Sentences with phrase «made pretentious»

IT is a fair bet that when an art critic speaks of people «engaging» with a piece of work, what he (or she) actually means is that fellow beard - strokers (of either sex) have made pretentious comments regarding the creation.

In only three hours we were ambitious enough to make some pretentious recipes.

They always find a way to take something completely normal and make it pretentious and annoying

The Witch is one of those movies that makes pretentious movie critics **** their pants, but leaves everyone else confused as to why this is categorized as horror at all.

The constant references to philosophy and such doesn't make a game «smart», it makes it pretentious at best.

Not exact matches

Made In is one of the few brands we've seen that provides an accessible foray into premium cooking and isn't pretentious about it either.

Too much business buzzwords or jargon tends to make people sound pretentious, or worse, downright stupid.

Sometimes they describe themselves terribly, which makes them look pretentious.

Cooley seems to recognize that your work speaks for itself, and that presenting a pretentious persona isn't what makes others believe in your success.

And there Cheever's humanism, far from being pretentious, is made admirably modest and charitable.

And one certainly would not tie one's effort to a United Nations program with the pretentious title ONE: The Campaign to Make Poverty History.

This intuition of Taoism (and I think of Christianity and other religious traditions also) makes somewhat pretentious the philosophical demand that all reality show itself phenomenally.

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?

Applying this basic psychological principle to you Mr. Sarcastro, makes you a self - absorbed, smug, pretentious and intellectually lazy person.

God hates this wishful dreaming because it makes the dreamer proud and pretentious.

That makes your idea of God not only pretentious and arrogant, but utterly meaningless.

Poor choice of words, which make you sound like a pretentious individual.

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

It's so easy, it makes Dunkin' Donuts look pretentious.

Hey, what's that movie about the sister who probably has borderline personality disorder and ruins her pretentious sisters rich person wedding and I think maybe Parker Posey was in it but I might be making that part up?

I don't want to sound too pretentious, it is just a fact that all through my career, when I make a point or statement people listen.»

Every choice we make is our own, so we should all start respecting each other's viewpoints and stop the sarcastic and pretentious comments.

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.

This makes the subtitle employed for the book seem pretentious.

Make the menu rustic and simple over posh and pretentious.»

So many other blogs I've read come across as pretentious and over-analytical and your tips and tricks are very easy to understand (and made me realize my mistakes)!

Make an authentic and real profile of yourself: Be honest in presenting yourself - post your latest and best pictures and avoid being pretentious.

But, you should make sure that photo does not look fake or pretentious.

«Make it more... what's the word... pretentious» says Will Smith, a great actor who inexplicably currently turns out more turkeys than Bernard Matthews.

(Not to mention, I don't like real pretentious things either and this movie made me tear up in certain scenes because of the realism and the way it reminded me of my own memories) In what way was he pretending to be something he wasn't (pretentious)?

That is until you get towards the end and it all falls apart, and what was once a cool action movie / game, becomes the most horrible, pretentious, ill - conceived movie ever made (the «game» part gets lost in there somewhere).

Sure, the game is just poking fun at it because the game is supposed to be silly, but if you make your characters be transsexual or lesbian because you want to give yourself a morality autofellatio because you didn't include any straightforward heterosexual characters, that is undeniably pretentious and the good intentions fly out of the window, much like with Jack's rise to power.

All of this could make Rope little more than a pretentious cinematic experiment, but Hitchcock was too good a filmmaker to create something without value for the audience.

The first hour of the movie is virtually unwatchable, with Braff oddly sprinkling in fantasy sci - fi sequences that are supposed to convey the character's inner - life, but never really add anything to the film other than make it feel alternately goofy and pretentious.

Hong Kong superstar Chow Yun - Fat is so charismatic in his second Hollywood outing, The Corruptor, that he almost makes us forget that the movie itself is one of the more pretentious, muddled and incompetent action films to come along in some time.

Most directors who attempt real time movies without obvious cuts would make their works unbearably stilted and pretentious.

It's arguably impossible to create a film without them, or at least would make for a pretentious and boring «maze» not appropriate for an entertaining experience (which Inception was and film should be).

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.

Much of the story centers on the smothering and painfully pretentious art world the trio inhabit and skewers the artistic community's grand delusions of changing the world with impenetrable academic theory, which makes the show sound unbearably dry.

The movie begins with Jackman reciting The Lord's Prayer in voiceover while Keller teaches his teenaged son to shoot a deer, which makes you fear that a heavy - handed pretentious movie is ahead.

She was magnetic, albeit in a mediocre and pretentious movie — but it was a throwback to the kind of girlish part that made her famous, rather than a leap into the kind of adult work that she keeps trying, and failing to quite pull off.

Despite some of the pretentious dialogue that leads to painfully dull self - reflection, they make the characters believable, though it just may not be particularly interesting.

This girl is trying to fit in, in a world of struggling parents, richer classmates, brighter friends, prettier competition, pretentious well - off brats sitting next to private swimming pools and declaring they «don't like being rich», and boys who wait for her to make the first move — in her own ways.

This is the show that made him — and apologies if this is way pretentious sounding — a serious artist.

However, this one is less indicative of his «early, funny ones,» feeling like pretentious science fiction as if Stillman wanted to make a more old - fashioned, sophisticated «Heathers,» «Clueless,» or «Mean Girls» mixed with Noah Baumbach's 1995 pre-mumblecore debut «Kicking and Screaming.»

It's a word one person looked up and now everyone uses to make them seem... «pretentious»

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.»

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.

The movie works best as a satire of pretentious documentaries made by filmmakers who aren't above pulling a few strings.