Sentences with phrase «even pretentious»

Almost designed to impede access by virtue of their stern intellectual underpinnings, Auerbach's projects can come off as intimidating, even pretentious, but they are also stunningly seductive and unavoidably — intellectually and aesthetically — engaging.

This may sound ridiculous, even pretentious, but I'm sure many of you have the same problem: you can't go two feet at GDC without running into someone you know.

While a publishing imprint may seem a bit unnecessary — and even pretentious — for indie authors, we recommend it to add professionalism to your brand.

One Two Three is fun; 1 2 3, stuffy, even pretentious.

There are a few instances where he wanted to amp up the drama or do some fancy camera or editing maneuver, but in the end he quashed those more ambitious, perhaps even pretentious, instincts to respect the all - important (especially for this genre) bottom line.

Not exact matches

Even when spell check suggests «whom,» I think it sounds pretentious.

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.

Second, I believe the early Protestants should have had no objection to priest and people kneeling before some kind of table, provided the table or even «altar» is understood in terms of commemoration and communion and thanksgiving and not as a symbol of pretentious repetition.

In the theology of Karl Barth, for example even though scientific discoveries are affirmed within the realm proper to science, the only way to know God is through God's free decision to reveal herself / himself in Jesus Christ; any other way of attempting to know God, such as through the exercise of human reason, of which science is an example, is pretentious idolatry on the part of humans trying to play God.

Those who practice it are under suspicion of strange ulterior motives and even accused of a pretentious refusal to inhabit the workaday world like the rest of us.

He had a way of taking an unbearably pretentious field and making it accessible, relaxed, funny and even exciting.

«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.»

Pristine but not pretentious service guides guests through a memorable evening of innovative fare.

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.

And even more pretentious from someone who will cite a secondary source about a study that was as a primary source presented on this site when it came out back in 2009.

You sound so convoluted and fucking pretentious, I don't see how all this even affects you at all.

If we are talking about a fabulous event, in a pretentious location, a long evening vapor dress will be ideal for you.

«pretentious,» why aren't you mentioning some other film that you think even begins to address existential questions about life released in the last ten years?

Even giving every benefit of the doubt to people that use this word, I honestly didn't see anything pretentious in this movie.

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.

A much more restrained Xavier Dolan after his pretentious previous film, and he displays an assured direction and firm control of this suspenseful thriller, even though the narrative seems to move too fast as the characters start to act in ways that are not always convincing.

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

It's not so much of a biopic, or even a proper film as it is pretentious, self - indulgent wankery.

And that's even with Heat's pretentious ending that wants us to think that cops and robbers are somehow professional blood brothers on opposite sides of the law.

They even talk the same, these two bad dads: When Harold describes one of his sculptures as «a minor work,» fans will be reminded of how often Bernard used the same pretentious turn of phrase.

Even more difficult and artistic than Kotting's This Filthy Earth, at least this fairy tale - style drama isn't pretentious.

He even spoofed himself as a pretentious dilettante in «This Is the End» and played an artist / serial killer named Franco on the soap opera «General Hospital.»

James Franco even gets some great moments playing up his pretentious fine - arts douchebag persona, hinting that these actors all know their bad sides and aren't afraid to show them.

At one point, I even considered making the middle of the film silent so it really felt like a Brakhage film, but I slapped myself and said «that's not bold, that's pretentious.»

Did you know there was an even more pretentious way to refer to comics than «graphic novel»?

Terrence Malick direction in this movie was pure brilliant, even when sometimes it dose get a little pretentious with some of the imagery, but all that aside, this is a beautiful film that's not going to be for everyone.

Even if one were able to overlook the egregiously in - your - face visuals, Maureen Medved's meandering, remarkably pointless screenplay would surely frustrate even the most avant - garde viewer (ie the whole thing is so pretentious that even the word pretentious doesn't really do it justiEven if one were able to overlook the egregiously in - your - face visuals, Maureen Medved's meandering, remarkably pointless screenplay would surely frustrate even the most avant - garde viewer (ie the whole thing is so pretentious that even the word pretentious doesn't really do it justieven the most avant - garde viewer (ie the whole thing is so pretentious that even the word pretentious doesn't really do it justieven the word pretentious doesn't really do it justice).

A diddling ex-priest named Father Joe (Billy Connolly), who claims to have psychic powers, is summoned to lead the search, even though FBI investigators Dakota Whitney (Amanda Peet) and Mosley Drummy (rapper Alvin «Xzibit» Joiner) think he's just a pretentious perv.

Director Jaco Van Dormael has infused Mr. Nobody with an unapologetically arty and downright pretentious sensibility that's reflected in virtually every frame, as the far - from - linear storyline tracks the important events in Mr. Nobody's life - yet it's the emphasis on events that may never have even happened that's sure to infuriate certain viewers (ie if you're not willing to go with the premise almost immediately, Mr. Nobody will undoubtedly come off as a long slog indeed).

The hands - off atmosphere is perpetuated by an increasingly familiar storyline that's riddled with less - than - engrossing elements (eg Ted's encounters with his pretentious colleagues), and it's clear, too, that Levine's meandering modus operandi remains problematic even through the movie's comparatively stellar second half - which effectively diminishes the impact of the movie's few standout sequences (eg Ted's frustrated speech to a faculty review board, etc).

A turgid experiment in elliptical lyricism, William Vincent plays like a hybrid of Pickpocket, In the City of Sylvia, and The Passenger, except far more pretentious than even that description suggests.

At one point, DMX asks the interviewer if he's allowed to use the word «motherfucker» (he is, it being HBO); but even funnier is the pretentious talk by producer Dan Cracchiolo about the movie being an «homage» to cop films (how?)

Adding greatly to the film's universal accessibility is the likable pair of leads and an able supporting cast — yes, even notorious over-hacktress Spelling, who is perfectly cast as the histrionic and pretentious off - off - off - Broadway hacktress Katherine.

In this places and situations, help is usually pretentious, but even this kind of help is welcomed by those who really help.

Forget about anything even so much as resembling a pretentious HyperCar.

Whereas unlike the pretentious MP4 / 12C in a 720S ill fitting party dress... the GT2 is a 24/7/365 usable supercar even here in snow country Colorado..

Mercedes makes no compromise and pours wood, aluminium and leather, pretentious and precious materials that make the interior look just like a museum, where you are afraid to even touch the exhibits.

We're neither presumptuous enough, nor pretentious enough, to proclaim what «won't fit» before we even try it on.

It's not that pretentious or popular as some other places in this area, which makes it even cooler.

These isolated, probably more pretentious, game designer wannabes waxing philosophically about what they want out of games would be even more foreign to the mainstream gaming audience.

I was an insufferable pretentious teenager all too eager to label anything that was remotely successful as «mainstream crap» and not even give it a chance.

Vagabond Dog was amazed by how many people liked their weird, pretentious game, and they're certainly happy with the outcome of their choices, even if it isn't the greatest possible result.

«Even though he wasn't a pretentious philosopher, Warhol was very conscious of his contributions to a new way of thinking.»

This can leave it feeling unremarkable and a little pretentious, even where it delights.

Ripped from their contexts, its pleasures may even be multiplied, but they look strangely alike and a little pretentious.