Her allure also awes a gallery of other affected and pretentious people, or rather, thin simulations of affected and pretentious people.
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Would you rather be perceived to be pretentious, while actually being authentic, or be perceived to be authentic, while actually being pretentious?
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Matthew Cummings is the owner of Pretentious Glass Co. and Pretentious Beer Co., a glassware company and a beer brewery in Knoxville, Tennessee, respectively.
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And although all that shit I just said is completely pretentious of me, if someone gives you $40,000 and you go in the studio, you better be a little bit pretentious.
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It has little to do with the novel's plot, about a wealthy man from Bombay and his three pretentious sons who move into a pretentious mansion on a semiprivate garden in downtown Manhattan.
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Matthew Cummings is the owner of Pretentious Beer Co., a taproom and beer brewery in Knoxville, Tennessee, and Pretentious Glass Co., which makes hand-blown glasses sold on Etsy and at the brewery.
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Even then, his technique was dismissed as pretentious and inscrutable.
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Given this summary, you might assume the book is pretentious.
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And even if they did, how pretentious would it sound?
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Hewitt's The Fourth Way is, like its author, comically pretentious.
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"There are moments where you seem really pretentious," Perron said.
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Others claim Death Stranding is a pretentious and boring mess.
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Is that a great restaurant or is it just pretentious?
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I just usually say journalist because it seems less pretentious.
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You'll learn new things, but their insight won't feel pretentious.
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Sorry if this makes me sound like a pretentious asshole.
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To be pretentious is seen to shun that somehow. Right.
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Am I wrong for thinking Arcade Fire posters are pretentious?
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Others found this later Robbins to be grandiose and pretentious.
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"It sounds so pretentious," she said after a long time.
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It's pretty low key, anyone's welcome and it's not pretentious.
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Are what read as pretentious and condescending undertones absolutely required?
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Detractors complained that he was vaporous, pretentious and often inaccurate.
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But writing off SingleThread as pretentious would be a mistake.
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Instead, the characters come across as entitled, pretentious, and gossipy.
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It reinvigorates the previously pretentious with a rougher, cooler edge.
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Sounds like an agreeably pretentious way to kill 32 minutes.
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The key difference is that Hannity is less pretentious about it.
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For the pretentious stoner: a ceramic pipe hand fired in Brooklyn.
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Scalia often attacked Kennedy's legal reasoning and derided him as pretentious.
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The cozy baby just became a pretentious Abercrombie and Fitch model.
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I think that pseudo-profundity can be pretentious, but isn't necessarily.
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Self-possession like hers is often interpreted as pretentious, or pathological.
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She's annoying and pretentious, but she keeps her crew well-rounded.
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"It's for pretentious rich assholes with money to burn," he snarked.
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Balvin spends the song's entirety narrating the world's least pretentious party.
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Pretentious, hyper-curated shops are snobbier and more expensive than ever.
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But ignore the pretentious opening — this is something a little different.
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Most importantly to me, I like people that are not pretentious.
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I'm not being pretentious, I think it's the way I am.
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This will seem impossibly pretentious to some, thrillingly subversive to others.
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Is it pretentious to show enthusiasm, to have an enquiring attitude?
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They are in many ways the same kind of pretentious nerd.
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One is "The Scoundrel," starring Noël Coward as a pretentious publisher.
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Yet at moments the prose can be pretentious, verging on parody.
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And playing "Guess the Painting" was fun, if a little pretentious.
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I have problems not finishing books, even if it's pretentious bull.
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"She doesn't have a pretentious bone in her body," he said.
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The room was simply decorated—tasteful without being pretentious or intimidating.
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He offered what he smilingly said was a "very pretentious" thought.
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From there came pretentious and widely hated Lady in the Water.
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Its references to designers, philosophy, and literature feel pretentious rather than enlightening.
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As a fan of pretentious experimental shit, I needed to be there.
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The politics here are elemental and undeniable without being preachy or pretentious.
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But if you think it's some weird pretentious decorating choice, think again.
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It's going to sound pretentious but I'll throw it out there anyway.
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Got tired of the pretentious crap I was seeing, needed more honesty.
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Artificially amplify the stakes and the movie could come across as pretentious.
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I wouldn't want someone to think I'm a bit pretentious or posey.
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With his gentle humour, Heaney might have found that event slightly pretentious.
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It's pretentious, and obnoxious, and absurd and uneven and probably totally nonsensical.
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But Bush was not pretentious; he was, in fact, the complete opposite.
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Torture porn is one thing, pompous pretentious torture porn is something else.
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But I get pissed off about some pretentious people—I admit it.
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It annoyed my friends, who thought I was being pretentious (I was).
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Everyone's pretentious freshman year film major ex is literally shaking right now.
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Not to sound pretentious, but I should be having a show there.
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But most of the paintings here are strenuously trolling for pretentious profundity.
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And, of course, it arguably makes you look like a pretentious asshat.
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" Noting that the movie had reopened at the Eighth Street Playhouse, a showcase for European art films, he joked that "unfortunately, 'Pretty Poison' turns out to be too pretentious for 42nd Street but not pretentious enough for Eighth Street.
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Matthew Cummings, the owner of Pretentious Glass Co. and Pretentious Beer Co., a taproom and beer brewery in Knoxville, Tennessee, told Business Insider that designing his own content on an as-needed basis has been a challenge of bootstrapping.
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Pop culture had, in the past, spoofed and satirized the pretentious wine drinker.
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He was pompous and pretentious, a smirk on his face the whole time.
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And until I'm convinced otherwise, I'll call it for what it is. Pretentious.
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"Neither of them are stuck up, neither of them are pretentious," he said.
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The simplified name fits with Apple's minimalist, pretentious and particular sensibility towards branding.
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Kyle is pretentious, moody, rolls his own cigarettes, and doesn't believe in money.
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It's kind of pretentious, extremely British, and very good to fall asleep to.
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Claypool, who says he's no good at being pretentious, has always written observationally.
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"I'd rather people think I'm pretentious than not care," he told the NME.
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"It's not too pretentious: it's just stuff we want to wear," explains Tanju.
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A couple of lightbulbs, some really pretentious techno, and it was bloody hot.
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It's an overused definition as well, and I think it's a little pretentious.
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Do not be arrogant and pretentious in an enviable position you have attained.
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"It was such a pretentious, horrible idea for a play," she has said.
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I'm perfectly happy to be perceived to be pretentious if that's the case.
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Ties My father was an art collector, but he was anything but pretentious.
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It's the kind of pretentious stuff sure to scare the impatient viewer away.
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" Talking about all this, Mr. Radnor worried that he would seem "spiritually pretentious.
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Many viewers called out their pretentious attitude toward minimum wage and tipped jobs.
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You need to find a good balance between being confident, but not pretentious.
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It felt pretentious, like it had no life or any sharpness to it.
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Maybe a pretentious band only plays new stuff that nobody knows the lyrics to.
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If not pretentious, these ideas feel disastrous — or mired in Oscar-baity self-seriousness.
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So it was quite an audacious, arrogant and pretentious thing to try to do.
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These days — at least in New York City — it's pretentious deejays all the way.
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Perhaps, at the time, the doomsday on display seemed little more than "pretentious twaddle".
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Al's Place is one of the least pretentious planets in San Francisco's Michelin galaxy.
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They are central to the North Korean identity as a pretentious major world power.
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And yet, this myopic, often pretentious outlook was essential to the Nobel Prize's identity.
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They lean too heavily on the canned and the pretentious and the mock uplifting.
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At first, I thought: How is this not a work of pretentious self-pity?
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Some views on art from a fucking idiot (me) and a pretentious jerk (him).
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I thought wine was super-pretentious and elitist, but it doesn't have to be.
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David: I have to say yes, though I never wanted to be that pretentious.
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It was a celebration of the people he met, and arguably a mite pretentious.
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I think wearing it would be pretentious when I don't have a good reason.
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Ammons could be high-minded but he had few pretentious bones in his body.
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The Big Things are funny but not pretentious: They're a joke everyone's in on.
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But one girl saw the stone and thought it a pretentious thing to do.
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He merely believes that a pretentious creep like Rieff could not have written it.
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A downtown artist will bring her food and film her for a pretentious project.
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A backlash would dismiss similar efforts as naïve or pretentious, but U2 has persisted.
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But not in a pretentious "We're more erudite than 'Star Wars'" kind of way.
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They did utterly pretentious things like splash eau de cologne on letters to girls.
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It sounds too pretentious and too pathetic to say that music is my home.
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I don't want to sound pretentious, but it feels like more of a craft.
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This is pretentious stuff, sure, but it takes a bit of pretension to be ambitious.
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If that sounds pretentious, it is, I assure you, but in the best possible way.
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He sounds like a pretentious teen who just got back from a transcendental meditation retreat.
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It feels pretentious, now—a cheap way to try to make a dish seem fancy.
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The menu was pretentious, and the prices — such as $72 for a salad — were extortionate.
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Sally isn't a monster — she's a human being, an irritating, pretentious, wildly ambitious human being.
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I used to think that I would sound pretentious, because I don't always fully understand.
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Even if you have a pretentious concept to get you there, it drives the process.
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Most of the characters, save poor Coco (Natalia Dyer), are shallow, pretentious, and money-obsessed.
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If 4 AM is the Parisians' hour, then 6 AM is that of pretentious assholes.
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I always thought if I have to share my process, it's super pretentious and corny.
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Born Karen Bentham, Caran shoots exclusively on film, but isn't a pretentious idiot about it.
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I'll wear this pin proudly until I grow the balls to move somewhere less pretentious.
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It shows you just how pretentious, how egotistical people like Clapper and Comey really are.
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It's kind of like a cabaret version of "Phantom Thread," but a lot less pretentious.
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"As obnoxious and pretentious as it sounds, I wanted to influence the culture," he said.
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The premise may seem pretentious for a composer to take on, and some said so.
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An attempt to commiserate with the sour, pretentious Allison (Emily Davis) only unpeels more weirdness.
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Pastry Pete (Reggie Watts), a pretentious baker who mentors Bertie, is a ramrod-stiff penguin.
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For others, it's a Stillman-esque black comedy of manners about New York's pretentious literati.
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Should someone write an "actually Scott Walker was pretentious rot" piece, I'll respect the impulse.
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Tom has no firm political convictions and legitimately feels at home among pretentious rich folks.
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"We're obnoxious, we're pretentious, we know that, but we love our food shamelessly," Tober said.
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It hurts to see his compelling story interrupted with pretentious quotes from Adorno and Barthes.
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Justin Timberlake plays both a pretentious narrator and lover of a dissatisfied waitress (Kate Winslet).
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For example, in the episode "Fusion Cuisine," the restaurant music originally sounded fancy and pretentious.
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The typical use of "pretentious" as a pejorative assumes that the pretentious person is uninterested in other people, and wants only to lord his rarefied tastes over the plebes; Fox, though, is trying to open up a conversation about art rather than shut it down.
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It sounds a bit pretentious, but we're not stuck in a bank working nine to five.
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EAL, Vermont Even though I can afford it, I have come to resent these pretentious restaurants.
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At long last, we know: hares are cocky and pretentious and tortoises are modest and respectful.
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"I've always, always loved art — I was a real pretentious art-kid teenager," Gibson tells us.
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" So they were like: "Come on, don't get too pretentious, you want to beat Lendl now!
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I'm the kid who moved to New York City and immediately got labeled a 'pretentious liberal.
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Be afraid, be very afraid, of the pious, pretentious, bullying media that now engulfs our industry.
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Revolver can be pretentious, confusing, and solipsistic—but I don't necessarily count these characteristics as faults.
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I once dated the most pretentious guy who's ego filled up every room he stood in.
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Through framing and and the overlaying of pretentious orchestral music, it suddenly turns violence into art.
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If you showed anything that was innovative in New York, you got accused of being pretentious.
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She began to worry that any answer she came up with would be pretentious and untrue.
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They spoke a subliminal truth about writers, that the good ones are rarely the pretentious ones.
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"It would seem pretentious to say we're making a better whiskey," said the owner, Daniel Shoemaker.
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It's cool without feeling pretentious, and the range of rooms offers affordable options for multiple budgets.
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Silbermann's platform exudes the same non-flashy, non-pretentious energy that he does as a person.
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So why is it so common for us to dislike people we think of as pretentious?
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Is a white, middle-class English guy into a rap album about systematic American racism pretentious?
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When I brought it home, I put it on a shelf, and it looked so pretentious.
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The use of pretentious phrases and complex acronyms is generally designed to obfuscate rather than elucidate.
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Local oysters, wasabi, and truffles give the food scene plenty of character — yet nothing feels pretentious.
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Many of us remember the grand jury leaks, the driveway press conferences, and Starr's pretentious preaching.
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With friendly service and reasonable prices, theirs is the least pretentious coffee shop for a mile.
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"He&aposs not pretentious," Trump told Michelle Tauber for the article published on November 20, 2000.
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He holds a special place in Australian hearts because international success has not made him pretentious.
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Some will say it's pretentious, obtuse, and masturbatory, and they'd be able to find plenty of evidence.
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"At the risk of sounding pretentious, my approach is more novelistic than it is journalistic," he says.
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I don't want to be pretentious, but I feel good that these faces are getting on television.
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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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In 2015 he told an interviewer it would be "pretentious" to call himself a "serious, practising Christian".
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He points to 2001 as a model for how a film can be both pretentious and great.
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"I know it might sound pretentious, but I honestly don't know another accurate word," I wrote back.
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"She's a pretentious and, on occasion, excruciatingly silly human being," lambasted a piece in NY Rock Magazine.
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I like the staff here because they are knowledgeable without being pretentious, and the prices are reasonable.
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"We're not hierarchical, we're very open and friendly, we're not pretentious," says Dame Madeleine Atkins, its president.
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While this might sound pretentious, some mindfulness techniques incorporate household chores as a way of boosting happiness.
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In fact, many thoroughly enjoy a pretentious pseudo-philosophical debate one-on-one with a close friend.
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It's not pretentious and it's one of those places where you can start or finish your night.
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Kushion is ambitious, but not impulsive; it's savvy, but not pretentious; and it's technical, but not geeky.
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For its opportunistic fans, neoreaction just offers a pretentious justification for white male chauvinism and Trump worship.
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"We think we are doing something here by not being pretentious," said Oscar Bernal, a co-owner.
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"We have very pretentious programming, with an actor doing monologues from Tolstoy with Janacek quartets," he said.
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It might make me sound a bit pretentious saying that, but we are in a unique place.
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That sounded way more pretentious than I intended, but she's the King of Everything, so it's fine.
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It's fusty and pretentious but also haunting, a book of ghosts and a book of this moment.
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The first is that it is dull, dull, dull in a pretentious, florid and archly fatuous fashion.
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Calling someone or something "pretentious," it seems, has become the easiest way to police somebody else's taste.
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We are too easily lulled into complacency by pretentious prestige television, Oscar-thirsty biopics and presold franchises.
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They have a talky, crackling quality that keeps them afloat even when they veer toward the pretentious.
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The language of wine, as Eric Asimov, The Times's wine critic, has long argued, is unnecessarily pretentious.
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We love (don't miss this feature!): The overall calming vibe that was high-end without feeling pretentious.
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The evolution of it psychologically — I just realized how pretentious that statement was — was what was interesting.
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I felt she was being pretentious and self-aggrandizing, and wondered if she was also possibly high.
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"For me, I find it very pretentious: Sometimes it is so obvious that they are acting," he said.
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I hate to be pretentious and say I hope it changes the world, but, I mean, I do.
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The playfully pretentious app includes corrections for common grammatical mistakes written in red marking pencil for maximum snobbery.
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Maybe I sound like some pretentious fuck, but that is what underpins what I'm doing with black metal.
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I'm not always trying to be pretentious or say something that I think is gonna change the world.
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I couldn't imagine exchanging him for one of the effete, pretentious, loud-voiced boys in my philosophy seminars.
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It looks more like a spot for Harley-Davidson than a tech company known for its pretentious marketing.
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Or were you imagining that was the kind of pretentious stuff they [the characters] would have been into?
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One answer to that question may sound pretentious, but it also may be true: Because theater is different.
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Shot entirely in black and white, the movie is just pretentious enough to convince you it's worth watching.
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" As he continued to recall his youth, the president also joked that "in retrospect" he was "wildly pretentious.
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And the exposed wooden beams, once a main attraction, now feel pretentious, fit for someone other than you.
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It sounds self-centered to say, so pretentious, but I feel so truly different from anyone I've met.
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It isn't pretentious, it isn't rowdy, and it isn't new (the festival celebrated its 25th anniversary this year).
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At the risk of sounding pretentious: New Orleans began removing our Confederates monuments months before it became fashionable.
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And there is something to be said for ... I don't want to make it sound too whatever, pretentious.
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It was never an affectation, yet in some people's eyes it would probably be seen to be pretentious.
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This technique by a lesser poet's pen would be no more than a pretentious attempt at willed indeterminacy.
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Except at pretentious costume extravaganzas like the annual Met Ball, people no longer aspire to dress like that.
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It's very pretentious to start nit-picking things when there's not a lot of representation out there anyway.
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Real cheek kisses might be too risky at a time like this, but those fancy, pretentious air kisses?
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As a result, there was a pretentious tendency in both the substance and style of their foreign policy.
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The hotel is sophisticated but never felt stuffy or pretentious, and the grounds are well-serviced and photogenic.
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"I recognize it was obnoxious and pretentious and narcissistic and generally probably unbearable to be around," he said.
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Some critics have called Ms. Crenn's work mystifying and pretentious, both on the plate and on the page.
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It's kept some of the bait shop character and is much less pretentious than your average waterfront bar.
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Virgo is known to be picky and sometimes even pretentious, but it also can be a very playful energy.
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The limited series opens with a long, pretentious sequence and doesn't get appreciably better -- or less opaque -- from there.
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To its detractors, it is like the erotic sci-fi murals found in Saddam Hussein's palaces—pretentious and tasteless.
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But I hate that it can come across as pretentious and only showing the best snap shots in life.
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Then there's Baskets, the pretentious rodeo clown played by Zach Galifianakis on an FX series named after the character.
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Who's Rumi quotes play as quirky on the page but sound stiff and pretentious coming out of actors' mouths.
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MB: Well, I don't want to come across as pretentious, but that is something which I have difficulty explaining.
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Also, I'm more known with this old man voice but sometimes I like to be a hyper pretentious academic.
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I didn't know the skate stuff and he didn't know the film stuff so neither of us were pretentious.
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Their press photos were pretentious, to the point of being labeled "British Image 1" and "British Image No. 2".
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That probably sounds pretentious, but it's true; photography is like a drug that can give me a serious high.
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To its many detractors, it amounts to little more than pretentious noodling, based as it is largely on improvisation.
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The series managed to be poetic without being pretentious—and although it was funny, it wasn't quite stoner humor.
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Watching Lynch making Twin Peaks may irritate viewers who think both he and his show are pretentious and pointless.
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It's imperfect by design and unafraid to risk seeming corny or pretentious (and, once in a while, it tilts).
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"The reason I started cooking was to take an antagonistic position on contemporary, limited, pretentious American food," he says.
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The mere mention of the feted dramatist may have many scurrying in the other direction: too lofty, inaccessible, pretentious.
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There's a lot of negativity online towards the designation—people saying this is just a way of being pretentious.
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This across-the-board downgrading of the family's talent and aspirations makes them seem not just pretentious but delusional.
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On these shores, those same qualities have often been greeted, with sneers or shrugs, as showy, shallow, mannered, pretentious.
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James is such a nimble and fluent writer that such references never threaten to devolve into pretentious postmodern exercises.
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I was expecting Andy, because of his fame, to be pretentious, but he was actually quite funny and scatty.
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He didn't whip a C.V. out of his tux or slide a business card into Iger's hand all pretentious.
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By the time it was my turn to attend the prep school, I had become simultaneously insecure and pretentious.
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The parties "were often pretentious in their unpretentiousness," serving things like fried chicken and coleslaw, according to the magazine.
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You know TED talks -- those brainy but often pretentious lectures given by thought leaders in technology, entertainment and design.
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Wine cans are also easier to recycle than glass bottles and are seen as less pretentious to casual drinkers.
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Nothing too pretentious or postmodern here, just a cool drawing that you can wear: The Pin Game's Platonic Ideal™.
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On paper, they sound gimmicky, even pretentious: a white guy making a movie about two black trans women in LA?
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This writer vanishes for pages at a time in "Black Deutschland," however, and a vastly more pretentious one sneaks in.
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"I read in reviews [of the restaurant], sometimes, where people say the place isn't pretentious; it's just real," he says.
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Ornamental, elaborate, froofy, pretentious — there are a lot of words that could be used to describe what's going on here.
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"We add variety to the party scene with off center offerings in a non-pretentious, fun environment," Benitez told CNBC.
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Article continues after the video below And yet Driver: San Francisco, for all its intelligence and sophistication, is never pretentious.
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I was hoping to do something, even if this sounds pretentious, just slightly elevated in the themes I was discussing.
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He's a searcher throughout the tracklist, but his lyrical headiness is never grating or pretentious, and the songs feel timeless.
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It'll basically be like going to art school, but for a fraction of the cost and without any pretentious classmates.
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In scenes where doctors are consulted and tests conducted, "The Accountant" feels like a solemn, pretentious tutorial on the subject.
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While Batman v Superman is somber and pretentious, Civil War doesn't let its ostensibly serious subject matter drag it down.
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It's cool and artistic without being pretentious, and one of the best hotels in New York for budget-conscious visitors.
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Art is (not) Lonely, and we have no idea why it is titled that way other than to be pretentious.
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Its brazen effort might seem tenuous or pretentious if not guided by good faith and exemplified powerfully in sundry titles.
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Wood was amused by what he deemed a pretentious detail and asked his friend to stop so he could sketch.
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"The design is beautiful and not at all pretentious," says Gilbert, who often comes in after shoots to buy presents.
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"A band about bands," as Mr. Murphy called it, the group was purposefully pretentious, but also dedicated to bodily movement.
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That's a massive, pretentious overcorrection and a feeble attempt to defy a culture that's gonna change with or without them.
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If he thinks that channeling is too pretentious a word for what he does, he doesn't have a better one.
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" Satya means, in Sanskrit, the existence of the knowledge of truth—it wasn't pretentious at all," Goldin told me, laughing.
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The students were nothing if not pretentious; I was introduced to Christopher Marlowe before I was introduced to Harper Lee.
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He was old and pretentious, and the whole thing was just not working, and I felt I could do it.
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Now, as a pretentious adult who is in their early to mid 20s, I mostly watch it on my own.
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And I think his original conception of it would have been that it would be sophisticated but, you know, not pretentious.
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I'm sorry if that's pretentious, but it's a world that doesn't in any way respond to what you just talked about.
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But — let's be honest — also most likely also to up-sell people to those very pricey, sometimes pretentious-looking wireless earphones.
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It's also way cheaper than Coachella, so it's less pretentious and more likely to bring out fans from many different backgrounds.
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Unfortunately the "trying to be artful" portraits of Snap CEO Evan Spiegel wearing them are already establishing a slightly pretentious aura.
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Zoe (Taissa Farmiga) is a teacher at the school, and Myrtle (Frances Conroy) is still kicking and as pretentious as ever.
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Intelligence isn't really something that's easily quantified — plus, some critics have made the claim that sapiosexuality is, well, a little pretentious.
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And yet, in its own right, Aiden, your work has an absentminded charm, less pretentious and altogether more human than Mondrian's.
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"The way we should represent France is to make the food fun, charming, good, not pretentious," Mr. Richard told The Times.
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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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Its Mountain Dew sponsorship eschewed obnoxious banners or pretentious "art" installations in favor of keeping their visual presence to a minimum.
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But with that has come no small amount of scathingly personal criticism: that Mr. Landis is an egomaniac; pretentious and obnoxious.
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There was no ill will toward anybody but the N.R.A. Of course some of the student speakers were grandiose and pretentious.
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The whole film seems to be staged on a succession of extravagant Hollywood sets — overdone, incongruous, outlandish, excessive, pretentious, and creepy.
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"I am quite sure male chefs have committed far, far worse crimes in the cause of pretentious and pomposity," he said.
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" Frank enjoys skewering "social irritants," especially "pretentious women who think they're Lady Astor because their husbands make a ton of money.
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"I wanted it to be about — and I know this sounds pretentious — a corrupt man's journey toward the light," he said.
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It may be hard for tolerant, art-loving souls to resist the urge to groan when reading pretentious titles for artworks.
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Moleskine notebooks are very good and a little bit pretentious, so it makes sense that its planners would be the same.
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"I know people think we're pretentious, but it's really a product of sophistication," Mr. Lake told New Musical Express in 1973.
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So choosing to spend as much, if not more, on a device that does much less can seem ridiculous or pretentious.
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It's a mildly pretentious stylistic tic that still mostly works, and it speaks to Gaiman's two major concerns as a writer.
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Everyone was so present which sounds pretentious but it was truly powerful for us all to just want to be there fully.
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Scanning the drinks and food menus beforehand, I was immediately put off by how pretentious the whole set-up appeared to be.
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Some of the lyrics are a bit saccharine and willfully pretentious but I think that disappeared reasonably quickly, although many would disagree.
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Our vision of the game is to create something that's timeless as a piece of art, even thought that sounds pretty pretentious.
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Everyone was so present, which sounds pretentious but it was truly powerful for us all to just want to be there fully.
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"The opinion is couched in a style that is as pretentious as its content is egotistic," wrote Scalia in a biting dissent.
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I have to draw amusement from its price as consolation for putting up with the incredibly pretentious presentation about the phone itself.
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The verdure of the place, verdure his word, pronounced in a comically pretentious accent that had always spurred laughter from his wife.
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"I feel pretentious saying it," said Broidy Eckhardt, 29, a buyer for the Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts who married last month.
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It's great to know important and interesting people, but using every conversation as an opportunity to name-drop is pretentious and silly.
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She was just this fascinating creature, who was totally NOT flamboyant or pretentious, but absolutely, magnetically controlling—and this Nordic beauty, too.
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Their own tastes in poetry were somewhat traditional, and they considered the modernist poetry Harris was publishing to be facile and pretentious.
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Argentines have put up with so much, we always have, but we won't stand for a pretentious person looking down on mate.
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"Near here, there's a great museum, the Louvre, which I'm not going to try to imitate: That would be pretentious," he said.
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"If We Were Villains" is, then, a readable, smart, pretentious, youthful book, at once charming and insufferable, at once good and bad.
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If the meme could apply to any group of wealthy, pretentious pseudo-intellectuals, at least Photoshop a Harvard logo in there somewhere.
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Let's address the low-hanging issues first: There was nothing pretentious about the newlyweds trying to make a beautiful dinner for you.
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Young people have no money, which makes them ideal candidates for pretentious art film screenings at museums and other urban cultural programming.
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But the place is also known for being packed and for having a pretentious attitude whether you have a reservation or not.
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You're the derelict that looks to annoy me with your pretentious-ass diet of seventeen chickpeas and a tablespoon of Aquafina water.
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He'll light a pretentious cigarette and escape somewhere inside himself, where he can unicycle through Paris in his clown costume without judgment.
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"It would be a little bit pretentious of us to claim that we somehow will make World War I fun," he said.
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NYTFridgeScreenshot: TwitterThe blocker: Pseudonymous, pretentious, and thoroughly unlikable self-proclaimed media critic NYTFridge, which was briefly a subject of insufferable gossip in 2015.
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Again, there are some comic flourishes and wit buried within that, and these movies certainly aren't pretentious about what they aim to deliver.
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Yet when movies have a line of happy meals and other tie-ins attached, it's advisable not to sound too pretentious about them.
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"It stuck with me — it was hard to get past it," he admitted, though still reluctant to sound too pretentious about the process.
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A lot of albums are too polished or too serious, or too pretentious, and I didn't want it to be one of those.
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At after-service drinks, Will asks Tess out for a day of burgers and a pretentious movie — a real date in the daylight!
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"I've always been really nervous about adults calling me pretentious or saying that whatever I was doing was dramatic," admitted Blanchard in Seventeen.
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That may seem pretentious for a mobile provider, but the advert is part of Iliad's entry into Italy, which began on May 29th.
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And while the school shooting is one that's seared into my mind, too many other moments feel like a pretentious film student's debut.
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Probably, but then again, Justin Vernon positioned himself in a Kanye West-style of being so fucking pretentious that it actually transcends criticism.
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The book explores digital power dynamics, and the deep implication of our selves with these dynamics, with a sophistication that never feels pretentious.
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Here are the 10 most looked-up words and their definitions:PretentiousSomeone is pretentious if they express unwarranted or exaggerated importance, worth, or stature.
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It's surprising Janowitz writes of disliking "that pretentious, obnoxious" Holden Caulfield, when she seems to see the world through his gray-tinted glasses.
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Why him (according to Mr. Beguelin) Chris is really good at doing pretentious — being very full of himself to the point of hilarity.
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It stars Max Minghella as a wide-eyed art student, John Malkovich as a pretentious professor and Jim Broadbent as an alcoholic washout.
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Without a real-world correlative for the actions it depicts, Bertrand Bonello's new film would merely be tedious and pretentious rather than repellent.
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"And we've had it with your pretentious, tone-deaf assertion that you are in any way truth- or fact-based journalism," Loesch continued.
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These small grammatical rebellions strike some as poetic and others as pretentious — at least when the titles are given as their composers intended.
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He punctured those who were pretentious, satirized that which was foolish, lamented what was distressing and pondered the endless inanities of daily life.
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That's why there's a big nerdy market of in-ear monitors, which is just a pretentious name for earbuds that go inside your ear.
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Glowing portentously, this pretentious presentation perversely — if pleasingly — gives to reproductive technology an aura of sanctified "original" that is visually manipulative and conceptually ridiculous.
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But as a dramatist — oh, that's too pretentious — as a television writer, I like to think of it as the decisions that people make.
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Click here to view original GIFSaying "I don't own a TV" is a good way to let people know that you're a pretentious asshole.
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In an interview with Terron Moore for Teen Vogue, Sprouse explained that Jughead's being "pretentious" is actually what originally drew him to the role.
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Now defenders of Trillin (and there are plenty) have explained to us that Trillin is not speaking for himself, but is mocking pretentious foodies.
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Sometimes, the music is both very pretentious and very interesting, which is the territory a lot of his early solo Dirty Projectors work occupies.
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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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He may be the least pretentious person I have ever known, he never pulled rank on anyone, he had no fear of losing face.
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"Typical of French cinema," a journalist smirks, describing the work of a director he sees as a soggy, pretentious remnant of the New Wave.
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But overindulgence can lead to pretentious frills (like gold-plated walls, he jokes) — which can be a turn off to customers in McGarry's mind.
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She had filled out a questionnaire about her likes (blue jeans, midnight walks on the beach, G-strings) and her dislikes (gossip, pretentious people).
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But if it's pretentious, then it's ignorance on my part for electing to basically ignore one of the greatest literary figures of all time.
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We're all outsiders; using the music that saved us as a wedge to keep others out of the scene is elitist, pretentious, and disingenuous.
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It may surprise you to learn that this heady mixture isn't in the least pretentious or ponderous, but rather sweet, searching and deeply intelligent.
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At first I focused on the illustration and design and considered using pretentious-sounding words to try to sound like I knew about art.
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In one unseemly public display, a pretentious feminist author poured a glass of wine over his head and thus positioned herself as a suspect.
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He complains about haute cuisine because it's expensive and pretentious and a bore, and we all drink so much we barely experience it anyway.
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You got things like the New Yorker and Frida Kahlo, do you ever worry that people will think you're a pretentious snob or something?
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Others interpreted Eilish's face has a sign she was just over the inevitably long and reliably pretentious Oscars' broadcast, less than an hour in.
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The area where they live, near the Plainview shopping center, is "comfortable, down to earth, not overly pretentious," Ms. Panjvani, a former schoolteacher, said.
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The top spots on the island are littered with reviews espousing a pretentious and exclusive attitude for even people on a modest luxury budget.
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That's probably because a Jason Schwartzman-produced comedy about a New York symphony orchestra sounds awards-bait-y at best, and unwatchably pretentious at worst.
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En mi opinion, it made a lot of quality shifts from the book that made it a quality popcorn flick that wasn't too nerdishly pretentious.
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Aside from the fact that eating off of iPads is a disgustingly pretentious and absolutely unnecessary thing to do, it's also super gross and inconvenient.
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It sounds pretentious, fancy, and not at all committed to the yuck and muck of the real intimacy that comes with a long-term relationship.
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If you'll allow me to be pretentious for a moment and refer to culture in its bacterial form, it needs places to thrive and grown.
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Magnus Nordenhof Jonck, the cinematographer, creates an unnerving atmosphere despite the static story and pretentious, repetitive shots of skies and of people blurred through windows.
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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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Yet he can be admired for his cleverness, for his targets are often pretentious or naive (two qualities Cubans despise) and deserve what they get.
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Because Bergdahl didn't smoke cigarettes, he chose to join in the smoke breaks with a pretentious looking pipe which didn't help his case one bit.
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But it's so pretentious to pretend that they have adequate vocabulary to accurately describe a human, much less whether a human is happy or miserable.
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It would be awfully irritating to hear any scientist start a conversation with a stuffy and pretentious "Well, actually ..." It's not meant to be real.
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Kate Berlant also turns in an attention-getting episode but does it by taking a deep dive into one particular world: that of pretentious art.
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This is supposed to be a sacred place, absent of that everything-has-a-deeper-meaning pretentious-guesswork-bullshit that's read in every university textbook.
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But that might not do justice to the glorious pairing that is a tender slab of steak and a fluffy forkful of buttery potato. Pretentious?
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It's high-end but doesn't feel stuffy or pretentious, making it approachable for families, but still attractive to adults and couples seeking a quiet getaway.
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Pros: The atmosphere is cerebral without being pretentious, boasting rich literary events, arts programming, and creatives in residence meant to foster a culturally enriching experience.
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He tangled with his critics, pulled social-media pranks, and gave loquacious high-wire interviews while drunk or high, often dropping pretentious or contentious pronouncements.
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By the end of the picture Gyllenhaal has given us something we rarely see in movies: a credible portrait of a pretentious person's nervous breakdown.
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So if it's a full-of-himself, pretentious, vicious mobster who's suffering violence, it's more likely to be funny than if it's an innocent bystander.
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It wasn't a pretentious sound that begged the listener to make leaps with the band, but mass accessibility certainly wasn't a priority for Rainer Maria.
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Old-school and free of San Francisco's sometimes pretentious underpinnings, this restaurant has been family-owned for 30 years, and they'll treat you as such.
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So, I think there's a huge ... this sounds so stupid and pretentious, and the movie doesn't function on this level, if this sounds absolutely nauseating.
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" McRae quickly shot down the pretentious saleswoman, calmly saying, "It isn't the ring that matters, it is the love that goes into buying one that is.
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So "Thank you for the advise" is incorrect, while "I advise you not to bore me with your advice in the future" is correct, if pretentious.
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It felt a bit like a slightly less pretentious freshman linguistics seminar and made for a very tedious debate, about messaging and semantics rather than issues.
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At the time, I thought my professor was a pretentious prick (yes, that word), and I feel the same about this TV show (minus the prick).
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"The ethos is to present curated and concept-based installations all within an inclusive and non-pretentious environment," Creative Director and Curator Brian Whiteley told Hyperallergic.
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The blog, started by 23-year-old Johns Hopkins graduate student Kate Wagner, began in July 2016 as a way to poke fun at pretentious architecture.
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At least it does after a few puzzling, artistically pretentious early scenes in the Fellowship for Performing Arts' infinitely thought-provoking production at the Pearl Theater.
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When first I watched high school abacus whiz Serena Stevenson, her hand gestures seemed like a pretentious affect, like people who wear polka-dot bow ties.
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The book is simply titled Designed by Apple in California — a name that somehow manages to be both humble and incredibly pretentious at the same time.
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There's nothing pretentious about it (it's usually made with bricks of compressed instant powder from a box), and it packs a big, sophisticated punch of flavor.
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The next person who hurt Hannah is the man who published her private thoughts to the world: the pretentious poetry-writing zine creator Ryan (Tommy Dorfman).
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Kevin is eccentric, pretentious, and a total social pariah because he breaks the rigid ideas of behavioral expectations set by his peers both online and offline.
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The book is simply titled Designed by Apple in California — a name that somehow manages to be both humble and incredibly pretentious at the same time.
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"A straight line is perfection," he tells Chris (Kathryn Hahn), a frustrated filmmaker who is new in town and newly besotted with Dick's pretentious buckaroo machismo.
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For me, on some level—I'm gonna sound so lofty and pretentious here—it was sort of a political act to write very explicitly about sex.
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This is, overall, a super interesting way to kill some time and get some interesting, if a bit pretentious, profile photos for your various online presences.
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" Elsewhere, she sounds pretentious and self-important: "When one stops writing one becomes oneself again, the person one usually is, in terms of occupations, thoughts, language.
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The chameleonic Joe, meanwhile, has landed in California as the head of a software-security firm, sporting a Steve Jobsian beard and speaking in pretentious koans.
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Seeing this dude who looks like he was made in a lab to play basketball actually play basketball in a way that isn't pretentious or overworked?
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And if you just really hate Papyrus, Avatar, or both — or just pretentious filmmaking in general — then you can rest easy knowing SNL's got your back.
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An equally apt, less pretentious choice might have been ZZ Top's "Tush," since that's mostly what Sam is looking for and the camera is looking at.
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In one scene, we watch a slightly inebriated guy wax semi-eloquent on this topic, but it seems silly and pretentious next to the film itself.
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Once he learns that Kylie's pretentious boyfriend is planning to propose that same night, Max becomes determined to win her over with a night to remember.
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To listen to Rush was to march to the beat — the complex beat — and the even more complex thoughts of a different kind of drummer. Pretentious?
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While familiar techniques, visuals, and styles are all well and good, that's not enough for me to shy away from calling it for what it is. Pretentious.
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But Glass made you look goofy and pretentious, it cost $1,500, and the recording feature freaked out the general public, making the whole package a tough sell.
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Initially, I didn't like the story, as I found the author to be a bit pretentious and overly descriptive, but at this point I'm really enjoying it.
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The architecture, along with the recently updated locker rooms, created a luxurious feeling, but the clientele, a mix of young and old, didn't come off as pretentious.
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We're not pretentious, we're very open and honest about what our intent is and why we are doing it, and we stick to what we are doing.
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In 2013, he gave the account over to two performance artists who used it to write a pretentious and vacuous paper about exploitative fame and the internet.
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"I find a coffee-table book pretentious, but I don't know if people are going to look at these photos if they are not big," Peverelli said.
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I'm sure I've got plenty of dumb, pretentious things to say about it, but realistically speaking, it all boils down to: I like seeing bodies come apart.
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The funny thing is I don't think it needs the slightly pretentious trappings because the fact is that Tetris Effect is an effortlessly powerful and affecting game.
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Lupe Fiasco: Drogas Wave (1st & 15th) It's pretentious to complain that this musically agile, intellectually ambitious rapper has undertaken a concept trilogy that doesn't justify its pretensions.
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Both the PS1 show and the performance you did on Fallon, also in character—If the audience wants to criticize us by saying it's pretentious, guess what?
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But even then, he doesn't want Lightlessness to come off as pretentious, as if he happened upon some universal truth and is now sharing it with you.
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Once I'd sampled several varieties of apples, I started to feel like I was shedding my human skin and becoming a pretentious wine snob, but with apples.
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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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Pretentious. As an only child terrified of conflict, I strived to skip adolescence and become the sexless gentleman bachelor of age 40 I felt destined to become.
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Our wealthy (and somewhat pretentious) neighbors in the country have banded together with some like-minded people to buy a large tract of open land near us.
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The story unfolds in a series of discrete parts, some with self-conscious section titles that could seem merely pretentious if you miss the simmering, deep irony.
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In the mouths of figures like Limbaugh and Dinesh D'Souza, it calcified into a sort of pretentious playground taunt: You liberals have facts, but we have ideas!
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Audiences often assume that artistic difficulty derives from pretentious obscurantism, but Rasheed's installations demonstrate how, at its best, such difficulty derives from nothing more than simple necessity.
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And I don't mind using it if someone else uses it first, but there are times I don't use it because it could feel a bit pretentious.
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"I don't want to sound pretentious, but I have a strong feeling after my tennis career that I will coach a big-time player at one point."
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But I feel like that's a joke, because he's so pretentious in that movie, but I actually kind of feel like that's true with the characters in this.
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If you like your speakers to look bespoke and only mildly pretentious, the new PR / 01 speaker from Native Union and La Boite Concept might tickle your fancy.
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Claire Molek: It's an opera delivered by text, so already we're subverting this idea of the very pretentious, sophisticated operatic space and putting it in a text message.
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That may sound ridiculously pretentious, but I genuinely believe it's true: Its designer Jonathan Blow has, clearly, chosen the puzzle genre as a way to talk about life.
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She bails on a mourning Ray for a pretentious-sounding exercise class, and tells a stranger to send an Uber for his hospital-bound girlfriend in subsequent episodes.
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If I'm going to have a cute drink with girls, there's this bar that's like pretentious fancy, but it's so close to my house and it's really cute.
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Artists are afraid of losing their livelihoods if they criticize the status quo, and as a result mostly do it through ironic work that ends up being pretentious.
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Attendance varies wildly, from local teens taking selfies to out-of-towners who smartly made time for New York City's least pretentious, most diverse, most affordable food event.
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Forget the N.B.A. players on the United States team and their pretentious assertions that they could not stay in the athletes' village here because of their extreme popularity.
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His book is short and, whether one finds it compelling, self-serving or pretentious -- those, with some overlap, seem to be the most popular takeaways -- it never drags.
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Despite all the pretentious finery of the formal wear, traditional setting and the fact it's called the Trinity Ball, there is definitely something refreshingly grimey about it all.
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On one hand, I admit I'm one of those pretentious people who thinks everyone should be forced to read the source material before watching movie or TV adaptations.
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But I think it's good to be very pretentious, and very aware, and at the same time be very open for letting the music just run its course.
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For instance, people who take cocaine become so pretentious, you just want to shove them in a cupboard so that they can look at themselves in a mirror!
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Anyone obsessed with getting their seasoning just right will love this somewhat pretentious tiny tin of Maldon sea salt flakes, full of you guessed it: flaked sea salt.
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"I never wanted to be one of those pretentious people who get rich and suddenly they're spending all their money in galleries, pretending they have taste," he says.
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But he was best known as Martin Crane, the blue-collar father of two painfully pretentious white-collar sons on "Frasier," seen on NBC from 22015 to 19963.
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When things calmed down — and after they made fun of the school as a pretentious country club — it was Elizabeth who was more copacetic about their child leaving.
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He was a photographer of the intolerably pretentious and sleazy type who takes close-up, black and white pictures of women's erogenous zones while cutting off their faces.
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She quotes him a bit of pretentious boilerplate from his museum's web site about the "topos" of meaning when an object is placed on view in an exhibition.
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The title is a tongue-in-cheek nod to the art world's pretentious titles, while also, Mr. Twist said, a pretty decent description of the border wall itself.
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It is that the driver they call Junior never came across as pretentious at a time when other drivers started seeing themselves as a brand to be marketed.
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You might think your favorite bar is in Wicker Park, but as your pretentious upstairs neighbor will gladly inform you, it's actuallyin Bucktown if it's north of the 606.
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But this penultimate episode earned the right to represent Atlanta on this list with its surreal, devastating portrayal of a pretentious Juneteenth party that's ostensibly meant to celebrate emancipation.
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Calling the thing you want to make "art" used to be embarrassing and pretentious because it implies a wish to hold oneself above the pedestrian demands of everyday life.
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Although he hid his sexuality from his family, at school he cultivated a gregarious, pretentious, preppy, and extremely effeminate persona inspired by the aristocratic, queer Brideshead character Sebastian Flyte.
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When she's not working on her art (and she does the work), she's passing time with hyperactive Mars (Anthony Ramos), arrogant Greer (Cleo Anthony), or pretentious Jamie (Lyriq Bent).
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The way I see the world — this is probably so pretentious and self-indulgent — I don't see why people aren't reacting the way my character reacts to bad news.
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Late in its season 43 premiere, Saturday Night Live surprised viewers in the best way possible by taking on two pretentious movies — and one unbearably overused font — at once.
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And while the young British lords and ladies might make pretentious and feigned attempts to create distance from their titled and moneyed families, these social codes remained in place.
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Turturro's Rabbi Bengelsdorf, meanwhile, is something darker: a pretentious, well-read gentleman who so thoroughly buys into the logic of respectability politics that it's impossible to call him cynical.
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As she demonstrates in her episode of the Netflix showcase series "The Characters," she is capable of both embodying and piercing the sometimes pretentious worlds of art and culture.
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It's a pretentious farce, set to "Bolero," in which people in trench coats and bowlers push around a wall on wheels, followed by an overwrought duet about intimacy issues.
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In fact, I Love You, Daddy is so earnest and heartfelt that I don't even think the film really warrants the use of "pretentious" in the name of this award.
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You might think your favorite bar is in Wicker Park, but as your pretentious upstairs neighbor will gladly inform you, it's actually in Bucktown if it's north of the 606.
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Its central character is Max (Wesley Snipes, very good), a family man and semi-pretentious commercial director whom we first meet in his old stomping grounds of New York City.
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At the risk of sounding like a pretentious hipster, the old, obscure ones are still clearly the best; a 15-minute format is the way the show should have stayed.
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It's about loving something so much you want to make art of out it, but it's also about how embarrassing and pretentious that can sometimes be and how self-incriminating.
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But critics have already written off so-called sapiosexuals as pretentious at best and discriminatory at worst, while also demeaning real marginalized gender and sexual orientations in the LGBTQ community.
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Though prog could be pretentious and overstuffed, the conventional wisdom about the genre dramatically understates how popular it was in the 1970s—and how interesting and ambitious it still is.
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Long Beach may have its honky-tonk side, but it also has an established community of artists who were fed up with the equally honky-tonk but more pretentious Hamptons.
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First, Mr. García is not just a keen observer of corporate and social culture, but a thoughtful business and policy analyst armed with a highly refined detector for pretentious nonsense.
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Too generous and innocent to be pretentious, with its subversion of gender norms wrapped up in its sincerity, "Dia de los Muertos" might expand your idea of what is traditional.
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Today the Plaza is a grand-facade boutique hotel and retail space under pretentious deluxe apartments owned by the kind of affluent global flotsam who fake their children's SAT scores.
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Minimalism was the hot style then, but he found its industrial blankness pretentious and turned to making smallish, rough, gnarly things, that referred to the body, or parts of it.
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I was among that sodality of readers who didn't cotton to "The English Patient," finding it merely moody, murky and lightly pretentious, a tone poem in search of a whetstone.
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Few songs make you want to scream, dance, cry, march, and call your senator all at the same time — and even fewer manage it without feeling pretentious, calculated, or disingenuous.
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"As a brand, we do things that are refined but never pretentious or stuffy, and the TENCEL™ brand delivers that utilitarianism, because we live in our clothing," Smilovic explains.
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Yet the experience doesn't seem fusty or pretentious, perhaps because the store came together suddenly a year ago, when decades-long friendships collided with a last-minute real estate opportunity.
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With that in mind it's easy to see why records like this could be deemed pretentious or overblown, but Tommy's success established a format that's endured over half a century.
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But in general—and this may be a little bit pretentious on my part—I tend to believe that bad people surround bad people and good people surround good people.
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Carol dismisses the "King" and his pretentious affectations as a fairytale, knowing all too well that blissful ignorance is no protection from the horrors of the world outside The Kingdom's walls.
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There are few things more pretentious than the Genius Verified series, which has over-the-top artists explain the lyrics to one of their songs in front of signature yellow background.
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Perhaps that's what gives the book its longevity; they're more precocious than pretentious — I couldn't relate to them on the same level emotionally as a teen, but I grew into it.
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It may sound pretentious, and a little weird, but in a world where "Hey There Delilah" is getting its own TV series, we certainly wish The Chainsmokers the best of luck.
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"It has not been difficult to presume that the Trump Tower would be silly, pretentious, and not a little vulgar," wrote Paul Goldberger, the architecture critic for The New York Times.
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Of course, she's significantly less thrilled with the prospect of also living with James's son, Nathan — an insufferably pretentious high school senior who does little to hide his contempt for Gwen.
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And while some critics were wowed by its style, it was hard to get past the pretentious excess (beginning with the event that sets the plot in motion) and muddled message.
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But the Marshall McLuhan guy, with his glasses and distinctively Allen-style haircut, is surely a doppelgänger and a clue that Alvy is more of a pretentious windbag than he realizes.
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Time has already forgotten, which is a pretentious way of saying that I had too many beverages, too little of the England Clam Chowder, and puked in the band's dressing room.
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Even though "Frasier" was ostensibly about the goings-on of pretentious radio host Frasier, the love story between his brother and their father's caretaker is one of the most memorable storylines.
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By now we know what we are going to get from an Ondaatje novel: A moody, murky, lightly pretentious and mostly nonlinear investigation of lives and stories that harbor tantalizing gaps.
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The crowd appeared to be upper-class and not particularly diverse, with many people wearing crisp button-up shirts and slacks, dresses, and turtleneck sweaters — but the space didn't feel pretentious.
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But at their best, these outsider collections had a clear connection to the idea of couture, an aspiration to that level of creation that was not pretentious (thank goodness), but palpable.
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"To say that justice is being served is very pretentious," said Francesco Ricci Bitti, chairman of the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations and former president of the International Tennis Federation.
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But I was afraid of the conclusion I might draw, that the expression was not pretentious jargon, that the expression made sense, opening out into a cogent argument concerning important issues.
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The "house rules" card they present you with is just pretentious enough to make you feel superior to everyone in the line of shivering, well-dressed fools waiting to get in.
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While insipid or pretentious merlot abounds, this one, from the consistently good Broadside, is fresh and plummy, well balanced and lip-smacking, with a pleasant bitterness to invite the next sip.
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It's an LP that walks the rare line of somehow being obnoxiously pretentious yet harmlessly innocent, occupying that complicated space in between that we all look to fill with indie rock.
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Gorka — a name that sounds normal (if a touch pretentious) to Americans but that raised eyebrows in Hungary, where Gorka's parents are from and where he lived from 1992 to 2007.
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As pretentious as that may sound, season two is a little more serious, and though it successfully pulls off the tonal shift, American Vandal becomes a fundamentally different show in the process.
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Even if you consider yourself to be one of the pretentious types when it comes to food, the formalities vanish after enough wine, and you're surprisingly down with the usual caveman behavior.
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I never had trouble managing the files via Photoshop/Lightroom, but it is kind of like the 'II' at the end of my sir name, arguably unnecessary and definitively a bit pretentious.
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The relocation—and a pretentious new name, the Ministry for Ecological and Inclusive Transition—hint at Emmanuel Macron's desire to be seen as a global leader in the fight against climate change.
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Instead, allow outsiders to label your content as disinterested and pretentious when you are actually genuinely trying to make sense of world events everyday, whether or not they are content-inducing holidays.
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In Lemon, Cera plays a pretentious actor with a Napoleon Dynamite haircut who, alongside Brett Gelman's frustrating character Isaac, mocks other members of his acting class and indulgently humblebrags about his accomplishments.
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Get Out was bold, but lacked the pretentious first-world-problems of the white human condition; hence the comedy viewpoint by studio executives—possibly at the risk of a directing/writing nomination.
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"He came in with no reservation so he was not pretentious or trying to set it up or making sure he was incognito – he literally walked right in," a source tells PEOPLE.
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It's not pretentious at all, so maybe if you sprung for one of those $10k Edition watches you'll want to look elsewhere (It's also not compatible with the link bracelet watch band).
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This would horrify Bangs, who once famously put such a hurtin' on Black Sabbath's now iconic 1970 debut that Ozzy Osbourne called him a pretentious dickhead in his autobiography 40 years later.
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"I love what I do so much and I consider it a tremendous honor and a privilege to illuminate the human condition -- without being too pretentious about the whole thing," he said.
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A few weeks ago I was at a restaurant in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, the annoyingly pretentious kind that's given an ironic Hebrew name because its menu mainly consists of pork and shellfish dishes.
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After nearly 20 years working in the contemporary art field, I'm not expecting to receive from the National Authenticity Board a certificate of merit for not being a pretentious wanker anytime soon.
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An absurdly pretentious Hood By Air show a few seasons back gave every indication that overreach was imperiling a promising design team and label; sure enough, the brand has since shut down.
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To many, the banana seems like great troll, mocking the rich and pretentious who, like the proverbial emperor, are too wrapped up in their egos to notice that they&aposre completely naked.
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In The Silkworm Rowling is largely concerned with literary losers: the victim is a pretentious author of awful literary fiction, Owen Quine, and he's killed in a particularly lurid and horrific fashion.
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People who think all small-batch food producers are scam artists, meanwhile, took the micro-scandal as proof that anyone paying more than $2 for a candy bar is a pretentious sucker.
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They are dispatched to Rome, where Alexanya Atoz (Kristen Wiig, unrecognizable) rules the fashion world as a Donatella Versace-like fashion empress whose pretentious diction is so comically clotted as to be unintelligible.
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But I think that acting like love is some magical thing that we can't possibly understand falls into this other category of things that are irritating but aren't what I would call pretentious.
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"Probably the least pretentious public figure I've ever been around," said Wayne West, who served as an assistant secretary of state under Brown and recalled him parading around the office in his socks.
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I'll take an overlong, pretentious movie that is at least trying to have a point over one that's simply trying to check boxes and get through two hours without making anybody too upset.
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"It would be pretentious on my part ... to presume to know where to best spend it," said Andrade, who consults with state officials and anti-slavery campaigners on how to use the money.
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If you think starting college is hard, try doing it as a 17-year-old virgin going through a breakup, while spreading the word of God in a really pretentious and aloof way.
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Article continues after the video below Related: Watch VICE's new film, 'On Patrol with South Korea's Suicide Rescue Team' And yet Driver: San Francisco, for all its intelligence and sophistication, is never pretentious.
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One of the show's funniest monologues was his recitation of a lengthy, fictional music review, replete with academic jargon and bogus literary allusions that sounded authentic until it morphed into pretentious absurdist nonsense.
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"It's an ambitious novel without ever being pretentious," Mr. Irving said in an interview, noting that he couldn't remember the last time a debut novel had made such a strong impression on him.
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Riverdale's sardonic sad-boi narrator, Jughead (Cole Sprouse), is a jarring amalgam of the pretentious teenager I once was, as well as the number of the reedy, slouching queer women I've crushed on.
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Their neighbor is Brian, a pretentious yet vulnerable artist (Heap); Tim's best friend is Mike (Frost), a wannabe army man; and Jess's best friend is the fashion-obsessed and mildly vacuous Twist (Carmichael).
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One thought experiment I enjoy doing is taking a massively popular, best-selling album or film and trying to describe it without naming the artist or title, and see if it sounds pretentious.
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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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Every supporting teen — from Feldstein's enthusiastic Julie to Timothée Chalamet's pretentious Kyle to Lucas Hedges's earnest Danny — feels authentic, which in turn makes Lady Bird's relationship with each feel that much more realistic.
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It's hard to decide whether this is the most brilliant or the most ridiculous literary trick that has ever been performed around the fraught, often pretentious task of rendering musical sublimity in words.
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But however the category was, or is, defined, the Outsider Art Fair, compared with other fairs, seemed the least pretentious, the least focused on money, the rawest, liveliest and most full of surprises.
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The Williamsburg Hotel is a major player on the Williamsburg hospitality scene with carefully-curated design, trendy ambiance that isn't over the top or pretentious, and excellent on-site food, drink, and programming.
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It's an annoyingly pretentious phrase, but for any eye-rollers out there, it's the haphazard tearing into irregular, craggly-edged chunks, rather than meticulously cubing them with a knife, that makes them spectacular.
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Instead, Popstar is a gleeful smorgasbord of dopey jokes set in and around the pop music world, playfully goofing on the divas, the pretentious, and the pathetic hangers-on that fall into its orbit.
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It holds its own with any fast-food milkshake, and—apologies for sounding like a pretentious foodie douche—the earthiness of the cricket powder even tempers the sweetness of ice cream and coffee syrup.
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I've noticed a disturbing tendency among my friends and I to act as though drinking lager represents a badge of authenticity, a rejection of pretentiousness which ends up being, in its own way, pretentious.
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" The best part of a brown iPhone is Apple will probably have some pretentious name for it like "Chocolate" or "Mahogany" â€" Karissa Bell (@karissabe) September 11, 2018 Which, well, kind of makes sense.
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You've Got Mail wants us to think Frank is a pretentious dweeb with a misguided fear of technology and an affected habit of using typewriters (he has three)—but, actually, Frank is a soothsayer.
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Seasoned with Kashmiri chiles, saffron, grape must and tamarind; garnished with pomegranate seeds, fresh mint, dill and parsley; and drizzled with prodigious amounts of sour yogurt, her dishes are intelligently conceived without being pretentious.
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No matter how grim the lives of the people in "The Heavenly Table," no matter how deluded, pretentious, vile and pathetic they (and we) may be, literature provides relief and pleasure, hope and consolation.
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Wearing a Mondrian-print, Yves Saint Laurent-style dress and, by her own delighted admission, stoned to the gills, Ms. Ryan's Sandra exudes a sensuous, dithery confidence that is silly, pretentious and absolutely commanding.
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"The career politicians are more pretentious and polished when they pathologically lie, but they're ten times more dangerous than Trump," M Street of the Beltway wrote in response to a column by Nicholas Kristof.
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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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In many ways, the clientele matches the vibe and the design: attractive, sleek, and often stunning, but never so precious or pretentious that you'd feel out of place in your flip-flops or jeans.
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The critics — the ones who called him pretentious and too earnest and too overly serious for a movie star — became a force he worked in contrast to, a dark shadow that rode alongside him.
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Dumber, less inventive and not as pretentious as "Sicario" (released in 2015, directed by Denis Villeneuve and written by Mr. Sheridan), it both advances and retreats, expanding on the original and narrowing its scope.
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This one, similar in tone to Maurice Béjart's sexed-up version, makes the mentally deranged couples, tuneless vocalizing and pretentious oddity that fill the remaining sections of "Unknown Pleasures" seem more tolerable by contrast.
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To deny your wife the right to tweed up would be to deny English majors, poetry majors and short-story writers the right to wear the traditional garb of the pretentious and deeply indebted.
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Yet with its mix of traditional tablecloths and fresh wild posies, the room couldn't feel less pretentious, especially when a table spontaneously burst out in the traditional, emotional polyphonic village songs, as often happens.
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They are smart without being pretentious, earnest without being histrionic—often undercutting their own significance by rarely taking themselves very seriously (they were all in their mid-teens when the band formed, after all).
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CANNES, France (Reuters) - "The Square", a Swedish movie about the curator of a museum filled with grotesquely pretentious conceptual art, beat stiff competition to win the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday.
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And it's not alone: Three other films earned six nominations as well, including a disappointing would-be blockbuster (Pixels), a pretentious, wannabe-artsy failure (Jupiter Ascending) and a Paul Blart (Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2).
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Superman, on the other hand, was derided as an overstuffed, pretentious mess that blew through a massive budget for little reward—though it still ranks at a comparatively stellar twenty-seven percent on Rotten Tomatoes.
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I guess I could get smart, learn how to use a Nikon and all the fancy equipment, but that would be like saying, 'Hey, I'm a photographer now,' and that would be pretentious of me.
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Those companies totally redid their looks but failed to do so cogently: Airbnb's pretentious new logo, the "Bélo," aimed high but ultimately just reminded users of a combination of various reproductive and non-reproductive organs.
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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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His ostensibly silly, certainly pretentious rock hero moves serve not to express their own verbal ideas but rather, by lending it a mouthpiece and a persona, to contextualize the message already implicit in the music.
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I still remember how my local video store used to have a separate shelf of Criterion DVDs (yes, it was kind of pretentious), and I guess we can think of FilmStruck as the online equivalent.
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So that, to me, was interesting, because anybody who thinks they can write about their own town with the people living side-by-side right next to him… that's a super pretentious thing to think.
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The film is by no means as shambolic as "The Cloverfield Paradox" or as aimless as "Mute", but it is tightrope-walking the fine line between open-ended, mind-expanding mystery and lethargic, pretentious twaddle.
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For the remainder of this year, you'll be keeping your opinions to yourself, although the pretentious voice in your head is practically shouting thanks to Mercury in Sagittarius, the know-it-all of the zodiac.
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With his pretentious vocabulary, drawling accent, frequent yachting, and frequent ski trips in Switzerland, Buckley was a pseudo-aristocrat who led a movement of those who thought they were better than the rest of America.
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The burgers are served rare, the ketchup made in house, and the servers are occasionally eye-rollingly pretentious about the whole shtick (and the end of the day, we really are just talking about sandwiches).
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He really wants us to compare such pretentious and poorly painted twaddle as "Portrait of Tatiana Lisovskaia as the Duquesa de Alba II" (2014) to Henri Fantin-Latour's delicately refined "Chrysanthèmes in a Vase" (1873)?
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In the TV series "SpongeBob," Squidward, the hero's misanthropic neighbor, does stretchy "interpretive dance" (he's an octopus), which in pop-culture shorthand means he's pretentious, just as the clarinet he plays means he's a dork.
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In addition to the biblical sources, the script contains quotes from Joseph Beuys, Allen Ginsberg, Jean-Luc Godard, Susan Sontag and R.E.M. It would all be mega-pretentious if it weren't so flat-out idiotic.
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It's so cliché, it feels like super pretentious to say this, but you genuinely feel like this vessel and you're like, 'That was sick, I don't even know what just happened,' and it's just fucking real.
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Her Moira swans about the local diner in all the luxurious silks she could salvage from her former life, and speaks with the ambiguous British-ish accent favored by those who are equally ambitious and pretentious.
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What saves the play from being a pretentious Gallic snore-fest is that it owes as much to Charlie Chaplin as Schopenhauer: It's full of physical humor, funny bickering, trousers falling down and pungent verbal inventiveness.
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These stereotypes are undeserved, and the city hosts galleries, restaurants, and a thriving cityscape alongside working-class neighborhoods that make the city feel much less pretentious than the glitzy polish present in San Francisco's city center.
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Latest Project His untitled band ("Calling it a band is a lot less pretentious than collaborative performance troupe or whatever," he said) is taking its act on the road, including Le Zoo in Geneva on Nov.
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Charles Deering EstateVizcaya may be the fanciest castle-like villa in town—it took James Deering nine years to build—but his less pretentious brother Charles made a more humble but equally charming real estate investment.
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Speaking of pretentious artists, Elizabeth Shapiro introduced us to one recently in a segment of her "Crossroads of History," one of the mini-shows that constitute a new comedy block late Thursdays on the History channel.
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There is nothing that pretentious foodies love to harp on about more than the fact that the grocery store tomatoes available all year long are so unquestionably inferior to those harvested during the peak of summer.
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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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I cannot explain the push-pull this has on me, though I think it has to do with my reluctance to talk about why I write poetry, because any reason I come up with sounds pretentious.
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My two cats are named Gatsby and Kilgore Trout (although everyone calls the latter Killer)—which is fine, if a little pretentious for a pair of felines owned by a pair of writers living in Brooklyn.
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In addition to Richards, the actress Hari Nef recently played a supporting role as a pretentious grad student on the first season of "You," the Lifetime thriller that became a cultural phenomenon after it hit Netflix.
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PC: Yeah, but also, perhaps more than certain filmmakers — perhaps I'm wrong or being a little bit pretentious — I tend to have this obsession with a balance between what's in front of and behind the camera.
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"Bunny," out this month, is a wicked satire set in a prestigious all-female writing workshop that revolves around a clique of students who call one another 'bunny' while composing pretentious fiction and nibbling mini cupcakes.
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The Big Bento Box of Unuseless Japanese Inventions by Kenji Kawakami is the best of both worlds in that it is essentially a coffee table book, but it's hilarious, not pretentious, and you can carry it around.
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It mostly takes the form of Strike infiltrating a group of radical leftists protesting the effects of the 2012 Olympics on London neighborhoods, only to find, with much condescension, that the leftists are pretentious middle-class idiots.
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Well-chosen guest stars turn up in every episode, none funnier (so far) than Jason Mantzoukas, who in Episode 2 plays a pretentious photographer hired to take new portraits of everyone to spice up the firm's website.
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Sure, there have always been ... You'd play around with that, and if you were pretentious you would talk about the pasta you had made, but you would stop making it, and you therefore would move on. Yeah.
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"You could call Roeg a pretentious director, but he is a gifted one, and many of his pretensions pay off in beauty, tension and a mysterious, unsettling power," Jack Kroll wrote in reviewing the movie in Newsweek.
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Baieta also attempts to democratize haute cuisine with a relatively inexpensive fixed weekday lunch menu (a starter and a main for 29 euros, about $36), and the friendly young staff and cheerful logo erases any pretentious airs.
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In an act of pretentious cringiness, he "revealed" that his whole blog had been nothing more than a "social experiment" the whole time, and we were all pawns for his research into the world of micro-blogging.
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By contrast, "Friends" gets most of its gags from its characters' foibles: a pretentious one (Ross), a vain one (Rachel), an insecure one (Chandler), an uptight one (Monica), a stupid one (Joey) and an eccentric one (Phoebe).
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Some days I would come home — maybe it's [after] a scene where we're having a knock-down, drag-out fight — and feel like something profound happened, at the risk of sounding at all self-important or pretentious.
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"When I say that acting is just a rather more sophisticated way of playing cowboys and Indians, it's my way of trying to quash all the pretentious crap that's said about acting," Mr. Hurt said in 1990.
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For meals, avoid the pretentious overpriced dining rooms and head instead to Cantina del Vigia, where steaks, pizza and vegetables all take a turn in the twin wood-fired ovens before arriving at the simple wooden tables.
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They were very largees [sic] pretentious and brutal expanses of thick, impasto pigment mostly sll-black [sic] or sullen sgray [sic], broken into here and there along the edges with one or two small streaks of color.
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He starts a heavy flirtation with Jeremy, a high school teacher, after chaperoning Chase to prom (a story for a different day), but ruins things when he tries to impress his crush by acting like a pretentious asshole.
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Alison Smithson later remembered the editors as "very pretentious, as though they were the intellectual cream" and described some as the kind of people who become hysterical when they have to wait for the lifts in department stores.
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Achilles Heel was a response to that in the sense that where it would have been really natural to go further in that reaction, I just wanted to turn around and see something more organic and less pretentious.
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An interior designer from the Columbus Circle area, Ms. Roth had considered professional stroller cleaning pretentious — until her stroller got soaked by a Central Park puddle so disgusting she could not stomach putting her toddler back in it.
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No one wants to be viewed as pretentious, and a quick Twitter search shows that the word is used roughly once a minute to call people out for everything from enjoying soy lattes to owning a fancy lamp.
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"I didn't want a place that was too precious or too pretentious, so everything's sort of old and lived-in and in a single palette," he said of his furnishings, which include a lot of midcentury Danish furniture.
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The 2017 prize went to The Square, an absurdist comedy from Swedish director Ruben Ostlund, in which the pretentious curator of a ritzy art museum has to confront a poor family in order to retrieve his stolen wallet.
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Yuja speaks in fluent—more than fluent—English, punctuated by laughter that gives one to understand that what she is saying is not to be taken too seriously, and that she is not a pompous or pretentious person.
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Charismatic in a way your dad could never understand, Dylan was pretentious and troubled, but he was also open to being vulnerable, to being wise beyond his years, to being goofy, to being a mensch to his friends.
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They prefer the term "cardisty" which feels a little pretentious, but watching them move cards around in mid-air like they wield the Force makes you realize they've probably earned the right to call their craft whatever they want.
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An adaption of Patricia Highsmith's novel (she also wrote Carol and Strangers on a Train), the film is a great window into the 21.3s pretentious Ivy League rich kid world, expertly populated by Gwyneth Paltrow and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
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An adaption of Patricia Highsmith's novel (she also wrote Carol and Strangers on a Train), the film is a great window into the 21890s pretentious Ivy League rich kid world, expertly populated by Gwyneth Paltrow and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
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Gabrielle Moss is a lifestyle features editor at Bustle and the author of Paperback Crush: The Totally Radical History of '80s and '90s Teen Fiction and GLOP: Nontoxic, Expensive Ideas That Will Make You Look Ridiculous and Feel Pretentious.
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What these businesses suggest is that you can have the benefits of a digital platform and an algorithmic feed while still feeling self-satisfied, pretentious, and exclusive in the knowledge that your content has been carefully curated by humans.
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Sometimes people here are really rude about tourists, but even the people who say they're from here are never REALLY from here, so I find it stupid and pretentious to complain about people who are just here for vacation.
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Hospitals and rehabilitation centers use it as immersive therapy for patients, drone racers use it for better control of their vehicles, and every pretentious arcade has at least one VR game you can blow a wad of quarters on.
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I don't want to say this because it's pretentious, and I don't want it to be on the record Keenan, but my job here is to open doors and remove obstacles so that our people can do their jobs.
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Pretentiousness in his definition is not self-serious but playful, exemplified by the likes of Brian Eno (who has written about wanting "to turn the word 'pretentious' into a compliment"), Kate Bush and David Bowie, to name a few.
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Others, schooled on decades' worth of parodies of that same movie (especially its projectile-vomiting and 360-degree-head-spinning scenes), will be on the lookout for anything in the TV show that might be laughably ineffective or pretentious.
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Here we've compiled all of the video ads into one clip: Facebook's come a long way from its clumsy, confusing, and pretentious first TV spot celebrating its billionth user back in 2012 that declared "Facebook is like a chair".
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Plot-wise, there's not much more to the pilot than that; it mostly focuses on creating the atmosphere of the couple's malaise, and reveling in the simultaneously sleepy and pretentious town of Marfa, Texas, where the story is set.
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By the time the first season ended on November 1, the 10-episode series had explored the lives of black Atlantans from shabby apartments to swank nightclubs, mundane workdays to pretentious parties, prison holding cells to rumpled bedroom sheets.
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Laaleen Khan, the founder of the Pakistani branch, has noted that South Asian society has its share of "disapproving Lady Catherine de Bourgh-esque society aunties, rakish Wickhams and Willoughbys, pretentious Mrs Eltons and holier-than thou Mr Collins types".
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"I never say the Country Music Hall of Fame because I just felt like that was kind of pretentious, you know, to think that I deserve to be in there," he said, standing in the Hall of Fame Rotunda in Nashville.
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When our unnamed mooncop hero encounters it, the automaton has strayed from the museum and is standing beside some rocks, reenacting Armstrong's historic steps and remarks — which now, given the circumstances, seem sort of pretentious, a little Buzz Lightyear-ish.
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It also exemplifies how the station has grown in the last five years from a humble shack in Dalston into an universally-beloved tastemaker by embracing diversity and its underground roots in a way that feels more populist than pretentious.
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" The phrasing didn't sit well with critics, who say that a retail store that sells $213,000 iPhones is hardly a space synonymous with civic life, that it's not actually a public place, and that calling it such is a "pretentious farce.
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The designer behind Enfants Riches Déprimés, Henry Levy (or "Henri Alexander," depending on how pretentious he's feeling on any given day) got miffed, and proceeded to dive headlong into an Instagram fight that showed his in ugly, garish true colors.
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Rickly: I know some people will think this is a pretentious answer but I don't, I think it's a simple answer: You decide whether you're more of an entertainer or somebody who is, for lack of a better word, an artist.
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The first guy was doing well, though he seemed to be grappling with some fundamental insecurities, opting for the British spelling of apologize though he is not British and using the word programmed in a way that felt somehow pretentious.
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That was what she tried to draw, and that was ideally what she and Roy tried to build, even though "build" was a strange word, and you sounded like a punk if you said "erase," or something pretentious like that.
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Silicon Valley Despite all evidence to the contrary — the infantilized corporate campuses, the venal and pretentious company "visionaries," the self-aggrandizing talk of changing the world for the better — "Silicon Valley" is secretly a show that loves technology and innovation.
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By now, at 61, Mr. McInerney has certainly earned his place on the Artists' starting team, and yet it's never quite clear how detached he is when he starts inhabiting Russell's memory or recapitulating a pretentious young man's hero-worshiping fatuousness.
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One play, "Save Grand Central," is the story of two mismatched Upper East Side couples and the attempt by one of the men, a ravenous lawyer, to replace the pretentious upscale restaurant owned by the other with a Burger King.
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Wolfe came up with "radical chic" to brand pretentious liberals, the "me decade" to sum up the self-indulgence of the 19303s and the "right stuff" to quantify intangible characteristics of the first U.S. astronauts and their test pilot predecessors.
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This smutty anti-sitcom wades through its fourth season with the relationship between the pretentious Jimmy (Chris Geere) and the jaded Gretchen (Aya Cash) still very much in doubt; there's been plenty of competition, sabotage, revenge and all-around awful behavior.
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Where many actors-turned-directors make debut movies that are eye-rollingly political or pretentious, "Booksmart" would love to be a latter-day "Dazed and Confused" or "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" — a celebration of adolescence, from a decidedly female perspective.
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It's been dubbed as pretentious, and even inspired a tongue-and-cheek event called Ce Soir Noir; a picnic that is open to everyone, in which attendees wear all-black and are asked to bring a food item to donate.
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That realm belongs to the Franco-Chinese food writer Mimi Thorisson, whose blog and cookbooks — lavishly photographed by her Icelandic husband, Oddur — have transformed the image of Médoc from the stodgy preserve of pretentious chateaus into something like a peasant paradise.
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Under Wilson's stewardship, the company has also been dogged by controversy and media blunders, and developed a reputation for being insular, pretentious, and eerie at times, due to the company's obsession with developing employees under the self-help movement Landmark Forum.
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" Dissenting in June from the court's decision establishing a right to same-sex marriage, Justice Scalia mocked the soaring language of Justice Anthony M. Kennedy's majority opinion, saying it was "couched in a style that is as pretentious as its content is egotistic.
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This is America, after all—we like the gym, and pop music, and war, and reality TV. Yet, this prejudice against the pretentious exists simultaneously alongside the idea that sports and pop music and reality TV can be legitimate topics of analysis.
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After all, this is a public figure whose film tastes rival that of any pretentious film student, a trait he's never shied away from sharing on his many shows (See the Rome episode of Parts Unknown, which was filled with Pasolini references).
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I'm not a Tinder user myself, but more than a few times I've been hanging with friends at a pub or flat, and someone has got out the app so that everyone gawk at the alternately earnest, pretentious, and embarrassing human slideshow inside.
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So it was at this point that I thought this episode's main thrust was going to be a vicious indictment of NYC's pretentious cocktail scene, because this was preceded by a scene with Wags vaping his alcohol, in the most Wags move ever.
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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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This aesthetic often falters or fails, whether by becoming too monotonous or pretentious or by slipping into trite depravity, like a red-light-district level that culminates in some erotic encounters between beast-women and televisions and a vaudeville act involving public hanging.
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Taste might seem like the ultimate in, yes, pretentious topics, far removed from the concrete realities of how we actually live, but it's part of how we take in the world, the filter that shapes our immediate reactions before conscious deliberations begin.
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When I remember how much money I've spent there and how bizarrely pretentious the service can be, not just for the Lower East Side but for any neighborhood, I want to shake them by the shoulders until they come to their senses.
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With Sodi, the food always tastes as good as it looks: There is never an object or dish too fussy or pretentious, from the simple-yet-decadent marble backsplash at I Sodi to the beautifully bright, sparsely adorned seasonal greens at Via Carota.
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When the comedian and musician Reggie Watts closed the Red Rock Canyon event with a riotous set that included him adopting the persona of a pretentious poet, there was a ripple of surprise and almost relief that someone was having such unabashed fun.
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Mr. Sinno, a self-described "pretentious writing snob" (his lyrics teem with allusions to Sappho and Sylvia Plath), described the students as "all extremely woke," and outlined a syllabus that includes Bertolt Brecht, Judith Butler and the French rap duo the Blaze.
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"Though he says he tweaked it from its original style more than a century ago, he is loathe to take any credit for the haircut as he wouldn&apost want to be thought of as "pretentious" but does say he "pushed it along.
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His debut, "The Salvation Hunters" (1925), was a low-budget, self-financed feature, hailed as a masterpiece by some, including the silent superstars Charles Chaplin and Mary Pickford and the German stage director Max Reinhardt, and dismissed as a pretentious bore by others.
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You get the welcome feeling that Nilsson, who will be 80 in a few months, is a serious, still-aspiring artist who has never rested on her laurels or taken herself too seriously; she never became pretentious or found it necessary to make lofty pronouncements.
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It feels a bit like what happens when you end up at a dinner with that kid from uni who used to seem pretentious but was actually just excited about all the different elements of the arts and how they connected to each other.
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As an increasing number of users have opted in to the label, some with less than 1,000 followers and others with more than 5,000, their followers have taken to Twitter to condemn the act, calling those who use it pretentious, stupid, and tool-ish.
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I just got a bit sick and tired of pretentious artists trying to be overly clever and produce EPs that were full of tracks that were 112bpm, or had a volume fade intro, or were so distorted (on purpose) that they were utterly unplayable.
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The pair adjourn to Weiss's car to ingest eighths of mushroom chocolates while I wait to interview Watson inside Graffiti Cafe, a pretentious coffee shop whose rules of entry include an 18 and over age policy, no outside food or drink, one drink minimum.
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Scene City Over the years, Julianne Moore has appeared in more than 60 movies, where some of her more memorable roles have included a despairing porn star, a pretentious artist, an articulate academic, a lightheaded lesbian, a boozy Briton and a stilted New England housewife.
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Kathleen Kelly is caught between two love interests and two approaches to the written word: Her live-in boyfriend, Frank (Greg Kinnear), who is absorbed in his own pretentious writing, and her professional rival Joe, who sees books as mere products to be pushed.
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I don't want to sound like a "pretentious actor," but this character infiltrated me in a way that was very hard — by Episode 5, I could not extricate myself from the sheer brutality, and yet sadness and excruciating pain, that I felt sometimes physically.
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I don't want to sound like a 'pretentious actor,' but this character infiltrated me in a way that was very hard — by Episode 5, I could not extricate myself from the sheer brutality, and yet sadness and excruciating pain, that I felt sometimes physically.
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The 87-year-old French-Swiss director, revered as a living legend by film buffs but derided as pretentious and irrelevant by his detractors, is in competition for the Palme d'Or, Cannes top prize, which he has never won in his near 60-year career.
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So despite a pretentious sounding name like Craft (the only thing worse would be to call this thing an artisanal keyboard) and not having mechanical keys that are all the rage among the youths of today, Logitech's new wireless keyboard is a delightful piece of tech.
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And it made me wonder if one of the tells of an unsuccessful pretentious science fiction film is that it seems really artful and deep, but then there's this incredibly clunky exposition, because that's something they don't bother to do in an organic or interesting way.
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"Laptops and iPads are multi-purpose devices loaded with games, social media, work email, funny cat videos, and those birthday photos you still need to edit," wrote the Freewrite's creators on Kickstarter, back when it was lumbered with the even more pretentious name of the Hemingwrite.
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On one hand, that helps the Blade overcome one of the primary pitfalls Google Glass faced five years ago, when it became apparent that any wearer of the device was using a bizarre brand of wearable tech that made them look pretentious and out of touch.
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Translator Yvette Siegert has succeeded in faithfully rendering the minimalism of the Spanish in wrenching, stripped English; she and Pizarnik give proof that unadorned poetry, particularly of a confessional bent, can generate more heat and light than the more histrionic — and often pretentious — examples of that genre.
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Similar shortcuts exist throughout the film, whether in Willem Dafoe's dreadful omniscient narration ("Celeste's loss of innocence curiously mirrored that of the nation," he says at one point) or the pretentious title cards that precede each act of the film, such as "Genesis" and "Re-Genesis".
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In the piece, Smith refers to Willow and Jaden as the following:— "überentitled, brainless, self-adoring, twaddle-spewing little munchkins" — "nuclear narcissists"— "terrifying ego monsters"— "pretentious, vapid and humorless" — "the black Boy George, minus the talent" (Jaden) Lobbing a laundry list of insults at minors — really, dude?
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Tromping past skiers on the walk to the lift, I feel like I need to explain myself, that in fact I am one of them, that I only have these things—now on my feet—because I am writing about my pretentious skier bias for a magazine.
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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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I believe traditional institutions that impart "culture" such as symphony orchestras or art galleries need to start thinking outside the box rather than staying in their traditional box of old tricks ... like playing Beethoven Symphony 6 for the hundredth time to a hall of pretentious old farts.
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" When I asked her, over e-mail, what music was currently inspiring her, she wrote that though she probably couldn't "avoid sounding pretentious or douche-y for saying this," she was "enjoying listening to traditional music from around the world, or specifically from outside of Europe.
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And yet, what could have become pretentious, tedious or dreary wasn't that at all, because in every frame is a snapshot of one or more individuals paired with a teddy bear, that soft fuzzy toy we believe to be essential to childhood, its moment of innocence, power, and hope.
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"With all those voices out there on the stage, to call me 'the voice of the Met' is very odd," he said in 270, sounding about the same in conversation as when the "on the air" light was on: conversational, avuncular and warmly authoritative, but not pompous or pretentious.
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The show room was lined with dressmakers' busts displaying the white toiles that were the base of the collection, and on each seat was a booklet created by the house with meditations on the production of couture (also its meaning, in an unnecessarily pretentious Lacan/Duchamp-quoting way).
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That's Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles, an album that sounds remarkably pretentious when you remove the band name, when you take away the associations we have with that name—of global popularity, of a celebrated British export, of a high point in 1960s pop culture.
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And while many teen movies have a sprawling cast, very few beat the one in Clueless, which includes Brittany Murphy as eager new girl Tai, Paul Rudd as pretentious college bro Josh, and Alicia Silverstone bringing equal parts naiveté and casual smarts to Cher, the movie's matchmaking heroine.
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His heroine, a middle-class Jewish girl who dreams of becoming an actress, changes her name from Morgenstern to Morningstar, falls in love with and loses her virginity to a pretentious would-be playwright, and learns to settle, happily, for life as a wife and mother in suburban Westchester.
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"I, Maureen" portrays a Montreal wife and mother who veers from madness to compromise with her wealthy husband's insufferably pretentious clan, walking at last to the end of her tether and looking out a picture window at a snowy lake, before returning to the icy rituals of her life.
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Couple things here: first, apparently Spike TV is being rebranded as the "Paramount Network," which sounds kind of pretentious but is definitely better than Spike TV. Second, this TV miniseries suggests Paramount is attempting an early leap into prestige TV, with Michael Shannon and Taylor Kitsch offering some solid star power.
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" But his emphasis on technique and fine dining doesn't mean that Jacques is elitist or pretentious by any means; he's averse to wasting food, is a proponent of using all parts of the animals that he cooks with, and kindly lets us in on the secret to a thrifty "fridge soup.
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In eschewing its past naming convention of good old fashioned numbers in favor of Roman numerals — and in doing so calling the phone "ten" — the Cupertino-based company is trying to have it both ways: implicitly saying this is a phone for the ages, but that it's also not too pretentious.
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The Brawlers are enjoying a period of peaceful coexistence with their rival gangs (who have equally pretentious names like the Happiness Ghouls), but they're haunted by an original sin: the betrayal and brutalization years before of the gang leader's sister, who was dragged behind a truck and left for dead.
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Challenged to design a dining table by a client who didn't like anything on the market, the architect Lorenzo Bini attempted to avoid making a piece too boring or too pretentious by creating an amoeba-shaped tabletop that he called "an impudent rip-off" of one of Ellsworth Kelly's leaf drawings.
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And if that sounds like a well-worn — and maybe pretentious — basis for a film, there's a twist: In both style and substance, The Plagiarists is recognizably ripping off and skewering a low-budget, talk-heavy strain of American independent filmmaking, featuring young creative wannabe artists and their faux-intellectual musings.
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I'm at the stage where I walk on the streets eating a can of tuna—and that's the highlight of your career, because you realize that you're not trying to do pretentious work or work that's not real to you, just because you want the money or you want to be out there.
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Fine, all right — but: without discipline, which you lack, the very beauty of your men and women is ineffably scarred by excess; the poetic metaphysic, which you sing, becomes pretentious and adolescent; the very wonderful sadness and joy, the whole synthesis, at once noble and tragic and magical is lost, ruined; lifeless.
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Like MAY, I too spent a lot of time online in the early part of this decade, forging connections with likeminded people across the world, because I was either too scared or too pretentious to try to relate on a human level to many people in my high school in Tampa, Florida.
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The 1931 short "The Darktown Revue" is a blatant provocation: In addition to featuring a clownish preacher in a black-in-blackface skit, this parade of negative stereotypes opens with a choir performing the minstrel song "Watermelon Time" with an incongruously pretentious solemnity (the essence of what Micheaux's audience might have deemed "dicty").
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The genius of Karyn Kusama's ever-so-slightly satirical Invitation is that you don't know, at first, whether its hero (excellently played by Logan Marshall-Green) is correct in his growing paranoiac suspicion that his old friends have joined a cult, or whether their pretentious dinner parties are just inherently cult-like.
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So far, its issues have included articles about natural wine's relationship to labor, the pleasure of shower wine and the choose-your-own-adventure-like drinking experience at Lil' Deb's Oasis in Hudson, N.Y. "I never want The Wine Zine to sound dogmatic, pretentious or protective of information," Katherine Clary, 32, said.
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But the book isn't particularly faithful to this premise, veering off into vignettes about delivering a "Samuel Clemens Address" at a Southern college despite knowing little about Mark Twain, getting into a "midlife marijuana research" phase and growing up as a willfully pretentious only child and misfit in the Boston suburb of Brookline.
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Though this is hardly the "old Kanye" he apparently resents, at once TLOP presents as an attempted patchwork of all the best versions of himself: the pretentious and often obscene grime of Yeezus, the emo minimalism of 808s, the ambitious imagination of MBDTF and, occasionally, the endearing magnetism of his original trilogy.
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Having a point of reference is great, saying, "It's like a black metal thing with a bit of this in it"—I mean, you sound like a pretentious dickhead when you rattle off five genres for the one thing you're doing–but at the same time people get way too swept up in it.
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Films often mock critics as pretentious (as in M. Night Shyamalan's Lady in the Water), inhumanly dour and judgmental (Brad Bird's Ratatouille), and power-hungry (Alejandro G. Iñárritu's Birdman), but Gilroy finds a little of all the above in Morf, while still letting him come across as deeply engaged with the art he's critiquing.
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While Windows 10 S may be less vulnerable to attack because it will only run rigorously tested software approved by Microsoft, there *are* still ways to infect machines running the OS.Although Microsoft never actually claimed to have built an unhackable machine, even implying that its OS is invulnerable to all "known ransomware" is pretty pretentious.
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Seriously, you're not impressing me, just because you drink a pretentious "fancy drink" while all of us regular schmoes make due with our boring old caramel two-pump vanilla macchiatos and double mocha frappes with a side cup of pure cane sugar to chase like when you take a shot of tequila with salt.
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There have been a lot of books written where people are interviewing a lot of the people involved—the Asheton brothers and James Williamson—but Iggy hasn't talked that much about it in-depth, and once we did it, I thought, without wanting to sound pretentious, this is kind of an important historical document.
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As pretentious as that sounds, that's probably exactly the thought running through the minds of the biggest names in Hollywood as they do various monotonous activities — like Jennifer Lawrence jumping on a trampoline to promote a new fragrance by Dior — or perilous ones, like Dakota Johnson going to therapy because of her dark journey filming Suspiria.
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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 idea that, instead of that whole involved, emotional process, she might have watched a pretentious Holocaust movie, drunk three beers, and then gone to some random house to lose her virginity to a guy she'd met at a movie theatre was so funny that suddenly she couldn't stop laughing, though the laughter had a slightly hysterical edge.
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Mr. Wolfe chronicles the arguments against two of that linguist's central theories — the notion that humans are born with an unseen language organ in the brain, and the complicated structural concept of recursion in language — and declares Mr. Chomsky to be bankrupt in nearly every regard, a pretentious man whose ideas set linguistic study back for decades.
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"That would be an equal discussion of some sort and I could never be so pretentious as to think that I'm going to have a conversation with these artists," he says, and mentions Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring, with whom he'd sit in the studio and, in fact, talk about the differences between their work.
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Standouts include Rivera's Neoclassical, Picasso-inspired "La Molendera" ("Woman Grinding Maize," 21900); Kahlo's "Tanto Frida" ("Both Fridas," 21950) and "Autorretrato con el pelo corto" ("Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair," 21900) — painted shortly after divorcing Rivera; Siqueiros's pretentious self-portrait "Autorretrato (Le Grand Colonel)" (33); and Orozco's quite beautiful image "Les Femmes des soldats" ("Wives of Soldiers," 23).
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It felt fitting, then, that after a few years away from New York — a city that, like London, values a grimy deadbeat with a pretentious side — King Krule played a secret show well after midnight, in an overstuffed Manhattan dim sum restaurant known to certain youthful types for its after-hours parties and lax indoor smoking rules.
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Hef was the grinning pimp of the sexual revolution, with Quaaludes for the ladies and Viagra for himself — a father of smut addictions and eating disorders, abortions and divorce and syphilis, a pretentious huckster who published Updike stories no one read while doing flesh procurement for celebrities, a revolutionary whose revolution chiefly benefited men much like himself.
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The way this show enacts that frustration, though, often lapses into tediousness, closer to the worst goopy grandeur of "Dawson's Creek" than the energetic cleverness of "The O.C." Part of that is the strenuously precocious, self-consciously pretentious dialogue — in and of itself not a vice, and certainly accurate for the kind of teens these teens are.
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Reformed demon Michael (Ted Danson) makes a desperate last-ditch attempt to save the four dead humans he had once selected to torture each other — Kristen Bell's dirtbag with a heart of gold Eleanor, William Harper Jackson's anxious academic Chidi, Jameela Jamil's pretentious socialite Tahani, and Manny Jacinto's lovable dope Jason — by making his case for their eternal souls.
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" (As an aide: Someone at PETA needs to license Ka's "My diet is veggie but the desi is a carnivore" line for a t-shirt slogan.) Homeboy Sandman also gets tricksy on "Men Are Mortal"by confessing how he's "Trying to keep my temper in a tempest/ So I'm into tofu and into tempeh/ Guess I'm pretentious.
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As we sit down (in the basement because, apparently, 11 AM on a Sunday is when everyone in Zone One decides to go for pancakes), a small boy on the next table is smearing Nutella across a crepe with a knife while simultaneously trying to learn the suction-up-a-straw drink tasting technique so beloved by pretentious bar staff.
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I don't want to seem pretentious and hipster [...] finding all these weird songs, but I do like finding these songs, 'cause I remember as a kid watching skate videos and I loved when there was a song in the video and then they wouldn't put the song title in the credits so you would have to find it out on your own.
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Forsythe's tendency to push his dancers to physical extremes, and his use of electronic sound scores by his longtime collaborator Thom Willems —to say nothing of his taste for German Tanztheater and French post-structuralist thought—have led some critics, especially in this country, to dismiss his work as a violent and pretentious attack on the body and on balletic form.
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"Person X looks like Person Y I met in Context Z a number of years ago" is her formula to transport us into her past, to narrate a series of sleazy hookups with more or less forgettable pseudo-intellectual types (the balding "magazine guy"; the flabby, aging community college professor; the wannabe comedian quoting The Vagina Monologues; the pretentious graduate student).
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Tosh describes sometimes funny, sometimes weird details that make up the texture of his atypical life: from a devastating mudslide to his shared passion with Wallace for 1960s pop music to his absolute aversion to smoking weed to his pretentious declaration of the best music to have sex to (at the time): side two of Evening Star, the 1975 studio album by Robert Fripp and Brian Eno.
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I was a pretentious teenager — by high school I ran with a crowd that tried to get into bars by ordering cocktails we read about in P. G. Wodehouse — and it came as no surprise to anyone who knew me at 16, sipping espresso and reading "The Flowers of Evil," that I ended up spending my adulthood making up stories about orphans named Baudelaire.
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I began to enjoy the way the moments of dead sound pulled me out of the movies, perpetually calling attention to the artifice unfolding on the screen — a technique you might call Brechtian in a more pretentious context, and which in this one I found made even the shoddiest of the spaghettis far weirder and more engaging than a conventional Hollywood western of comparably low merit.
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It was there he began building a network of influential contacts that would underpin his rise to prominence and lead to his publishing venture with Mr. Nicolson after World War II. Mr. Weidenfield brought to the enterprise a business acumen and "a certain continental intellectualism, which might have been considered pretentious in a native Brit," the columnist Quentin Letts wrote in 1999 in a profile of him in The New Statesman.
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It was pretentious and centered around the idea that rock'n'roll was this immortal genre, just as it was becoming far less interesting than other new and innovative musicians who had started releasing music – rappers like Young Thug and Tyler, the Creator, internet-savvy pop producers like AG Cook and SOPHIE; and really, a lot of the acts we can now call today's megastars: Kendrick Lamar, Solange, Dev Hynes and Frank Ocean.
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His personality in the video below seems like a dentist's waiting room of bad English stereotypes: Austin Powers, Dr. Who, Willy Fog, Neville Longbottom, Klamer the pretentious community college student, Hugh Grant, Gandalf, Shit Break—they're all here, talking like Alex Jones's impression of a British person, dressed like a rugby fan: When I try to pinpoint why Robby Branom makes me feel uncomfortable, I can think of lots of reasons.
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Pretentious, politically conservative, materialistic and deeply bigoted, Carlotta seems a peculiar match for O'Neill, who was none of those things — though for a supposed friend of the little guy (see "The Iceman Cometh"), he would prove surprisingly blasé about their good fortune in coasting through the Great Depression on the cushion of their combined wealth (thanks, in part, to the savvy financial advice of her banker sugar daddy).
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Playlist: "What I See" (Rise Above), "Thirsty and Miserable" (Rise Above), "Spray Paint (the Walls)" (Rise Above), "Cannibal Resource" (Bitte Orca), "Useful Chamber" (Bitte Orca), "Fluorescent Half Dome" ( Bitte Orca), "Offspring are Blank" (Swing Lo Magellan), "Unto Caesar" (Swing Lo Magellan), "I Found it in U," (Lamp Lit Prose) Spotify | Apple Music This is the chief complaint about Dirty Projectors, and sure, all of Longstreth's music, to a certain degree, is pretentious.
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One difference between the two artists is temperament, with Warhol being cool and even aloof towards his charged subjects (car crashes, electric chairs, public disasters, and movie stars) while Schnabel came across as either an unabashed romantic or a pretentious jerk who serves up his subjects in an overheated style on a field of broken dishes and later velvet, tarpaulins, sails, animal skins, canvas flooring from boxing rings, and Kabuki theater backdrops.
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Canada president Trudeau will face election next year, but now, he has already drawn the ire of voters at home on a number of issues, the recent opinion survey shows that voters who think Trudeau is "weak-spirited "and "pretentious" accounts for 31% and 27%, so if Trudeau make the dairy farmers who is the major voters dissatisfied again in NAFTA negotiation, then this political pressure will be the headwind to the negotiation.
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