Sentences with phrase «most pretentious»

«Law school professors are some of the most pretentious and arrogant people on earth,» Luiz reports — as if we needed to be told.

Sorry but I think movie / tv actors are some of the most pretentious people around.

It was a quote by Paul Theroux, and I must say, possibly the most pretentious quote I've ever read!

That was undoubtedly one of the most pretentious answers I've ever heard.

As James Franco interviews his «female self» for i - D magazine, we look at the most pretentious celebrity interviews ever

The Captive combines the most pretentious aspects of an art movie with the dumbest aspects of a thriller, and is doomed to satisfy neither audience.

For much of the movie, it is possibly the most pretentious, snooty film I have ever seen.

Mary Reilly has the distinction of being the most pretentious, the most ponderous, the most utterly suspenseless.

Scary, funny, magnificently risible, this could be the most pretentious B - movie ever — and I mean that as a compliment.

Not exact matches

I've found the «Spiritual but not religious» crowd to be some of the most self - absorbed, smug, pretentious and intellectually lazy people I know.

Before attempting to determine any point at which I personally find an inescapability of attachment of my sense of obligation to possible modes of behavior, we must recognize that most ethical assertions are more pretentious than those thus far discussed.

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.

While each institution provides a unique perspective on wine, it has been my experience that the IWG provides the most comprehensive course work coupled with the least pretentious attitude.

I think that's what I love most about being in the kitchen - a dish that doesn't have any pretentious ingredients but produces a result that is far beyond what one might expect.

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

This small resort was the most expensive of the 3, but its luxury was in no way pretentious or intimidating.

Blah, blah, blah... I am no different than most everyone else who wants the same things in life... except I do understand that what I desire is authenticity above all else... pretentious people bore me.

Critics say they love this because for the most part they are pretentious idiots who are not brave enough to say they don't get it.

However, like most Wes Anderson movies, it is pretentious, self - indulgent, and tries to be a deep, profound statement, not realizing that it's merely just a

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).

However, like most Wes Anderson movies, it is pretentious, self - indulgent, and tries to be a deep, profound statement, not realizing that it's merely just a cute, quirky comedy.

The most prominent characters include Haven Hamilton (Henry Gibson), a socially conservative, arrogant country music star; Linnea Reese (Lily Tomlin), a gospel singer and mother of two deaf children; Del Reese (Ned Beatty), her lawyer husband and Hamilton's legal representative, who works as the local political organizer for the Tea Party - like Hal Philip Walker Presidential campaign; Opal (Geraldine Chaplin), an insufferably garrulous and pretentious BBC Radio reporter on assignment in Nashville, or so she claims; talented but self - involved sex - addict Tom Frank (Keith Carradine), one - third of a moderately successful folk trio who's anxious to launch a solo career; John Triplette (Michael Murphy), the duplicitous campaign consultant who condescendingly tries to secure top Nashville stars to perform at a nationally - syndicated campaign rally; Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakley), the emotionally - fragile, beloved Loretta Lynn - like country star recovering from a burn accident; Barnett (Allen Garfield), Barbara Jean's overwhelmed manager - husband; Mr. Green (Keenan Wynn), whose never - seen ailing wife is on the same hospital ward as Barbara Jean; groupie Martha (Shelley Duvall), Green's niece, ostensibly there to visit her ailing aunt but so personally irresponsible that she instead spends all her time picking up men; Pfc. Glenn Kelly (Scott Glenn), who claims his mother saved Barbara Jean's life but who mostly seems obsessed with the country music star; Sueleen Gay (Gwen Welles), a waitress longing for country music fame, despite her vacuous talent; Bill and Mary (Allan F. Nicholls and Cristina Raines), the other two - thirds of Tom's folk act, whose ambition overrides constant personal rancor; Winifred (Barbara Harris), another would - be singer - songwriter, fleeing to Nashville from her working - class husband, Star (Bert Remsen); Kenny Frasier (David Hayward), a loner who rents a room from Mr. Green and carries around a violin case; Bud Hamilton (Dave Peel), the gentle, loyal son of the abrasive Hamilton; Connie White (Karen Black), a glamorous country star who is a last - minute substitute for Barbara Jean at the Grand Old Opry; Wade Cooley (Robert DoQui), a cook at the airport restaurant where Sueleen works as a waitress and who tries unsuccessfully to convince her that she has no talent; and the eccentric Tricycle Man (Jeff Goldblum), who rides around in a three - wheel motorcycle, occasionally interacting with the other characters, showing off his amateur magic tricks, but who has no dialogue.

I have seen biopics about rockstars of the past before and most of them turn out to be a little pretentious and overdone, but not this picture.

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

Although Affleck's lamentations of unrealized ambitions are symptomatic of a first - time filmmaker, because he's been around the block as an actor (and is, lest we forget, an Oscar - winning screenwriter), he can, unlike most newbies, talk the talk without coming across as pretentious.

Not to mention grating at times — the fan who gets the most screen time, 14 - year - old Gabriel Koerner, is so smugly pretentious one wishes he would end up on the wrong end of a phaser.

Let the tales be told elsewhere, because without being too pretentious, this was life he was capturing in its most undiluted form.

The film indulges in the intellectual rap session with both fascinated attention and wry humor: it is, after all, the pretentious proclamations and justifications of two privileged men batting around the meaning of life in a restaurant where most folks couldn't afford to buy dessert.

Drew gets most of the screen time, mainly because Posey has pizzazz, and Colin, who's too materialistic and pretentious to root for, gets too much time to tantrum, mansplain, and seethe as his considerable comic skills are mostly wasted.

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 justice).

by Bryant Frazer Celebrated as an incisive, self - lacerating backstage spectacle and razzed as an indulgent and pretentious passion project, genius director - choreographer Bob Fosse's All That Jazz is one of the most ambitious American films of the 1970s.

The scene distills a few of the film's many heady concerns: Art is often silly and pretentious, yet can still be dangerous, and most people prefer to keep some distance between themselves and the things they claim to care about.

This will be my third year covering the most fun, least pretentious film festival on this spinning marble of madness, and if it's anything like the past two years, it's going to be bonkers.

Despite this, she finds herself moving her things into an ancient dorm room at one of the most prestigious (pretentious?)

Like that 1986 gem — and most of Hughes» catalog — «Easy A» is funny without being stupid, intelligent without being pretentious, sympathetic without being condescending.

Got ta say, my most hated car market sector, too big, way too pretentious and totally unneccesary....

It's not a pretentious thing — it's literally where I feel most comfortable.»

An avid - lover of all things Metal Gear Solid, Devil May Cry, and pretentious French lit, Renan spends most of his time passionately raving about Dragon Ball on the internet and thinking about how to apply Marxist theory to whatever video game he's currently playing.

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Titanfall cuts all the unnecessary fat (maybe a bit too finely) and discards a pretentious and hollow single player campaign, sacrifices the need for visual quality by focusing squarely on gameplay and presents us with one of the most tightly balanced shooters we have had in years.

It can stand for Modernism at its most male, American, formalist, and pretentious — or childlike, rebellious, sloppy, and just plain rude.

Lunar Reggae is a prime example of exhibition making at its most willfully perverse and pretentious.

Better than most up at the time but agreed it was severely flawed by it's own pretentious attempts at being casual when everything in it was so hyper considered.