Sentences with phrase «by pretentious»

Due to your unconventional writing style, any other points your were trying to make were completely obscured by your pretentious attempt to sound knowledgeable and scientific.

I'd rather make a couple billion dollars than be admired by pretentious hipsters and «intellectuals» lol.

The rest, which probably constitutes the majority of potential viewers, is probably of the audience that either won't stick with it for long, or if they do, will grow frustrated by the pretentious nature of the writing, with characters and situations that offer little to connect to.

These idiots are so blinded by their pretentious behavior that they fail to realize movies are about entertaining.

A timid British sound recordist (Toby Jones) heads to early -»70s Rome for a gig on a gory thriller, directed by a pretentious, Dario Argento — esque artiste.

Considerable talent on both sides of the camera is drowned out by a pretentious script in this ambitious but muddled romance from acclaimed director Wim Wenders (Wings of Desire).

However, it just isn't right to get carried away and fall into a trap set by a pretentious sugar daddy.

I always ask why would god care about these silly ceremonies created by pretentious and self - annointed * men *???

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And pretentious and frankly childish comments such as the one so ineloquently written by Brad really are counter to your argument, however futile it ultimately is.

This image is rejected by American clergy as pretentious even as they privately theologize by thinking actively about what God has done and continues to do in specific situations in their ministering.

Stillman's conceit is to take Jane Austen's story, in its screenplay version, and imagine it narrated by a character of his own creation — a pretentious fool named Rufus Martin - Colonna, Lady Susan's nephew - by - marriage.

He employs as an epigraph an assertion by Oliver Wendell Holmes: «The prophecies of what the courts will do in fact, and nothing more pretentious, are what I mean by law.»

Moreover, Christians should see that the family can not, contrary to Russell's claim, exist as an end in itself nor by itself provide a sufficient check against pretentious rationalism.

The dreadful Star Wars prequels were briefly eclipsed by The Matrix, whose blend of religious allegory, pop philosophy, and balletic violence aimed much higher than George Lucas ever did (though The Matrix descended into pretentious incoherence in the later installments).

whether for the right or wrong reasons, our leader chose to stay on when things took a turn of sorts... a new owner arrived on the scene, plans for a new stadium emerged and Wenger became the bearer of bad news... he sold us on a new story, one that required patience on our parts... financial constraints were the order of the day, so that the enormous sums spent on the new venue could be recouped... although some would question the validity of such claims, why wouldn't they believe their faithful leader... according to those within the hierarchy, the future never looked so bright, as this new home would ensure our place among the elites for years to come... as we all know now these claims were a well constructed fabrication and so those who feel they were duped in the process are infuriated and rightly so... the fact that this club and it's manager have continually misled the fans, especially following Gazidis's claims about our financial liquidity, simply rubbed more salt in an already gaping wound... this surely isn't how you treat your «family», especially when they supported you through the supposed «lean» years... it was a dirty trick played by Kroenke but the fact is was orchestrated by Wenger himself hurt the most... as for those in the media, many of whom are former players or longtime pundits, who observed the early years firsthand, saw this as the perfect opportunity to vent the anger they felt towards this pretentious man once and for all... all in all, karma's a bitch

Fabregas» sense of integrity / loyalty was always suspect for me, even when fans accused Nasri and co of being traitors and beatified Fabregas as a saint who reluctantly had to leave, I still thought something was off about the guy and alas, he showed his true colors by not «having a choice» again when he joined Chelski, yes, he is well within his rights but I have little respect for pretentious bullshitters, I respect when you show me the middle finger and do what you want like Nasri and RVP among others.

His antics during the world cup (V North Korea), his bizarre warming up routines and everything that is «Manu» is refreshing in an age dominated by serious and pretentious professional footballers.

The negotiation should not be difficult, since the high wage of the player can be divided in the different years and the price requested by Citizens can be too pretentious, due to his expiring contract.

Like justice Cardozo once said that «the prophesy of what the court would do are nothing more pretentious», is what I mean by law.

Some are happily accepted by consumers of women's magazines, though derided by critics; others are often given a pretentious worthiness by the literary establishment which makes them unappealing to the ordinary reader.

And despite its pretentious title, The Moment of Truth, Simpson acknowledged that the report «may be buried in an unmarked grave» by the next Congress and the White House.

→ Born and raised in Paris, I'm not so pretentious to say I know Paris by heart.

The Tree of Life by Terrence Malick is brave and goes to the limit of the philosophical weights always pretentious and complex, through an intricate montage of images and sounds (yes, who knows what Godard wanted to do in terms of narrative

Even an engaging performance by Margot Robbie as the proverbial last woman on Earth isn't enough to save Z for Zachariah from becoming yet another ploddingly pretentious Sundance dud.

Driven by her merciless condition, she attacks several of her pretentious friends and classmates (even her professor) and mainlines their blood like heroin.

All of them are as irritating as hell and the dialogue (particularly the painful narration by Depp) is excruciatingly pretentious.

Pretentious rambling sporadic self conflagulation lauded by critics too afraid to go against the popular grain.

one of those awkwardly pretentious attempts to seem hip and profound by simply depicting people acting really goofy

Adapted by Ayoade from the novel by Joe Dunthorne, it tells the story of fifteen year old Oliver Tate (Roberts), the sort of pale faced, pretentious youth who is routinely bullied at school.

But in «The Crossing Guard,» for which Mr. Penn wrote the screenplay, he and Mr. Nicholson seemed boxed in by a story that was basically a fancily embellished cat - and - mouse game with pretentious quasi-religious overtones.

The villain Shen is nicely oily, and appropriately given a pretentious nature as voiced by Gary Oldman.

A terrific performance by Laura Dern is the sole reason to see this pretentious slog through the miserable lives of unlikable people.

Refn's gift for visual splendor and a wonderfully atmospheric soundtrack by Cliff Martinez are the high points of what is eventually unmasked as a pretentious, self - important and dull ego project.

Instead of asinine comments on how impossible it would be to have a woman in combat (nevermind that she arrived in the final battle independent of the other fighters and so could not have been prevented from joining by the other men), it might have crossed your mind to mention how pretentious it was for the heroin of the film (which is what she is) to be directly compared to such a major historical figure.

Avranas attempts to make use of casting Jim Carrey against type by allowing nearly all of the morbid comic relief to be generated by a lewd and lascivious Marton Csokas, here in prime over-the-top form as a bitchy, pretentious pulp author who churns out perverse novels which would be loosely defined as torture porn.

The film's centerpiece is a pretentious intellectual underplayed to the point of a whisper by none other than Peter Yarrow (of Peter, Paul, and Mary).

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

Set in Tuscany, it's about a small community of pretentious, eccentric expatriates (Americans, Brits, French), who congregate in a villa owned by British earth mother Diana (Sinead Cusack) and her sculptor - husband Ian (Donal McCann).

Herzog's languid, meditative anti-horror film was completely at odds with both the times and stateside sensibilities and his film, Nosferatu: Phantom Der Nacht (or Nosferatu: The Vampyre as it was known in the US and UK), although critically praised by many, got lost in the sanguinary shuffle, deemed by some as pretentious and thought by some critics to be a pointless attempt to revisit a picture that was already perfect as is.

Compare the western cultural reputations of the vagina and the penis: on stage, the former gets a pretentious monologue performed by everyone from Glenn Close to Alanis Morissette; the latter gets a puppet show.

Being dull as dishwater is only the first crime of Ulli Lommel's The Boogeyman (1980), a pass by a Fassbinder protégé at American slasher flicks of the late»70s (Halloween especially, but also The Amityville Horror, Carrie, and The Omen) that produces predictably pretentious results without the pang of brilliance accompanying many of the films of Lommel's betters.

The script, cowritten by Anderson, Schwartzman and Roman Coppola (who is Francis Ford Coppola's son and Schwartzman's cousin) can be a little pretentious at times, and it is a little too easy that the trio have no money issues whatsoever, but Anderson fans will love this addition to the quirky comedy canon...

The script, cowritten by Anderson, Schwartzman and Roman Coppola (who is Francis Ford Coppola's son and Schwartzman's cousin) can be a little pretentious at times, and it is a little too easy that the trio have no money issues whatsoever, but Anderson fans will love this addition to the quirky comedy canon... Full Review

I Origins, on the other hand, is a prissy, pretentious film by Mike Cahill, who impressed me with his last movie, Another Earth.

By design, they are the very opposite of pretentious; they virtually deny the existence of a higher ideal, and as such they don't need to be brought back down to earth by satirBy design, they are the very opposite of pretentious; they virtually deny the existence of a higher ideal, and as such they don't need to be brought back down to earth by satirby satire.

Which can be unbearably pretentious - depending on your preferences - but the film based on La Morte D'Arthur by Thomas Malory does actually remind one of passages from that novel.

Casting Scott Eastwood — this generation's answer to Chris Mitchum — as a Civil War veteran haunted by past misdeeds, Roeck aims for an homage to Eastwood Sr.'s revisionist Westerns (think The Outlaw Josey Wales, Unforgiven, etc.), but the result is pretentious and pointless.

Mixed in with their voices, which sound like they were handled by a bunch of pre-pubescent 3rd graders, is Jonze and Egger's unpolished and at times pretentious script, which, in its own right, will make your ears bleed.

Also this week, fellow House contributor and Slant Magazine reviewer Jeremiah Kipp stops by to discuss the news that Peter Berg is being given the keys to the remake of Dune (so Mickey D's will probably be slinging «Spice Shakes» in 2010), the Noel Murray Stop - Clock makes another appearance, and Vadim says something extremely pretentious (and hilarious in hindsight) when it comes to how great «his industry» is going.

But when they're hired by a race of pretentious, gold - skinned beings called the Sovereign to kill an interdimensional beast in exchange for Gamora's captured half - sister Nebula (Karen Gillan), the Guardians manage to piss off their employers by stealing some of the valuable batteries they were charged with protecting.