| 单词 | pretentious |
| 例句 | Or “oeuvres,” if you’re really pretentious, like some of the kids in my art class who wear berets, like somehow their brains are so creative, they need a covering more unique than anyone else’s. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Unfusing a participle can make a sentence clumsy or pretentious: Any alleged evils of capitalism are simply the result of people’s being free to choose. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z After several months of doing day work, she took a steady job in the home of a family of slender means and nervous, pretentious ways. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z The coffee shop smells like pretentious writers who would hate the stuff I write. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z You all know my name but not, I think, my full name, so I am going to write it down in all its pretentious glory. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Nothing seemed suitable, they were all so elaborate and pretentious, those gorgeous costumes of velvet and silk in the reproductions given of Rubens, Rembrandt and others. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Abenthy had given me a new piece of sympathy to practice: The Maxim of Variable Heat Transferred to Constant Motion, or something pretentious like that. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Given to mystical preoccupations, this android proposed the group escape attempt, underwriting it ideologically with a pretentious fiction as to the sacredness of so-called android “life.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z “It's a ski resort, but it's not pretentious. In Jackson, they say people who go to Aspen expect somebody to tie their ski boots up for them,” Georgina said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z There was, after all, some fun to be had spending an evening pretending to be pretentious. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Two matching SUVs are parked in the drive, shining as if their pretentious mechanical lives depend on it. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “You would. Big white whale is a metaphor for everything. You live for pretentious metaphors.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z The way he said it, Dimple could tell he thought Rishi was a pretentious douche nozzle. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z “A poem about massive battles and boundless love isn’t pretentious?” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z I curtsy and give him my hand like some pretentious aristocrat, which makes him laugh. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Respectable people do not become painters: only overblown, pretentious, theatrical people. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z She had dismissed him years ago as a smooth and pretentious sleekness. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z “Harrison is the most pretentious peasant I have ever seen,” Kainene said, as she started the car. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The Colonel blew smoke rings, and Takumi called them “pretentious,” while Alaska followed the smoke rings with her fingers, stabbing at them like a kid trying to pop bubbles. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z He could quote Browning or Tennyson or Shakespeare at the drop of a hat, and the quote was always apt and telling, never pretentious or affected. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He could quote lines from his favorite comedies, like Caddyshack, or poke fun at someone who was too pretentious or willfully ignorant. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Overweening, a useful word that we don’t see very often, means “conceited” or “pretentious.” Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Now there was talk of medical college, which after a literature degree seemed rather pretentious. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The entire Life Drawing class would be viewed as pretentious, and also ludicrous. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z And Kevin complained of boredom, and of having to be sociable with a steady stream of ignorant pretentious guests who visited the Weylin house. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z It was an immaculate and friendly house, grand enough but not pretentious, and it sat inside its white fence, surrounded by its clipped lawn, and roses and catoneasters lapped against its white walls. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He promised Ridgeway a generous bounty, going so far as to present a contract in a pretentious ceremony. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “Everything. From, like, hideous romance to pretentious fiction to poetry. Whatever.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Be pretentious in your writing and toss in an occasional e.g. or i.e. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z And of course he made a famous cameo in “Annie Hall,” appearing alongside Woody Allen’s character to denounce a pretentious moviegoer. Early Media Prophet Is Now Getting His Due 2011-07-25T22:25:36Z This is maybe ridiculously pretentious, but I want it to be a little like song. Jenny Holzer: drawn to the dark side 2012-06-04T17:36:01Z “If We Were Villains” is, then, a readable, smart, pretentious, youthful book, at once charming and insufferable, at once good and bad. Summer Thrillers: Daring Escapes and Other Acts of Derring-Do 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z The food is contemporary, seasonal French cuisine and though the whole outfit may seem a little pretentious, the laid-back staff and layout of the seating fosters a distinctly relaxed, almost communal atmosphere in the restaurant. 10 of the best industrial-chic spaces worldwide 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z Beyond the pretentious vocabulary, Ewald’s Homebody is clearly a lonely creature living vicariously through books, and an eccentric stand-in for all those who don’t make history but watch it with awe and impotence from afar. The female psyche is focus of 2 new Seattle shows 2013-06-06T20:39:46Z Curiously enough, the passages in “Golden Gate” devoted to explicating the bridge’s symbolism and allure are its least persuasive: pretentious, clichéd, derivative and pompously theoretical. Books of The Times: The Building of a Symbol: How It Got There, and Why It?s Orange 2010-08-23T19:38:00Z “That sounds so pretentious,” he says, shaking his head. A composer offers the field just what it needs 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z I don’t like pretension, and I found it very pretentious. The Carpetbagger: My Oscar Picks: Judy Blume 2012-02-22T14:30:38Z Yet at moments the prose can be pretentious, verging on parody. ‘Crudo’ Is a Novel With a Real-Life Novelist in Thin Disguise 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z His greatest self-penned creation, absurdly pretentious poet Paul Hamilton, seems a labour not so much of love but of sweat, with Eldon saying he "gets about one new poem a year" for him. Talk about Kevin 2010-07-30T23:06:00Z The background: Please look away now if you have a natural aversion to the artsy, or if you react badly to the pretentious. New band of the day (Lola's Bad No 1,492) 2013-04-15T15:42:04Z While Rory is clearly suffering from a false sense of high self-esteem, there’s no denying that Logan’s family is a far too pretentious and that’s seen in the way that Logan treats everyone around him. A Definitive Ranking of Rory Gilmore's Hapless Boyfriends 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z In the animated series “We Bare Bears,” which often cleverly satirized trendy millennial life in California, we find the pretentious Honey Wasabi Gummies. Sensational Sweets of the Imagination 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z He offered what he smilingly said was a “very pretentious” thought. Christian Boltanski Project Touches Bologna’s Traumas, and His Own 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z Angst-Ridden Artist on a Mysterious Mission An exhaustingly pretentious heave of artistic self-involvement, “The Time Being” takes an exceptionally handsome journey to nowhere at all. Movie Review: ‘The Time Being’ Stars Wes Bentley and Lovely Views 2013-07-25T23:52:02Z People tell funny stories about pretentious actors, but all that matters is the audience watches and they are not reminded that you are a strange, poncy person with make-up on. Jason Isaacs: this much I know 2013-05-11T17:59:01Z “It’s an ambitious novel without ever being pretentious,” Mr. Irving said in an interview, noting that he couldn’t remember the last time a debut novel had made such a strong impression on him. Nathan Hill Is Compared to John Irving. Irving Compares Him to Dickens. 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z I've always preferred, in a quite pretentious sort of way, the French title of "realizer" rather than "director," who tells people what to do all the time. "Cyrano" director on what Peter Dinklage brings to this enchanting retelling of a classic 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z And in Bowie's case, his own pretentious leanings ultimately inspired him to create more art. Faking cultural interest can actually make you smarter and more creative 2013-07-02T12:00:01Z Glenn Shadix, best remembered for his portrayal of a portly, pretentious designer in the metaphysical comedy "Beetlejuice," died Tuesday at his home in Birmingham. 'Beetlejuice' actor Glenn Shadix dies in Alabama 2010-09-08T01:25:00Z This writer vanishes for pages at a time in “Black Deutschland,” however, and a vastly more pretentious one sneaks in. Review: Darryl Pinckney’s ‘Black Deutschland’ Is Set in 1980s Berlin 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z In scenes where doctors are consulted and tests conducted, “The Accountant” feels like a solemn, pretentious tutorial on the subject. Review: In ‘The Accountant,’ a Savant With Daddy Issues Has a Dark Secret 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Well, I’m sorry, that’s one of those pretentious things that annoy the hell out of me.” Connoisseurs in the Theatrical Import Business 2011-08-02T22:02:35Z It is not at all pretentious, which is another target. The Effect; The Seagull; The Trojan Women – review 2012-11-18T00:06:26Z If I weren't so scared of sounding like the pretentious Moon, I'd say Stoppard's play is a minor comic masterpiece about the theatrical process. The Real Inspector Hound/The Critic 2010-07-11T20:30:00Z “Forgive me if it sounds pretentious, but it’s Martin Heidegger: Language is being. ‘Language is the house of being, and we are the caretakers of being.’ David Patrick Kelly, a Character Actor Vibrating on His Own Plane 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z “Michelin reviewers,” he wrote, “are accused of being pretentious and ‘out of touch’ and of enforcing a rigid view of dining that’s biased against certain cuisines.” Yelp vs. Food Critics 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z I said, “You know, we Westerners are very pretentious, and we don’t really want to work if it’s going to be in the Arab taste, all white and gold and mirrors.” Talk: Peter Marino Likes Playing Bad Cop 2012-03-09T20:36:00Z In the overly enunciated voice of the pretentious intellectual she had perfected in her stand-up, she said with a dismissive flip of her hand: “I don’t participate in the economy of distinction.” Kate Berlant Can’t Hide Any Longer 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z This film is just getting started and it unleashes some delightful surprises that upend expectations, while also making some profound and pretentious comments on life, America, and civilization as we know it. In crime comedy "Vengeance," B.J. Novak dares to mess with Texas while also skewering all the rest 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z For every engaging piece of work in "Now Here," there's something that falls flat or feels pretentious. New at the Henry Art Gallery: Jeffry Mitchell, Laurie Anderson and more 2012-11-20T21:29:03Z Allen pulls the "medium is the message" author into the theater to deflate a pretentious blowhard. "You know nothing of my work": Five great self-aware cameos 2011-08-01T18:02:00Z This toweringly ambitious, if occasionally pretentious film installation is the creation of Julian Rosefeldt, its writer, director and producer, a German artist drawn to complex narratives and fusions of real and cinematic space. 12 Faces of Cate Blanchett: A Chameleon in the Armory 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Which could sound a mite pretentious, but he tells the story matter-of-factly. Jim Sturgess: a thoroughly polished survivor 2010-12-23T22:00:04Z Speaking of pretentious artists, Elizabeth Shapiro introduced us to one recently in a segment of her “Crossroads of History,” one of the mini-shows that constitute a new comedy block late Thursdays on the History channel. Sketch Comedy’s New Faces on TV 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z Ammons could be high-minded but he had few pretentious bones in his body. Adding Up a Prolific Poet’s Charming Weather Reports 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z But she was very grounded and wasn’t pretentious. Is there such a thing as an effortless first date? 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z When a person decides that a restaurant is pretentious, the “authentic” restaurant to which it’s being compared and the values that provide The One True Restaurant with its bona fides are seldom revealed. In defence of pretentiousness | Dan Fox 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z She was speaking on the eve of the release of “Brando,” a single based on a pretentious high school friend. Lucy Dacus Prefers Weepy Stories, Poet Dogs and Food With Attitude 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z The premise of these books sounds pretentious, but his work is rich, down to earth, bemused and, as a bonus, hilarious. Nicholson Baker's 'The Way the World Works': on Wikipedia and weddings 2012-08-01T19:59:04Z The minimalist décor is the furthest thing from pretentious or adorned, despite the pony-haired studded furniture. Bo?te | Baddies: Chugging, No. Canoodling, O.K. 2010-02-20T05:59:00Z A concept album in the least pretentious and most personal sense, it’s a collection of pieces named after women who were formative in Mr. Wooley’s upbringing. Playlist: Sad Out West, Rocking Out in Brooklyn 2011-03-06T01:44:59Z Unfortunately, the results prove a pretentious and convoluted conceit. 'Happiness on Earth' proves difficult to appreciate 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z But Cattelan’s antics were never obscure, never pretentious: they had a rare lightness of tone, a perfect balance of mockery and self-mockery. A Fine Italian Hand 2010-10-11T18:30:00Z It was “poorly organized, slow, pretentious and without much to see,” she said. Director of a Storied Paris Theater Is Fired 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z "Not clever enough to be truly pretentious," sniffed Variety. Gaspar No?: 'What's the problem?' 2010-09-16T21:29:00Z No pretentious mansion was complete without the odd telescope, barometer and globe. The lap of luxury 2011-07-29T22:55:02Z The idea of an epic work that aims to foster understanding among world religions may seem impossibly lofty if not pretentious. Music Review: Jonathan Harvey’s ‘Weltethos’ in England 2012-06-22T23:59:58Z The story of the pimply, pretentious teenager who painted his room black and obsessed about a girl called Pandora sold 2 million copies when it was released at the end of 1982. Obituary: Sue Townsend 2014-04-11T11:29:51Z He can be accused of many things — insider trading, obstruction of justice, etc. — but never of being pretentious. ‘Billions’ Season 2, Episode 2: Nifty Shades of ‘Weiner’ 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z “This delusional freak show is two hours of pretentious twaddle,” he said, concluding: “I hesitate to label it the ‘Worst movie of the year’ when ‘Worst movie of the century’ fits it even better.” What the F? How Mother! joined the 'bad movie' club 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z Finding the name pretentious, Susan said, “my father called it the Grecian Earn. He made fun of everything. Or he called it Meanwhiles. Or we called it the Ancestral Homestead, or Homestead.” Closing the Book on Cheever’s House 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z The charm of his lines — and their power, because his work has a way of disarming you and pulling you in again and again — often comes from his allergy to anything pretentious or even “poetic.” Review: Looking Inward in Poetry Books From Ron Padgett and Nick Flynn 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z Let’s face it: Many cooking shows are a bit pretentious, with participants discussing ingredients and textures as if they’re of life-or-death significance. ‘Rachael vs. Guy: Kids Cook-Off’ Returns on Sunday 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z What definitely turns up is an absorbing story told in a style that’s antique without being dated, rich but never pretentious. The most delightful heroine since Elizabeth Bennet 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z As masterful as Garland is with his precision, he can get a bit pretentious ... "Men" is Alex Garland's glossy, gendered fever dream that bewitches as much as it befuddles 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z I don’t want to be pretentious, but in some things I know what I am worth. Arts & Leisure: Arena Opera, Mortier Style 2011-07-14T13:38:17Z “We want to be a little bit different, but not pretentious at all. It’s all about local food and a comfortable place to eat.” Restaurant Report: Prima in Honolulu 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z How to read Open City is obliquely signalled by these pretentious pratfalls. Open City by Teju Cole ? review 2011-08-17T09:00:03Z In Unreliable Memoirs, and the volumes that followed, James managed to make much of a confession that he was conceited and pretentious, all the while being entertainingly both. Clive James – a life in writing 2013-07-05T07:45:01Z The Daily Telegraph’s critic called it “infuriatingly baffling” and “mightily pretentious,” adding, “I doubt the show’s ambience will play out well with E.N.O.’s core audience.” Daniel Kramer Quits at English National Opera 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z When opera singers deign to sing what, to them, are clearly trivial ditties, they often end up sounding silly and pretentious. Ren?e Fleming, Opera Star, Tries a Rock Album. 2010-05-31T21:58:00Z We know he's going to beat us hands down because he hasn't got a pretentious bone in his body. Ricky Gervais on The Ricky Gervais Show: 'You don't want to hear two people trying to be Stephen Fry' 2010-04-21T11:21:00Z And too many curatorial attempts to marry art and design resort to pretentious clichés. Design: The 'Diabolic' Carlo Mollino, Reanimated 2011-09-23T18:30:08Z Even though Dior had become comically stiff and pretentious, the French took it seriously. Paris Fashion Week: John Galliano Exits the Way That He Entered 2011-03-02T22:09:23Z Dr. Wong was a Chinese-American man in his sixties who rocked John Lennon glasses, his office featuring pretentious South American and African furniture. Adventures at the Clown Palace: Stand-up comedy helped me confront my depression and cultural taboos 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z You guessed it correctly -- my answer is boring and pretentious! An interview with the dean of "Community" 2011-09-28T22:30:00Z Still, as Season 2 brings Van Ness more admirers, “I don’t want to be like, pretentious or a nightmare,” he said. ‘Queer Eye’s’ Jonathan Van Ness is a one-man meme machine ready to take down toxic masculinity. Can you believe? 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z As for Tray, he is rejected from restaurant after restaurant due to his criminal record, until a chance encounter lands him a job in another rarefied culinary scene: that of pretentious designer coffee. Two new shows skewer trendy food culture — through the eyes of a black ex-con and a young white server 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z Reviewing a pretentious little movie can be like shooting fish in a barrel. Review: In ‘The Film Critic,’ a Snob Is Tripped Up by His Heartstrings 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z Nothing fancy or pretentious at this humble site, a resting place established for city indigents in the 1870s. New Orleans’ offbeat charms are showcased in these off-the-beaten-path destinations 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z But it’s in the more pretentious reaches of the commercial theater — the haute middlebrow, if you will — that mid-20th century Broadway traditions are still the default. Oh, the dreaded intermission: Long plays at a time when shorter is sweeter 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z The optimist views it as innocent, tragicomic, an excess of effort Saying that a person is pretentious can be a way of calling out the trappings and absurdities of power. In defence of pretentiousness | Dan Fox 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z It didn't need to be overwrought and big and important, it would have made the material pretentious. 2010-01-11T16:37:00Z He has all my sympathy because he is not pretentious. Pablo Heras-Casado, With Orchestra of St. Luke’s 2012-08-03T18:26:47Z No longer infatuated, he mocked even the divine Élisabeth as superficial, pretentious and shallow. French High Society During the Belle Époque 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z There’s also a lot of people who hated it, or thought it was pretentious, or thought it wasn’t really a game. Jason Rohrer and the Art of the Video Game 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z “They were always pretentious. There was all this small talk I didn’t get. Now I get to be myself. I don’t have to hide it when I don’t understand someone.” The Joy of Cooking Naked 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z It’s a silly name, but it works because we’re talking about incredibly expensive things that could be perceived as highly pretentious. Special Report: Watches: Hodinkee, Watch Cheerleader 2014-03-27T12:01:18Z Mr. Maher uses guest presenters and clips to find, for example, the most pretentious animal incident or the most fake reptile on film. Spare Times for June 19-25 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z James is such a nimble and fluent writer that such references never threaten to devolve into pretentious postmodern exercises. A Fantasy Set in Africa, by Way of Hieronymus Bosch, García Márquez and Marvel Comics 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z “It’s a very welcoming home and not pretentious.” As the Bidens pack up, a look at their mark on the vice president’s residence 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z His new three-part documentary series – “trilogy sounds a bit pretentious” – shunts Theroux on to terrain with plenty of grey shades and limited light. Louis Theroux: ‘For all his awfulness, I admire Trump’s shamelessness’ 2017-10-08T04:00:00Z “I was probably, in a pretentious way, thinking that these are more than TV shows … that they needed to take things to the limit in some very undefined way.” Louis Theroux: ‘For all his awfulness, I admire Trump’s shamelessness’ 2017-10-08T04:00:00Z When they meet on the beach, events play out as in Noah’s version, more or less, but he’s the assertive one, coming off pretentious, shady, even a touch stalkery. Review: The Affair: More Than Meets the "I" 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z I know this sounds mad pretentious, but: read more. Meet the Moroccan-American Singer Speaking Out With Music 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z The most effective subplot finds Lisa trapped in a romance with a pretentious rich kid and at odds with her own moral compass. The Simpsons mixes The Great Gatsby with hip-hop in misfiring special 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z The effect can be lovely but can also seem cheap and pretentious: “I did not speculate as to what he meant to tell me,” she writes, “but I was sure it was something pertinent.” Books of The Times: A Young Writer Goes Searching for Harlem 2011-01-25T18:58:36Z This will seem impossibly pretentious to some, thrillingly subversive to others. This May Be the Most Polarizing Comedy Special of the Year 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z In print, in an interview with one Danish journalist, those comments read as a sophisticated, possibly pretentious, attempt to discuss some troubling issues in recent cultural history. Cannes: Lars von Trier's "Nazi" scandal gets even dumber 2011-05-19T16:35:00Z He calls Bannon “self-impressed,” a “snake” and “the only person I have ever met who can look pretentious and like an unmade bed at the very same time.” Chris Christie’s Memoir Praises Trump, but Says, ‘I Told You So’ 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z It is also effective enough to fool everyone at the hotel, a humming establishment run by Mrs. Baker, a shrewd and pretentious lady played with cooing, squawking relish by Pauline Collins. | 'Albert Nobbs': ?Albert Nobbs? ? Movie Review 2011-12-20T16:46:28Z In night life circles, “French” is not a euphemism for pretentious white tablecloth dining, but a buzzword for debauchery. French Impresarios Infiltrate New York?s Party Scene 2012-02-24T22:57:05Z It surprises me when I hear critics say what I do with fashion and makeup is pretentious. Violinist Hahn-Bin at home with Bowie, Tchaikovsky 2012-02-23T22:13:23Z Elsewhere, tweeters singled out the offending armwear as pompous or pretentious, charging that she appears to think of herself as royalty. The Uproar Over Amal Clooney’s White Gloves 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z That would be both exhausting and overwhelmingly pretentious. From Givenchy and Alexander Wang, Competing Visions of New York 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z Lock your doors, lock your Instagram account, never date someone too pretentious for social media and trust nobody. Netflix’s You: Single White Female for vinyl-loving mansplainers 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z To be pretentious, one might call it an oratorio, or how about a 'folkatorio'? My Meltdown: Richard Thompson 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z “I think people relate because her food is not pretentious, it’s not for the elites, it just brings people together.” For Joanna Gaines, Home Is the Heart of a Food and Design Empire 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z Just hearing people on television discuss "the work" in art-world lingo, makes us art-world denizens shudder: In the context of highly formatted cable entertainment, it sounds put on and pretentious. Why the art world hates "Work of Art" 2010-07-06T15:30:00Z Posh and pretentious, and with gorgeous, curly, brown hair, he was certain to be a celebrated poet. Why I went back to my ex-boyfriends, one by one 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z The critics — the ones who called him pretentious and too earnest and too overly serious for a movie star — became a force he worked in contrast to, a dark shadow that rode alongside him. Ethan Hawke Is Still Taking Ethan Hawke Extremely Seriously 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z Nick had a completely different upbringing and was so much less pretentious than I had become as a student. Losers in love 2011-02-05T00:03:33Z “I don’t want to seem pretentious. I’ve never been a genteel photographer.” Harry Benson, an Early Photographer of Trump, Looks Back and Forward 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z While these ideas are very important to us, we try very hard to not be precious or pretentious about it. Television: The Men Who Made ABC?s ?Lost? Last 2010-05-14T01:15:00Z Her novel is by turns gritty, unnerving, exhausting, ferocious and occasionally pretentious. Books Of the Times: ‘The Panopticon,’ a Debut Novel by Jenni Fagan 2013-07-15T21:25:07Z By the end of the picture Gyllenhaal has given us something we rarely see in movies: a credible portrait of a pretentious person’s nervous breakdown. ‘Velvet Buzzsaw’ Review: Art Snobs Get a Gory Comeuppance 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z Especially in its later scenes, this overlong movie loses its focus as the director piles on distracting, pretentious cinematic embellishments underscored by an insistent use on the soundtrack of Vivaldi’s “Stabat Mater.” ‘My Name Is Hmmm ,’ a French Road Movie 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z A downtown artist will bring her food and film her for a pretentious project. A Sleeping Beauty Hopes Hibernation Is the Answer to All Life’s Problems 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z I think I like them for the same reason most others hate them: Morrison's pretentious poetry, his messiah complex and the underlying belief that rock music could actually change society. The Doors are as respect-worthy as MC5 2010-04-05T10:06:00Z Someone says, "Oh yeah, the woman I design for is very pretentious." Lagerfeld launches affordable women's line 2011-09-12T18:04:25Z “I know people think we’re pretentious, but it’s really a product of sophistication,” Mr. Lake told New Musical Express in 1973. Greg Lake, of King Crimson and Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Dies at 69 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z “The public is becoming more dispirited each season by the pretentious and woefully misguided, misdirected productions foisted on them,” it read. Metropolitan Opera Reverses Itself on Review Ban 2012-05-22T21:31:23Z Undoubtedly some will find the play pretentious and chilly; I found its Quakerish simplicity invigorating, and unexpectedly moving. What Happens to the Hope at the End of the Evening – review 2013-07-14T14:11:00Z “And it’s a different ambience, it’s more relaxed, it’s less pretentious. It’s just more authentic.” Looking Beyond Tel Aviv for Israel’s New Restaurant Scene 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z "I wanted a certain likeness between what is considered art and what is considered fashion but without the pretentious approach of it," the ponytailed designer told journalists following the show. Art, life and fashion for Chanel on Paris Fashion Week runway 2013-10-01T16:47:46Z Academics frequently use the phrase “knowledge work,” and it sometimes sounds vague and pretentious. James Fenimore Cooper — not just your grandpa’s favorite author 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z Improbable coincidences continue, along with overwritten dialogue that veers from self-consciously enigmatic to windy and pretentious. | 'Letters to the End of the World': Anton Dudley?s Play About the Effects of AIDS 2010-05-10T21:44:00Z But not in a pretentious “We’re more erudite than ‘Star Wars’” kind of way. The Duplass Brothers: The First Time We Got Cable TV 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z “I think that would be really pretentious — ‘I’m sorry, I’m now a musician,’ ” she said. Karen Elson, Model, Focuses on Music Now 2010-03-26T19:47:00Z Is it a profound masterpiece, or pretentious nonsense? The Tree of Life?has divided both critics and ?audiences. Is it a profound masterpiece, or pretentious nonsense? 2011-07-12T21:30:00Z Vodka snobbery, he said, reminds him of Jack Black’s performance as the pretentious record clerk in the 2000 film “High Fidelity.” Vodka, the Disraeli of spirits Part of that is the strenuously precocious, self-consciously pretentious dialogue — in and of itself not a vice, and certainly accurate for the kind of teens these teens are. Review: ‘Looking For Alaska’ but Finding Talky Teens 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z They spoke a subliminal truth about writers, that the good ones are rarely the pretentious ones. An Appraisal: Taking Big Bites of Jim Harrison’s Voracious Life 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z Swed said that he was probably “pretty pretentious about it back then,” but that he didn’t not enjoy it: “I just didn’t know that it was OK to enjoy it.” A Battle of Boos and Cheers at the Symphony 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z Subtle thought and fine manners — powerful tools no matter to what ends they are put — are still dismissed as unnecessary refinement, effete and pretentious. The French, improving American taste for more than 200 years 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z The way I see the world — this is probably so pretentious and self-indulgent — I don’t see why people aren’t reacting the way my character reacts to bad news. Jesse Eisenberg on the Surprising Success of ‘The Spoils’ in London 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z It is this face that Ferrell assumes throughout his interview with himself as Lipton: courteous, slightly puzzled, charming, doing his best to answer, while inviting dark laughter at the pretentious absurdities of any such encounter. Will Ferrell: ‘Ignorance is a key part of comedy’ 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z Though not pretentious, his film feels a tad overthought, held back somehow by a stubborn, dour obscurity clouding its freshly realized, lurid milieu. ‘Miss Lovely,’ About Indian Exploitation Films 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z Going to the Biennale is like signing up to a pretentious package holiday: you are not looking for unique and personal artistic experiences, you are trying desperately to see what everyone else is seeing. How to survive Venice 2013 2013-01-02T14:56:10Z The sea-creature imagery is one of the more memorable aspects of this dramaturgically spindly, sometimes pretentious work, which is less a fully developed play than a lineup of historically inspired conversations. Review | Big ideas anchor ‘Reykjavik’ and ‘The Old Man, the Youth, and the Sea’ 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z The cinematography, by Tim Sidell, can make an overhead shot of a blender hypnotic, and shots of pasta and bread laid out in a tableau is, to use an appropriately pretentious word, fulgurous. "Flux Gourmet" is an absurdist adventure in pretentious performance art made from food sounds 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z Afraid of sounding pretentious, he quickly followed that with: “Any bloggers in the room, please note that I said ‘try.’ ArtsBeat: John D'Agata and Jim Fingal Address the Facts 2012-04-19T23:00:17Z "Bardo" is sure to be seen as pretentious and self-indulgent — and how can an existential film about a filmmaker not be? Surrender to Alejandro Iñárritu's Netflix movie "Bardo," a surreal "chronicle of uncertainties" 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z The wonderful if dark human comedy in this biography aside, Mr. Carey takes Golding’s fiction very seriously indeed, and vigorously defends him against criticisms that it was pretentious and joyless. Books of The Times: ?William Golding,? the Lighter Side, by John Carey 2010-07-06T23:03:00Z Perhaps it was that talking about his preparations for "Foxcatcher" or laying bare his career hopes felt pretentious — at odds with the affable, let's-go-have-a-drink persona he's become recognized for. 'Foxcatcher' star Channing Tatum still wrestling with his ambitions 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z And hard though it may be to accept, being pretentious is a part of what we do every day. In defence of pretentiousness | Dan Fox 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z “The Bells,” a daylong Lou Reed fest at Lincoln Center Out of Doors, was a fair representation of the man—ambitious, occasionally pretentious, often wonderful. My Most Memorable Cultural Moments of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z Many of the designs that look like stone or ceramic tile look less pretentious. The right flooring for a coastal getaway Much of this, I believe, has developed due to a fear within the culture’s subconscious of being labeled pretentious. It’s good to be pretentious! 2012-06-28T00:00:00Z One pretentious boor in a dorm room convinced that he’s the reincarnation of Jim Morrison can ruin the band forever. The Doors defined California cool in the ’60s. How does their legacy stack up 50 years later? 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z Beyond "nonsense," malarkey can mean "insincere or pretentious talk or writing designed to impress one and usually to distract attention from ulterior motives or actual conditions," noted Sokolowski. Capitalism and socialism wed as words of the year 2012-12-05T14:42:08Z A combination of money-grubbing vulgarity and tremendous, pretentious refinement, Henry is the living and breathing embodiment of a social type my father used to describe as "carnation in the buttonhole, no underwear." "The Extra Man": Kevin Kline's magnificent oddness 2010-07-28T00:30:00Z Braden began thinking about how Americans viewed these films — "the French films were very pretentious and self-involved." Garfield High grad wins Internet Cat Video Film Festival 2012-09-02T04:41:23Z Prince and the Revolution defined their pop sensibilities, while Kate Bush appealed to what Mr. Tiffany called “our arty, pretentious side.” Spring Performance: John Tiffany and Steven Hoggett Collaborate on ?Once? 2012-02-22T21:17:17Z Mr. Morgan and his family's selfish, pretentious, senseless squandering of resources on empty luxury is pathetic and the opposite of what any truly spiritual, thinking person should be doing in the 21st century. Tracy Morgan Is a Survivor. And ‘a Better Man Now.’ 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z Take away the pretentious ornamentation, and you’ve got something that resembles an R-rated update of a Ma and Pa Kettle movie. | 'Orange, Hat & Grace': A Salt-of-the-Earth Romance Amid Shadows of the Apocalypse 2010-09-23T02:01:00Z "The unfortunate truth is that there are far too few female MPs in this country," Arrowsmith wrote in a delightfully pretentious piece in the Observer. Politicians and their pasts | Hadley Freeman 2010-03-17T08:30:00Z If a book on pretentiousness is deemed pretentious, no example of a plain-speaking, salt-of-the-earth study of the topic will be given. In defence of pretentiousness | Dan Fox 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z As a pretentious TV producer exclaimed on the most recent season of “BoJack Horseman,” “The darkness is a metaphor for darkness!” Was ‘Game of Thrones’ Too Dark on Sunday? Yes and No 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z “There was one who said, ‘There is nothing wrong with being pretentious. Rebecca Hall’s Complicated Inheritance 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z Walken likes to say he doesn’t do anything much to get into role and he has an obvious disdain for the pretentious end of his profession. Christopher Walken: ‘I don’t need to be made to look evil’ 2016-04-16T04:00:00Z I find it difficult because, no matter what, you always come off sounding incredibly pretentious when you start talking about acting process and method. Steve Carell and Robert Zemeckis on "Welcome to Marwen," process, pretension and pain 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z And finally, for sheer traditional entertainment value — something nearly entirely discounted in the grindingly pretentious golden age of TV — NBC’s spooky, funny, smart, exceedingly well crafted “Grimm.” Emmys 2014: What's Your Pick for Top Drama? 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Anderszewski’s approach stops just short of mannered; his interpretation might even sound pretentious in the hands of a less gifted performer. Music Review: Paavo Jarvi Brings Schumann to Alice Tully Hall 2010-08-03T22:52:00Z The politics here are elemental and undeniable without being preachy or pretentious. ‘Black and Blue’ Review: A Cop Thriller for Our Age of Dread 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z "A clear majority of us thought the Flanagan book was superficial, showy and pretentious and we disdained it," he told the Sydney Morning Herald. Australian prime minister causes literary prize uproar 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z That may appear pretentious, self-defeating, even contrary, but it's hard to dislike in our commercialised times when comedy has, in the duration of Kitson's career, become a huge, over-exploited commodity. Edinburgh fringe face-off: Stewart Lee v Nica Burns 2012-08-08T14:55:00Z Talking about all this, Mr. Radnor worried that he would seem “spiritually pretentious.” Josh Radnor Is ‘Existentially Restless.’ And That’s O.K. 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z The label "literary " is often used disparagingly, as if "literary" were synonymous with "pretentious" or "plot-free". Twelve of the best new novelists 2011-02-25T13:05:56Z At the risk of sounding like a pretentious drag, I'd surely be classed as a "serious writer". Lionel Shriver: 'If you're thin, you are a kook; if you're fat, you're a failure' 2013-05-11T07:00:27Z “It sounds so pretentious,” she said after a long time. Chloë Sevigny Wants More. Lizzie Borden Is Helping With That. 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z By then, my view of the novel had progressed from an admiring “What lovely writing!” to a weary “What pretentious hokum!” Dean Koontz’s ‘Ashley Bell’: A colorful tale that veers toward the otherworldly 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z Some of what we like, from the outside looking in, is quite pretentious – but some of it is straight-up pop that will appeal to everyone. Behind the music: An interview with Pitchfork founder Ryan Schreiber 2010-10-21T16:03:00Z To work on the project, Disney had tapped the conductor Leopold Stokowski, who was so proudly pretentious that the studio’s cartoonists wanted to call the movie “Highbrowski by Stokowski.” ‘Fantasia,’ ‘Snow White,’ Betty Boop, Popeye and the First Golden Age of Animation 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z It might sound pretty pretentious but it sure is true. July's best music from across the MAP 2012-07-18T09:17:04Z Rob originally wanted a 50-piece string orchestra, but I convinced him a string quartet was not only cheaper but more pretentious as well! "'Shia LaBeouf' Live," an oral history of the Internet's most bombastic meme on its anniversary 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z Ms. Karan said: “It’s everything I believe in. It’s not uptight, it’s not pretentious, it’s real, it’s the street, inside and out. I feel very at home here.” Scene City: Dover Street Market Opens in New York City, as Does the Discussion 2013-12-24T22:32:34Z “It’s not pretentious that I’m an artist. It’s not corny to sing songs that maybe other people think are depressing. It’s not embarrassing.” Cat Power Has a Lot to Be Proud Of. Now She Knows That. 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z And Mr. Moore's screenplay, meant to be suggestive and scary in a noir sort of way, is mainly just pretentious, simultaneously obscure and heavy-handed. ArtsBeat: Watchlist: Alan Moore Tries His Hand at an On-Screen Original 2012-11-26T21:18:03Z "I was a really pretentious teenager," she says, embarrassed. Rebecca Hall: class act 2010-06-11T23:02:00Z Sloppy and pretentious, it nonetheless ends the show with a needed jolt, which is a glimpse of the strange, often desperate place that most art comes from. Art Review: ?If You Lived Here, You?d Be Home by Now? at Bard - Review 2011-08-25T22:30:54Z Always offhand on the subject of other composers, Britten considered Brahms a bore, his First Symphony "ugly and pretentious"; his Second, "dull". Billy Budd; Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; Idomeneo/ Queen of Spades – review 2012-06-23T23:05:37Z Seeing the critic’s closed-mindedness and pretentious posturing, I wondered: Have I done that? How Jonathan Larson Taught Me to Become a Better Critic 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z Brian Jones is pretentious and haunted, with a curious, creepily soft voice. Rough Stones 2012-11-05T16:09:28Z If the idea of titling your memoir “Autobiography” seems at once both brilliant and pretentious, you may already be a fan of Morrissey. Morrissey’s ‘Autobiography’ sets out to settle scores 2013-12-26T20:46:06Z A cynic might call this a children’s book for very pretentious children. In Louise Glück’s New Book, Infant Twins Offer Contrary Worldviews 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z The first scene to plant its feet is the very rehearsed “stuck on a movie line” bit in which Alvy and Annie bicker as a pretentious intellectual pontificates loudly about TV, media and culture. My favorite best picture Oscar winner: Annie Hall 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z Instead of playing it safe, City Opera championed a work that had been dismissed as a hopeless, pretentious hodgepodge. City Opera Faces Hard Times With Daring 2010-12-18T23:20:19Z For some, that may sound a tad pretentious by Chicago’s rough-and-tumble standards. Concert review: Dave Alvin at City Winery 2012-08-22T06:22:00Z There is not a pretentious or self-pitying phrase in her interpretations. Joyce Breach Performs Standards at Don’t Tell Mama 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z These small grammatical rebellions strike some as poetic and others as pretentious — at least when the titles are given as their composers intended. where have classical music’s uppercase letters gone? 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z I couldn’t put the bust in the living room because that would be pretentious. How the Comedian Phoebe Robinson Acquired a Not-So-Ancient Sculpture 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z In 2017, he wrote that the official competition programme “encouraged a kind of hateful, hollow and pretentious cinema that is sadly becoming the cinema of our times”. Giving millionaires the boot: why Cahier du Cinéma editors quit en masse 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z He had a simple visual inventiveness, never complicated and never pretentious. David Bailey: out of his skulls 2010-08-25T20:30:00Z It all seems a little pretentious — until you remember that any artist who ever did anything meaningful was pretentious. Review | Why sweat the future of jazz when you can listen to Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah right now? 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z He even worked up an entirely different approach to the character, giving him a backstory in Paris as a pretentious pseudointellectual. Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant can’t tell you the twists in ‘The Undoing.’ But even they were shocked by the story. 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z To its many detractors, it amounts to little more than pretentious noodling, based as it is largely on improvisation. Steps to heaven 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z I have known him for more than 30 years and he was the least pretentious person I have ever met. Rick Uchwat, founder of Zanies, dies 2011-05-12T14:33:00Z Use it too often, and you just sound pretentious. 10 Latin phrases people pretend to understand 2021-06-19T04:00:00Z Furthermore, I think that those who accuse Anderson of precious or pretentious postmodern poseur-ness are missing the fundamental sincerity that lies beneath his view of movies and the world. Wes Anderson on “Moonrise Kingdom”: I’m trying to make something unfamiliar 2012-06-01T19:45:00Z If being authentic is considered a virtue – what we should strive to be in society – then being pretentious is considered a cover-up, a face-palm to your background. In defence of pretentiousness | Dan Fox 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z And the advantage of a pen name—in my case, at least—is that it gives said writer the courage to perform for his imaginary audience, no matter how charmless or pretentious he might feel. What’s in a Pen Name? 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z Others found this later Robbins to be grandiose and pretentious. A Robbins Rarity, ‘Watermill,’ Reimagined as a Chamber Piece 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z “I’m always happy to take down pretentious writers on my show because I feel like that’s only fair,” he said. “BoJack Horseman” creator on taking aim at “any show with an unexamined male antihero” in... 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z See, pretentious is another adjective easily hung on my svelte 20-year-old frame. It’s good to be pretentious! 2012-06-28T00:00:00Z It has little to do with the novel’s plot, about a wealthy man from Bombay and his three pretentious sons who move into a pretentious mansion on a semiprivate garden in downtown Manhattan. Salman Rushdie’s Prose Joins the Circus in ‘The Golden House’ 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z "Without sounding ridiculous or pretentious, I create a person." Carey Mulligan 2010-04-26T19:00:00Z Too generous and innocent to be pretentious, with its subversion of gender norms wrapped up in its sincerity, “Dia de los Muertos” might expand your idea of what is traditional. Review: When La Catrina Met Giselle 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z They pushed boundaries without being pretentious and still reached an audience. Two Experimental Horror Directors Discuss the Thoughts Behind the Frights 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z It's that earnestness, coupled with a truly chameleon-like gift to climb into the skin of a character, that make her plea to keep sealed the magician's cloth seem more naive than pretentious. Rooney Mara: 'I've been guarded since I was three years old' 2013-03-02T06:00:00Z Cons: Overall, a tiny bit pretentious, perhaps – good if you want to impress a first date with your encyclopedic knowledge of movies or your good taste. Cine-files: Studio Cin?mas, Tours 2011-08-02T09:28:00Z The problem with Franco’s output is that it is simultaneously pretentious and incredibly dodgy. It’s time to bring James Franco's reign of half-assed artistry to an end 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z But with that has come no small amount of scathingly personal criticism: that Mr. Landis is an egomaniac; pretentious and obnoxious. Max Landis Is a Hollywood Disrupter With an Attitude 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Yet we heave the word “pretentious” at these kids with tiresome regularity. It’s good to be pretentious! 2012-06-28T00:00:00Z His prose was dense but not difficult, erudite but not pretentious; as an observer of human behavior he was both ruthless and generous, acknowledging characters’ finer attributes but homing in on their foibles. Richard G. Stern, a Writers’ Writer, Is Dead at 84 2013-01-25T03:25:06Z These are not the words of someone who subscribes to modern rock's lumpen suspicion of thought, but neither is Gartside a pretentious individual. Green Gartside: The brainiest man in pop (apart from Brian Eno) 2011-02-22T21:31:10Z The least pretentious California wine grape might be French Columbard, but I remember having a delightful glass of a well made wine that was a perfect salad companion on a summer day. Wines That Resound in Memory 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z It's impossible for me not to sound pretentious in print. Baz Luhrmann on The Great Gatsby: 'Fitzgerald was a clown, just like I am' 2013-05-16T18:30:01Z I sort of hesitate to go too far with that in music, because I feel like avoiding being seen as pretentious: “Please don’t consider me a musician but a poet,” which I find disagreeable. Robbie Fulks on how not to be “a guy in his 50s singing about sex or good times or even the opposite, about married contentedness” 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Interestingly, he decides now is the time to greenlight Bib's pretentious new menu. Tonight's TV highlights 2010-10-05T06:59:00Z And she was a serious artist in the best sense: not pretentious, but determined to craft interesting work well. Lionel Shriver: How I failed my best friend 2010-03-20T00:11:00Z Once he learns that Kylie’s pretentious boyfriend is planning to propose that same night, Max becomes determined to win her over with a night to remember. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Elián’ and ‘Asian Provocateur’ 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z "As pretentious as some may find that distinction, there are prizes for excellence in every other discipline." Julian Barnes leads Booker Prize finalists 2011-10-18T11:01:07Z “She was strikingly curious and well informed about the mechanics of the real world, and was neither afraid of intellectual content, nor in any way pretentious about it.” Rachel Kushner, Author of ‘The Flamethrowers’ 2013-05-06T20:07:27Z In the past, the notion of method has felt a little on the pretentious side, a little self-indulgent. David Oyelowo on the Role That Made Him a Method Actor 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z One of the originators of the subgenre called progressive rock or art rock, King Crimson is, depending on whom you ask, either impossibly pretentious or startlingly adventurous. ‘In the Court of the Crimson King’ Review: 50 Years of Off-Kilter Rock 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z “It wasn’t supposed to be remotely pretentious,” he added. New Wave of Male Entrepreneurs Changing Fashion Scene 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z He seems pretentious, right off, and that always... Review: ‘If I Forget,’ Clashing Currents in Jewish Identity 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z I revere Mr. McCartney, but I can’t abide those pretentious scores. Ren?e Fleming, Opera Star, Tries a Rock Album. 2010-05-31T21:58:00Z He calls himself pretentious, lame, narcissistic, unstable and many other cruel adjectives. Love or Hate Emmanuel Carrère’s Forceful Tangents, They’re Back in ‘Yoga’ 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z They have a talky, crackling quality that keeps them afloat even when they veer toward the pretentious. Kathleen Collins’s ‘Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?’ 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z Some friends he regarded as a little pretentious were coming over for Boxing Day; my aunt and uncle always referred to the husband as “the mayor of Romford”. My father paid four times his weekly wage for the greatest gift of my life 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z The entire endeavor could not be more pretentious. "Flux Gourmet" is an absurdist adventure in pretentious performance art made from food sounds 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z She soon settled happily into a pretentious country-house life of doing pretty much nothing at all. The secret history of Wonderland in ‘The Story of Alice’ 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z But the rest of the song is a load of pretentious puffing about crossing over the Jordan. Nick Lowe interview: Pop music for grown-ups 2011-12-08T05:26:00Z I am aware how pretentious this all sounds, but I don’t care. My life had grown distant from my mother’s – but she tended my baby while I read Marx 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z You can’t get more pretentious than Proust – so I though, This is really setting me up for some slapback from the press. The Jayhawks return with “Paging Mr. Proust”: “They’re gonna call me a pompous ass, it’s gonna be fantastic!” 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z Posner’s ambitious, if pretentious, play manages it a bit better through an almost Spartan-level commitment to its conceit, from script to stage. ‘Seagull’ Review: Blurring the Lines of Fiction 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z Originally staged on Broadway in 1980, “The Lady From Dubuque” is one of those midcareer Albee plays that got little love from critics, who found it posturing, pretentious and baffling. Theater Review: ?Edward Albee?s The Lady From Dubuque? at End Stage Theater 2012-03-06T03:00:39Z After the food diary, the Internet labelled Bacon “pretentious.” The Moon Juice Prosperity Gospel 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z It was about as raucous as going to the movies gets, but not pretentious. Movies and mountains: mixing film and skiing at the Sundance festival 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z At 20 minutes this would have been an interesting provocation; at 45 minutes-plus it's pretentious. Josephine and I; Barnum; The Hush – review 2013-07-27T23:05:20Z I haven’t been able to figure out the greater significance of “Darkness at Noon,” the fake detective drama Alicia’s been watching all season, beyond being a goof on pretentious cable dramas like “True Detective.” 'The Good Wife' Recap: Lies and More Lies, and Alicia's Big Decision 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z And I try not to be condescending or pretentious. ‘Better Call Saul’: Jonathan Banks Says Goodbye to Mike 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z But its narrative continuity is so sketchy and the screenplay so haphazard that the movie doesn’t add up to more than trash, seasoned with pretentious religiosity. Movie Review: In ‘Redemption,’ Jason Statham Teams With a Nun 2013-06-28T00:22:12Z It’s not cheap, but neither is it exclusive or pretentious. Probably the best bar in the world: readers' travel tips 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z As the pretentious words "From the mind of M. Night Shyamalan" hit the screen, you could hear the hoots all the way into theater lobbies. 'Devil': Confining chills to a stalled elevator 2010-09-20T21:30:00Z So new to some that his earliest collections were greeted with skepticism or dismissed outright as starchy, pretentious and, most damningly, unwearable. Reed Krakoff Will Show His First Collection Since Leaving Coach 2014-02-05T23:49:10Z That's the burden of a comedy devoid of wasted dialogue or pretentious cleverness – and that merely refers to the joke setups and punchlines. The "Ted Lasso" way is comforting – and a counter to the hollow nationalism Americans have embraced 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z Still, Camden doesn't sound that different than most New York private schools ... and it's less bro-douchey than it is pretentious and snotty. The five douchiest fictional colleges in America 2011-07-22T22:23:00Z Thomas Schumacher, the president of the Disney Theatrical Group, slammed the pretentious way some in the theatrical community look at more mainstream shows and scoffed at their disdain for making the audience experience more fun. Conference suggests ways Broadway can be better 2013-01-29T00:59:08Z Shown under a trellis of lights in the courtyard of a contemporary design studio, there was a focus on Missoni’s artistic heritage, but with the clothes seeming natural rather than pretentious. 2010-01-18T21:04:00Z Although he is also, as someone observes, a “pretentious sad guy.” ‘Palm Springs’ Review: Déjà Vu All Over Again 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z Photographs, drawings and pretentious wall texts only highlight the fact that yours is a second-hand experience. Venice: people, not plans 2010-08-31T15:55:00Z The people on award councils and committees are all pretentious about films. Golden Globe Awards Winners Include ‘Boyhood’ and ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z But if pretentious is such a crime, then why was this dude hanging out with me? It’s good to be pretentious! 2012-06-28T00:00:00Z “I like to work with a family of friends, not with pretentious people,” he says. Recounting a Life of Disobedience 2010-05-21T11:30:00Z He totally hated "Drive," and found it pretentious and unbearable. The "Drive" backlash: Too violent, too arty or both? 2011-09-23T14:01:00Z One is “The Scoundrel,” starring Noël Coward as a pretentious publisher. How Hollywood Gets the Publishing Industry Wrong 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z This being a French movie, the Flaubert connection lends “Gemma Bovery” an amusing if pretentious intellectual gloss. Review: ‘Gemma Bovery,’ a Modern Sex Comedy With a Nod to Flaubert 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z Ambitious setups like this don’t always hold up, but “Revolution” has the potential to be a more disciplined “Lost” — not necessarily more plausible but with any luck less preposterous and pretentious. Television Review: ‘Revolution,’ From J. J. Abrams and Eric Kripke, on NBC 2012-09-16T22:07:53Z Being pretentious, it seems, is the only thing saving us from stupidity. Faking cultural interest can actually make you smarter and more creative 2013-07-02T12:00:01Z “Todd’s work is so dangerous and surprising, but never in a pretentious way,” Blanchett says. How 'Carol' Went From Long-Shot Love Story to Awards-Season Favorite 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z This dour, molasses-paced neo-noir, about a mysterious figure who becomes embroiled with a nasty criminal and his cohorts, sacrifices coherence and credibility for pretentious stylization. Franco takes dark turn in pretentious crime drama 2010-04-29T06:02:00Z “On the plane over here I was trying to think of baby names. I don’t want a name that’s anything pretentious or, like, Hollywood-y,” he joked in October. Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively Welcome First Child 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z His dialogue, peppered with Shaw’s own sayings, is smart without being pretentious, and witty without being smug; in plot and tone there are also hints of Oscar Wilde, Shaw’s contemporary. | 'Engaging Shaw': A Writer Woos With Wit at Abingdon Theater 2010-04-26T22:21:00Z But fictional serial killers are usually more pretentious than frightening, perpetually quoting Milton or arranging their victims in poses designed to evoke the martyrdom of St Sebastian. Charlie Brooker 2010-07-11T23:04:00Z “It’s so supportive, not pretentious, so many people here living their authentic lives as miners or trappers in the bush.” 125 years after gold was discovered in the Yukon, we ventured up to Dawson City. Here’s what it looks like now 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z The main hero of the work, Keith Nearing, was a "pretentious jerk, blathering on about the novels he's read". 'This remarkably tedious novel': Michiko Kakutani skewers Martin Amis 2010-05-11T15:07:00Z His Washington rival, the director of national intelligence, Cyril Hoffman, is a pretentious, effete power broker, representative of old, inside-the-Beltway cynicism. ‘The Director,’ by David Ignatius, a Novel About the C.I.A. 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z “So I kind of always thought art school was pretentious and a waste of money.” Kali Uchis used to live out of her car. Now, she’s one of pop music’s rising stars. 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z 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 The ending was too — what? — insulting, pretentious, illogical to spoil. Plot Twist! Why 2004 Was a Surprising Year for Movies 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z If this seems impossibly pretentious, well, maybe, but I prefer to think of it as an academic exercise. Tasting Dom Pérignon From Various Decades 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z Some of this is intentional — this is a play that frequently admits its own unreality, and Tom is admittedly pretentious. ‘Buzz,’ a New Play by Benjamin Kunkel 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z It would be pretentious to say the discussions were about masculinity, because those conversations happen more now, but without using that language we were trying to explore that. When ‘Y Tu Mamá También’ Changed Everything 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z The premise may seem pretentious for a composer to take on, and some said so. Not Just ‘West Side Story’: Celebrating Bernstein’s Symphonies 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z I don’t mean to be pretentious about this, but the goal is to make a book of record. “‘SNL’ is still the center of his universe”: “Live From New York” author goes deep on Lorne Michaels’ legacy and the future of “Saturday Night Live” 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z The rural gentry and village hoi polloi of “Midsomer” are reliably smug, venal and pretentious, and a fair share of the murders seem largely justified, if still regrettable. DVD: New DVDs: ‘Midsomer Murders,’ ‘George Gently’ 2012-06-29T21:58:00Z We were aspiring aesthetes who dreamed of one day being described as pretentious; by Thanksgiving, we had made half a dozen trips to see “Pulp Fiction.” Dick Dale, the Inventor of Surf Rock, Was a Lebanese-American Kid from Boston 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z Where the word “pretentious” differs from “pretending” is that it carries with it the sting of class betrayal, especially in the UK, where class is a neurosis as much as a set of social conditions. In defence of pretentiousness | Dan Fox 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z Thanks to consistently razor-sharp writing and a flawless ensemble cast, the result was “pure comedy that was sophisticated but not pretentious.” The Best Movies and Shows on Hulu Right Now 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z If you do a Google search for his name and “pretentious” you will get nearly 200,000 results. Sting finally does something cool 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z "The Square", a Swedish movie about the curator of a museum filled with grotesquely pretentious conceptual art was awarded the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday. Swedish art gallery satire "The Square" wins Palme d'Or at Cannes 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z Noisy, overstuffed with special effects and embellished with pretentious visual quotations from “Apocalypse Now,” “Predators” might be taken as a karmic morality tale whose human predators finally get their comeuppance. | 'Predators': Adrien Brody as a Hunted Earthling 2010-07-08T23:31:00Z Yes, the process it precious and meticulous, but by no means pretentious. World chefs: Paco Roncero's take on molecular gastronomy 2012-06-19T11:24:47Z It’s a sturdy, uncomplicated set of vintage-style soul jazz, recorded in one of New York’s least pretentious clubs, possibly as an afterthought. New York Jazz Clubs Double as Record Labels 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z But biographers have observed that Thatcher’s anxious disposition, pretentious accent and grandiose manner simply irritated the queen. How to Survive a Royal Weekend on ‘The Crown’ 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z This, of course, is very Michael Stipe: arty, playful, even a little bit pretentious. 'I'm often at a loss for words' 2011-03-06T00:02:02Z With his gentle humour, Heaney might have found that event slightly pretentious. A display of digging 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z He was the third in a line of Stanley Marshes but called himself Stanley Marsh 3 instead of Stanley Marsh III because he felt that Roman numerals were pretentious. Stanley Marsh, Patron of the Cadillac Ranch, Dies at 76 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z She’s come to see most of her professors and classmates as pretentious, and college itself as, “just one more dopey, inane place in the world.” 5 life lessons from J.D. Salinger’s “Franny and Zooey” 2013-09-12T13:40:00Z He wrote, “The opinion is couched in a style that is as pretentious as its content is egotistic,” adding: “Of course the opinion’s showy profundities are often profoundly incoherent.” Civilities: Roberts and Scalia are sore losers. Just ask Nixon, Trump or Gen. Robert E. Lee. 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z Which might seem risky for a lyricist routinely accused of pretentious blather, and a troubadour often given to telling more than he shows. Music Review: Sting at Roseland Ballroom - Review 2011-11-09T22:11:10Z "I'm trying to think of the least pretentious way of describing it," he says. Keeping the faith 2010-04-10T23:05:00Z “Having time helped us rewrite all the sequences — you can sound pretentious on the drama side, and you can go to the other extreme, which is trivializing a very important subject matter.” Can the Makers of ‘Money Heist’ Mint Another Hit With ‘Sky Rojo’? 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z He also comments on the quality of Chilean drugs in the pretentious manner of a connoisseur. Movie Review: In ‘Crystal Fairy,’ Young U.S.Tourists Aim for the Mystical 2013-07-11T19:35:45Z If my programmatic convictions were not pretentious enough, I decided that this “other” literature would be the backdrop against which I would experience the city. Collected Poems 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z Is there such a thing as a gift for literary narcissism, where self-absorption isn’t just pretentious but purposeful, even revelatory? ‘My Struggle’: Book four of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s monumental memoir 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z I'm just a little wary of it, because there are so many pretentious people who call themselves artists. Q&A: Former Sex Pistol John Lydon 2010-04-27T22:44:00Z Puncture the word “pretentious” and out scuttles a bestiary of class anxieties; fears about getting above your station, and policing those suspected of trying to migrate from their social background. In defence of pretentiousness | Dan Fox 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z It was a pie with humble beginnings, originally made from inexpensive, easy-to-find ingredients with plenty of flavor, never meant to be a pretentious, formal affair. An ode to the humble, healthy (?) pizza pie 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z And who hasn’t before described a person, place or thing as pretentious? In defence of pretentiousness | Dan Fox 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z His later novels, with The Snowman arguably the best among them, bear witness to how there can be more art in a good detective novel than in pretentious "serious" novels. Books of the year 2012: authors choose their favourites 2012-11-23T22:55:14Z "Happythankyoumoreplease" is crisply structured, never boring or pretentious, and will keep you watching right to its predictably charming interlinked conclusions. "Happythankyoumoreplease": "How I Met Your Mother" star's likable film debut 2011-03-04T18:26:00Z Some may find it pretentious, and the title, suggestive of hubristic man confronting the gods, has the film flaunting its ambition. Prometheus – review 2012-06-02T23:07:09Z It's very pretentious but I think that an invisible magnetic force binds us all together. What Danny Boyle did next 2010-12-05T00:04:00Z A blue-collar dad to the starched collars of Niles and Frasier, he frequently knocked the wind out of their pretentious sails with his straightforward practicality and no-nonsense approach. John Mahoney: Frasier's 'cranky' dad was the stove at the heart of the show 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z It’s a tribute to this book’s frank, frazzled tone that none of this information comes across as pretentious. Books of The Times: Phantoms of the Mind, No Longer Shocking But No Less Haunting 2011-02-01T21:45:58Z Joyce was an enemy of the Irish Literary Revival, which he excoriated as pretentious self-absorption and self-exaltation in the name of the authentic. Heeding the lessons of James Joyce's "Ulysses," a century later 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z The movement was filled with attempts to sanitize, sweeten and orchestrate traditional material, and many have not aged well, coming across now as pretentious or kitschy. Work, Love, Dignity and Play: 10 Key Harry Belafonte Songs 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z Radley was a pretentious school where the Warden and head boys sat at high table. Margaritas with Peter Cook 2012-11-18T00:08:02Z This is when we start inching towards the bigger words that we hate to use in daily conversation because they sound pretentious. “Problems like this don’t go away overnight”: “Spotlight” director Tom McCarthy calls for the Catholic Church to do more to address and prevent sex abuse 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z And your new gal pal may find you a tad pretentious after your tutorial, but you probably are. Social Q?s: When Friends Drift 2011-08-04T20:05:05Z Despite such grand ambitions, Garfield does not come across as a pretentious artiste. Andrew Garfield contains multitudes 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Macabre and visually striking, the film traffics in a style of folk horror that’s just this side of pretentious. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z Might as well have been a pretentious building society advert for anyone else. Screen burn 2010-05-28T23:41:00Z They lean too heavily on the canned and the pretentious and the mock uplifting. Review: J. D. McClatchy’s Secret Autobiography, in Quotations 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z But Britten objected – he didn't want to sound pretentious, preferring to stick with the title that has endured. Benjamin Britten: a top 10 2013-01-09T19:30:01Z And I just don’t buy that playing a blind psychic in a pretentious Spanish thriller was some kind of hilarious good time, by the way. Will Robert De Niro ever make another good movie? 2012-07-11T14:58:00Z For all its stark material, this is also a hopeful series, artful without being pretentious, with a sense of poetry and play. ‘David Makes Man’ and the Matters of a Young Black Life 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z Her allure also awes a gallery of other affected and pretentious people, or rather, thin simulations of affected and pretentious people. Review: In ‘The Neon Demon,’ Beauty Masks a Rotting Core 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z If intellectual striving is pretentious, then what do we call an insistent resignation to fleeting mediocrity? It’s good to be pretentious! 2012-06-28T00:00:00Z In Mr. Schickel’s argument, “pretentious” functions, like “boring” elsewhere, as an accusation that it is almost impossible to refute, since it is a subjective hunch masquerading as a description. Arts & Leisure: In Defense of the Slow and the Boring 2011-06-03T13:29:50Z They were compelling on both occasions, but it’s more pleasant to watch them amid an unpretentious milonga evening of amateurs dancing tango than as part of an intensely choreographed and largely pretentious tango exhibition. Dance Review: Gabriel Missé and Analía Centurión Dance Tango 2013-08-12T21:40:10Z “The whole process is so unbelievably pretentious it seems to me to be a complete waste of effort,” Bridge said. Why do people hate Diner en Blanc? The word ‘pretentious’ keeps coming up. 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z When a character in a movie or TV show says the word “brunch,” it is generally taken as a signal that this is a scene of pretentious, possible jeroboam of champagne swilling clueless excess. Leave brunch alone! 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z At Barney Greengrass, the pretentious food cretin in me, who likes to eat unusual things partly because of their names, was tempted by something called “Nova Scotia Heads and Wings Broiled With Onions.” The Art of Summer: The Words We Live By 2011-08-03T12:00:05Z Successful by their own measures, Karen and Matt live in a converted macaroni factory, spitting distance from several pretentious coffeehouses. Can a parent’s liberal values pass the public school test? 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z But nothing is more confusing than the fact that the E4 show, which documents the pretentious lives of people with names such as Mark-Francis, has one of the hippest soundtracks around right now. Why Made in Chelsea has the best soundtrack on TV 2012-12-17T15:16:26Z Given that he's talking about a multistorey car park, this might seem pretentious, but bear with him. 1111 Lincoln Road 2010-03-28T00:05:00Z “As obnoxious and pretentious as it sounds, I wanted to influence the culture,” he said. Forsaking the Punk Clubs of His Youth for a Well-Stocked Library 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z Maybe this is so pretentious, but “West Side” was everything I had ever hoped to accomplish as an actor. Mike Faist Isn’t Sure About This Whole Acting Thing 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z "That was my ... God, it's impossible to not sound pretentious when you say it, but, yeah, that was my way in." The "Stranger Things" season 4 finale gives Metallica's "Master of Puppets" the Kate Bush push 2022-07-02T04:00:00Z If what’s pretentious for one person is innovative or enthralling for another, is debating pretentiousness simply just another way of talking about taste? In defence of pretentiousness | Dan Fox 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z The amateur doesn’t have the right credentials, so trying to do what the professional does might open them to accusations of being pretentious, of stepping above their station. In defence of pretentiousness | Dan Fox 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z To the unsympathetic, though, “The Festival of Insignificance” will come across as simply inconsequential and pretentious. Milan Kundera’s new novel feels so very French 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z And each of course is pretentious in his or her own preordained way. Theater Review: ?Seminar,? by Theresa Rebeck, With Alan Rickman - Review 2011-11-21T03:01:23Z When success arrived, he feared exposure to faultfinding because he was “too rich, too pretentious, too much all the rest,” as well as “too fluent, too young and too capable.” John le Carré: The Spy Novelist Who (Mostly) Kept Quiet 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z We'd chosen a little Italian restaurant that was small without being overly intimate, delicious without being pretentious, but, most importantly, was opposite our house so we went there most days and they knew my name. Emma Freud: David Cassidy, my No 1 dreamboat Santa 2012-12-22T00:05:56Z “When they did that early on a lot of people were like, ‘What’s with all this pretentious behavior?’” he said. Can a Quote-Unquote Band Drag Rock Into the Future? The 1975 Is Trying Its Hardest 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z “It often feels that not only are these designers pretentious and the clothes impossible to afford, but you are being tantalized by something you can’t have.” In ‘Cruella,’ Fashion Is Toxic 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z It makes for hypnotic, unreal and only slightly pretentious viewing. Click to download: Bat for Lashes goes Gucci 2011-03-03T22:59:01Z Attention-grabbing, unashamedly pretentious and arriving later than scheduled, the stone is an apt tribute to one of the most confounding and charismatic figures in British music. A fitting headstone for Tony Wilson's grave 2010-10-26T19:00:00Z I was among that sodality of readers who didn’t cotton to “The English Patient,” finding it merely moody, murky and lightly pretentious, a tone poem in search of a whetstone. A Mother Keeps Wartime Secrets in Michael Ondaatje’s New Novel 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z McGinniss considered using a pen name but rejected the idea as “really pretentious,” although some people in the book industry steered clear because of his father’s reputation. Writer Joe McGinniss Jr. follows in his famous father’s footsteps, with a novel twist 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z Kelsey Grammar as Frasier is a master of the art of taking his character as far out as possible – whether he's being unbearably pompous, pretentious, insecure or heartbreaking – and bringing him home to land safely. Frasier 2010-08-10T07:30:00Z This year has been an attempt to make art, often without the escape hatch of comedy, which means you may move and unsettle people powerfully, but at the risk of coming off pretentious or self-serious. REVIEW: Louie Watch: Going All In 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z Instead of regarding Jay as the comically pretentious and melodramatic cliche that he is, “Katerina” presents this young man as a singularly tragic hero. Review | James Frey’s ‘Katerina’ is a million little pieces of narcissism and may be the worst novel of the year 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z A sumptuous Stockholm museum filled with grotesquely pretentious conceptual art is at the center of "The Square", a Palme d'Or nominee at Cannes which switches between surrealism, comedy of manners, thriller and social commentary. Bourgeois art world skewered in Cannes movie 'The Square' 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z "As an enterprise, it also feels monstrously pretentious." What to say about ... reviews of the Turner prize 2010 shortlist 2010-10-05T16:59:00Z There’s no doubt that her prose could veer, at times, toward the pretentious. Toni Morrison, a Writer of Many Gifts Who Bent Language to Her Will 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z I enjoyed it more than "X-Men: First Class," which has superior acting and production values but also feels rambling and pretentious. The surprising summer fun of "Green Lantern" 2011-06-16T19:49:00Z It turns out being pretentious is the most dangerous gateway to polyamory. My pandemic epiphany: the best part of having eight partners is being alone 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z Others will point discerning fingers at the crass licensing of the Skids' Into The Valley – an anti-military punk diatribe scoring a pretentious attempt to shift bike pumps and track nuts. The Hard Sell: Halfords 2012-06-29T23:05:00Z She is somewhat stately and casual herself, laughing whenever she says something that she thinks might sound pretentious. Gugu Mbatha-Raw: ‘It’s an actor’s duty to help the culture to evolve’ 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z And, she said, he was always appreciative of his gift: “He used to say, ‘It’s easy to write things that are so self-conscious that they become pretentious, that have a lot of noise. Marvin Hamlisch, Composer, Dies at 68 2012-08-07T20:00:07Z This sounds pretentious, like much of wine ritual, but there’s some logic to it. A diss in the winery’s tasting room? Probably not. 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z And playing “Guess the Painting” was fun, if a little pretentious. ‘Is It Theater or Is It Real?’ 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z To suggest a person is pretentious is to say they’re behaving in ways they’re not qualified for through experience or economic status. In defence of pretentiousness | Dan Fox 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z Over the weekend, I realized, despite my skepticism, that the vibe wasn’t pretentious or dogmatic but almost radically inclusive. At the Wanderlust festival, yoga, hula-hooping and just plain old feeling good Not least Kirk, Pete's South African flatmate, and his mate Rob's pretentious girlfriend Anna – who is naming tables at their wedding reception after Oxford colleges. Home Movie Roadshow 2010-08-06T05:44:00Z I was expecting Andy, because of his fame, to be pretentious, but he was actually quite funny and scatty. Tales From the Warhol Factory 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z “South Park” was never friendly to pretentious baby boomers. 'Book of Mormon' on Broadway: Musical from the 'South Park' team 2011-03-25T00:35:18Z The worst, most pretentious thing someone can say to me is, "I don't have a television." TV A-listers wonder: Who would win on Survivor? 2010-08-27T05:41:00Z In a hackneyed scenario, Toby Park plays Toby Park, the pretentious actor-manager of a theatre troupe, who is unwisely determined to stage Melville's novel. Moby Dick 2010-04-26T20:30:00Z “A band about bands,” as Mr. Murphy called it, the group was purposefully pretentious, but also dedicated to bodily movement. James Murphy Wants to Justify LCD Soundsystem’s Existence (Again) 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z “I wanted it to be about — and I know this sounds pretentious — a corrupt man’s journey toward the light,” he said. ‘Shut Eye’ Lays Its Tarot Cards on the Table 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z His subjects were office workers, housewives, delicate little girls, frustrated commuters, pretentious intellectuals, musicians, roller skaters and bike riders, whom he adored because he was one of them. Jean-Jacques Sempé, Cartoonist of Droll Whimsy, Dies at 89 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z You don’t seem pretentious anymore if you have a bar cart. Our favorite bar carts for holiday hosts 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z "Might it be that it's being hawked as a commodity to attract the pretentious?" Translation of 'Finnegans Wake' sells in China 2013-01-31T03:34:14Z He is considered, verbose, dapper, charming, mysterious, vain, pretentious, aphoristic, arrogant, refined and absolutely catastrophic. 'I'm an expressionist nihilist at heart': the dark allure of Tom Burke 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z I've always found von Trier's movies pretentious and misanthropic in a self-aggrandizing way, as if he were looking down on his audience and pronouncing them unworthy as human beings. 2009-12-28T01:20:00Z It might sound pretentious, but it's richly entertaining, thanks in part to Kitson's odd but warm stage presence, and to writing that mixes gut-busting hilarity with moments of tenderness. This week's new comedy 2011-02-12T00:05:45Z I offer my opinion for a living, which sounds pretentious, but I take it seriously, bringing my life experience — all of my trials and errors — and my research into my work. The lost art of not having an opinion on everything 2021-05-29T04:00:00Z When I brought it home, I put it on a shelf, and it looked so pretentious. ‘Here and Now,’ a New Supernatural Drama From the Creator of ‘True Blood’ 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z In 1993, Safer, an art enthusiast, decided to ask that question in an unmerciful look at an art world he deemed pretentious and mostly asinine. 5 Great Moments in the Life of '60 Minutes' Icon Morley Safer 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z The designs, too, can be pretentious, especially in the Wellcome's recent shows on Identity and Skin. Shows about art and science rarely add up 2010-11-19T12:45:00Z Yet with its mix of traditional tablecloths and fresh wild posies, the room couldn’t feel less pretentious, especially when a table spontaneously burst out in the traditional, emotional polyphonic village songs, as often happens. Humble Magic in Georgian Capital’s Restaurant Renaissance 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z We see this lot of pretentious literary folks through the eyes of regular-guy Strike, who, after reading some of Quine’s perverse work, wonders if the novelist was mentally unwell. J. K. Rowling’s New Crime Novel, ‘The Silkworm’ 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z I loathe gruesome and/or ordeal horror – I mean, what’s the point? – but for the real crimes against cinema you need to go to the pretentious, the vacuous and the unnecessarily cruel. The films our critics walked out on: 'There was no way in hell I was going back in' 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z He knows the rap against him, that he can appear pretentious, that he prefers the limelight to the hard work of making clothes. 2010-02-04T01:56:00Z Silverman briefly considered “Pineapple and Diamonds” but figured diamonds would sound “too pretentious.” Pineapple and Pearls review: Dining so fine, we’re seeing 4 stars from the start 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z This month’s sampling of new crime fiction is lighthearted, featuring two satires skewering pretentious writers and publishing types. Crime fiction: Pretentious writers get their comeuppance 2014-02-05T23:37:04Z Other critics found the movie pretentious and confused. Presto! Pulp and Poetry: ‘Chandu the Magician’ and ‘Stranger on the Third Floor’ 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z One of the show’s funniest monologues was his recitation of a lengthy, fictional music review, replete with academic jargon and bogus literary allusions that sounded authentic until it morphed into pretentious absurdist nonsense. Review: Aaron Weinstein, Wunderkind as Highbrow Dandy 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z But it is more grating in its clumsy choice of musical text and far more pretentious. Review: Christopher Wheeldon’s ‘Swan Lake’ Focuses on the Men 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z In case that description reads as incredibly pretentious to you, this is precisely my point. But . . . is it TV? “I Love Dick” aspires to make high art for the small screen 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z “He seemed like a very humble down-to-earth type of fellow, not pretentious, like fame really didn’t get to him,” said Gibson, whose family also is Dutch. Memorials grow in Eddie Van Halen’s adopted hometown 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z The show was spiritual and cathartic for some, pretentious and self-indulgent to others. The bittersweet story of Marina Abramović's epic walk on the Great Wall of China 2020-04-25T04:00:00Z One of my callow missteps was in planting a formal hedge as the pretentious backbone of my first garden. Gardening mistakes are inevitable, even for the experts. Don’t let them mess with your mojo. 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z It’s kind of like a cabaret version of “Phantom Thread,” but a lot less pretentious. Making Fun of Fashion, Onstage and in Song 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z But one thing he’s not is pretentious, or obsessed with being cool. David Lynch, liberated: The “Twin Peaks” creator’s swerve into obscurity isn’t about being artsy or pretentious 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z With great generosity of spirit, it satirizes both pretentious high art and Hollywood kitsch. Art Review: ?George Kuchar: Pagan Rhapsodies? at MoMA PS1 - Review 2012-01-05T21:56:40Z The joy of McPherson is how sneakily he arrives at his destination; his plays are crafty but almost never pretentious. McPherson keeps the faith in Irish drama ‘Night Alive’ 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z We have to juice ourselves up to run out from under the dictates of pretentious “show don’t tell” straight, white guy stank. In Italy, among the literary A-list, I find my own siren song 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z Like their idols, the teens are romantic and earnest, confused and occasionally pretentious. ‘Shoplifters of the World’ Review: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z Not content simply to colonise our pretentious mid-century interiors in the shape of those ubiquitous bronze cocktail shakers, they are now usurping the pumpkin. How to Halloween on Instagram: pineapples, handmaids and coffin-shaped nails 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z I have a dread of sounding pretentious and try not to talk too much about what I do. James Herbert interview: from the archive, 14 February 1993 2013-03-21T10:48:00Z To be pretentious is to be deceitful, untrustworthy. In defence of pretentiousness | Dan Fox 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z Roland, the pretentious twerp, named his daughter Africa — most of what plagues her comes direct from him and his ideology. Ginger & Rosa: Best Friends. Forever? 2013-03-15T20:02:09Z “They kind of look real — they’re, like, bouncing,” she said, adding, “I like this so much more than pretentious Hollywood places.” 2010-02-06T02:21:00Z His film is no more profound than its forerunners, but it’s quicker, funnier and less pretentious. | 'The Nature of Existence': Asking Big Questions 2010-06-18T00:02:00Z After the sugar high ends, and after the chemical party in your mouth subsides, you might just find yourself longing for a poached pear — comparatively pretentious, but perfect as is, and thoroughly knowable. ‘Milk Bar Life,’ reviewed: guilty pleasures, sweet and savory alike 2015-04-18T04:00:00Z In 35 years it has come full circle from half-forgotten, possibly pretentious, definitely too French B-thriller to earn its rightful place in Hill's storied career. Walter Hill: a life in the fast lane 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z His mother, uncle, grandfather and siblings have all performed professionally, but far from making him highfalutin or pretentious, this background instilled in Bardem a sense of pride and dedication. Javier Bardem: is he the best ever Bond baddie? 2012-10-27T23:21:00Z Although the chefs like to think they season their food correctly, Madden calls withholding salt and pepper from customers “pretentious.” Clarity offers dining with vision and flair in Vienna 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z But I didn’t want to be that pretentious guy who’s like, “You’ve probably never heard of them.” Date Lab: These tall redheads don’t exactly see eye-to-eye 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z American Idol will die as it lived, though – self-important and unrelentingly pretentious. American Idol: a final farewell to the 'Death Star' of reality TV 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Why, the work is deemed pretentious, of course. It’s good to be pretentious! 2012-06-28T00:00:00Z The CPC is just such a group, and its members have an intriguing mix of qualities: they’re friendly, intelligent, brazen, pretentious, earnest, nutty and sometimes drunk. Make kids memorize poetry 2012-06-13T02:00:00Z While insipid or pretentious merlot abounds, this one, from the consistently good Broadside, is fresh and plummy, well balanced and lip-smacking, with a pleasant bitterness to invite the next sip. 20 Wines Under $20: Touring the World, Familiar to Obscure 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z And there’s fun to be had with these performances, including Hugh Grant playing a foppishly pretentious academic with impeccable condescension. When Is a Comedy Special Also a Corporate Synergy Message? 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z The star of “Westworld” and “Sonic the Hedgehog” has a recurring role in “Jury Duty,” playing an exaggeratedly arrogant, pretentious version of himself who is ordered to be a backup juror for the trial. Their Show Flew Under the Radar. TikTok Blew It Up. 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z The mess of the season, with its dreary tone, pretentious dialogue and a plot twistier than the poses at an advanced yoga convention, proved that lightning can’t always strike twice. Rip it up and start again: why so many shows press reset for their second season 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z A masterpiece to some, a pretentious hodgepodge with Sean Penn meandering on escalators to others, the film is the Herman Cain of the Oscar race: ardently supported by its backers, snickered at by its critics. More surprises than snubs in open Oscar field 2012-01-24T17:28:15Z It’s fusty and pretentious but also haunting, a book of ghosts and a book of this moment. Can a List of Someone’s Stuff Double as Literature? 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z “We are not making television. We are making a pretentious art film from the 80s.” Hannibal showrunner: 'We are not making television. We are making a pretentious art film from the 80s' 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z “I am quite sure male chefs have committed far, far worse crimes in the cause of pretentious and pomposity,” he said. What’s Cooking in That Egg Spoon? A Bite-Size Culture War 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z Pick your expert, locate their weaknesses, make sweet, pretentious love to their aesthetic sensibilities and you too could be walking away with a grand for your thumb piano. Four Rooms: how to beat the experts 2011-07-08T23:06:59Z Some of the dances, at least as captured on film, are both pretentious and beautiful. | 'Crazy Horse': ?Crazy Horse? by Frederick Wiseman - Review 2012-01-17T23:09:27Z He seems pretentious, right off, and that always sends a red flag my way. Review: ‘If I Forget,’ Clashing Currents in Jewish Identity 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z His high-decibel rants are not only tedious, but they also turn this pretentious and misconceived novel into a tale about a madman, signifying pretty much nothing. Dave Eggers’s Latest Novel, ‘Your Fathers, Where Are They?’ 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Q: Is the whole idea of "nouvelle cuisine" a bit precious or pretentious, why or why not? World chefs: Paco Roncero's take on molecular gastronomy 2012-06-19T11:24:47Z “Ordinary Witnesses” indulges in a few too many changes of lighting at the end, and the solemn use of a guitar seems pretentious. Dance Review: Rachid Ouramdane?s ?Ordinary Witnesses? - Review 2011-10-12T21:30:36Z Patel gets to make the most of this when, at his lowest point, he spontaneously cracks Kirsten's sacred text, peers at a page and bellows, "So pretentious!" HBO Max's must-watch "Station Eleven" brings comfort and joy after the eerily familiar apocalypse 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z No, I'm afraid we're talking about an entire career of pretty, sincere, pretentious and often risible crapola, a peculiar but intoxicating blend of badness that is brewed to near perfection in "Twelve." "Twelve": On the intoxicating badness of Joel Schumacher 2010-08-05T13:01:00Z In part, that’s because the movie was satirizing something that didn’t exist: the takeover of musical comedy by pretentious directors and choreographers. Review: Musical Triplets: 'The Band Wagon' Times Three 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z If that sounds dry and pretentious, the result is anything but. This week's new comedy 2011-01-08T00:06:34Z For instance, "The Bolshoi Theatre" could easily be rendered in English as "The Grand Theatre" but to do so would be both pretentious and confusing. Say 'non' to phrasebook foreign language in fiction 2011-07-13T16:46:52Z “Leto Legend” isn’t campy and avoids being pretentious; it’s nicely balanced by LePine’s wry humor, and it wraps up with a satisfying rush. ‘Leto Legend,’ saving the day for a woman trying to have it all 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z At first, I thought: How is this not a work of pretentious self-pity? Beyoncé Unearths Pain and Lets It Flow in ‘Lemonade’ 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z To be pretentious, one might call it an oratorio, or how about a "folkatorio"? Meltdown 2010: Richard Thompson on curating this year's event 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z But his pretentious and grating work brought me no closer to grasping either Heidegger or “being as a whole.” Review: Either/Or, at University Settlement, Is Inspired by Boredom and Writer’s Block 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z Such poets as exist in the world — the shouters at the reading, Nira’s workshop instructor — run the gamut from vulgar to pretentious. Review: From Israel, ‘The Kindergarten Teacher,’ a Drama About Poetry and Obsession 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z They grope for direction but are seldom lost for words, and beneath their barmy crotchets and pretentious dissertations there’s heartache and yearning. Whit Stillman and the Song of the Preppy 2012-03-18T05:30:57Z But all dreams are symbolic, even pretentious movie dreams that only appear to exist to demonstrate how much of a relentlessly self-indulgent show-off the director is. The dreams in Inception look fantastic. But what would Leonardo DiCaprio make of these? 2010-07-09T23:10:00Z Precocious, pretentious and incorrigible, he took Oscar Wilde as his role model and doted on the writings of the Marquis de Sade. Ben Sonnenberg, Founder of Literary Journal, Dies at 73 2010-06-26T01:00:00Z And yet, Paltrow has become best known in recent years for pretentious, elitist one-liners that situate her so far outside of normalcy and reality that "unrelatable" does not feel like a strong enough word. Gwyneth Paltrow is a human after all? 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z The only Europeans who used forks were Italians, which English tourists thought hilariously pretentious. Perspective | Miss Manners: How did place settings look in medieval times? 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z I always feel pretentious using the phrase 'hard work' because it's not like I'm working down a mine or anything, but there was definitely a self-imposed pressure. Twelve tips for the Flaming Lips 2011-01-12T14:09:59Z Both use color and music to great effect; both are invested in style and vision without being pretentious. Is “Jane the Virgin” going to stay a virgin forever? 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z “Our rich are richer. Our homeless are more desperate. Our hipsters are more pretentious,” says Solnit, who once wrote that “San Francisco is now a cruel place and a divided one.” How San Francisco broke America’s heart 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z He did, however, speak highly of his time on the surreal FXX relationship comedy “Man Seeking Woman,” which he said was “smart without being pretentious and struck the right tone.” Eric Andre Isn’t a Prankster, He’s a ‘Benevolent Attacker’ 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z One hundred percent, and that sounds super pretentious, but it’s true. ‘A Quiet Place’ Was a Huge Hit. Will Oscar Listen? 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z “But I became more of a snob and more pretentious,” Yanesh said. A party becomes a serendipitous encounter for a young composer 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z “I literally took what I learned in trash television in the eighties as a journalist and fused it with pretentious theories and storytelling.” The Documentary “Bitter Lake” Remixes the BBC 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z Where the word pretentious differs from pretending is that it carries with it the sting of class betrayal But claims to ordinariness and salt-of-the-earth virtue are themselves pretentious. In defence of pretentiousness | Dan Fox 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z In the fall, Wiltanger went out with a Harris staffer whom she found “kind of pretentious.” Inside the messy, awkward, occasionally successful dating scene on the campaign trail 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z "The last thing anyone wants is a pretentious book about the Holocaust," said a historian, adding with an uncanny prescience, "It will end up in the remainder pile." Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel 2010-06-07T20:59:00Z He says he knows that other chefs think he's pretentious, that his dishes are contrived, clever, soulless. Grant Achatz: The making of Chicago's top chef ... and what's Next 2011-02-15T06:00:00Z That problem emerges, along with several others of credibility, because playwright Jennifer Barclay is trying to cram so much into her very short and pretentious play. 'Freedom, NY' pretentious and unbelievable, but at least it's short 2011-05-13T20:16:05Z The chafing, enriching contrasts are what allow him to get away with what might have been merely pretentious, on the one hand, or snarky, on the other. Review: In ‘First Daughter Suite’: Unelected but Still Under a Microscope 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z When things calmed down — and after they made fun of the school as a pretentious country club — it was Elizabeth who was more copacetic about their child leaving. ‘The Americans’ Season 5, Episode 9: Tuan on the Bus 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z It read, “The public is becoming more dispirited each season by the pretentious and woefully misguided, misdirected productions foisted on them.” Opera News Will Stop Reviewing Metropolitan Opera 2012-05-22T03:06:11Z Asked how, in her case, an actress prepares, she doesn’t for a moment revert to the pretentious twaddle that sometimes comes out of the pretty mouths of her contemporaries. T Magazine: Kirsten Dunst: '60s Going on 30 2011-10-14T02:17:29Z But why has the Times saddled the subtitle of this piece with the trendy, redundant, empty-calorie word “iconic”? It’s pure pretentious filler. The Whisky Chronicles 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z I was totally brave and not a lost, pretentious, too-young idiot who didn’t understand anything in the news or in the verb charts — not at all. How to screw up in Arabic 2012-09-07T23:30:00Z Behind a pretentious facade, he would be shoddy in design and execution. Architects do matter, Mr Gove 2011-03-06T00:09:40Z If that sounds a bit pretentious, I'm afraid it can't be helped. Let's seek inspiration from Dorothy Parker – and revive the salon 2013-07-24T04:00:00Z While admiring it, you can see why people in the early 20th century reacted against this kind of thing, in favour of simpler, fresher, less pretentious spaces. St Pancras Renaissance Hotel: The rebirth of a gothic masterpiece 2011-02-13T00:05:22Z Its best things are its least pretentious features: narrative range and, far too unusual in the theatre, thriller drive. Chimerica; Race – review 2013-06-01T23:06:18Z In other words, unlike most films about pretentious, neurotic academics, something exciting actually happens in Irrational Man. From Wonder Boys to Irrational Man: why Hollywood loves a hot professor 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z It’s part of a greater trend threatening our happy hour bliss: the proliferation of pretentious, pricey cocktails on the menus of nicer establishments in such cities as New York and Washington. The Latest Happy Hour Rip Off: $1 for 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z There’s nothing pretentious about him or emotionally false. The Carpetbagger: Michael Caine and Christopher Nolan and Oscar 2012-12-05T23:35:29Z All of this comes filtered through a lurid, instantly recognizable tabloid sensibility that delights in skewering the rich, the powerful and the pretentious. Review | James Ellroy continues his examination of the corrupt and powerful with ‘This Storm’ 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z I always viewed it as wanting the music to feel like an extension of the emotional lives of the characters, which I guess sounds kind of pretentious. 11 Things We Learned About The O.C. from Series Creator Josh Schwartz 2013-08-14T09:45:30Z This across-the-board downgrading of the family’s talent and aspirations makes them seem not just pretentious but delusional. Review: ‘The Royal Family of Broadway,’ This Time in Song 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z I had chosen the short story, which I remember was about a captured terrorist – neatly chosen subject, horrifically pretentious in execution. My prize-winning European tour with 50 other post-A-level teenagers 2010-08-17T19:30:00Z “The French are pretentious and conceited and have the worst character in the world,” she said, noting that there is no place on earth she would rather live than Paris. 19 Things About Betty Catroux 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z By now we know what we are going to get from an Ondaatje novel: A moody, murky, lightly pretentious and mostly nonlinear investigation of lives and stories that harbor tantalizing gaps. A Mother Keeps Wartime Secrets in Michael Ondaatje’s New Novel 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z As she demonstrates in her episode of the Netflix showcase series “The Characters,” she is capable of both embodying and piercing the sometimes pretentious worlds of art and culture. Comedy in NYC This Week 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z The daughter of a brownstone Brooklyn bohemian family, going to private school, would be annoying and pretentious in entirely different ways. 'The Affair' Recap: Alison Hits Brooklyn, 'Girls' Style 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z First of all, Affleck’s entire career has been about splitting the difference between that kind of simulated masculinity and the serious filmmaking craftsman who’s not quite pretentious enough to call himself an artist. Best ever superhero movie (in terms of fabrics): It’s god vs. psycho in Zack Snyder’s bombastic “Batman v Superman” 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z If this sounds unbearably pretentious, rest assured there's much that is down-to-earth about this bittersweet, dialogue-driven piece which follows its protagonists through the domestic, romantic and existential ups and downs of a week. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2012-12-09T00:05:40Z The worst is “The Crowd,” a pretentious new film in which Mr. Parreno had actors, some of whom may be hypnotized, move like sleepwalkers around the drill hall itself. Review: ‘H {N)Y P N(Y} OSIS,’ Out of This World, at Park Avenue Armory 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z Oh, I guess it sounds a little pretentious to me. From "Fargo" to "Dark Winds," Zahn McClarnon keeps perfecting his art – but don't call him an artist 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z Calder may be a typical scruffy, T-shirted screenwriter, prone to pretentious catchwords and on the cusp of selling out, but he’s also a genuinely good guy. The Silver Lake young(ish) professional, adrift in 'Icebergs' at the Geffen Playhouse 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z In art, corporate slickness is pretentious and pointless, even when done tongue-in-check. Alex Israel and Bret Easton Ellis: Why new billboard art loses its power when seen up close 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z You could say that Frears hasn't quite made a masterpiece yet, and he would probably answer that he doesn't do masterpieces – as if to suggest that the concept is vulgar and pretentious. David Thomson on Stephen Frears 2010-09-02T21:05:00Z On me, someone from the East, its pretentious charm was lost, and it came across as a hyped-up tourist trap. 'You can't see the Empire State Building from the top': readers on overrated tourist sights 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z This sounds, in the abstract, pretentious and forced, but the result is flickeringly poetic. Book review: ‘Our Secret Life in the Movies,’ by Michael McGriff and J.M. Tyree “Working with him, you would never know that. There’s nothing pretentious or high and mighty about him. He’s just a cool kid.” Finn Wolfhard doesn’t really want to be famous 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z On the one hand, she's pitied by the pretentious, mocked by the gossip sites and disdained by the critics. Jennifer Aniston's success rests on our thinking of her as a loser | David Cox 2010-03-22T10:45:00Z Britten thought of this as very slight – he often played his work down because he was afraid of people thinking he was pretentious. Benjamin Britten: a top 10 2013-01-09T19:30:01Z The evolution of it psychologically — I just realized how pretentious that statement was — was what was interesting. Lena Dunham and Matthew Rhys on the Latest ‘Girls’ Provocation 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z “Your show is pretentious and not funny enough, you need more jokes on this page.” ArtsBeat: How Dan Harmon Did, Or Did Not, Get His Groove Back at ‘Community’ 2013-12-18T17:03:13Z Ozick’s sizable vocabulary does double duty by portraying her narrator as pretentious: “pharaonic remnants,” “mullioned windows,” a jaw’s “prognathic ridge.” An Old Man’s Youthful Fascinations Animate Cynthia Ozick’s New Novel 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z Abolish the monarchy and these sappy and pretentious infomercials for them. ‘The Crown’ Episodes 1 and 2: Stiff Lips, Warm Heart 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Yet Moss, except in flashes, is anything but a pretentious writer. ‘Summerwater’ Makes an Intimate Study of Social Class Out of a Long, Rainy Day 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z “There are no pretentious ingredients here,” he says as he assembles the salad. Could Matchbox become the next Cheesecake Factory? 2015-02-21T05:00:00Z The art world may be full of poseurs, pretentious twits, rapacious entrepreneurs and the forces of corporate homogenization, but in key ways, it is still a different social and economic world than the movie business. Perspective | Netflix’s ‘Velvet Buzzsaw’ is a revenge fantasy against elites — making it perfect for the age of Trump 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Paul remains the least pretentious poet you’ll ever hope to meet. Books of The Times: ‘Traveling Sprinkler’ Is Nicholson Baker’s New Novel 2013-09-09T21:31:25Z “A pretentious vanity project for Brangelina,” sneered the New York Post. Here's looking at me: Does Angelina Jolie’s By the Sea qualify for Hollywood’s Hall of Vain? 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z If the word “pretentious” is used to define a person or thing operating outside the legitimate borders of their class or qualifications, then that’s an operation of socially conditioned taste. In defence of pretentiousness | Dan Fox 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z “Significant other” sounds too sterile, “partner” too businesslike and “beau” too pretentious. Motherlode Blog: Widowed, and Keeping Dates Like ‘Glamourpuss’ and ‘Crunchy Dad’ at a Distance 2013-07-14T14:02:31Z Just where does poetry fit into all this, one young woman asked a little skeptically, adding: “Isn’t poetry a pretentious, elitist form, not really a force for change?” A Revolutionary of Arabic Verse 2010-10-17T22:03:00Z Such flights of poetry would seem pretentious and implausible in the hands of a less skilled writer, but Jiles grounds her characters’ metaphysical musings in a starkly realistic portrait of the lawless Texas landscape. Can a 10-year-old girl ever recover from years in captivity? 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z People would repeatedly reproach me for my own laudatory notice; this film, they said, was pretentious, boring and – most culpably of all – Christian. The Tree of Life ? review 2011-07-07T14:00:01Z Ghosts and Memories Haunting a House Sherlock Holmes meets “The Others” in “The Awakening,” a supernatural thriller with a chilly “Masterpiece Theater” gloss and a pretentious, post-Freudian subtext. Movie Review: ‘The Awakening,’ With Rebecca Hall and Dominic West 2012-08-17T15:17:32Z Jull Costa and Patterson offer a peerless translation of this comic masterpiece, narrated from beyond the grave by a feckless, pretentious, impossibly winning aristocrat. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2020 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z "You know, your furniture sucks. It's pretentious and looks like a middle school kid could've carved it." Adventures at the Clown Palace: Stand-up comedy helped me confront my depression and cultural taboos 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z He portrays a pretentious but ultimately decent rich guy in “Tully” and soon will appear in season two of Amazon’s scruffy legal drama “Goliath.” Filmmakers Mark and Jay Duplass’s New Book Explores Brotherly Love, With Occasional Sibling Rivalry 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z First, AMC's rather pretentious motto "Story Matters Here" is not just a designer label. The extraordinary rise of AMC 2010-11-23T17:55:00Z I don't want to be pretentious – we are not going to change the world. O brother, we're arthouse: the monks taking France by storm 2010-12-02T12:17:00Z There are those who see his films as pretentious, as lacking in substance, as self-indulgent. 'I don't think any of us are normal people' 2012-05-18T23:02:00Z But however the category was, or is, defined, the Outsider Art Fair, compared with other fairs, seemed the least pretentious, the least focused on money, the rawest, liveliest and most full of surprises. The Outsider Fair Made Art ‘Big’ Again 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z On paper, the formula looks like it ought to be irritating — pretentious, or simply awkward — but ultimately, it makes a magical sort of sense. Dry Cleaning: It’s Spoken Rock ’n’ Roll, but We Like It 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z TDKR: pretentious and soulless, with half developed ideas and predictable ending. Open thread: What's your favourite British film? 2012-07-27T16:18:12Z “I started drinking around noon, and haven’t stopped. This is super amazing fantastic. I never went to college, and I thought you all were super-pompous and pretentious. But I’ve had a very fun time.” Neil Patrick Harris Prepares for ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ 2014-02-19T13:00:18Z Thus inspired, Marsh and Ware formed a band called the Future and wrote bleak instrumentals with such fabulously pretentious titles as Dada Dada Duchamp Vortex. Forgive us our synths ? how 80s pop found favour again 2010-11-18T23:33:00Z They seem to me to be an excuse to drink wine and be pretentious, and I don’t need an excuse to do either. How to watch Netflix as a feminist 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Any image I have, it's just what I do, but it comes off as being very pretentious. Tom Waits: 'I'm a night-owl reporter' – a classic interview from the vaults 2012-08-07T16:41:06Z How well you adjust to this wall-breaking combination of dramatic and documentary techniques will probably determine how much you like the movie, and I suppose some viewers will find it off-putting or pretentious. "Putty Hill": An off-the-radar indie breakthrough 2011-02-18T21:20:00Z Hitting Yourself includes some pretentious babble about environmental responsibility and the greed of society, but it’s too muddled and haphazardly inserted to carry any real weight. Has Theater Lost Its Mind? Queen of the Night and Other Immersions 2014-02-13T18:55:19Z There's a surcharge for the ability to be pretentious. Sky-High Prices? Bad Reviews? No Matter: Mr. Chow Powers On 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z But he’s become known over the last decade or so for movies that don’t quite get there – “Seven Pounds,” “After Earth,” “Winter’s Tale,” “Concussion” — and for strange, pretentious, poorly grounded statements. Must be nice to live in Will Smith’s world, where movies have moved “from explosions and gimmicks to storytelling” 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z “Help! I need a fortune in ingredients I’ve never heard of to make a pretentious recipe to serve a bunch of people I don’t even like.” Style Invitational Week 1396: Hail to Limerixicon XVII! 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z The film is pretentious claptrap woven into a script so full of gaping holes that the characatures populating it nearly tumble out of the screen in confusion. Does ‘Three Billboards’ Say Anything About America? Well … 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z There's nothing pretentious or overly difficult about "Applause"; it runs less than 90 minutes and features a bona fide star performance. Pick of the week: The amazing Paprika Steen in "Applause" 2011-01-20T23:50:00Z Aldous is vain, deluded, pretentious and probably chronically depressed, but definitely not stupid. "Get Him to the Greek": '30s screwball bromance 2010-06-04T00:20:00Z But “A Minister’s Wife” seemed a precious piece: either pretentious musical theater or tame quasi-opera; take your pick. Opera? Musical? Please Respect the Difference 2011-07-09T03:30:34Z So when Paltrow & Martin announced Tuesday on the “insufferably pretentious” lifestyle site Goop that they were breaking up, of course it wasn’t in the words of mere mortals. Don’t knock Gwyneth’s “uncoupling” 2014-03-26T14:20:00Z Some might call such a goal pretentious; if they did, Murphy would not mind. Last exit from Brooklyn 2010-04-23T23:16:00Z Getting up to dance to your own stuff looks pretty pretentious. Talking Shop 2010-05-04T08:19:00Z The city is pretentious, yet kitsch at the same time. Screw Los Angeles: Minneapolis should host the 2028 Summer Olympics 2017-08-05T04:00:00Z I think now that means I can see things from a distance and work out how to build a character – without getting too pretentious about it. Robin Hood star Mark Strong| interview 2010-05-08T23:08:00Z Minimalism was the hot style then, but he found its industrial blankness pretentious and turned to making smallish, rough, gnarly things, that referred to the body, or parts of it. Bruce Nauman Reappears: Pay Attention 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z For these and other reasons, this Harrell series was pretentious, muddled, foolish, unsuccessful. Trajal Harrell’s ‘Twenty Looks’ in Full at the Kitchen 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z By the time it was my turn to attend the prep school, I had become simultaneously insecure and pretentious. Will Sheff: The First Time an Adult Took Me Seriously 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z Ms. Maccarone’s admiring study catches Ms. Rampling in conversation with friends and artists on different topics — “Exposure,” “Age,” “Beauty,” “Resonance,” “Taboo,” “Demons,” Desire,” “Death” and “Love” — which the film uses as pretentious chapter titles. | 'Charlotte Rampling: The Look': ?Charlotte Rampling: The Look? ? Review 2011-11-03T21:24:34Z Alongside all the skilful compiling of more interesting footy stuff, there's also the commentary-cum-poetry of Ray Hudson and the outing of pretentious reporting. Internet picks of the week 2010-06-18T23:06:00Z "Holy Motors" - French, fantastical and nuthouse crazy, Leos Carax's film might seem the stuff of pretentious art house. AP critics pick the year's best movies 2012-12-14T21:29:02Z Pristine and uncanny, the odd room is the place at the end of the journey where truths of all sorts, profound and pretentious, clear and obscure, are at last revealed. Kubrick’s indestructible influence: “Interstellar” joins the long tradition of borrowing from “2001″ 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z It happened last year with Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life – hailed as a masterpiece by some, derided as pretentious rubbish by others. Holy Motors: love it or hate it, Cannes cognoscenti can't stop talking about it 2012-05-23T17:01:28Z It was “kind of pretentious of him to be making the reference in this context,” one unimpressed viewer said. Is Hugh Grant rude or just British? Oscars interview may be lost in translation. 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z There was a time when David Oyelowo saw method acting as a bit on the pretentious side. David Oyelowo on the Role That Made Him a Method Actor 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z She has to contend with the militant Children of Adam, a radical anti-clone group that derides clones as “pretentious meat.” A Human Cloning Error and Existential Questions Fuel This Science Fiction Romp 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z Frank enjoys skewering “social irritants,” especially “pretentious women who think they’re Lady Astor because their husbands make a ton of money.” ‘I’m the One You Want to Sit Next to When Things Are Dull’ 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z No detour into lousy taste—even at times her own, as in her partnership, lately ended, with the mercilessly pretentious Matthew Barney—can dent her authenticity. MOMA’s Embarrassing Björk Crush 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z It's meticulous, methodical and educated – but also extreme, and extremely pretentious. Sundance film festival 2013: Upstream Color – first look review 2013-01-23T12:05:00Z The documentary — the word seems almost pretentious for such a shaggy concoction — was the work of Bruce Brown, himself a young, tanned dude-bro who rode motorcycles and waves around Southern California. Perspective | The beautiful lie Bruce Brown and ‘The Endless Summer’ told us about surfing 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z Liberals, to O’Rourke, were pretentious bores who want to “make us carry our groceries home in our mouths.” P.J. O’Rourke Wrote With High, Cranky Style in a Shrinking Tradition 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z It may sound pretentious, but I believe children's theatre is an art form and should be respected as such. Children's theatre competition proves it's more than child's play 2010-04-21T16:12:00Z At least it does after a few puzzling, artistically pretentious early scenes in the Fellowship for Performing Arts’ infinitely thought-provoking production at the Pearl Theater. Review: In ‘The Great Divorce,’ Searching for Greener Pastures 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z Always pejorative, the word “pretentious” is easy shorthand for dismissing novels, plays and movies. In defence of pretentiousness | Dan Fox 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z Jess is direct but guarded when it comes to her life, and John is pretentious and calculating, though he gets Jess to open up with his knavish charm. ‘Cost of Living’ Review: Worth Its Weight in Gold 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z Not only are you teens being rude, you also sound super pretentious. Joe Scarborough Breaks Down Trump for Stephen Colbert 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z “The French were pompous and pretentious,” she said in the press of the day, referring to presentations that included showgirls, space ships and a pumpkin coach. American Fashion?s Coming-Out in Paris 2011-01-12T22:38:19Z Mr. Zorn’s lyrics are pretentious here, but his music, despite its fearsome aggression, is almost welcoming: rapt at times, tumultuous at others, dealing in whispers and outbursts, leaps and shrieks. Review: John Zorn’s Spirit of Restless Invention Flows Forth 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z Many readers may quickly assume that you and your friends are pretentious urban snobs. He Wants a Loan. Can I Demand That He Get Vaccinated First? 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z After a while the Emin fudge starts to seem not so much a brilliant deconstruction of the nude as pretentious and second-rate drawing, lazy in its refusal to really get to grips with form. Tracey Emin should have had more fun at the seaside 2012-05-25T15:16:36Z Vapid and pretentious, the overblown installation ranks among the worst works Warhol made. Alas, mere 'Shadows' 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z It’s a really pretentious word, which is partly why I like it, but it also means you get to do what you want. Alice Lowe: ‘I was terrified that Bill Nighy was going to hate me’ 2019-06-08T04:00:00Z One commenter on the Guardian summarized things thus: “Poser writes pretentious book. Poser writes pretentious review.” ArtsBeat: A. A. Gill Honored for Top Hatchet Job 2014-02-12T17:59:04Z Except at pretentious costume extravaganzas like the annual Met Ball, people no longer aspire to dress like that. ‘The Rich Look’ Lives On in Paris 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z But as masterful as Garland is with his precision, he can get a bit pretentious. "Men" is Alex Garland's glossy, gendered fever dream that bewitches as much as it befuddles 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z That person’s pretentious use of words hides the fact that they do not have anything of substance to say. In defence of pretentiousness | Dan Fox 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z But Times critic Christopher Knight describes it as “pretentious and uninvolving.” Datebook: A movie for one, a festival of film chosen by women 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z The lead roles are challenging; Cuccioli has the pretentious, stiff-backed pageantry and the distant look of nostalgia in his eyes, but occasionally labors through Con’s lightning-fast changes in temperament. Review: ‘Touch of the Poet’ is a Powerful Study in Toxic Pride 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z The baggage Miss Leigh piles onto an ordinary night in an ordinary jail — she learned so much, about freedom and friendship and self-preservation! — ends up just feeling pretentious. | 'A Night at the Tombs': Bianca Leigh Reflects on Life, at Bowery Poetry Club 2010-07-14T21:56:00Z Also, there’s a weird black-and-white sequence where Lily James is shot in the style of a pretentious perfume commercial. Call me by my dead wife's name: can Netflix persuade us we need another Rebecca? 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z Now, at 61, Bridges is one of Hollywood's coolest, most respected and least pretentious actors. Jeff Bridges sings 'Crazy Heart' songs at Ste. Michelle 2011-08-25T21:11:57Z These might be provocative questions in a less pretentious and punishing context. Theater Review: ?Massacre (Sing to Your Children)? at Rattlestick 2012-04-16T21:52:09Z “God, I sound so pretentious, but it was at City Lights,” she says. T Magazine: Grey Matter 2011-04-11T13:00:52Z And viewers who are not on Mr. Dumont’s wavelength tend to dismiss his work as pretentious, glum and boring. | 'Hadewijch': Extremist in Monastery Is Still One Outside It 2010-12-23T21:30:04Z “It’s Scandinavian and pretentious but Kierkegaard once said ‘We can only understand life backwards, but we’re forced to live it forwards,”’ says Trier. Life in chapters in ‘The Worst Person in the World’ 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z Shylingual: I don’t see this as pretentious or as you being judgmental, but more as you being open - literally — to “interpretation.” Perspective | Ask Amy: Husband worries about wife’s longtime male friend 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z It may surprise you to learn that this heady mixture isn’t in the least pretentious or ponderous, but rather sweet, searching and deeply intelligent. Review: ‘Ipsa Dixit’ Makes an Unlikely Opera Out of Aristotle 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z The peak of pretentious awfulness is reached when Richard Gere, as Cowboy Dylan, flees a midwestern township full of freaky Halloween children and suddenly finds himself face to face with a nonplussed giraffe. Dylan biopic I'm Not There: a ragtag and Bob tale 2012-12-05T13:57:00Z It also caps a comeback of sorts for Mr. Winterson, whose work in the 1990s was frequently pretentious and solipsistic and reflexively pounded by critics. Books of The Times: Jeanette Winterson?s ?Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?? 2012-03-08T17:22:58Z Most of the time Bowie is a lot less pretentious and defensive in interviews than his interrogators are expecting. David Bowie's TV appearances: a history 2013-05-24T07:43:07Z But in pure evolutionary terms, even the pretentious, over-the-top, foolishly self-indulgent forms of haute macho beat butting heads. Cultural Studies: Food Is the Latest Arena for Macho Contests 2012-09-15T00:37:02Z The title is a tongue-in-cheek nod to the art world’s pretentious titles, while also, Mr. Twist said, a pretty decent description of the border wall itself. Trump Proposed a Wall. They Imagined How It Would Work. 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z It felt pretentious for me to avoid saying the word “wife” when I so clearly was one. Modern Love: Labels of Married Life, in a New Light — Modern Love 2013-01-18T19:53:01Z Nearly everyone I know considers both movies pretentious and dull. Superheroes suck! 2010-05-06T11:01:00Z And in “4,” her new piece now showing at the Whitney Museum of American Art, she emerges as the most pretentious artist of my entire experience, and among the most self-infatuated. Dance Review: Sarah Michelson’s ‘4,’ at the Whitney, Continues a Series 2014-01-26T22:09:19Z The fleece—plush but not pretentious, elegant on the molecular level—fits this lineage. Goldman Sachs, Patagonia, and the Mysteries of “Business Casual” 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z But Times art critic Christopher Knight isn’t all that impressed: “Sculpt,” he writes, “is pretentious and uninvolving.” Essential Arts & Culture: Deciphering Civil War telegrams, summer of Shakespeare, a conductor's fiery performance 2016-08-20T04:00:00Z Related: Anthony Doerr: 'I grew up where to call yourself a writer would be pretentious' The pretentious flaws of others affirm your own intellectual or aesthetic expertise. In defence of pretentiousness | Dan Fox 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z It may be hard for tolerant, art-loving souls to resist the urge to groan when reading pretentious titles for artworks. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z So does the fact that he is ultimately insouciant about the art world, a refreshingly unpretentious person in a relentlessly pretentious scene. Meet Alexander Gilkes, Co-Founder of Paddle8, an Online Auction House 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z The press hasn’t always been receptive and not necessarily because of art-film snobbism or because the movies are as risibly pretentious as “Only God Forgives.” ArtsBeat: Cannes Film Festival: Miike’s Honest Cop, Winding Refn’s Wallpaper 2013-05-22T15:14:03Z Like, how pompous and pretentious can we be by starting our first track with cheering and applause? Interview with Adult Swim's Tim Heidecker and Davin Wood 2011-03-21T12:21:00Z A bell goes off, and the words “pretentious metaphor” are flashed onto the screen. | 'There Be Dragons': A Guess-the-Flavoring Game, and Then Along Comes a War 2011-05-06T05:30:06Z A rich culture sustained by people who devote their lives to it, often with little reward or recognition, is a pretentious one. In defence of pretentiousness | Dan Fox 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z I find Abstract Expressionism, a historical style referenced here, overrated and pretentious, a bore. Art Review: 2014 Whitney Biennial Has New Faces and Interesting Choices 2014-03-06T22:44:56Z "I always feel so pretentious talking about comedy and deconstructing it," he says. America's funniest man 2010-08-21T23:08:00Z Their joyfulness stood in striking contrast to Reinhardt’s relatively daunting if better-known Black Paintings, which suddenly seem a little pretentious. The Best Art of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z And the diva is seen not as pretentious, pompous or ridiculous, but simply as another kind of actress, wearing a different kind of mask. Review | Yes, Toulouse-Lautrec was an alcoholic cabaret creature. But his art ranged far beyond the demimonde. 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z Yet “Pond” is rarely murky and never pretentious. Review: ‘Pond’ Makes Misanthropy Compelling 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z To be less diplomatic, it's pretentious and a haphazardly applied catch-all popping up more frequently in recent years. With "Swarm," two "Atlanta" collaborators kick the beehive of toxic fandom 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z Wood was amused by what he deemed a pretentious detail and asked his friend to stop so he could sketch. Masterpiece Rental: My Life in the ‘American Gothic’ House 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z He is unremittingly pretentious, preening — and superb company. A Playful Masterpiece That Expanded the Novel’s Possibilities 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z “I feel pretentious saying it,” said Broidy Eckhardt, 29, a buyer for the Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts who married last month. Why the Word ‘Fiancé’ Is Falling Out of Fashion 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z He doesn't seem like a pretentious rock star visiting the dark side for effect. Foals: 'I built an enamel around myself' 2010-05-06T20:30:00Z F won’t mock her for saying pretentious, possibly meaningless things like “I am no longer a bodied animal I am only an effect.” Review: Building a Better Girl in ‘Honestly Sincere’ 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z “I think it’s also definitely a product of my — not to be pretentious about it — but my spiritual journey.” Samuel D. Hunter Climbs the Ladder With ‘The Whale’ 2012-10-21T03:00:19Z Ms. Skaggs’s “9/11 Dance” was less pretentious yet similarly underwhelming: performed three times in New York, beginning at noon, it began on the north end of Union Square with little fanfare. Dance Review: ?Table of Silence Project 9/11? and ?9/11 Dance? - Review 2011-09-12T23:28:21Z “We didn’t want to create a pretentious atmosphere,” he said, adding, “We don’t want mobs of people coming out and getting sick on the street.” The Vnyl, a Sprawling East Village Club, Brings Back the ’70s 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z “The last thing I want now is to be pretentious or try and be something I’m not,” Mr. King said. Stephen King’s ‘Under The Dome,’ Adapted for a TV Series 2013-06-22T16:14:50Z The record is awkward and seriously pretentious at times, but you can’t miss the heat of its ambition. Playlist: Music by Nicole Mitchell, Anna von Hausswolf and Jeri-Jeri 2013-06-14T20:39:53Z I look for the — I was about to say “truth” but that sounds so pretentious! Steve Carell and Robert Zemeckis on "Welcome to Marwen," process, pretension and pain 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z “There is only one place in the world, outside of fiction, where such a pretentious pot-au-feu of newsworthy people could simmer so richly and continuously in such a compact vessel,” wrote the journalist Sherwood Kohn. ‘The Watergate’ Review: An Edifice on the Potomac 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z To some listeners, it became less a programme for lively minds than a refuge for the pretentious. Robert Robinson obituary 2011-08-13T12:28:49Z With his penchant for quirky or gruelling roles in indie films, his political aspirations and his purposefully anti-Hollywood stance, it would be easy to find Gosling pretentious. "I didn't set out to be 'the indie guy'" 2011-01-09T00:16:00Z A few of the numbers seemed mildly pretentious and strenuous. 2010-02-15T22:48:00Z Instead she doubles down on the lies as they go clubbing with his pretentious rich friends. Review: In ‘Sex, Grift and Death,’ One-Acts That Test Perceptions 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z For a lot of listeners, including his fans, that would make Bish Bosch a pretentious failure: who wants to buy an album you can hardly bear to listen to? Scott Walker: Bish Bosch – review 2012-11-29T15:29:01Z Speaking at the Hay Festival in Wales, Fisher said of her role: "I think less British. I looked a little pretentious faking the accent." Fisher wants 'to get Leia right' 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z This was not the later accomplished Wilde, but the early Wilde of pretentious pronouncement and vague promise. Review | Surprising influences on Oscar Wilde’s greatest works 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z Indeed, though he is often accused of being willfully esoteric in his films, he is at his least pretentious here in , his choice of similes in particular wonderfully humorous and playful. Ingmar Bergman, novelist 2013-02-17T19:00:00Z “It sounds pretentious, but it’s important that I dress this way,” Mr. Olsson said. Dressing Up for Work … at Home 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z The new “True Detective” is faintly pretentious, manageably ridiculous, and dull. “True Detective,” Reviewed: Clever Chronology Tries to Conceal an Unclever Cop Show 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z |
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