Sentences with phrase «called pretentious»

Found this neat flash game that made a pick - of - the - day on Newgrounds called Pretentious Game.

They also called it pretentious, «unremarkable and boring» and on July 25, 2002, deposited a coffin outside the White Cube gallery, marked «The Death of Conceptual Art».

How many American students could quote Whitman, Melville, Fitzgerald or Emerson without being called pretentious assholes?

Some have called it pretentious, some WTI staffers didn't care for it, but the majority of us beg to differ (personally, it's my second favorite film of the decade so far).

Perhaps those who call it pretentious are doing so

Thankfully, Fe isn't what I would call a pretentious art game, something that has littered console and PC libraries over the past years.

Not exact matches

When you are pretentious enough to call yourself «Real Wisdom,» I automatically dismiss you as a spurious, self - satisfied, know - it - all, religious egoist.

To call those who actually reflect on their own spirituality and make conscious efforts to live based on a moral compass, rather than as herded sheep, self - obsessed is not only pretentious but a reflection of your indoctrination in the school of those who believe out of fear — which is worse?

Hi Kate - Just happened to come across this website and remembered posting here sometime back, and after re-reading my post I think I sound rather pretentious and also, Anglo is not pejorative, just what most people here in New Mexico call a non-Hispanic white person.

«It sounds pretentious when you start calling it a food hall, but patrons can come here in and talk to the Todd Ginsberg [of Yalla and Fred's Meat & Bread], a James Beard - nominated chef who doesn't act that way, and even when he's sweating behind the line, he will come out and talk to you.»

This gets a 10 on our yecch scale: a pretentious vehicle that allowed Cosell to call sitcom stars «Baby» and to interview a Dallas Cowboy cheerleader.

We have a screened - in patio («lanai» is what they call it here, pretentious Floridians), but half the year it's too disgusting to use and gets so thick with pollen.

I actually call him my boyfriend at times because saying fiance out loud sounds a bit pretentious to me (I know, I need to get over this).

I think cool / nerdy has taken over as what people think of when they think of artistic and pretentious is what people who want to look like they don't give a f*ck call art.

Indeed, the film's reliance on audience familiarity with sources of so - called high culture has been dismissed in some quarters as a pretentious gimmick, as if it were somehow an eighth deadly sin to expect intelligence either in police detectives or attendees of lowly genre films.

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.

While butting heads with her mum, and working out which school clique she belongs in, Lady Bird enjoys romantic dalliances with a pretentious indie boy (Call Me By Your Name's Timothée Chalamet) and a conflicted musical theatre kid (Manchester By The Sea's Lucas Hedges).

The pretentious, manipulative British filmmaker, Vivian (Dolly Wells), first finds a so - called typical couple, Alice (Bell) and Noah (Helms).

Read Peter's review here because he is correct and those other silly sites who called the game «pretentious» need a good slap.

Though by calling it an «Interactive Walking Experience» just ends up sounding pretentious.

There's a dreadfully pretentious concept in gaming studies called ludonarrative dissonance.

Newman creates a painting called Cathedra, but on a human scale that could make even the marvelously human artefacts of Rachel Whiteread today look pretentious by comparison.

British press savagely attacked the Tate exhibit, calling Kitaj a pretentious poseur who engaged in name dropping.

There was also a separate protest outside the gallery by a group of artists, calling themselves «The Stuckists», who said the shortlisted work was «pretentious and vacuous».

David's verbiage is so pretentious, in fact, that I am now going to call his bluff and announce that I think it is a practical joke.

The magical properties of «peer review» are greatly overrated - it's what would be called in less pretentious fields an old boys» club, and was described to me recently by one eminent scientist as, if you'll pardon the expression, a «circle jerk».

We'll call it the «Pretentious Prick.»

... [O] urs is a useful trade, a worthy calling; that with all its lightness and frivolity it has one serious purpose, one aim, one specialty, and it is constant to it — the deriding of shams, the exposure of pretentious falsities, the laughing of stupid superstitions out of existence; and that whoso is by instinct engaged in this sort of warfare is the natural enemy of royalties, nobilities, privileges and all kindred swindles, and the natural friend of human rights and human liberties.

Some went so far as to call it a «terribly pretentious, «no - show», vague roadmap».

I've been called everything from pretentious to cold hearted for not displaying the spines of the books.