pretension.
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Moreover, Yeldegirmeni felt established and welcoming, and utterly lacking pretension.
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For a comic novelist, such human pretension is a gift.
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Walden is, and I say this without pretension, a fun read.
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"There's a joy and creativity and lack of pretension," he said.
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Mr. Budbill took a workman's attitude toward art and despised pretension.
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He came off as forthright and friendly, a man without pretension.
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Or it may be said approvingly of its lack of pretension.
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There is no pressure, no pretension: It's all unhurried, unforced pleasure.
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But charges of strain and pretension popped up, and Damn answers these.
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The season finale is a delirious 16-minute masterpiece of pretension-puncturing.
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The issue is that pretension is in the eye of the beholder.
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"Putting pretension aside, we can simply call this the era of liberal babble."
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The absence of pretension is refreshing, but the cumulative effect is lightweight, epidermal.
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It's seductively readable, free of pretension and written with a rare cleareyed kindness.
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She's a nimble writer, one who walks in fear of euphemism or pretension.
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That's what Richard Russo does, without pretension or fuss, time and time again.
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Dimitris Papaionnou's "The Great Tamer" has a comic tone that wards off pretension.
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The light tone diffuses the pretension of this and other art-historical allusions.
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The series "is refreshingly free of pretension," Neil Genzlinger wrote in The Times.
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"They have like no pretension, which is refreshing and maybe others could learn."
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The best of popular culture has always had a streak of pretension about it.
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Incredibly affable and warm, Bridwell's also self-deprecating, apparently devoid of ego or pretension.
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Just because the older I get, the more I see through my own pretension.
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It has no pretension of moving past its own influences, better seen as appropriations.
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This is pretentious stuff, sure, but it takes a bit of pretension to be ambitious.
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But in Zink's hands, Penny's self-absorption and her pretension are alternately funny and tragic.
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Ian hated pretension, and had previously squirted Gen in the eye with washing-up liquid.
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Music becomes so similar once you apply a more primal reaction and lose the pretension.
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Our restaurant critic Besha Rodell reviews the East Gippsland restaurant, which honors locality without pretension.
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The pretension of older literary journals was to be avoided, right down to the name.
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"They came from modest means, so there's no air of pretension about them," Jackson says.
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Fraud after fraud have made a mockery of any pretension of integrity within their industry.
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Ominously, that could go much beyond spelling an end to the pretension of European unity.
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They're playful and lack pretension; at their most basic, they provide a welcome place to sit.
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"One of the biggest characteristics of a Valley artist would be lack of pretension," Flood said.
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As different as these wines were, they shared a sort of joyousness and lack of pretension.
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I would say we do refined, California-style fine dining food without any sense of pretension.
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During my dinner, the flurry of courses was free of pretension (and for that matter, silverware).
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It's just pretension and condescension, on the media's part, to make a big deal of it.
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It adds both a humanity and a note of wry humor that collapses any perceived pretension.
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His installation "Starchild" (224), installed opposite "Color 2220," was a more successful critique of art world pretension.
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He's a storytelling type, and has a laid back manner, and lacks any sign of outward pretension.
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Intellectual pretension, long an occupational hazard in the superhero business, has been elevated to a creative principle.
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Mr. McCurdy is a jack-of-all-trades with a refreshing lack of pretension about his art.
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Honest policy analysis makes no pretension to giving us the "right" answer to a public policy problem.
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By the end of "The Idealist," Peters has dropped the pretension of neutrality and taken up Swartz's crusade.
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But Toy Story 4 seems content with its Forkiness, and that lack of pretension is mostly an asset.
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"I've never really been in the business of making 'trend' clothing," he says without a hint of pretension.
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I felt like she wouldn't care about the pretension of the jewelry, or its reputation or previous owners.
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Although Alper's self-confidence deserves a boost, her modesty, self-awareness, and total lack of pretension are refreshing.
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Disguised as just a cute picture book, Where's Warhol is an antidote to this kind of artspeak-y pretension.
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Next, you add a dash of soda water and an ounce of pretension to really get the party rocking.
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And what I thought was a holier-than-thou pretension was the self-possession that continues to impress Tess.
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We were bemused by the pretension of the silent interview in a hotel room he did with Dazed magazine.
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"Eileen is kind of like a gunslinger, with pretension as the enemy," Mr. Weitz said in a phone interview.
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All the vapid things that the wealthy did—the surgeries and the fashions and pretension—we understand them now.
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The owners insist it's "just a bar," which, given its general lack of pretension is exactly the selling point.
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" Even if they are true, she says the first one sounds phony and the second one "screams of pretension.
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But here in Israel, a society that views pretension with suspicion and disdain, it is almost universally a compliment.
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" Andrew Brown, writing in The Guardian in 1981, called her "the foremost scourge of scientific pretension in this country.
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These moments are character-driven, but they're also whimsical and funny enough to puncture the show's tendency toward pretension.
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One nice thing about the drab crypt of Penn Station is the lack of pretension within the subterranean sprawl.
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Entrepreneurs are leaving the high costs and pretension of Silicon Valley behind, creating a new culture in a new hub.
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Wine is often seen as this mysterious beverage that can only be drunk with the proper food, stemware, and pretension.
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Loosely if grudgingly accepting the avant garde marker, he bristles at the pretension and exclusionism evident in the art community.
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From her father — who was a personal physician to the queen — she got her innate precision and distaste for pretension.
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The series, a joint effort by Netflix and Discovery Canada, is refreshingly free of pretension, unlike some in the genre.
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This is likely because there are fewer ingredients associated with these meal kits — there's little pretension and little complexity involved.
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But the ability to grab power does not grant the wisdom to wield it, and ungrounded grandiosity is just pretension.
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After we watched Britney meltdown in the mid-aughts, there's a serenity in watching her enact happiness without pretension or filters.
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That disarming, pretension-free attitude runs throughout the film, save for a few scenes when problems arise and are soon overcome.
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And against the pretension to understand every single social ill according to some simple formula or another, some humility might help.
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It occupies its genre niche — the exuberantly violent Euro-action movie-star-paycheck action comedy — without excessive cynicism or annoying pretension.
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Speaking truth to power now meant taking down all icons, exposing all pretension and looking for self-interest and "spin" everywhere.
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She was the sort of person who could draw anyone out, talk about anything, and forgive everything except pretension and pettiness.
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As soon as you cut through all of that pretension, then you can open it up and explore whatever you want.
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Until a robust liberalism, shorn of pretension, can reconnect with knowledge and experience of working peoples' lives, the populists will remain…popular.
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Marked by childishness, spite and pretension, the objective is to put someone in their place or to defend one's honor, usually dishonorably.
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Bannon's pretension to constructing something larger than that failed mostly because of his own interpersonal conflicts with other members of Trump's team.
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But high school stories, free of pretension, trace the pitfalls of our most-reached-for items in a way that feels authentic.
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Yet for all their pretension to fairness, it's far from certain that algorithms are actually creating more equity in the electoral process.
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Those who watched were bound by secrecy, by the shared pretension that we watched a U.K. show you probably haven't heard of.
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It was a time before pretension, when "community" was a tangible notion, when dance music was happy on the fringes of society.
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England, devoid of pretension and ego, seemed open and friendly, unexpectedly likable and — most shockingly of all — actually quite good at soccer.
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That is Broadway at its core, stripped of size and massive budgets and pretension, until all that remains is love and communion.
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Service, while overeager at times, avoids both the harried anxiety of cheaper Indian restaurants and the ceremonious pretension of more expensive ones.
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The Silkworm is that most dangerous of things: a dark satire of the literary business, with all its rivalries, resentments, and pretension.
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James' dog Buster is usually around, it's a very free-flowing environment for making music in...there's no pretension toward it being serious.
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The real culture war (the one that never ends) is between the human intellect and its equally human enemies: sloth, cliché, pretension, cant.
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Then he does this head tilt thing to indicate feigned pretension but looks like your dad when he's fallen asleep on the couch.
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So I was fascinated to discover that some viewed the degree not as a sign of expertise but as a provocation, a pretension.
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On stage, and in person, the foursome acts like an improv team, without any of the pretension of being on an improv team.
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Like a slightly more conservative Adele (Clarkson still sometimes says "frigging" instead of the other f word), she has always been lacking in pretension.
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There's enough going on to keep you watching — and, as I said, to keep fanboys wowed by the scale of the production and pretension.
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The tranquil environment and lack of pretension draw them to the North Fork year round, said Ms. McNeill, who, like her husband, is 42.
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He writes of both the natural beauty and extreme dangers of El Salvador, and the pretension he found at a turtle sanctuary/pelican retreat.
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In life, he was startlingly lacking in artifice or pretension, his excitement about the natural world as simple and untempered as a young child's.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Damien's Hirst's formaldehyde-filled installations don't just ooze money and pretension — some may also leak potentially dangerous gas.
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And this earthy galette, with its rich and fatty toppings, deserves a superb one in spite of its humble ingredients and lack of pretension.
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It's dismantling the pretension of having an album but also poking fun at the imperious cult-leader kind of imagery of the last record.
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Unlike California's glittering, glamorous coastal cities, Sacramento, located in the Central Valley, has an earnest, small-town affect and a welcome lack of pretension.
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There&aposs no pretension or ego to him — if I was pushing 70, I feel like I&aposd be more selfish with my time.
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Girls isn't Broad City, which isn't Insecure, which isn't She's Gotta Have It. Refreshingly, there's no pretension about Nola, especially with respect to her artistry.
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Yet what seems far more ridiculous to me is any pretension to correctly pinpoint the outcome in every race when the polls themselves clearly cannot.
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In conversation, as in art, Toews is a schputter; she likes to puncture anything that has a whiff of pretension or self-importance about it.
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But on the whole, these quirks seemed only to endear him to middle New Zealand, which warmed to his easygoing nature and lack of pretension.
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In this final sequence, Euphoria finally peels away all its layers of smug, prepare-to-be-shocked pretension and exposes its deeply sincere, teenaged heart.
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At Lyle O. Reitzel's booth, works by Los Bravú, a Spanish couple that paints together, are tacked on the wall unstretched; there is zero pretension.
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The movie stands out from contemporary horror for its lack of pretension and its simple commitment to inventing ways for pretty people to get slaughtered.
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If you like the combination of violent action, sentimental fantasy, literary pretension and periodic slapstick humor that "Reprisal" offers, you may enjoy it well enough.
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Unlike California's glittering, glamorous coastal cities, Sacramento's location in the Central Valley gives it an earnest, small-town affect and a welcome lack of pretension.
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It is all too easy to develop literary pretension in Princeton — I think that's what Ethan and I would talk about if we got together.
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From the beginning, the prestigious magical school, headed by the gaudy Madam Mumblechook and the deranged Doctor Dee, reeks with a veneer of opulence and pretension.
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The price doesn't yield just a room in Midtown, but rather, an overall experience that is indulgent but elegant, sleek but tasteful, and welcoming without pretension.
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A press release for the show at the Pérez Museum referred to Cordova as a "cultural practitioner," a phrase I impulsively dismissed for its steganographic pretension.
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The cherry on this sundae of pretension was that they gave you a little notebook and a pencil, in order to write down God knows what.
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First, the dissonance between its pretension and its timing: It purports to change history, but coming just one month before Israel's elections, it serves petty politics.
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The gnawing fear of failure; the grandiose but vague creative hopes scuttled for money; the resentment of artistic pretension: it's all straight from the Yates playbook.
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When it comes to a script full of howlers, big-name stars wading through seas of pretension and overripe symbolism, sometimes only a boo will do.
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"True Detective" was intended to be more than just another gruesome police procedural, even if it buckles under the weight of this pretension half the time.
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While other hackathons churn out useless projects in earnest, the Stupid Hackathon strips pretension away from tech developers' money-backed scramble to satisfy every human need.
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" Schwartz writes, "In conversation, as in art, Toews is a schputter; she likes to puncture anything that has a whiff of pretension or self-importance about it.
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Its high-school setting, meanwhile, keeps the movie down to earth, avoiding the dark allegorical pretension that has plagued so many recent additions to the superhero canon.
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The event is designed to directly parody Marina Abramovic's 2010 MOMA performance, "The Artist is Present", which Levy considers to be a symbol of art world pretension.
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" He also wrote the average Japanese is "unproblematic, impersonal, he cheerfully fulfills the social function which befalls him without pretension, but proud of his community and nation.
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A party there is like the laid-back cousin of Glenn O'Brien's TV Party, with inclusivity and a lack of pretension that makes it even more fun.
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Florence Fabricant, Reporter by Samin Nosrat (Simon and Schuster, 2017) I've been flipping through this book during quarantine, and I'm again struck by its lack of pretension.
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To the Editor: There was no one better than Tom Wolfe at exploding pretension and hypocrisy and showing the bitter and often funny ironies in American society.
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"'Sapiosexual' seems to circulate primarily as a layer of pretension on top of a more traditional sexual identity," Samantha Allen wrote at The Daily Beast in 2015.
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"I don't have that pretension," he said, pointing instead to the United States Conference of Mayors and its head, Mayor Mick Cornett of Oklahoma City, a Republican.
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Sending The Emoji Movie to the 2017 festival is slightly funnier than it would be any other year, given Cannes' doubling down on pretension in the last month.
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I tore through The Catcher in the Rye and Lord of the Flies in elementary school, my pre-tween brain vibrating with a mixture of titillation and pretension.
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It prefers stylistic consistency, sanctioned subject matter, and a palatable level of pretension — anything that proves the death of the imagination, which is a necessary component of capitalism.
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I Instantly realized my whole "rediscovering my Scottish roots" thing was just a pretension, and that actually I'm just a dickhead who traveled 700 miles for fried food.
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These words are a comfort to him, and plus, a signal to others of a certain level of wistful pretension, and a high likelihood of quoting Monty Python.
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He devotes plenty of room in the book to settling scores and talking up his own "solitary struggle," and his account is filled with pretension masquerading as style.
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This award-winning food podcast, now part of Stitcher, prides itself on being "not for foodies, but for eaters," conveying a lack of pretension that underlies its appeal.
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I'd call it "ARt," but that suggests a level of pretension in Dumb Fun that's mercifully absent, considering its creator, Tim Moore, is a photographer, coder, and collage artist.
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When the boy from Boyhood reached adolescence and started talking about the meaning of things, lots of audiences wrote it off as pseudo-profundity, the worst kind of pretension.
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You can enroll in Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield's Empire Silver Blue Priority EPO plan (rest assured, Hecht takes it) and enjoy your healthcare with a side of pretension.
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Even so, the fictional denizens of St.-Denis cherish their local wines and foods, which they consume without pretension but with an intuitive understanding that comes from long experience.
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Don't you feel a bit deceived, looking at these thigh-high boots made out of a material that sags under its own weight, as if exhausted of its own pretension?
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This is not her only understatement — with her lack of art-speak pretension and deadpan self-deprecation, she has a genius for it — but it may be the most telling.
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But when they arrived they were astounded by what they found: a quaint village with a chummy small-town feel, just west of the Hamptons yet seemingly free of pretension.
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There's some pretension here, but also something larger: The idea of seeing the world accurately, treating it with care and referring to it with respect is central to the book.
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But when Galifianakis can find something more than pure resentment to play with, like unearned pretension or unexpected sympathy, Chip is much more interesting than your typical frustrated artist character.
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Iran's pretension to Islamic leadership rings hollow because Islam's three holiest cities — Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem — all lie in its enemies' hands: The Saudis control the first two; Israel, the third.
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Better Call Saul takes the best elements of Breaking Bad—the cinematography, the masterful directing, and some of the show's best characters—and strips away the pretension that weighed it down.
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While critics mistake this for a lack of sophistication, in actuality it shows her hunger to strike at the heart of the issue before the court with minimal pretension or delay.
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When Liza's subconscious is merely playing at high-society confidence during the first dream sequence's hit number, "One Life to Live," she used some vibrato affectations to underline the posh pretension.
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The pretension to be able to recount the private thoughts of top government officials, months later, based on no attributed source, is a longstanding, somewhat absurd stylistic tic of Woodward's books.
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The show's moody, jazzy style, its reliance on the unexplained image, can border on pretension, as jazzy things so often do, but it lingers in your mind, agitating in a good way.
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Despite its baroque character, there's not a whiff of pretension or self-importance here; yeah, Summoning is nerdy as hell, but if they don't have a problem with that, why should you?
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At the new Bellemore, diners in the West Loop are treated not just to refined food and glamorous design, but the kind of pretension-free dining that characterizes Chicago's vibrant restaurant scene.
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I don't think Alexis will give in to Mutt's musky charms (he looks like he smells like firewood and pretension), but I predict a declaration of affection from the prodigal Schitt son.
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The quickly acquired faux-British accent in particular has been associated with pretension, or a snootiness that reveals desperation to cover a humble antipodean past, to disown a sunburned, bikini-clad family.
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She would arrive in her Saint Laurent tuxedo dress, the stilettos, the slash of blonde hair over one eye, the red mouth, the utter lack of pretension, the cigarettes and red wine.
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They both prefer the imagination, the fairytale and the narrated life, to the pseudo-scientific pretension of historians: History is by definition the master narrative of empires and their violence and colonization.
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Danler writes about food without pretension or cliché, and she evokes New York City in 2006 — the moment just before the iPhone, when you could still get lost easily — with precision and clarity.
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The lodging: "No request is ever unattainable"Party planners at Burning Man are careful to hide their luxury dwellings behind large walls dressed as art projects, but Further Future had no such pretension.
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As easy as it is to slide straight into Pseuds Corner when it comes to writing about Burial, the balloon of pretension is always prickable, and there's a genuine honesty to his music.
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And for all the new places to eat, browse or catch a show, Indy stays true to its Midwestern roots: short on pretension, heavy on pork and still, for the most part, incomprehensibly cheap.
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He is highly sensitive to pretension and unjustified expense, so whenever I take him along on one of my hunting parties, I try to pick something with a high ratio of flavor to price.
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Kim Cyr, the sommelier, explains and pairs the wine for diners with a refreshing lack of pretension — from a premeal sparkling Benjamin Bridge brut to a postprandial ice-wine by Domaine de Grand Pré.
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Instead, Thiel decided to determine what should and shouldn't qualify as journalism itself — it's the classic Silicon Valley pretension to attempt to own the definition, to write its own narrative, devoid of context or skepticism.
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It's the kind of film you could enjoy just as easily with your parents as you could with your Danny or your Julie – probably even your Kyle, eventually, once he got over his teenage pretension.
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In trying to determine what should and shouldn't qualify as journalism, Thiel is exercising the classic Silicon Valley pretension to attempt to own the definition, to write its own narrative, devoid of context or skepticism.
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This declaration laid bare the pretension of the regime: a dictatorship that is accepted and ultimately gets its way, like the one Raúl Castro inherited from his brother and passed on to Miguel Díaz-Canel.
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Though the Mad River Valley has been buttressed over the years by the presence of out-of-state transplants of some wealth or accomplishment, the overall ethos of the place is generally the opposite of pretension.
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As the two teams began vying directly for silverware, Barca fans maintained that their side endeavoured to play the better football, while their Basque counterparts saw this as a sign of infuriating pretension from the Catalans.
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He was, by most accounts, a popular figure in the racing world, known for a lack of pretension, an eye for talented drivers, high expectations of all employees and a cigar in his mouth, often unlighted.
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It is like watching well-made marionettes handled by a not entirely expert puppeteer: You see the strings, and the movement, yes, is jerky, but the action still has charm in its complete lack of pretension.
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Like many a desperate parent before me, I dabbled briefly in the how-to industrial complex and was horrified to find, in pages filled with insufferable pretension and naive optimism, a reflection of my former self.
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He's laid some kind of science-fiction nonsense atop it because, apparently, the movie needed a ply of trashy pretension to echo Adrian Lyne's thriller "Jacob's Ladder" and complement the luxe incoherence of McConaughey's Lincoln ads.
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Persuasion is perhaps Austen's most overtly romantic book, in that while it's about the perniciousness of family pretension and classism, it's also about two people who never stop loving each other despite getting in their own way.
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But each section is accompanied by disparate strands of photography, sculpture, and video works that allow for a level of immersion that transcends both the occasional pretension of the gallery space and the informality of listening to music.
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"I was living and working as a cook in Europe, and after working for a summer in Mallorca, I got my things and moved to Scandinavia, where girls love me," he told me rather shyly, without any pretension.
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His insider-outsider books at once affirmed and debunked the myths, skewering movie-industry hypocrisy, venality and pretension even as they celebrated the hard work, scrappy creativity and helter-skelter deal making that allowed the movies to flourish.
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If we jumped right into descriptions of our possible next Monicas, Rachels, and Joeys, you'd likely remain skeptical of this "next Friends" pretension (and to be fair, none of the people involved in the show are claiming that label).
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The results of this research, published September as a book, suggests that for all of Wikipedia's pretension to being a site produced by a network of freely collaborating peers, "some peers are more equal than others," according to Matei.
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Yet she still felt sure that she hated him, hated his pretension, his vanity, hated that he'd hired all these women, hated that mole, hated the neck under the mole, hated the voice that came out of that neck.
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Apply a similar formula of subtraction — let's call it the Zegna 10 — to so many of the shows here and you would not only bank a huge carbon offset but reduce the sheer volume of pretension polluting the world.
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Despite all of this, which would figure to turn off the people in a region known, perhaps unfairly, for its insularity and, perhaps fairly, for its hatred of pretension, Brady is now the most favorite son of New England.
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In short, for all its pomp and pretension, "Blade Runner 2049" is a Hollywood superhero blockbuster at heart: the kind of bombastic, effects-packed film which expects you to gasp at the spectacle and not think too much about the logic.
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In public, she sometimes adopts a characteristically Australian distaste for pretension — what one historian called the country's "democracy of manners" — such as the time she climbed onto the back of a flatbed truck with a bullhorn to excoriate a mining tax.
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And it's that refreshing lack of preciousness and pretension about wine that has helped him grow his enological empire from a single barrel in a backyard in San Luis Obispo (the SLO of SLO Down) into an upstart national juggernaut.
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Montreal's Ought and South London's Goat Girl are giving post-punk its teeth back, stripped of campy synths and pretension, and armed instead with the politicized vigor and knuckle-cracking ingenuity that made the genre so powerful to begin with.
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"Girl, give me that," he said, grabbing the tail from my hand, cracking it straight down the middle, the long way, between his thumb and middle index finger, extracting the meat—a tiny lobster tail with less pretension, if you will.
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The Triangle, also known as the Triple-Post Offense, the Sideline Triangle Offense, and the Trade-Me-Coach Offense, reportedly collapsed under the weight of its own pretension in the front office of the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden.
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In an adjoining room that's part kitchen and part living room, sipping a bottled water, Mr. Springsteen was thoughtful and jovial, weighing his words — he speaks in full paragraphs — but laughing at himself any time he saw the possibility of pretension.
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I'm sorry to say that wine culture has partly brought this on itself with its history of pretension, its equating of wine with connoisseurship, and the absurd vocabulary and rituals that many people assume must be mastered simply to enjoy wine.
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Her work is rooted in surrealism and classical mythology, and while some viewers feel as though her videos are just trickery dressed up with pretension, they're organized around the idea that disrupting the mundane is a basic service to human existence.
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Above: the saddest and most dramatic statues in The Witness, (a video I edited earlier in the year) I know that the "secret ending" sends much of this stuff up, that it's meant to be a kind of commentary on pretension.
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Yet Baker's films are fueled by this baffling alchemy: a mixture of classic film school pretension, a deep appreciation for genre, a devotion to social realism, and a rejection of most of the qualities that make a film "marketable" in contemporary Hollywood.
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They also have a teenage daughter together.) Then there's William Shepard Rose III (I only add that to let you know the level of pretension we are dealing with here, although there are two more pretentious men that we will get to shortly).
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If the lack of pretension doesn't convince you, the spread will—the extensive menu contains a plethora of dim sum classics, most priced under $8, plus a huge variety of congees, if you're trying to get a jump on your hangover breakfast.
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One of the co-authors of The Lonely Crowd, which remains and is likely to remain an American classic, Glazer never left behind the humanities in his work as a social scientist, skeptical, always, toward academic pretension and quasi-scientific number crunching.
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If there was a turning point, it was the Ovitz-led plan to create an I. M. Pei-designed headquarters in Beverly Hills, even though its hierarchical design changed the corporate culture and brought an element of pretension into the agents' daily lives.
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I thought that, at least, an event that is as openly geared towards the pretensions and predilections of the idle rich would indulge in some form of pretension that could fake sophistication, setting all this goofy horse trotting to Debussy or something.
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In addition to being a satirical jab at art-world pretension, this was, Troemel says, a deliberate attempt to use the "social capital" of art museums to help the Jogging's crappy images stand out among many thousands of crappy images on Tumblr.
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Dirty Projectors' post-2005 work, which mostly saw Longstreth collaborating with a band, is less heavy on conceptual pretension, instead lacing his lyrics with hard to decipher beat poems of the disenchanted and fragmented half-thoughts that only cohere in the mind of one man.
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Even if a designer offers a riff on a garment that's more practical than plush and cuddly, it tends to be a decidedly impractical version of it — such as Balenciaga's sensible puffers, worn just off the shoulder enough to erase any pretension of effortlessness.
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His refreshing honesty and utter lack of pretension make perfect sense once you've had a listen to For the Fallen (or if you're at all familiar with his work in Bolt Thrower, who remain one of the most uncompromising metal bands of all time).
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But this impressively curated collection of her haunting, hilarious writing — which I called "one-half William Blake, one-half Antique Doll Collector magazine" in the Book Review in April — should be placed on the shelf of every American poet as a ward against pretension.
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Yet for all her pursuits, it is Pappas's insouciant, cockeyed worldview, expressed via social media — her Twitter posts are part Tony Robbins motivational, part Tom Robbins surrealistic — and her lack of pro-athlete pretension that draw fans, primarily teenage girls who run cross-country, to her.
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Fox, a co-editor of the art magazine Frieze, begins with the word's Latin roots — prae, meaning "before," and tendere, "to stretch or extend" — and argues that pretension, or pretending to something else, is what allows us to shake off complacency and move beyond the status quo.
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Pretension is often assumed to be someone's deliberate attempt to pull a fast one, to consciously be a poseur, a con-artist, a faker, and yet in so many instances, what one person regards as pretentious is another person's genuine enthusiasm or way of expressing themselves.
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Chast is a master of capturing the annoyances of daily life, unmasking any pretension of anyone who acts like they have their shit together; but as much as her work is famous for her anxiety-ridden New Yorkers, it can be as moving as it can be scathing.
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He is replacing the metaphor of Sontag—the impersonal narrator of her work, the self-curated public figure, and the cult of personality that grew around her—with the actual Sontag: in all her passion, her pretension, her cruelty, her generosity, her fallibility, and her intoxicating, demanding grace.
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Yet it also feels like a eulogy for the last moment before digital circulation narrowed the impact of even the most urgent imagery — and before Syria's civil war, among the most photographed and filmed conflicts in human history, disabused us of the pretension that images will make us act.
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I was heavily dug into a phase of pretension at the time all my friends started getting into it, and made such a fuss about how crap and self-congratulatory it was that I couldn't ever sign up, even years later when, at times, I imagine I could have enjoyed it.
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There are highfalutin concepts and obscure album titles and even more obscure lyrical references, but more often than not, Longstreth's songwriting and arrangement prowess, and the musicians he surrounds himself with, transcends any weightiness of pretension, instead using these outré concepts to obfuscate obvious meaning in an attempt at something larger.
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Occasionally, their correspondence feels as private and awkward as such a seduction would be, their letters — and their theological discussions — flecked with the pretension of two people trying to impress each other (as when James brags of having read "Moby-Dick" to his 8-year-old daughter "in its entirety").
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"(The data) suggests that any pretension by the central banks, particularly the U.S. Federal Reserve, to be in a wait-and-see phase will simply drop," said Ken Odeluga, a market analyst at City Index The euro zone index closed 0.1% higher, while the broader pan-region index closed down 0.02%.
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For whose that don't want pretension with their wine: For those whose one true love is wine: For those who look for any excuse to drink a little wine: For those who like to get creative with their wine: For when there's, sadly, no wine: And, for when there's nothing but wine:
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Liquor licensing makes it disadvantageous for bigger venues to put on all ages shows, illegal spaces where many of these events are forced into are constantly under threat, and positive relationships between the minor and major music communities have yet to be fully formed, as attitudes of ageism and pretension run deep.
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Yes, "The Heavenly Table" is an old-fashioned yarn with a pretty predictable plot — but that's the point, and as with "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (an obvious influence), it is also a riotous satire that takes on our hopeless faith in modernity, along with our endless capacity for cruelty and absurd pretension.
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Ms. Ekimian, a Russian-American who was born in Washington, D.C., and spent many years in Egypt, a self-described "hugger," exudes none of the pretension or anxiety one might expect from a 19-year-old thrust into the big leagues, though designing this dress is not her first higher-profile project.
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It's part of the silly fantasy world Trump has erected in which he's King of America, and so saying things like he's going to bring Apple's damn computers home is mostly empty — the same way his pretension that he can just call up world leaders like Frank Underwood and win huge concessions is ridiculous.
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This allows the museum to continue to exhibit the work as "Ice Bag Scale C," not as a version of "Ice Bag Scale C." Oldenburg made his name, in part, by mocking art-world pretension, and yet the Whitney treated his sculpture with an attention that would have been appropriate for a religious icon.
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There's little of the raw thrill of the towering tapes of the early to mid 2000s, when you had guys who had little pretension at making grand artistic statements but who just happened to be friends with the guy at the center of things hopping on tracks and doing their damnedest to demolish the beat in question.
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When I first met the Arcane mastermind this past winter—fittingly, at a dimly-lit bar in Alphabet City as a mutual friend played pool nearby—the way Rojas-Masferrer described the things he loves, like certain drum machines and the Criterion Collection (which he owns all of), came across as passion, not pretension or artifice.
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" Others lured by Vieques's beauty, lack of pretension and low cost of living, have lived here for decades: In my short stay I ran into a museum director, an academic, artists, a retired nurse and a couple from Colorado, Norm and Deb, who had retired early and moved to the island sight unseen to live, as they put it, "on purpose.
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The OA has had critics from the beginning who felt it was born of pretension (Marling, who stars in the show, and Batmanglij, who writes and directs several episodes, met at Georgetown University and they are not shy about the cerebral bond they share, speaking to reporters about Adam Curtis, Hilma af Klint, and Leonora Carrington), or that it practiced willful misdirection in lieu of actually saying anything concrete.
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It's not totally clear yet where R&B might head next in this more laid-back, plainspoken, international future—perhaps it's silly to even paint it as a sea change—but the crop of talent on display yesterday in Austin, divorced from both the strictness of pop overproduction and the artsy pretension that so often surrounds buzzy acts, felt like an exciting glimpse of some state of evolution.
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Blood of Century Another member of the Myanmar metalcore cartel, Blood of Century go the route of early-aughts American purveyors like All That Remains or Shadows Falls, with little bit of pretension toward the technical tweaks of Between the Buried and Me. The four piece has a three-song EP up on YouTube, and in mid-2017 began the months-long task of tracking for a full length release at a studio in Yangon, laying down bass, guitar, drums and vocals in between festival and club gigs.
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