| 单词 | pretension |
| 例句 | How pallid by comparison are the pretensions of superstition and pseudoscience; how important it is for us to pursue and understand science, that characteristically human endeavor. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Isaac Newton came, on his father’s side, from a farming family that had just started to do well for themselves in a material way, but lacked any pretensions to intellectual achievement. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z “Why pretensions? Do you think I could not become an artist?” The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z The big house on the corner was sadder and older than I had remembered, and looked absurd, with its architectural eccentricities, its pretensions to French style, its facade covered with diseased ivy. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Far more useful to me, for understanding the tics, pretensions, and insecurities of the owner class, are books and other print-related artifacts. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “So besides tempting fate with melted cheese and literary airs of pretension, what else is in your risk-taking repertoire?” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z “The natural dominance of the master again asserted itself without pretension,” wrote Van Brunt, “and we once more became his willing and happy pupils.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He described Harriet as “a woman of no pretensions, indeed, a more ordinary specimen of humanity could hardly be found among the most unfortunate-looking farm hands of the South. “Her success was wonderful. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z A. without a single pretension to the character of a soldier, a perfect Quixote as a statesman. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z "Well, except he's a baritone," Jane says, her music pretension apparently extending even to the world of opera. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z The manor-house of Ferndean was a building of considerable antiquity, moderate size, and no architectural pretensions, deep buried in a wood. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z No one tried harder than Satie to puncture the pretension of Bayreuth, even if his rejection of the Wagner legacy may have been at times rather puerile. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z In disliking them, I was forced to recognize my own pretension, and that made me hate them even more. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z And as such, he comes into this court under a handicap, notwithstanding our pretensions that all are equal before the law. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z His pretensions to uncommon glory were one thing. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Wishbone is a little dog with big pretensions. preventive. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Or might it be, despite all the pretensions about UFOs and ancient astronauts, that our civilization has not yet been discovered? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “And you call yourself an artist! What pretensions, Madame! The artist must possess the courageous soul that dares and defies.” The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z And Dorothy was of an unusually independent mind, impatient with the pretensions that sometimes accompanied the upwardly mobile members of the race. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Did the chicken precede the egg, or vice versa? pretensions. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s a city that prides itself on its open-mindedness, its lack of pretension, and its homegrown slang. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z And perhaps it was not evil I saw but merely the way of all hearts when fear has stripped off the husk of kind pretensions. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The geographic location of the new capital played to these pretensions by making it the physical projection of Virginia. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z But Binoche, looking handsome and almost fragile in a tailored black pantsuit, gives off no hint of bogus pretension or of the diffident, superior boredom that emanates from other French movie stars. Juliette Binoche on her new Tuscan-seductress role 2011-03-12T22:01:00Z Even today, people believe that the Frenchman was making fun of artistic pretensions and that his work mocked old-fashioned ideas about tastefulness. How does Las Vegas prevent catastrophic floods? The answer is in this exhibition 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z Asked how he responds to charges that his various less-than-commercial endeavors add up to James Franco-ish pretensions, the actor is forthcoming: “I’ve been accused of being pretentious my whole life, rightfully so.” Ethan Hawke: 'I've Been Accused of Being Pretentious My Whole Life, Rightfully So' 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z If pretension were bullion, Sting would be the third Koch brother. Ten bands I will be forced to listen to in hell 2012-07-11T14:15:00Z The show’s first season was simply great, brutally dissecting the pretension and absurdity of Silicon Valley’s culture and business practices. ‘Veep,’ ‘Silicon Valley’ and the Intrusion of Real-Life Events 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z Yet the show floated along on its own lack of pretension. What the Golden Globes Gets Right 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z But it’s rendered loudly and publicly and with no pretension, instead of for an insider audience. Music Review: Ceremony and Sleepies at the Kimmel Center 2013-12-06T22:39:13Z However astonishing, Wobble's musical travels avoid pretension, grounded by the Trilby-hatted Cockney geezer's mischievous, surreal humour. Jah Wobble & the Nippon?Dub?Ensemble 2010-08-06T20:46:00Z One of my ideas behind it was to turn everyone’s perception about music upside down: No audience, no pretensions, no script. Daryl Hall explains it all to Salon: “Record company executives are the most backward bunch of idiots I’ve ever seen” 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Whatever he did he did well and with a minimum of fuss: no fancy words, no intellectual pretensions, just simple grace under pressure. Books of The Times: Talent Is What Made Him Dangerous 2011-02-14T23:29:12Z They dabbed on chalk-colored makeup as a way to mirror and ridicule white pretensions. “Sorry to Bother You” exposes the danger of bourgeois integration 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z “Set Fire to the Stars” barely skims the surface of characters you wish had been given more dimension, but as a snapshot of postwar academia and its pretensions, it exerts a creepy fascination. Review: ‘Set Fire to the Stars’ Unleashes Dylan Thomas on America 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z I have always thought it was a brilliant work, simultaneously celebrating the possibilities of sculpture and deflating its pretensions. Is Sarah Lucas Right for the #MeToo Moment? 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z Snobbery and inverted snobbery, aspiration and pretension, the struggle of the individual against a collective destiny: these are great engines of comedy. Whatever happened to the working-class sitcom? 2011-01-24T20:29:01Z This mawkish plot might be tolerable if its characters were more likable; instead, they are pretension personified. ‘The In Between’ Review: Love Never Dies 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z The careful curation of an image via social media was taken to its horrific extremes; those who suffered most were rich snobs with airy literary pretensions. You on Netflix: the awful, sociopathic show we're absolutely addicted to 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z An etching of a skeleton wearing a fancy French hat sent up the pretensions of rich Mexicans who tried to pass for European. Review: When La Catrina Met Giselle 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z Rather, God bless her, she writes straight out of her own quirky intelligence and heart, and makes no pretension to doing otherwise. Is The Atlantic making us stupid? 2012-09-10T16:26:00Z His books are works of craftsmanship written honestly and without pretension.” With His New Mystery Novel, John Banville Kills Off a Pen Name 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z He added, with characteristic slyness: “Not that I think pretension necessarily a bad thing in a writer.” With His New Mystery Novel, John Banville Kills Off a Pen Name 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z Lowry could be blunt, overly frank; he took pride in his plain-speaking, his dislike of pretension. LS Lowry: the people's artist comes in from the cold 2013-06-08T23:05:10Z Their ease and magical beauty rebuke the paintings’ strained pretensions. Art Review: A Modernist Who Thrived at the Margins of Painting 2011-07-21T23:27:13Z New York has sent it a devil, just as today it sends its suits to crush Tinseltown's artistic pretensions. Gangster Squad reflects the west coast's fear of the east 2013-01-07T17:25:58Z Nicholas says he aimed for service incorporating aspects of fine dining but “without the pretension.” Review | A Potomac view meets polished cooking at Ada’s on the River in Alexandria 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z Equally they could be the imprudently expressed justification of an escapist drama, with no pretensions to realism, of a reasonable man who knows his market. Beware the jolly journalists who add a splash of mischief to their interviews 2011-03-20T00:05:20Z Mr. Shannon does have a remarkable lack of pretension, with an earnestness and sincerity that stands in contrast to his physical ostentation. Theater: He Looks Like a Big, Scary Guy Because He Is One 2010-12-26T02:24:21Z Yet musical or verbal complexity can easily add clutter rather than depth, not to mention idle pretension. Music: Want a Hit? Keep It Simple 2010-12-31T19:49:03Z The film satirizes the behaviour and musical pretensions of hard rock and metal bands. Spinal Tap-style comedy for BBC 2012-08-17T08:58:32Z Though its titles – Deathwaltz, Putting Down the Prey – suggest an abundance of black-clad art student pretensions, there's a lot more to it than that. Esben & the Witch: Wash the Sins Not Only the Face – review 2013-01-17T21:30:01Z While "Mission: Impossible -- Fallout" doesn't have the surprises of an "Infinity War," it also doesn't get bogged down in its pretensions, as so many cinematic-universe movies do these days. “Mission: Impossible — Fallout”: Tom Cruise action spectacle delivers high-level summer fun 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z Before long, food critics and bloggers joined Yelp reviewers in skewering its pretensions. Up Close: The Velvet Rope Comes Down 2010-10-27T18:04:00Z The Anatomy of Violence is a sobering reminder that for all our cultural pretensions, we are also at the mercy of our biological systems. The Anatomy of Violence by Adrian Raine – review 2013-05-25T13:00:07Z Beyond skewering pretension, Gómez was interested in spotlighting Latin America's working class. Comedian Chespirito's work wasn't just laughs, it was also about class 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z His first feature film, “Garden State,” a moderate indie hit 10 years ago, was essentially a TV comedy with pretensions to be a generational touchstone. Zach Braff Directs and Stars in ‘Wish I Was Here’ 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z In truth, reading a poem in Latin or Greek seems to me to be no longer an expression of class pretension or elitism, but rather a small act of cultural resistance, even of protest. Madeline Miller's Orange prize win captures the prevailing literary mood 2012-05-30T18:15:01Z I usually play monsters whose foibles -- vanity and pretension -- are their own fault. Golden Globes 2015: Ricky Gervais isn't ruling out more 'Derek' 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z Goya’s caprichos mocked the foibles of Spanish society, especially the pretension of its upper classes and the superstition and ignorance that cut across all social strata. Perspective | A humor exhibition at NGA might not be funny, but it reminds us to laugh at what’s stupid 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z You mock his detractors as “salty”? Went Trump to get back at pretension? Style Invitational Week 1300: Botch office sensations 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z A straightforward, straight-talking presence, her Hanna — whose husband has died, leaving her the millions that are fought over in this Franz Lehar blockbuster 1905 operetta — has no pretensions and no illusions. Review: ‘The Merry Widow,’ Revisited at the Met 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z “There’s a joy and creativity and lack of pretension,” he said. He Bridges Worlds: Dance and Fashion, Uptown and Downtown 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z It was cold and it was dry, and it was good enough to solve a problem, resolve a tension, squelch a pretension or two. The All-Conquering Frosé 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z It is the great leveler, a puncturing of pretension, and those who find pie throwing beneath their refined comic sensibility deserve nothing more than a lemon meringue treat, smack in the kisser. Comedy’s Sweet Weapon: The Cream Pie 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z The Shawshank Redemption is a movie, not a film: all plot and no pretension. I've never seen … The Shawshank Redemption 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z On Kafka, Dauber argues that his subversive comedy is distinctly Jewish because it mocks the pretensions of scientific certainty that papers over the irrational forces controlling our lives. Why Are Jews Funny? 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z She’s a nimble writer, one who walks in fear of euphemism or pretension. ‘Nine Pints’ Is a Brisk Biography of Blood 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z He has little interest in the family’s business empire beyond its continued ability to fund the upkeep of his spread in New Mexico, his sugar baby, and his philanthropic pretensions. “Succession”: An Irresistible Family Power Struggle, Told Through Soap and Satire 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z The Swedish director Ruben Ostlund followed up his pointed social satire “Force Majeure” with this arch, uproarious and bitter attack on the pretensions of the art world. The Best Movies and Shows on Hulu Right Now 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z At first I thought that the crown at the top was a calligrapher’s pretension. The Countess and the Schoolboy 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z She was real and, by then, I hated pretension as much as Mama did. Despite my mama’s secret shame, she was the smartest person I knew 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z In this interview from the same year they describe themselves as 'a party band with serious intellectual pretensions.' Hop Farm 2012: festival preview 2012-06-26T15:53:00Z “Silicon Valley,” a new and very funny HBO series that begins Sunday, taps into the foibles and pretensions of that world. The TV Watch: Nerds Get Their Due on ‘Silicon Valley’ and ‘Veep’ 2014-04-04T00:00:25Z And he has a healthy disrespect for the pretensions and conventional wisdom of fashion. Is Virgil Abloh the Karl Lagerfeld for Millennials? 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z In a running joke intended to illustrate Leslie’s true-blue lack of pretension, she drives a battered old Mustang named Eleanor, whose dent she refuses to fix because it reminds her of a dimple. | 'Just Wright': Queen Latifah Meets Her Prince 2010-05-13T21:09:00Z The poison of anti-Semitism comes in many flavors, after all, but the kind that, for instance, Drumont, in France, or Chesterton and Belloc, in Britain, had until then favored was aristocratic in pretension. Does “Mein Kampf” Remain a Dangerous Book? 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z This labored illustration of history, more imaginary than real despite documentary pretensions, is not exactly dreamlike. Art Review: At the Louvre, Vivid and Varied Imaginings of Antiquity 2010-12-03T16:11:00Z But the laid-back attitude in White River Junction is far from the pretensions of the Manhattan art scene. | Ski Guide 2010: On the Arty Side of the Tracks in White River Junction, Vt. 2009-12-15T00:29:00Z The result is modern Dutch food that manages to be exciting and experimental, but with minimal pretension and a price tag that, while still not cheap, is within reach. Restaurant Report: Beluga Loves You in Maastricht, the Netherlands 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z "I wish Obama would focus on governing the United States and would forget his country's imperialist pretensions," the 55-year-old leader said. Hugo Ch?vez grants rare interview to western media 2010-06-13T17:09:00Z These were funny poems featuring printed black-and-white images of skeletons in clothes, poking fun at the follies and pretensions of the living. Raising Up the Dead 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z “She’s so modest and gentle and unassuming and has no pretensions and has just always stayed who she is. Despite being Cinderella.” Sarah Billinghurst on Her Tenure at the Met 2014-05-09T21:50:45Z "Well, I did feel a little older walking home from school today," Rudy responds, tilting her chin upward with an air of pretension. The best and absolute worst onscreen first periods, from "Carrie" to "Turning Red" 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z Each major figure possesses a distinctive set of tics, pretensions and delusions. Exhibition Review: Morgan Library?s ?Charles Dickens at 200? - Review 2011-09-22T21:48:27Z Remarkably, however, it manages to sidestep pretension at almost every turn, partly due to the near-naive vocals that dominate the warm crackle and glow. Laurel Halo: Quarantine – review 2012-05-31T20:49:01Z They are a fractious lot even before Leonard arrives, swapping barbs about one another’s pretensions. Theater Review: ?Seminar,? by Theresa Rebeck, With Alan Rickman - Review 2011-11-21T03:01:23Z You prefer a wine like that good baguette: honest, direct, elemental and without pretension. In Montepulciano d’Abruzzo, the Gifts of Simplicity 2021-01-15T05:00:00Z Mr. Morris wrote the script, which is full of the pretensions, posturing, mythologizing and hokiness that will always be part of the religion of theater. Review: Specters of the Stage Enchant in ‘Ghost Light’ 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z They may not have spared "elitist" high culture, either, but then, high culture deserved it for its pretensions. The war on culture: How conservatives and progressives joined forces to crush art 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z But the fact is, despite the air of philosophical pretension, there is a winning sense of a young man striving to upturn the idea that dance music is about Nothing But the Beat. New band of the day – Robert DeLong (No 1,449) 2013-02-11T16:52:59Z I think the word pretension has become like the word ironic – just this catch–all term to distance people from interesting experiences and cultural engagement and possible embarrassment. Last exit from Brooklyn 2010-04-23T23:16:00Z The old-timey camera, the porkpie hat, the jazz music and philosophical musings: These elements could easily coalesce into pretension, a gimmick to sell photos to tourists. Who Says Old-Fashioned Street Photography Is Dead? 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z A soppy, solipsistic and juvenile declaration and cop-out bordering on the delusional and contradicting Christianity and Islam, neither of which recognize the other, and both of which espouse universalist pretensions. 15 ways atheists can stand up for rationality 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z Presumably there wasn’t room for any, what with all the pretensions Mr. Griffin felt compelled to cram in. | 'Two Gates of Sleep': When a Parent Dies 2011-04-01T00:15:47Z At a press lunch with American journalists on the Cannes beachfront, Frears was both irascible and jolly, seeking to avoid any appearance of artistic pretension. Cannes: Dominic Cooper on playing a "human vibrator" 2010-05-23T18:01:00Z To represent political power and economic clout, he needed a mastery of optics and color theory and classical history, but also a gaze that cut through pretensions to give the greatest distinction of all: selfhood. Hans Holbein: Truth in Painting 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z Because Mr. Beane has been such a canny social satirist in the past, I kept hoping he would pull the Aubusson rug out from under the Fitches’ pretensions, both the naughty and virtuous kind. Theater Review | 'Mr. & Mrs. Fitch': In a Gilded World, Theirs Is but to Quip and Sigh 2010-02-23T03:01:00Z Here in the Bronx, the piece tweaks human pretensions more generally. Yayoi Kusama’s ‘Cosmic Nature’ Dots a Bronx Garden 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z A musical romp with no pretensions to weightiness … Cannibal Women of Mars. Cannibal Women of Mars – review 2013-07-11T17:57:00Z Vividly apparent are the director’s trademark Surrealist touches and cool barbs at religion and bourgeois pretensions. The Week Ahead: Oct. 9 ? 15 2011-10-06T15:27:01Z It’s easy to mock Sundance and its pretensions to purity, but it’s also hard not to be moved when these filmmakers find communion with their audiences. Film: Still a Home for Directors, and Big Foot 2011-02-05T03:33:01Z Mr. Phoenix, for his part, dislikes the actorly pretensions of the phrase — “I just hate hearing ‘staying in character,’ ” he said — but he acknowledged the importance of sustaining tension in this case. Joaquin Phoenix Bounces Back in ‘The Master’ 2012-09-04T22:48:24Z As noted, his pretensions are sometimes off putting but always more than worth it. At Günter Seeger NY, a Star Chef Resurfaces, Confidence Intact 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z If you like the combination of violent action, sentimental fantasy, literary pretension and periodic slapstick humor that “Reprisal” offers, you may enjoy it well enough. ‘Reprisal’ Review: A Femme Fatale on the Midnight Train to Revenge 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z His are fogbound fictions that leave themselves open to allegations of tediousness and pretension. A Biography of W.G. Sebald, Who Transformed His Borrowings Into Lasting Art 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z I was reminded once again of why I was drawn to the work of this important artist, whose designs for all their apparently mandarin intentions are invariably democratic and free of pretension. Finding Mexico City, and Luis Barragán, Again 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z Most of the time, these projects tend to reek of a please-call-me-William-Joel pretension — a quixotic yearning for high-cultural respect you’d think rock would have outgrown around the time Leonard Bernstein declared himself a Beatles fan. Jonny Greenwood, Radiohead?s Runaway Guitarist 2012-03-10T20:47:20Z But the play is saturated with the texture of the contemporary art world, or at least the high-end, globe-trotting portion of it, with its never-ending streams of money and collectors, egos and pretensions. ?Happy Days in the Art World? at Performa 11 2011-10-31T22:10:32Z Even softened by Iñárritu’s philosophical pretensions, “The Revenant” is essentially a fetish film, guided by the same grindhouse aspirations of “The Hateful Eight.” ‘The Hateful Eight’ and ‘The Revenant’ bring the pain, but what do we gain? 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z For an artist who likes to needle the art world’s pretensions, it was perfect timing. The Artist Rob Pruitt: Paradox on a Pedestal 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z ‘HIGH MAINTENANCE’ The comedy that gets the pretensions and anxieties of certain precincts of 21st-century Brooklyn just right opens its second season on HBO with a typically clever episode. The Forecast: ‘The Americans’ Ends, J.K. Simmons Multiplies 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z David Bowie's Starman costume on display at the V&A. Bowie's youthful cultural pretensions helped to educate him. Faking cultural interest can actually make you smarter and more creative 2013-07-02T12:00:01Z Jefferson abandoned Washington's ceremonial sword and pretensions of grandeur, shocking Washington by padding around the White House in slippers and clothing deemed too casual for his office. 'The Art of Power': Thomas Jefferson shapes the republic 2012-11-20T21:35:18Z While bartenders elsewhere have become insufferable bores on the subjects of ice and proper shaking techniques, the ones at Javelina are refreshingly free of such pretension. Restaurant Review: Javelina in Gramercy Park 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z With constantly changing menus and a straightforward, seemingly effortless style, King draws in those who want to eat well, but chafe at the pretensions of New York’s high-end restaurant culture: Trending ingredients. Glugs of Olive Oil, Flurries of Cheese and Two New Menus Every Day 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z Diane needed, temperamentally and philosophically, to poke through pretensions and masks to expose the hidden truth. How Diane Arbus Became ‘Arbus’ 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z There is a refreshing lack of pretension to the Artemis's playing, where a beguiling sweetness of tone is combined with cool-headed judgment that refuses to over-indulge the composer's taste for operatic gesture. Artemis Quartet - review 2011-01-23T18:18:53Z As light and fluffy as meringue, this sharp sendup of the pretensions of the fashion world is infused with heart and humor. 'Chic!' takes on Paris' fashion world with heart, humor and style 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Clients also say that Mr. Clegg comes across like a writer himself — introspective and measured — and not given to the usual pretensions and histrionics of agents. A Book Agent?s Descent and Ascent From the Ashes 2010-05-28T22:45:00Z This particular and thoroughly unnecessary set piece takes place in the Mexican movie “Heli,” one of those exploitation films that sells its violent goods with art cinema pretension. Critic’s Notebook: At Cannes Film Festival, Ducking Rain and Competition 2013-05-16T22:03:37Z Ms. Darst grew up with her parents’ alcoholism, social pretensions, delusional behavior and financial instability. Books of The Times: ?Fiction Ruined My Family,? by Jeanne Darst - Review 2011-09-28T21:54:46Z That is the silly question floating through “Passion Play,” a fatuous noir-flavored reverie with allegorical pretensions written and directed by Mitch Glazer. | 'Passion Play': Blow the Trumpet, Palooka, Life Is but a Carny Dream 2011-05-06T05:23:01Z The idea of doing a rock opera seemed preposterous, especially given the band's roots in hardcore punk and that scene's aversion to classic-rock pretension. Redeemed by a rock opera 2011-07-01T07:00:00Z “Without pretensions of trying to be a real baritone, I can start doing other things,” he said. Plácido Domingo Defies the Gravity of Age 2014-03-07T15:00:03Z More singular are his caustic, mostly pen-and-ink depictions of the perils and pretensions of modern life that appeared from 1962 to 1983 in small paperbacks like “Heart Attack,” “The Underground Sketchbook,” “Rigor Mortis” and “Symptomatics.” Review: Tomi Ungerer, Bad Boy of Art, in a Reappraisal 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z The bars of the city embody the same balance, shunning pretension while mixing up intriguing cocktails, from classic to avant-garde. A guide to Sydney’s flourishing small-bar scene 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z Twenty-one days is enough time to build trust and decimate it several times over, and long enough for someone to drop their pretensions altogether. Critic’s Notebook: Discovery’s ‘Dude, You’re Screwed’ 2013-12-20T22:30:53Z Many hated the “Cremaster” extravaganza, either because Barney’s imagery disgusted them or because the whole project seemed to groan under the weight of its own pretension. Review | Who wants to join the cult of video artist Matthew Barney? 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z These men are right to ridicule our pretensions. America’s forgotten poet 2012-10-04T20:02:00Z Hugo was not a "name" photographer with pretensions towards artistic suffering whose mythic, difficult reputation preceded him. Hugo Dixon obituary 2010-12-03T16:25:00Z Without an air of pretension, her table is set with polished silver. This new take on hummingbird cake captures the nostalgia of a timeless Southern dessert 2022-05-08T04:00:00Z Ultimately, I would recommend this novel as a zippy holiday read, but it falls flat on its literary pretensions. Guardian First Book Award reader nominations: Dead Men by Richard Pierce 2012-07-18T14:04:46Z That looks like Italian food he’s eating, there, so he’s saying that Italian deli meats are the height of pretension. David Brooks: Friend with no benefits 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z The endlessly dissected 1997 cover story “Kevin Spacey Has a Secret,” written with grand New Journalism pretensions, was widely viewed as a clumsy attempt to “out” Mr. Spacey, who compared the article to McCarthyism. The ‘Esquire Man’ Is Dead. Long Live the ‘Esquire Man.’ 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z “It skewered liberal pretensions, and Bruce loves to do that, but that just wasn’t the subject of his play.” A Political Satire on Stage, and Not About Trump 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z It’s also a way of lampooning the pretensions of monumental public sculpture generally, as Claes Oldenburg did almost 40 years ago when he created that giant steel clothespin for Centre Square in Philadelphia. The Parisian Sex Toy Christmas Tree Is the Latest Great Art Scandal 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z As different as these wines were, they shared a sort of joyousness and lack of pretension. Bubbles, With Joy: Pétillant Naturel’s Triumphant Return 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z The clueless hipster culture of Jersey City is simply an easier target, although Zink’s scathing takedowns of activist pretensions are dead-on. ‘Nicotine’: The new zany-brainy novel from Nell Zink 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z A cheap and mildly xenophobic laugh, sure, but also the beginnings of a Greek chorus — a Berber chorus? — poking holes in this show’s pretension. Television Review: American Stereotypes Trek Across a Moroccan Desert 2011-06-22T22:06:19Z Or maybe it’s just pretension, an instance of long-simmering Anglophilia among the American striver classes bubbling over into full-fledged imitation — or in the view of British observers, parody. Noted: Americans Are Barmy Over Britishisms 2012-10-10T20:37:21Z For a good many of our writers, slavery seems the ultimate mockery of our native pretensions, blotting all our moral claims. Considering the American Voice 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z It’s a place of red-dirt roads and unlocked doors, a refuge from the pretensions and snobbery of cities, a home for simple pleasures like fishing, drinking and sex. Morgan Wallen’s Small-Town Country Songs, Aimed at a Big Audience 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z “One of the things I like about popular music is how it frustrates pretension,” he said, skimming through the hangers. Why Write About Pop Music? ‘I Like When People Disagree About Stuff.’ 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z The director is increasingly adept at getting her actors to bask in emotions without any pretensions. 'Laggies' a lively break from the pressures of adulthood 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z This book requires patience, and a mild tolerance for passing clouds of pretension or obscurity; but these hazards are just residual effects from the forceful weather system that is Hoare’s imagination. A Wide-Roaming and Personal Meditation on Dürer and His Art 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z He was particularly galled by American pretensions to purity in foreign affairs. When America’s Cold War Strategy Turned Corrupt 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z Without the pretension, though — Anguillan style is a perfect paradox: unfussy chic, barefoot elegance. What to Do in Anguilla 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z That really was an out-and-out comedy, without any pretensions to anything other than getting laughs. Golden Globes: who will win and who should win the film awards? | Peter Bradshaw 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z Unlike California’s glittering, glamorous coastal cities, Sacramento’s location in the Central Valley gives it an earnest, small-town affect and a welcome lack of pretension. 36 Hours in Sacramento 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z In the exhibition’s middle section photography’s infinite elasticity starts to be more evident, as artistic pretension gives way to practical applications. Art Review: ?Naked Before the Camera? at the Metropolitan Museum 2012-03-29T21:57:05Z A loaf that begs to be torn by hand at the dinner table, with less pretension and more to the business of nourishment and flavor. What is durum wheat? (And how the heck do I bake with it?) 2021-03-01T05:00:00Z And for all the new places to eat, browse or catch a show, Indy stays true to its Midwestern roots: short on pretension, heavy on pork and still, for the most part, incomprehensibly cheap. 36 Hours in Indianapolis 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z One shining exception is Agony, which wittily punctures the pretensions of two popinjay princes and is excellently delivered by Simon Thomas and Michael Xavier. Into the Woods 2010-08-17T22:30:00Z It’s also been spoofed and troped to death, used as a kind of shorthand for pretension. ‘My Dinner With André’ at 40: Still Serving Hot Takes 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z Or it may be said approvingly of its lack of pretension. The Profound Modesty of Good Dolcetto 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z What’s been defined as Oscar worthy or Oscar bait has been defined by the pretensions of white people. Critics jeer new Academy Award for “popular film”: The Oscars are “creating an attendance a... 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z A B-movie director with artistic pretensions, he drowns his fears of mediocrity in drugs, alcohol and whichever woman happens to be closest to him. What to Remember Before ‘GLOW’ Comes Back for Season 2 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z It's not easy to form a sentence featuring "subtitles" and "BBC4" that doesn't instantaneously set off pretension alarms. Rewind TV: Women in Love; The Killing 2011-03-27T00:05:34Z In this hothouse world of privilege and pretension, the depravities of Patrick’s psychotic father, David, were allowed free rein. Books Of the Times: Edward St. Aubyn?s ?At Last,? an Autobiographical Novel 2012-02-21T23:04:43Z He chuckles a little, aware of the element of pretension in the phrasing. Usher: 'The fans want my soul' 2010-04-29T20:30:00Z No convoluted backstory, no sardonic attitude, no pretension whatsoever: just easy, straightforward video game fun, elevated by splashy visuals, tight controls and an attention to detail that borders on perfectionism. ‘The Super Mario Bros. Movie’ Review: This Ain’t No Game 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z She dismisses pretension in favor of the practical. A Book to Distill Wine to Its Essence 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z When the gloves did come off, he took aim not at individuals but at entire, self-venerating communities, leveling their pretensions in swift, adroit strokes. John Duka, a Fashion Wit, Returns in Larry Kramer’s Film 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z In his day, it was odd that he chose to live next door to someone whose pretensions he mocked. Britain's garden state 2010-06-08T20:29:00Z This is a band that has infuriated some partisans of black metal, for reasons ranging from heresy to pretension. The Week Ahead: Oct. 23 ? 29 2011-10-21T18:04:22Z Neeva, short for Geneva, "a tiny, intense, bespectacled woman with unruly brown hair, vestiges of which ran down her jawline", is Jewish, and has literary pretensions, or longings, at least. Canada by Richard Ford - review 2012-05-25T09:00:01Z Its pretensions about humans-becoming-animals aside, "Preservation" is still pretty fun, if paradoxically more so before the blood sport begins. Hunters become the hunted in uneven thriller 'Preservation' 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Protest as they might, critics like nothing more than giving perceived pretension a sound kicking, in the belief that it lends their own somewhat esoteric calling a grounded, street-fighting quality. RB Kitaj: an obsession with revenge 2013-02-10T06:00:01Z It needs you to believe that there is no history to the ideas and influences that Bjork appropriates, because it functions by presenting everything, especially cliches and pretensions, as eternally new. Why is MoMA featuring an exhibit showcasing Bjork’s pretentiousness? 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z In this light, Post Office in South Williamsburg is relatively pretension free. Bo?te: Post Office 2011-04-20T15:56:46Z I don’t think any of us have pretensions that we have all the answers. ‘Like a Romance’: Laura Linney and Jessica Hecht’s Spring Fling Onstage 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z Anyone familiar with Gould’s work will be unsurprised by her keen eye for the idiosyncratic pretensions and awkward compromises of young people in the city. Review | Emily Gould’s ‘Perfect Tunes’ follows an aspiring songwriter’s unexpected journey 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z The most satisfying thing about this project was its lack of pretension. Matt Haimovitz and Bach, Colonizing Columbia’s Campus 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z Vance saw himself as a modest producer of readable text, with no aspiration towards literary pretension or status. Jack Vance dies aged 96: master of bold and bizarre science fiction 2013-05-29T23:13:06Z “But pretension and flab came up fluorescent in this merciless scan, and certain writers suddenly seemed like hothouse poseurs. They became unintentionally hilarious.” Review: ‘Barbarian Days,’ by William Finnegan, Details a Surfer’s Pilgrimage 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z Sheridan’s “The Critic,” which takes down the pretensions of Stanton’s deluded, blue-wigged Mr. Puff — sometime scribe of fraudulent newspaper items and author of the ghastly epic “The Spanish Armada” — is another story. Playwrights get last word in delightful ‘Critic’ and ‘Real Inspector Hound’ 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z "I actually want to write a treatise in defence of pretension," he says. Last exit from Brooklyn 2010-04-23T23:16:00Z More accurately, he’s all idea, a beefcake avatar of linear thinking and pretension. Review: ‘I Love Dick’ Sketches an Artistic Love Triangle 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z Goehr's solution to the problem of potential pretension was to work with Frank Kermode, the Shakespeare scholar and fellow Cambridge professor. Alexander Goehr on his new King Lear opera, Promised End 2010-09-23T21:30:00Z “Comedian” is a sculpture, one that continues Mr. Cattelan’s decades-long reliance on suspension to make the obvious seem ridiculous and to deflate and defeat the pretensions of earlier art. A (Grudging) Defense of the $120,000 Banana 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z Mr. Simic was a serious poet and thinker who disliked pretension in any form. Charles Simic, Pulitzer-Winning Poet and U.S. Laureate, Dies at 84 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z Thinking of Robert Maxwell, I suggested we make him Czech with aristocratic English pretensions. How we made: Penelope Keith and Peter Bowles on To the Manor Born 2013-04-15T16:30:09Z Personally, I enjoy watching a posh restaurant transform into a creche; kids do not care about your pretensions. The secrets of a maitre d’: what it’s really like feeding the 1% 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z A reason to stick around: Like Bechdel, Evaristo has a gift for appraising the lives of her characters with sympathy and grace while gently skewering some of their pretensions. ‘Girl, Woman, Other,’ a Big, Busy Novel About New Ways of Living 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z There’s some pretension here, but also something larger: The idea of seeing the world accurately, treating it with care and referring to it with respect is central to the book. A Heroine in the Mold of Huck and Scout 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z A fictitious character is introduced for the sake of giving some connexion to the piece; which, however, makes no pretension to regularity. Rereading: Childe Harold by Lord Byron 2011-08-12T09:00:01Z Though the Mad River Valley has been buttressed over the years by the presence of out-of-state transplants of some wealth or accomplishment, the overall ethos of the place is generally the opposite of pretension. In Vermont, the Lure of Skiing in the Mad River Valley 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z The new Labour leader, Harold Wilson, turned out to be an excellent leader of the opposition, challenging, mocking and puncturing Tory pretensions on every front. 1963: from the Stones to Dr Strangelove, a year of social and cultural upheaval 2013-05-07T05:00:01Z I see a lot of work and most of it is just blah blah blah – pretension or a kind of false therapy. Sylvie Guillem: 'I need to scare myself' 2013-02-10T18:00:01Z It’s fun to look up the early reviews—peeved critics huffing and puffing about bombast and pretension. The Misfit Awesomeness of Neil Peart and Rush 2020-01-11T05:00:00Z In other words, “Legion” has abandoned many of its pretensions and become a more straightforward superhero story. ‘Legion’ Season 1, Episode 3: Days of Future Past 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z It takes place entirely in a universe of tropes and archetypes, which is a polite way of saying clichés and pretensions. Movie Review: ‘Killing Them Softly,’ With Brad Pitt, From Andrew Dominik 2012-11-29T16:13:01Z Oldenburg and Richter back in the day were mocking this pretension by selling art in ordinary, actual shops. James Franco to work in Christmas shop – but is it art? 2012-11-20T11:58:04Z So much pathos and comedy in one portrait of pretension and fear amounted to a show of its own. Theatre, Film, and Culture of 2014 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z “I don’t think she put on any kind of pretension — there was nothing about her that read as anything other than normal Midwesterner.” Mimi Parker, Moody Alt-Rock Vocalist, Is Dead at 55 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z A male student, Seamus, thinks it — and the general atmosphere of pretension and victimhood in the seminar — so ridiculous he vows to write a retaliatory poem called “Gorgon’s Head.” For ‘The Late Americans,’ Grad School Life Equals Envy, Sex and Ennui 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z He also emerged as an important collector of Lowbrow work, art that generally thumbed its nose at the abstract-minded academic world — or, for that matter, any sort of pretension. Greg Escalante, noted gallerist, Lowbrow champion and a founder of Juxtapoz magazine, dies at 62 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z Then too the devious Richard M. Nixon who haunts my generation and who still speaks to us on tape embodies a lot more intrigue, pretension and paranoia than the smooth Nixon baritone up onstage. A Witness Sees History Restaged and Rewritten 2011-02-11T19:47:04Z They can avoid the charge of pretension because they work in an official capacity. In defence of pretentiousness | Dan Fox 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z It is also a slow form of strangulation in which an artist’s pretensions, while not without interest, are extensively indulged. Art in Review: PIERRE HUYGHE: ?The Host and the Cloud? 2011-02-24T21:15:13Z And, from the point of view of a domestic British reporter, it showed how limited the options open to the UK seemed to be despite its pretensions to punch above its weight in the world. WikiLeaks: Strained relation, accusation ? and crucial revelations 2011-01-31T20:00:01Z Mr. Erwitt, now 82, delivers his visual gags with such economy and sweet-tempered lack of pretension that it is easy to overlook just how good he is at what he does. Art Review: Captured: A New York Minute, or One in Havana 2011-06-09T23:00:29Z The creators of “Silicon Valley” love to poke fun at the pretensions of its “visionaries” and the Segways and cereal bars that mask the Industrial Age ruthlessness of tech companies in hip, progressive, candy-colored campuses. ‘Silicon Valley’ Season 3 Finale: An Empire Built on Quicksand 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z The bar serves 287 types of whiskey, which may intimidate novices, but the friendly and knowledgeable staff banishes any whiff of pretension. Bo?te: Review - Noorman?s Kil Bar in Williamsburg 2011-11-16T19:15:59Z In a series of skillfully executed set pieces, Rosenfeld skewers the pretensions and preoccupations of women for whom “parent” is both verb and competitive sport. ‘Class’ Takes Satirical Aim at Brooklyn Grade-School Parents 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z From one angle, it’s a covers album bloated by outsize pretensions; from another, it’s a song cycle lighted by insight and solitude. Music Review: Peter Gabriel and Orchestra at Radio City Music Hall 2010-05-03T23:48:00Z Fun to watch if sometimes marble-mouthed, Mr. Spall plays Turner as a self-described gargoyle amid the usual complement of Leigh gargoyles, including an art critic who’s ridiculed as the embodiment of foolish pretension. Sommeliers Decanting the Madness of Cannes 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Nicholas Kenyon, writing in The New Yorker, described a 1980 performance of “Donnerstag” as “full of arresting ideas but in grave danger of collapsing under the weight of its metaphysical pretensions.” An Operatic Conundrum Untangled 2011-05-06T22:09:27Z Poet Simon Armitage is one of them; someone who talks without pretension but still imbues his words with magic and wonder. Radio review: Ramblings 2011-03-11T08:00:01Z Glatt, a poet whose most recent novel was “A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That,” knows just how to peel away the pretensions of modern life. ‘The Nakeds’: A young, broken girl and her nudist family 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z But Brown is a warmhearted writer with a lot of affection for her two heroines and little patience for pretensions. ‘The Light of Paris’: What’s the quickest way for a heroine to change her life? 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z Simon West, the British director of Hollywood blockbusters, was 11 years old in 1972 when Michael Winner made , an efficient thriller with certain intellectual pretensions. The Mechanic ? review 2011-01-30T00:06:07Z This is pretension masquerading as good taste, and “Winter’s Tale” is so obsessed with announcing how beautiful and wonderful it is that it forgets to be any fun. Movie Review: ‘Winter’s Tale’ Takes Beauty and Wonder to Its Limit 2014-02-13T23:57:22Z The author makes no pretensions to objectivity and, in truth, this is more Hallmark card than biography. George W. Bush’s ‘41: A Portrait of My Father’ 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z Could it be that in spite of its pretensions to social correctness, Ill Manors actually glamorises the ills that it deplores? Ill Manors just wants a little respect for our gangsters 2012-06-06T11:07:56Z The play’s undisciplined writing undermines its pretensions to cultural satire, to say nothing of its pretensions to sociological tragedy. Theater Review | 'Neighbors': At Public Theater, Racial Commentary in Caricature 2010-03-09T22:11:00Z Think: the Uzbek equivalent of supper clubs, minus the pretension. Exploring the wide range of Uzbek Cuisine at Silk Road Choyhona 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z She was wry, down-to-earth and fun, without pretension or heightened prospects. Jane Russell: 'An immense, impervious beauty' 2011-03-01T19:55:54Z Ira Lewis, an actor turned playwright whose comedies, often with star-studded casts, skewered the neuroses and pretensions of writers and artists, died on April 4 in Edison, N.J. Ira Lewis, Actor and Playwright, Dies at 82 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z Except for its scenes involving animals, this handsome, excessively fastidious screen adaptation of Diane Ackerman’s 2007 nonfiction best seller is a polite but pallid recycling of Holocaust movie tropes with epic pretensions. Review: In ‘The Zookeeper’s Wife,’ the Holocaust Seems Tame 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z It calls itself a “cocktail laboratory,” but pretensions are few. Bars Opening Soon in New York 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z Abby is appealing, and when Stone is on screen, her performance bypasses the pretensions of a movie constructed on abstractions. 'Paper Man': writer's block and middle-age angst 2010-05-06T20:03:00Z As the title suggests, El Royale — a motor lodge with pretensions of grandeur, which seems like an apt metaphor for this movie — isn’t a place for a good night’s sleep. Review: Hard-Boiled Play in ‘Bad Times at the El Royale’ 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z In the trompe l’oeil of Rachman’s satire, the pretensions of the art world seem to reach off the page. Review | The art of rebellion: The son of a famous painter tries to reframe his life 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z And where the port city’s champions see a swaggering no-nonsense metropolis free of bourgeois pretensions, others see a lack of refinement. 36 Hours in Marseille 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Scott, assessing it for The New York Times, described it as an escapist romp made with “lavish grandiosity” and “zero pretension.” ‘Godzilla vs. Kong’ Roars at the Box Office With $48.5 Million 2021-04-04T04:00:00Z Usually, though, the cost cutting also leads to straightforward storytelling and an overall lack of pretension. Television Review: ‘Saving Hope’ Begins Thursday on NBC 2012-06-06T22:45:35Z “I have no pretension that I belong in D.C. I mean, I have to be cautious on how we do our restaurant,” Boulud said. When Daniel Boulud calls, D.C. chefs come In fact, you could hardly design a movie with less obvious marketing appeal, or that so thoroughly lacks the kind of pretension that's likely to produce buzz, or to be described as innovative or ambitious. Best of Cannes: "Another Year" with Mike Leigh 2010-05-17T16:15:00Z His insider-outsider books at once affirmed and debunked the myths, skewering movie-industry hypocrisy, venality and pretension even as they celebrated the hard work, scrappy creativity and helter-skelter deal making that allowed the movies to flourish. William Goldman’s Journey From Page to Screen 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z In addition to its ubiquity, Waffle House's sheer lack of pretension is another of its greatest virtues. The artistic allure of Waffle House, America’s most surprising culinary muse 2023-05-02T04:00:00Z Despite their pretensions, conceptualists were actually no less concerned with style than at any other time in the history of art. 1969 Seattle art exhibit listed as one of late 20th century’s best 2013-08-15T17:40:10Z He made up in pretension what he lacked in personal charm, and he was “able to attract the respect but not usually the genuine affection of those around him.” Books of The Times: Alan Brinkley Tells Henry Luce?s Story in ?The Publisher? 2010-04-19T21:35:00Z Despite his literary pretensions, his autobiography – written with the humourless braggadocio of Donald Trump – does little to flesh out those indecipherable stains. Hugh Hefner in six volumes 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z At no point is anyone permitted to escape the hilariously ghastly GQ-ness of it all, with references to decor dropped as signposts for some poignant pretension to come. Who let Brad Pitt’s fashotainment shoot happen? 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z But this delicious find is square atop Queen Anne Hill, surrounded by cafes with higher pretensions. Chinese comfort food atop Queen Anne 2011-10-13T20:11:08Z She urged men to worship women, “rather than to command or appropriate… Remember that it is a pretension and a fraud to think of ownership in, or control over, the person of a woman.” Mike Huckabee’s worst nightmare: Meet the radical sisters who revolutionized 19th century America 2014-03-09T15:00:00Z Veronica’s pretensions loom larger than when Ms. Harden played her, and she’s more obviously domineering. Theater: New Casts Enliven ?God of Carnage? and ?39 Steps? 2010-04-16T23:59:00Z Its style is Japanese-influenced and New Age, but without attitude or pretension. Check In, Check Out: Hotel Review: Renew in Honolulu 2010-02-19T03:29:00Z For a movement dedicated to shocking the masses and jabbing a safety pin into social pretensions, punk also had a moral streak. Rock ’n’ Roll Swindles, Revisited 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z I tell her I can see certain similarities between Delia and Moira: the clothes, the pretensions, the misguided belief that they are both “artistes”. Catherine O'Hara on the joy of Schitt's Creek: 'Eugene Levy is the sweetest man!' 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z For one thing, the pirate kingpins are a gentlemanly lot, what with their European pretensions and large sums of discretionary income. Books of The Times: As Pirates Swash Their Buckles 2010-10-10T19:00:00Z Mia Michaels’ choreography avoids traditional Broadway chorus lines, acrobatics and ballet pretensions for clever, tightly synchronized, character-driven group movement, and it is winning. 'Finding Neverland' and 'The Visit': Two Musicals to Savor 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z “In the way it’s performed, there’s a certain smugness to the actor. But comedy hates pretension. Comedy hates hypocrisy. And comedy hates smugness.” The Comedic Side of William Peter Blatty, the Author of ‘The Exorcist’ 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z He is wary of pretension, alive to all shades of irony. Thom Yorke: 'If I can't enjoy this now, when do I start?' 2013-02-23T19:00:00Z He possessed, the critic wrote, “a warm, direct and lyrical voice projected with complete honesty and lack of pretension.” Jerry Vale, crooner of the 1950s and '60s, dies at 83 His musings arrive with punch lines, not pretensions. Music of Heartache, Mortality and Success 2011-12-17T02:43:15Z The literary pretensions of days past are long gone. It's not your grandma's Book of the Month Club 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z They are here to puncture, if you will, humanity’s pretensions. ‘The Old Drift’ Is a Dazzling Debut Spanning Four Generations 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z And I really have no pretension of that. T Magazine: Big Sky 2011-05-17T19:47:38Z He didn’t want the pretensions — the ego, the angst — left over from Abstract Expressionism. The Wild, Anti-Authoritarian Art of Peter Saul 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z Caravaggio still uses fashionably dressed figures who could have stepped out of one of his genre scenes, yet their pretensions are stripped bare by men with a different dress code, and armed only with light. Prince of darkness 2010-04-09T23:06:00Z A sharp, self-deprecating voice on social media helps to pull the project back from pretension. The Most Famous Girl at the Waffle House 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z The idea in part was to tweak the blandness, and the pretensions, of much of fashion advertising, Mr. Tonchi said. Cheeky ?Ads? With a Whiff of Parody 2011-11-04T17:53:12Z He writes of both the natural beauty and extreme dangers of El Salvador, and the pretension he found at a turtle sanctuary/pelican retreat. In ‘The Wonder Trail,’ Steve Hely Takes a Comedic Detour 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z “How I despised her, with her preposterous literary pretensions!” she wrote. ‘Little Women’ Marches On: Fans Celebrate the Novel’s 150th Anniversary 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z He has experimented with Cockney Trump, to foreground the violence in the words, and Sophisticated Trump, to highlight his pathetically doomed pretensions. Peter Serafinowicz: 'If Liberace was alive, he'd tell Trump to tone it down' 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z The game tries to adopt some of the cinematic pretensions of the Uncharted action-adventure series but without the panache and visual flair. Video Game Review: Revelations, Latest Assassin?s Creed Video Game by Ubisoft 2011-12-12T22:57:21Z It's an American Love Actually, or better yet, a girly Crash without the guns and pretensions. 2010-02-12T05:15:00Z And unlike Noah Baumbach’s adaptation of “White Noise,” it’s not really a sendup of academic trends or pretensions. ‘Lucky Hank’ Review: Better Call Solecism 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z It had no great literary pretensions but sold well, its anti-war message resonating with a public still recovering from the second world war and living in the shadow of the cold war. Korean war: a British soldier's memories of a forgotten conflict 2013-07-24T13:56:37Z Not only was that judgment wrong – N and S were hilarious – but it was revealing of comedy's scepticism of artistic pretension. Ourhouse gives art and comedy a twisted new home 2011-03-10T17:22:03Z Especially this leg of it, which goes through some of the state’s most rural parts: past farmhouses, grain elevators, crop dusters, and to places that value thrift, self-reliance, lack of pretension. Joni Ernst, trumpeting ‘the Iowa way,’ shakes up her state And, assuming this production can find some stronger roots on Devon Avenue, it's also a thumping good Chicago yarn that requires no pretension to grasp. 'The Detective's Wife' probes the limits of protection 2011-06-02T19:05:39Z For all his pretensions to invincibility, he ended up a broken, sickly man, who confronted the reality bearing down on him by killing himself in his bunker. In the Second Volume of ‘Hitler,’ How a Dictator Invited His Own Downfall 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z Her friends and neighbors are not snobs, which is why she’s horrified by the pretensions of this reality show. The real Potomac is nothing like ‘Real Housewives’ — except for the money 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z It's a high-wire act for the novelist — how to retain empathy for his characters, even as he shreds the pretensions, the evasions and the hypocrisies of the times his characters live in. 'Beautiful Ruins': Jess Walter's dark, clever look at Hollywood entertainment factory 2012-06-21T17:28:03Z “After all, they won the Nobel,” she says, a comment that says more about the filmmakers’ desire to puncture the pretensions of their bourgeois targets than it does about this pathetic woman. Movie Review: ‘Child’s Pose,’ a Family Drama Set in Romania 2014-02-18T22:25:20Z There she was, a capable woman of few artistic pretensions, trying to get ahead in the world. The Secrets of Vera Caspary, the Woman Who Wrote "Laura" 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z Another character's pretensions are dismissed: "He ain't even distinguished to his mother!" Rocket to the Moon revived 2011-03-19T00:06:40Z I saw the movie based on the review and--frankly--I think that Dargis seems to have been dazzled by its admittedly interesting visual aesthetic and pretty slight intellectual pretensions. ‘Blackhat,’ a Cyberthriller Starring Chris Hemsworth 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z It’s a ham-fisted appeal to a non-existent link between youth and creative authenticity, ignoring the fact that many large cities are theatres of pretension. In defence of pretentiousness | Dan Fox 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z “I Know” suggests a sneering put-down of a rival band’s pretensions, while “San Andreas Fault Line Blues” belongs to the ageless category of Los Angeles disillusionment narratives. Shovels & Rope, Visiting New York With a Scrappy New Album 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z Arranged for voice and piano and pared down to human size, this anthem of triumphant liberation was stripped of operatic pretensions to become an approachable, touching expression of self-realization. Ana Gasteyer, Belting Out the Zany (With Kazoo, Too) 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z Runway fashion, with very few exceptions, exists in a state of permanent seriousness; drag sends it up mercilessly, worshiping its extremes while mocking its pretensions with impunity. Why the Fashion World Is Obsessed With ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z This novel avoids the pretensions and grandiosity of Mr. Shteyngart’s last book, “Absurdistan,” even as it demonstrates a new emotional bandwidth and ratifies his emergence as one of his generation’s most original and exhilarating writers. Books of The Times: Gary Shteyngart?s ?Super Sad True Love Story? 2010-07-26T19:00:00Z No matter the topic, Mr. Kirchheimer keeps “My Coffee With Jewish Friends” accessible, and cerebral without a shred of pretension. Review: In ‘My Coffee With Jewish Friends,’ Sit With Me and Talk of God 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z As ever, despite the corporate pretensions of the wannabes, this pitch-perfect show knows exactly what it's about. TV highlights 03/07/2013 2013-07-03T06:00:07Z Headliners Midday Veil are one of the more interesting rock bands to emerge from Seattle in the past few years; it’s progressive rock that’s more interested in experimentation than pretension. Your week in Seattle music: Brandi Carlile, Cold War Kids and more 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z They were remarkable performances: angry, erudite pieces delivered in a comically pompous voice that mocked its own pretensions. Book review: ‘Against the Country,’ by Ben Metcalf 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z Strip away the pretension, renew the energy, make books FUN again. Author Blake Nelson: Why YA Novels Make Reading Fun Again 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z This detail stays with me because of its informality, its utter lack of pretension, yes, but also its blatant amateurism. The Buddist I am not: Reflecting on my conversation with the Dalai Lama about the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z Northerners who wanted to see lynching as a Southern problem couldn’t comfort themselves with their own pretensions to enlightenment. When Jim Crow Violence Came to a Small New York Village 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z Abby is an appealing lost soul with a redeeming streak of spunkiness, and when Ms. Stone is on screen, her performance bypasses the pretensions of a movie constructed on abstractions. | 'Paper Man': Jeff Daniels, Lisa Kudrow and Confusion 2010-04-22T23:41:00Z They have at least pretensions towards changing how we see relationships not only within the white world itself, but between the white and Indian worlds. Creating a spectacle of slaughter at the movies: Ambush at Kamikaze Pass 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z Set on a fictional island off New England, Seating Arrangements skewers the pretensions of local society as patriarch Winn Van Meter prepares for his daughter's wedding. Maggie Shipstead wins Dylan Thomas prize 2012-11-13T11:48:22Z “But he uses it shrewdly and with a skillful lack of pretension.” Tony Bennett, Champion of the Great American Songbook, Is Dead at 96 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z There are dollops of pretension and word-goo in “Born to Run.” Bruce Springsteen’s Memoir: Riding Shotgun With the Boss 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z I never claimed this music as my heritage since I regarded punk as deflating its pretensions. Home of Metal turns the Midlands up to 11 2011-07-10T20:30:02Z Radical art my eye, the political pretensions of The London Open mostly go nowhere and say nothing. Why has The London Open got its eyes wide shut to the capital's creatives? 2012-07-04T11:24:57Z Fenwick has an eye for such equine athletes with staying power that might cost $15,000 compared with several hundred thousand for a yearling with Triple Crown pretensions. Maryland’s Hunt Cup, the country’s most challenging horse race, bets on its future 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z But the odd element, for me, is the pretension that Michelle is any different from or better than Anna. The empty charter school dream: “Togetherness” sides with smug hipster parents and falls apart 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z Forget about Hopper's own pretensions, his abstract fancy-pants photos of street paintings, those candid snaps of his fellow myths in their heyday and his papier-mache banalities. For sale: Dennis Hopper's house 2010-10-04T19:30:00Z Some might detect a whiff of pretension, but the atmosphere at Vintry does seem to engender thinking and drinking. 2010-01-23T05:15:00Z He seemed to embody a clear-sightedness and lack of pretension from a bygone age, of which we are now all bereft. Appreciations: Alan Plater obituary 2010-06-27T17:14:00Z Its mix of uptown and downtown Manhattan locations and its satire of upper-crust cultural pretensions recall “Sex and the City.” Amazon’s ‘Mozart in the Jungle,’ With Backstage Drama 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z Other hat-based pretensions exposed this week include that noted by the Libertines in their surprisingly tuneful Time for Heroes. Readers recommend songs about hats: the results 2010-07-08T21:50:00Z The script deflates any pretensions that Yankovic is a lyrical genius. ‘Weird: The Al Yankovic Story’ Review: Any Odd? He Beat It. 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z It is easier to like “Feast of the Epiphany” as an idea for an uncompromising film than it is to reconcile its pretensions. ‘Feast of the Epiphany’ Review: Farm to Table, but Not in That Order 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z His clients praise Wavra’s homespun demeanor and ability to cut through wine’s pretensions. Virginia vineyards have an unofficial ambassador in Neal Wavra 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z This was the most amusing and thought-provoking version of “The Music Man” I had seen in ages, often unpretentious despite its pretensions, cleverly costumed and full of new ideas. In the Berkshires, Musicals With Ambitions Not Always Realized 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z And he did something canny: he didn’t exaggerate or satirize Walt’s pretensions; he played them straight, as a needy boy’s desire for approval in an intellectual family. David Denby: Jesse Eisenberg Explores His Dark Side 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z The underground upstart from Georgia in the former Soviet Union who made his name at Vetements, aggressively thumbing his nose at the establishment and all its pretensions, had suddenly become its prophet. The Year of Balenciaga 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z But the coif is magnificent, an exposed ego of an updo that communicates all the shoestring pretensions of the world Eugene and Jane occupy together. Review: In ‘Wobble Palace,’ a Relationship Hangs by a Stringy Toupee 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z But seriously, this was a helpful and fun read, not full of pretension. Five Common Wine Myths, Debunked 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z The Conservative party hates artsy-fartsy pretension, and so do its core voters. Waiting for Clegg and co: a funding tragedy in two acts 2010-07-16T14:40:00Z She is always dressed to the nines, but her elegance is balanced by her lack of pretension and her quick, sometimes sharp, tongue. Moving Over: A Powerhouse of Black Dance Is Retiring (Mostly) 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z In doing so, he skewers the pretensions of the finance sector and questions whether its high rewards reflect its true economic contribution. The money trap 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z Patti Smith is a funky original, an authentic bohemian whose pretensions to poetry were ratified by her solid instincts for rock ’n’ roll. Patti Smith Plumbs Her Dreams in ‘Year of the Monkey’ 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z Service, while overeager at times, avoids both the harried anxiety of cheaper Indian restaurants and the ceremonious pretension of more expensive ones. Sahib, in Curry Hill, Lets You Eat All Over India 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z "Right now I'm actually in college studying thermal insulation," he says with a winning indifference to pretension. Conor McCarron: 'I'd gladly audition for a comedy role' 2010-12-26T00:05:08Z With a literary shifting of perspectives, the film is a blistering satire of high-minded pretensions while also a sympathetic examination of the insecurities that so often make each of us our own worst enemy. Next Fest a little taste of Sundance in L.A. 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z But when it errs, it errs on the side of literalness rather than falseness, of plainness rather than pretension. Review: ‘Bosch’ and the Art of the Pure Police Procedural 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z Mr. Langella grew up in Bayonne, N. J. He did not inherit pretensions. Books of The Times: ‘Granddad, There’s a Head on the Beach’ and Other Summer Reads 2012-05-24T22:43:29Z Whatever our pretensions, we are not friends but enthusiasts, and there is something glib and in the end patronizing about enthusiasts. Review: ‘The Woman Warrior,’ by Maxine Hong Kingston 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z He’s not ever concerned with who he is, what he thinks, and none of it is pretension. On Love: Katherine Ward and Thomas Hunt 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z And later, with what I judge to be a winning lack of pretension: "Georgia peaches were like famous." Self and concept collide in experimental collection 'When the Sick Rule the World' 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z “Great Scott” makes no pretension of greatness, but it serves as a great example of what it is that makes Heggie popular. 'Great Scott,' an opera about opera, shows what makes Jake Heggie so popular 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z Despite the elite company he kept, Mr. Williams was allergic to pretension and what he once called “coyness” in poetry. Miller Williams, Plain-Spoken Arkansas Poet, Dies at 84 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z The videos are funny partly because they are incongruous: insightful jabs made by a hip-hop personality whose faux-outsider perspective is intended to challenge the art world’s pretensions and inaccessibility. Noticed: Hennessy Youngman Offers Offbeat Art Criticism 2012-02-29T23:25:21Z Despite the high concept, it's a surprisingly low-brow entertainment, all pretension exorcised from the original script. SXSW 2011: Duncan Jones on Source Code 2011-03-13T17:05:00Z Mr. Winner’s films viscerally pleased crowds, largely ignored artistic pretensions and often underwhelmed critics. Michael Winner, ‘Death Wish’ Director, Dies at 77 2013-01-22T05:08:34Z It reads as a deconstructed twist on tomato pie, but without any pretension. These Are the 10 Best New Southern Restaurants 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z No city boy protests here and no slicker pretensions. Justice for Cameron, the good doctor who recognizes trouble, on "Virgin River" 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z In the 1990s, leery of its own pretensions, U2 remade itself with electronic beats and artifice until it came to a dead end with its 1997 album, “Pop.” U2 Revisits Its Past, in the Name of … What, Exactly? 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z Of course in this contest, pretensions to profundity might actually lose you points. Is The Human Centipede the most horrific film ever? 2010-08-23T10:38:00Z The absence of pretension is refreshing, but the cumulative effect is lightweight, epidermal. Review: From Tease to Payback, ‘Skin Me’ Examines the Politics of Touch 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z It wouldn’t be the last time that McCartney would succumb to his pop-star pretensions. Wings was a better band than Paul McCartney or his critics think 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z He’s all about breaking down the lines of hierarchy and pretension in his classical music world. Bradley Whitford Finds Inspiration in the Theater (and Dog Park) 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z With no pretensions and an unexpected flair for color, the British designer made easy, smart/casual clothes that were enlivened by geometric effects from angular patterns. Definitely a Grunge Fest 2013-01-21T17:30:20Z Ms. Jaoui’s films may lack Mr. Allen’s comic shtick, quotable one-liners and showy metaphysical angst, but they are precisely calibrated dissections of the pretensions and insecurities of the French chattering class. | 'Let It Rain': Agn?s Jaoui?s Comedy of Manners 2010-06-17T23:28:00Z What we are reluctant to admit is that culture would have no colour without pretension. In defence of pretentiousness | Dan Fox 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z And now it’s the turn of the Williamsburg-Greenpoint-Bushwick triangle, that crucible of low rent and high pretension that brought back “hipster” in all of its for-lack-of-a-better-word glory. Critic?s Notebook: ?I Just Want My Pants Back,? New Brooklyn-Centric TV Show 2012-02-01T23:11:40Z Pat Lyon was a moderately wealthy artisan and entrepreneur who embraced his identity as a worker over any pretensions to upper-class refinement. Review | The American Worker: Exploited from the beginning 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z She values its simplicity and lack of pretension. ‘This.’ Has People Clamoring for an Invite 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z That statement, from my column last week, packs a lot of meaning — even beyond the pretension of using a French expression to say champagne is da bomb. Perspective | Good champagne goes with pork rinds . . . 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z I also think they tend to be of the same ilk: clever, soulful but not weak, and above things without risking pretension. Why Colson Whitehead made the Underground Railroad real: “It’s fanciful and childish, but it also had many possibilities” 2016-08-27T04:00:00Z “I just kind of integrated myself here without pretensions,” said Mr. Reinert, who was recently featured in a Palm Beach Illustrated magazine spread, posing by the sea with his jawline against the horizon. Palm Beach Gets a Younger Groove 2022-04-02T04:00:00Z His novels delivered tutorials in how to brood, in fiction, without toppling into pretension. John le Carré, a Master of Spy Novels Where the Real Action Was Internal 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z The Group might well be accused of pretension," he suggests, "but what they really have is ambition ... What to say about ... reviews of the Turner prize 2010 shortlist 2010-10-05T16:59:00Z His art can be funny, touching and outrageous, all carried off with wit, charm and a lack of pretension. What to see in summer 2010 2010-05-23T20:30:00Z But it's his attitude to audiences that shows that his lack of pretension has nothing to do with a lack of artistic ambition. David Fincher: unfriended by Oscar? 2011-02-02T21:31:01Z Prosser concludes: "somewhere behind the Folio … lies a conscientious and exacting editor with literary pretensions", albeit one "more experienced in the transcription of literary than of theatrical works". Who edited Shakespeare? 2013-07-12T13:00:01Z Over 10 short episodes, the pretensions, delusions and disappointments of fringe-dwelling screenwriters are brilliantly skewered by the two young leads. TV streaming: six of the best shows 2013-02-16T16:00:00Z The motorized white chair wasn’t simply a regal pretension, of course. Foo Fighters celebrate July 4 with lots of opening acts and a mobile throne 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z "The Affair" is wildly ambitious, with pretensions toward art and insight that belie its criminal investigation trope. A taut, gripping inquiry into 'The Affair' 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z “There’s no pretension in Chris, either the character or the author or artist,” says Sarah Gubbins. Whose line is it anyway? Humor and hopelessness in “I Love Dick” 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z During their punishing scenes as mother and son, Davis, herself an award-laden screen veteran, admired Jones’s openness and lack of pretension. Caleb Landry Jones Can Do This 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z It’s billed as a satire of police procedurals like “Law & Order,” but it’s really a double-edged satire of Mr. Quinn’s pretensions and desires. Review: ‘Cop Show,’ Colin Quinn’s Police Procedural Satire 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z “If you could do something delicious that would be really, really good, but in its very essence would remove any hint of pretension, why wouldn’t you?” Rosé, really? The story of pink wine’s path from tacky to chic. 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z Stan was a boozy layabout slob, she his common wife with laughable pretensions. Jean Alexander obituary 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z Luis scourges Silverio for self-indulgence and pretension, accusing him of playing the “artiste” for the Americans and forgetting where he came from. ‘Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths’ Review: It’s a Stressful Afterlife 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z Because pretension is measured against the baseline “norm” of the accuser, there is an assumption that pretension always involves scrabbling up the class ladder. In defence of pretentiousness | Dan Fox 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z Pretension is a question of optics: the pessimist sees pretension as a sham. In defence of pretentiousness | Dan Fox 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z In cutting Scott, he goes beyond a mere lack of affectation into positive derision, mocking the pretensions of the refined society that mocked him. The Ghost That Haunts Grant’s Memoirs 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z In essence it puts a wan indie gloss on music that would otherwise scan as New Age, with extra doses of reverb and pretension. Making Merry With Music 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z In a poem called “Apology” she writes: I thought you were born to privilege, some inherited advantage — like an estate framed in privet hedge, or a better-feathered shuttlecock for badinage, or other French pretensions. Books of The Times: Stealthy Insights Amid Short Phrases 2010-03-05T00:07:00Z Jake’s complacency and Drew’s pretensions get punctured over the course of Christmas at Ed’s, amid family traditions including plaid pajamas, raillery and eggnog. Review: ‘Straight White Men,’ Now Checking Their Privilege on Broadway 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z I pictured this painter as a dictator's son indulging Caligula-like artistic pretensions and failed to see the side of him that would get Saif al-Islam a PhD from the London School of Economics. Saif al-Islam Gaddafi's art showed the grotesque symptoms of dictatorship 2011-08-26T13:25:04Z Handy’s readings of certain texts can also be mystifying — and similarly garnished with literary pretensions. A Personal, Breezy Tour of Classic Children’s Books 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z But even then, the take-no-prisoners wit was already on display, his ability to puncture pretensions and skewer assumptions. Paul Beatty becomes first American to win Man Booker Prize 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z Playboy, which first appeared on newsstands in December 1953, mocked America's puritan pretensions. Hugh Hefner in six volumes 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z It may also be that there's an element of snobbery and slight pretension in our appetite for the Euro cop drama. Will Spiral become your new favourite Saturday night Euro cop drama? 2011-04-01T14:30:00Z He hated the pretensions of nouvelle cuisine and would not understand the small-plates craze of today. For my dad, cooking started with olive oil, garlic, parsley — and love 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z This award-winning food podcast, now part of Stitcher, prides itself on being “not for foodies, but for eaters,” conveying a lack of pretension that underlies its appeal. 6 Podcasts to Feed Your Inner Gourmand 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z If Mr. D’Ambrose doesn’t quite earn his pretensions, it’s refreshing to see a filmmaker thinking so far outside the box. Review: In ‘Notes on an Appearance,’ the Hipster Vanishes 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z For him, it seemed, the city’s main appeal was its lack of pretension. The Teen Streets of John Hughes’s Chicago 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z It’s an awkward mix of sentiment, underdeveloped relationships and rock ’n’ roll pretensions, and it never quite gels into the “Love Story” for the 21st century that it wants to be. ‘37: A Final Promise’ Revolves Around Suicide 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z The producers displayed no pretension or hand-wringing — no stated rubric of avant-gardism and no rhetoric about how it’s our responsibility to support experimental composers as a cause. Mixing It Up at Big Ears Festival in Knoxville 2010-03-29T21:46:00Z He’s allergic to anything that smacks of pretension, which inevitably inspires one of his favorite expressions: “of my balls,” as in Slava is a “poetic clown of my balls.” The Dumbledore of Clowning 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z So young Reed grew up thinking that it was a good thing to distance yourself from elites and avoid pretensions. Reed Hastings Had Us All Staying Home Before We Had To 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z To be candid, "Music of the Spheres" is an unholy mess of a record, confusing and conflating generic impulses towards synth-pop, ambient sound, and electronica, among other stylistic pretensions. Coldplay has lost its way 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z I don’t like pretension, and I found it very pretentious. The Carpetbagger: My Oscar Picks: Judy Blume 2012-02-22T14:30:38Z Whatever pretensions of horror remain in Resident Evil's spent cadaver are thoroughly eviscerated by the mere presence of a support character. Resident Evil 6 – review 2012-10-06T23:05:37Z The grooves insinuate rather than chug; the words disarm any concept-album pretensions. Ambrose Akinmusire, Drake, the Roots, St. Vincent 2011-12-17T03:03:14Z Like an irreverent Greek chorus, they laugh at human pretensions and encourage people to feel nothing. Review: ‘Eurydice,’ a New Opera, Looks Back All Too Tamely 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z Its tepid satire of art world pretensions culminates with a visual dirty joke that is mildly amusing but still not worth the wait. Movie Review: ‘My Worst Nightmare,’ a French Film With Sexual Scrambling 2012-10-19T00:14:05Z For a comic novelist, such human pretension is a gift. What Do Mark Twain, Carpentry and Commodes Have in Common? 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z It’s a slightly antiquated notion that usually leads to pretension and maudlin indulgence. Think there can’t be a jazz-funk fusion superstar in 2020? Then you don’t know Thundercat. 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z Yet he makes ”no pretension to literary merit,” as he fastidiously documented the distilleries’ technical details like capacities of grain storage units and sizes of buildings and machinery. The Whisky Chronicles 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z The crime-oriented dramas on Fox and ABC -- and to a lesser extent NBC -- have a tawdry edge, too; but they seem less ashamed of themselves, and their overall lack of pretension leavens the gruesomeness. Meet the worst new TV show of 2011: "Suspect Behavior" 2011-02-16T15:01:00Z The radical disconnectedness of those in power from the lives and concerns of the public expose the bankruptcy of their pretensions. Heeding the lessons of James Joyce's "Ulysses," a century later 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z Most important, it’s continued to combine ambitious storytelling with pulpy, Saturday-matinee energy, something neither “Lost” nor “The X-Files” could manage in their later seasons as they slid into pretension and hokey, unconvincing mysticism. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Fringe’ Begins Final Season on Fox 2012-09-27T21:48:01Z He could be a useful irritant, unafraid of kicking up at the pretensions of the literary establishment. Tom Wolfe Kept a Close, Comical and Astonished Eye on America 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z To others, however, it might suggest the medium’s truth-telling potential, its ability to throw light on painting’s inner workings, even undermine its pretensions. Art Review: ‘Dürer to de Kooning,’ at the Morgan Library 2012-10-11T23:02:45Z Perhaps because of this city's easy diversity and welcoming nature, the pretension level is very low. Treasure Hunting in New Orleans 2011-02-15T20:20:04.570Z What saves “February House” from annoying gaucheness and pretension is the obvious affection that its creators feel for their subjects. Theater Review: ‘February House,’ at the Public Theater 2012-05-23T02:00:01Z At one point, he rails against the pretensions of his own script. Fasten your seat belts: Winnebago Man returns 2010-07-08T11:01:00Z Because this sly trickster who operates under multiple identities is not in it for the money, he couldn’t be called a criminal, and his puncturing of the pretensions of curators is perversely satisfying. Critic’s Notebook: The Tribeca Film Festival Begins Its 13th Season 2014-04-15T16:18:57Z Wine writers attempt to reveal wine’s mysteries, strip away its pretensions, simplify its immense variety. The stuff of the best 2017 wine reads: Everyman advice, a con man, a legendary region 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z Overall, the show's straightforward good nature and lack of pretension becomes hard to resist. That Day We Sang ? review 2011-07-07T16:00:00Z The New York they lived in looked like the one inhabited by Lena Dunham but it was free from anxiety, depression and pretension. Lena Dunham’s Girls: the show that turned TV upside down 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z He also argues that getting rid of the “bad habits” of abstraction, pretension and verbal obfuscation will help everyone to “think more clearly, and to think clearly is a necessary first step towards political regeneration.” George Orwell was not a language fascist: Why we keep misinterpreting his words 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z If you are wondering whether the film lands on the side of pleasure or gastronomic pretension, let this be the answer: The first words are “du beurre!” — or “butter.” ‘Delicious’ Review: Ahead of the French Revolution, a Culinary One 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z “The Beat Is ...,” released this month, leaves all pretensions to seriousness aside: it’s fully committed to its lightness, and it’s impressive. Music Review | Alphabeat: A Danish Popsicle, Alphabeat, Is Served Quickly 2010-03-24T20:56:00Z But embedded in such restrictions one may infer either a resistance to having his work pushed to the fringes, or a pretension in contextualizing it as a mainstream experience. What Distinguishes a Neil Breen Film? Neil Breen. 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z The movie stands out from contemporary horror for its lack of pretension and its simple commitment to inventing ways for pretty people to get slaughtered. ‘Satanic Panic’ Review: A Pizza Party for the Prince of Darkness 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z At the time, the NME and Melody Maker tended to respond to these acts' pretensions with pretensions of their own: you got a lot of quotations from Gramsci and Foucault for your 45p. Young Arts Critics 2010: critical conditions 2010-05-24T20:30:00Z Longborough now has a proper artistic pedigree to go with its grandiose pretensions. Bringing Wagner to Gloucestershire 2010-07-22T22:06:00Z To be sure, that's part of the intention, to skewer the pretensions of the literati. Hanif Kureishi's 'The Last Word' lacks a certain sense of voice 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z He’s fully aware that some of the band’s music “carries the smell of falsity, pretension, bad poetry.” Books of The Times: ?The Doors,? by Greil Marcus - Review 2011-11-15T21:52:12Z It isn’t noir — it doesn’t have those pretensions — but it’s definitely gunmetal. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-09-26T21:57:00Z Lose though - especially by a wide margin - and those pretensions crumble to dust and ashes. England face up to World Cup day of reckoning 2023-10-21T04:00:00Z Whatever pretensions the Senate may have once had as the more staid chamber of Congress, a place where the business of government gets done among sober statesmen, are gone now. Not just the House of Representatives: Senate GOP gone wild 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z Theoconservatism is now the dominant and possibly the only significant strain of American conservatism with intellectual pretensions. There's no such thing as a conservative intellectual — only apologists for right-wing power 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z Glenda Jackson, who has died aged 87, had scant patience for the usual foibles and pretensions of her profession. Glenda Jackson obituary: 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z And just built up this pretension of being OK, and he wasn’t OK. Jeremy Strong, Christina Ricci, Helen Mirren, more reveal the inner workings of their series 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z The invaded countries turned the democratic French principle of self-determination into a sacred right to defend their own national identities, shaped by their own particular histories, against the universalist pretensions of the French. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Whatever pretensions the Senate may have once had as the more staid chamber of Congress, a place where the business of government gets done among sober statesmen, are gone now. Not just the House of Representatives: Senate GOP gone wild 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z What is chiefly distinguishable about the output of self-styled conservative intellectuals is that their academic credentials and scholarly pretensions often gain them reviews in the prestige media, presumably on the basis of their importance. There's no such thing as a conservative intellectual — only apologists for right-wing power 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z Or not excess exactly, but a kind of ease, a lack of pretension and the ability or willingness to embrace Los Angeles for what it is. The Ultimate L.A. Bookshelf: Essays 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z And then the second part is that there’s no pretension. In 'Yellowjackets' Season 2, Juliette Lewis says Natalie is seeking 'redemption' 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z Many novels written around the turn of the twentieth century critiqued the hypocrisy of social elites and their pretensions to rectitude. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Betty Boothroyd's down-to-earth manner, complete lack of pretension and respect for the supremacy of Parliament endeared her to both sides of the House. Obituary: Betty Boothroyd 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z It's about dispensing entirely with pretensions of morality and giving themselves permission to be proud villains. Why do so many Republicans now dress like cartoon supervillains? 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z He was among the first to use Black runway models and sometimes mocked the industry’s pretensions with playful honesty. Paco Rabanne, fashion designer who distilled ’60s spirit, dies at 88 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z He announces himself as a saloonkeeper, though he has a resort and gambling den of some pretensions. How to watch (almost) every Best Picture winner from 1940 through 1949 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z Over the centuries the papacy struggled, and often failed, to assert its control over the Church as an institution and to hold the pretensions of kings in check. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Smith and Leonard spoof the presumptions and pretensions of people who like to outwardly project as kindly and enlightened; and they unsparingly illustrate how someone’s seemingly rock-solid reputation can be undone in an instant. Review: 'The Drop' doesn't always work as a comedy, but it has the ring of hard-won truth 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z What he meant was, once the jaw gets rattled you drop the fancy pretension and get back to your basic, brawling core — relying on instinct that gets the job done even if not stylistically pretty. Kraken get back to basics after slump, just in time for key stretch 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z “In today’s world, such pretensions cannot fail to alienate others.” George Herring, scholar of U.S. diplomacy and Vietnam War, dies at 86 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z Lifting the veil on our pretensions, he calls us to see ourselves in our neighbor. Reading Proust in wartime: A portrait of racism, nationalism and profound loss 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z Spanish nobles came to hold their own kings in contempt and asserted their own sovereignty against the pretensions of the monarchy. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s also a pulpy grindhouse B-picture tricked out in art house pretensions, counting on the siren call of sex and violence to fleece the rubes. Review | ‘Bones and All’: All shock and no value 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z It further validates the Ukrainian way of war and further undermines Russian pretensions to rule any part of Ukraine. Opinion | Kherson’s fall is another triumph for Ukraine’s ‘thousand bee sting’ strategy 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z So new, so fresh, and so unassuming, even in its pretensions,” wrote Clive Barnes in the New York Times. Michael Butler, the millionaire hippie who brought the musical 'Hair' to Broadway, dies 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z And the moral incoherence of “Holy Spider” arises precisely from those pretensions, which the movie ultimately can’t reconcile with its garden-variety bloodlust. Review: The serial-killer thriller ‘Holy Spider’ gets stuck in its own morally murky web 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z At other times, he’s unbearably sanctimonious and unwittingly comical in his know-it-all pretensions. Review | ‘Which Side Are You On’ tells a story for and of our times 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z In the cutthroat media business, Mr. Ferrante earned a reputation for leading a collegial news operation without pretension, where his booming laugh was a sign of ultimate approval. Robert Ferrante, exec who energized NPR’s ‘Morning Edition,’ dies at 87 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z Nancy studied classics at Cambridge, but grew tired of its class pretensions and dropped out after a few semesters. Nancy Hiller, Who Broke a Glass Ceiling in Woodworking, Dies at 63 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z For Shannon, regardless of who wins the election, Brazil will be a major international player, with whom the US needs to work, without any pretensions to dominate. Brazil election: Why it matters so much to the US 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z “That sounds pretentious. But then when David was called pretentious, he said, ‘I have a master’s degree from the school of pretension.’” For director Brett Morgen, unlocking the mystery of David Bowie meant letting it be 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z What “Only Murders” does so well is to mock its characters’ pretensions even as it allows them fully developed emotions. How Steve Martin and Martin Short created the perfect comic marriage 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z Then I went to another, who had still higher philosophical pretensions, and my conclusion was exactly the same. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z There’s no pretension that the governor’s delta tunnel plan is a solution for the current drought. Newsom's Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta plan makes more sense. But it's still a 'water grab' 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z He indicts Ben’s pretension and the craven way he seeks to extract Abilene’s story for his own gain, inspecting the media’s role in the “culture wars,” and the socially constructed divisions in our country. Review: B.J. Novak sends up media and looks for America in smart satire 'Vengeance' 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z Amazon has some pretensions here, in the sense that they have a big hardware division that invents a bunch of stuff all the time. Is the metaverse going to suck? A conversation with Matthew Ball 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z But the opposition is no bastion of integrity: Arts critics expect to be paid well to write a positive review, and Lucien soon drops his noble literary pretensions to embrace this corrupt environment. Review | ‘Lost Illusions’ is Balzac for the 21st century 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z By pruning the EPA’s pretensions, the court has signaled a quickened interest in policing the separation of powers. Opinion | The EPA decision is the biggest one of all, and the court got it right 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z China, an autocracy with a long record of human rights abuses, took the opportunity to mock American pretensions to moral leadership. Biden says America is leading. On abortion, Europeans disagree. 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z Now, she’s back with another West African comedy of bad manners, “Nollywood Dreams,” an affectionate sendup of the egocentric pretensions of the movie business. Review | Hooray for ‘Nollywood’! Jocelyn Bioh’s Nigerian satire is a pleasure. 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z Algeria recalled its ambassador to Spain in March after Madrid came out in support of Morocco’s pretensions to keep Western Sahara under its rule. EU urges Algeria to restore friendship treaty with Spain 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z The difficulty of the journey is, in some ways, exacerbated by the clergyman’s own pretensions and delusions; life proves no more hospitable when he finally reaches his destination. Baz Luhrmann's unruly 'Elvis' shakes up the Cannes Film Festival 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z According to Alfonso, Ms. Henske was an “all-around creative person, an intellectual without pretensions, a person who loved learning and laughter and wild speculations for their own sake.” Judy Henske, folk singer known as ‘Queen of the Beatniks,’ dies at 85 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z “I made my merry way but without any intellectual pretensions.” Michel Bouquet, celebrated actor in French New Wave films, dies at 96 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z "When you see what he has meant for the English game, anyone with pretensions of succeeding in this game would like to be compared to Frank Lampard." Valencia's Soler attracting Premier League's elite 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z Most of the Lower South was only a generation away from the frontier in 1860, and pretensions to ancestral polish had little basis in reality, no matter how wealthy a family might be. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z It makes no pretensions of analysis or theory. David Attenborough’s ‘Trials of Life’: A reference work with the power to transport 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z This is a B-movie with the pretensions of a prestige drama; and frankly, the less ambitious version would’ve likely been better. Review: Weight of exposition drags down the strong premise of South African thriller 'Indemnity' 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z Even though none of my colleagues was going to end up being my BFF, I admired them for their skills and lack of pretension. When Your Office Decides the Pandemic Is Over 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z If the DUP has any pretensions towards modernising, she fits the profile of a candidate they need to run. Could DUP veterans become spent electoral forces? 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z Except in a few places like Charleston, ordinary white men would no longer submit to the worst pretensions of self-styled gentlemen. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Her disdain for pretension, practiced by Black people in power, what Hurston called “bookooing,” is all over her essay about the NAACP, where she rants about the divide “between house servants and field hands.” Review | Zora Neale Hurston was once forgotten. A new book reminds us why her voice must be heard. 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z As Lipstein skewers the pretensions and delusions of literary ambition, he reveals the mental tricks that allow writers to imagine that they care only for art, not money or fame. Review | How to make it rich as a bad art friend 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z And Puzo turned the mafia into a metaphor for America — its greed, violence, pretensions and betrayals. Review | Behind ‘The Godfather,’ misfits, showdowns and the real mob 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z Top restaurant critics jumped on the takedown bandwagon, championing a democratic revolt against a Michelin-starred restaurant with an expensive tasting menu of tiny portions and heaps of pretension. Of Mouth Molds and Michelin Stars: Chef Finds Fame After Epic Takedown 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z Influenced by the Second Great Awakening, thousands of slaves converted to Christianity and used this aspect of white culture to condemn the moral pretensions of whites themselves. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z His essay made paintings that I loved intelligible in plainspoken, even obvious ways that the critical baggage of High Art pretensions had hitherto obscured. Appreciation: Art critic Dave Hickey was known for his blazing and cantankerous wit 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z It is a product without pretension, without guile or duplicity. It’s party time, smash the EXTRA BASS button 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z Saul is a 42-year-old architect who created the satirical site in 2019 to tweak the pretensions of the famously liberal community in which he then lived. Perspective | An OnlyFans baseball parody has an Olney team crying foul — and hiring counsel 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z Just be grateful “Kate” doesn’t seem to belong to the burgeoning Wickipedia, thus isn’t weighed down by its increasingly burdensome pretensions. Review: 'Kate' in spades — Mary Elizabeth Winstead wants revenge 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z Montaigne admitted that visitors called the Brazilians cannibals, but he mocked the moral pretensions of Europe by dryly observing that eating prisoners was kinder than torturing them, as Europeans did in their wars of religion. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z It was too much for Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Republican, who quickly sought to puncture the Texas Democrats’ pretensions to civil-rights greatness. Runaway Texas Democrats toasted on left, roasted on right 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z Ms. Malcolm combined meticulous reporting with a ruminative and slashing style, illuminating her subjects’ personalities and pretensions while also revealing her own eye for detail. Janet Malcolm, elegant and incisive writer for the New Yorker, dies at 86 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z This type of wokeness involves seeing through the pretensions of a free society and favoring the oppressed in every instance. Opinion | America’s contest of nightmares isn’t even close 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z He said he was drawn to the restaurant in part by its lack of pretension. Crook’s Corner, a Landmark North Carolina Restaurant, Has Closed 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z He acts like a preening buffoon with pretensions of grandeur — doltish and delusional in equal measure. Opinion | Too many people are still underestimating the Trump threat 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z On May 18, however, Pennsylvanians can prune its pretensions by amending their state’s constitution. Opinion | Pennsylvanians can begin a national reckoning of executive overreach 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z If ever there was a time and place to remember that the IOC is a fake principality, an oft-corrupt cash receptacle for peddlers with pretensions of grandeur, this is it. Perspective | Japan should cut its losses and tell the IOC to take its Olympic pillage somewhere else 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z One is computer scientist Scott Aaronson, who has, as I once put it, “one of the highest intelligence/pretension ratios I’ve ever encountered.” Will Quantum Computing Ever Live Up to Its Hype? 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z I was helped along by a handful of professors who tolerated my iffy study habits and my youthful pretensions. 'Oh, how earnest I was then': President Obama’s political awakening in ‘A Promised Land’ excerpt 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z The pathos and tragedy of the global refugee crisis are its targets, not the pretensions of the international art market, and it, from time to time, delivers a sting. Review | Tunisian Oscar nominee ‘The Man Who Sold His Skin’ just may get under yours 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z And mass violence would shatter their democratic pretensions. Myanmar’s Bloodshed Reveals a World That Has Changed, and Hasn’t 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z But a goofy strain of humble humanism manages to keep the self-consciously mannered house of cards from collapsing from its own pretensions. Review | Michelle Pfeiffer reigns over flawed ‘French Exit’ with mesmerizing hauteur 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z Look over there, the director is telling us — it’s pretension and quaaludes and bad sitcoms that are really the problem. Why My Teenage Self Gave Woody Allen a Pass 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z But any such pretensions are kept in check here, as is the ponderousness and sentimentality that often afflict such exercises in mythmaking. Review: 'Night of the Kings,' a movie about the power of storytelling, also has a good story to tell 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z Founded in 1974, Hustler was unashamedly crude, low-brow and hard-core, thumbing its nose at the pretensions of such high-toned men’s magazines as Playboy. Hustler founder and First Amendment battler Larry Flynt dies 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z Into his 90s, he was still crisscrossing the globe, weaving Twain’s stories and quips into a peppery monologue about mankind’s pretensions and vices. Actor Hal Holbrook, indelible portrayer of Mark Twain, dies at 95 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z Those who once warned against tyranny now submissively serve a president with authoritarian pretensions. Opinion | Let the anti-constitutional Republicans reveal themselves 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z “Not exactly two birds of a feather but both with preening pretensions to reaching the heights of former glories.” Tottenham Hotspur v Leeds United: Premier League – live! 2021-01-02T05:00:00Z For populist policy reforms to succeed, populists — especially those on the right — need to drop their naïve and self-defeating pretensions of “dismantling the administrative state.” Opinion | Trump Needed the ‘Boneheads’ More Than He Knew 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z It’s also a snarky sendup of Hollywood pretensions, rife with movie references; film nuts, rejoice! Our columnist picks his 10 favorite crime novels of 2020 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z “Some people sat in the corner playing dominoes, and other people got up onstage and played their songs, and there was no more pretension about one than the other.” Hal Ketchum, singer of 1990s country hits, dies at 67 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z Oscar bait’s great sin is not artistic pretension; it’s a lack of curiosity. The ‘Purge’ Films Reveal the Ugly Truth About America 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z The vinyl makes no such pretensions, the satisfyingly rich, plummy quality of recorded music being an art form of its own. Commentary: The L.A. Phil quiet no more 2020-10-25T04:00:00Z DeBary offers recipes for both alcoholic and nonalcoholic cocktails, some with clever names and absolutely no pretension. Cocktails get the home treatment in several new books 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z Luksahenko stepped up his defiance this week by unexpectedly taking the oath of office for a new term in an unannounced ceremony, leading many to mock him as harboring royal-like pretensions. 100,000 march in Belarus capital on 50th day of protests 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z The most eviscerating attack on the president’s businessman narrative came through a New York Times investigation of his family’s finances, for instance, while The Washington Post dismantled Trump’s pretensions to philanthropic generosity. Review | Trump is hardly the first serial liar in the White House. But his deceptions are different. 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z The New York Times says that the film “commits to its art-house pretensions. The result isn’t pleasant, but it does effectively provoke.” New movies to stream this week: ‘All In: The Fight for Democracy,’ ‘The Devil All the Time’ and more 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z It shows what happens when a sharp judicial mind comes face to face with the pretensions of the neoliberal racket that sails under the gig economy flag of convenience. All hail the California court that put the brakes on Uber and co | John Naughton 2020-08-22T04:00:00Z Its long and popular run, tweaking pretensions and foibles of power with cutting irony and deft exaggeration, spanned millennia. Opinion | Trump has killed satire 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z This awful era asks many things of us; the maintenance of private pretensions is low on the list. The Valet and Drifter Helping Me Get Through Quarantine 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z The prescience of “Father of the Constitution” James Madison’s “auxiliary precautions” to a democratic electorate’s control of power or pretension pooling somewhere in government seems evident in U.S. Opinion | Looking back at James Madison in the case of Michael Flynn 2020-05-17T04:00:00Z BRUNSWICK, Ga. — For many residents of Satilla Shores, a subdivision in coastal Georgia, their waterfront neighborhood is paradise without pretension. Where Ahmaud Arbery Ran, Neighbors Cast Wary Eyes 2020-05-16T04:00:00Z If both cases are decided correctly, the vitality of Congress will be enhanced and the pretensions of presidents will be chastened. Opinion | Two cases that could help ‘recage the executive lion’ 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z And this earthy galette, with its rich and fatty toppings, deserves a superb one in spite of its humble ingredients and lack of pretension. Crepes Don’t Have to Be Fancy to Be Delicious 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z Furthermore, he is a two-fisted, spit-in-your-eye, down-to-earth cove with none of our effete English intellectual pretensions, and the sheila has not been born who can resist his vibrant sexual magnetism for more than seven seconds. Will Greg Norman reach superstardom? - Golf Digest 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z In Europe, the responses from the relevant authorities in Brussels and Frankfurt have exposed any pretensions about the EU acting like a cohesive political bloc. What will the post-coronavirus global economy look like? 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Crowley’s script, he added, “remorselessly peels away the pretensions of its characters and reveals a pessimism so uncompromising in its honesty that it becomes in itself an affirmation of life.” Mart Crowley, Tony-winning playwright of ‘The Boys in the Band,’ dies at 84 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z How will they meet the challenge of silencing Anfield by ending Liverpool’s pretensions to domestic invincibility? Premier League: 10 things to look out for this weekend 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z The 33rd president, once barely possessing the approval of 2 in 5 Americans, today consistently ranks among the top U.S. presidents, his lack of lyrical eloquence now regarded as pure American lack of pretension. Truman and Coolidge go up, Jefferson and Jackson go down. How history remembers presidents 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z “Everybody dropped their pretensions, they were asking us questions, they were agonizing with themselves,” he said. Analysis | Senate to emerge from impeachment trial guilty of extreme partisanship 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z Like many a desperate parent before me, I dabbled briefly in the how-to industrial complex and was horrified to find, in pages filled with insufferable pretension and naive optimism, a reflection of my former self. Perspective | As a cookbook writer, I just knew my children would be good eaters. Then they were born. 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z |
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