Sentences with phrase «of pretentious»

Plus, I prefer low key type places instead of the pretentious expensive type salons.

... [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.

What a load of pretentious crap.

To attribute that irregular, multi-decadal oscillation to the PDO without establishing strong coherence and proper phase relationship via cross-spectrum analysis is to engage in bald speculation — the frequent hallmark of pretentious junk science.

You Could Win Our NOT the Turner Prize; Had Enough of Pretentious Nonsense Masquerading as Art?

(O.K., there is still a lot of pretentious nonsense out there, but what the heck.)

It's this sense of humor, which Cain described as a «rebellious attitude,» which frees her paintings of the serious aura which sometimes obscures abstraction in a cloud of pretentious jargon and devout significance.

Frivolous and elegant, as we follow a-day-in-the-life of a pretentious poseur who scales the dizzy heights of the British elite, with vanity and la - di - da airs and graces, through scenes with his valet, gambling in the billiards rooms and of course, the naughty parties.

The aroma of gourmet hot dogs and the hum of pretentious gossip lured us to the Fitzpatrick - Leland house last Saturday, where the MAK Center for...

All the ambiguous quotes came of kind of pretentious, though.

Custom soundtrack is always welcome and I don't mind simple titles, but this reminds me of some bit trip runner game (the braindead one with dots and lines) and thought that was the textbook definition of pretentious hipster indie garbage.

From the creator of Pretentious Game comes a new platformer with a twist!

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Well, if so, then what the dev team has created here is one of the greatest pieces of pretentious nonsense that gaming's seen.

I wasn't happy with what I did; it was sort of pretentious and technically pretty weak.

It is surely no 911 in terms of handling, but styling and grace, and lack of pretentious attitude give it the nod.

A fabulously chic, friendly and car - orientated hotel with superb staff and none of the pretentious glitz of its rivals, it's a great place to chill out for a couple of days.

By doing things this way, the movie ends up having nothing in the way of tension or mystery, the whole thing ending up being more of a pretentious talk - a-thon character study than the violent, bullet - riddled revenge thriller hinted at early on.

Stealth is the type of pretentious waste of celluloid that somehow still gets funding by major studios.

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

Thus, with little assistance from his cast mates, Murray is left to carry the movie by himself, but the weight of the pretentious and clearly unfunny script weigh far too much for him to do it.

The story is told through the lens of a pretentious documentarian — portrayed by Wells — and follows three couples at various stages in their relationships.

I'm sorry if that's harsh, but I'm sick of your pretentious taste and for someone who claims to love cinema you sure hate anything mainstream.

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.

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 satire.

Yet there are still reams of pretentious soliloquies in this very long battle of bats and tights — too bad the scriptwriters didn't take a page from The Incredibles so they could have avoided the dangers of monologuing.

Is that a bit of a pretentious list?

Cosmopolis is dense and multifarious — the absolute pinnacle of pretentious, too, in its desire to explain not only its creator, but all of the world at this moment in time in our age of missing information.

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.

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).

Time and time again, I will return from the video shop to the exclaim of «not another one of your pretentious movies».

At first I couldn't work out whether I was watching a masterpiece or the biggest load of pretentious, empty trash I've ever seen.

What a load of pretentious nonsense this is.

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

Best dating app melbourne Drinks sounds like an excellent first date plan, brunch might be too much print for a first date, and a trip to the museum screams of pretentious wank.

Be wary of a pretentious fraud and take necessary precautions, unless you are certain about the relationship that you have ultimately found your Sugar Daddy!

Really enjoyed reading through the posts, the candid style really shits on the majority of pretentious snowflake shit out there, with endless inspirational quotes, and unsustainable advice, very refreshing!

Don't let this sort of pretentious criticism bother you Senator.

But it can also sound kind of pretentious.

I have looked on in astonishment, as a bunch of pretentious and self - obsessed television «experts» mistakenly interpret his infantile ramblings as pearls of wisdom.

This text explains the comparative failure of pretentious schemes for liberal education» («Education and Self Education, «ESP 172).

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.

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.

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.

«Skill set» just means skill («A skill is a skill — that is it,» wrote Stephanie Hamm - Wieczkiewick from Litfield Park, Ariz. in support of getting rid of the word), «curate» is too often an unnecessarily pretentious way of saying «select» («It used to have a special significance reserved mainly for fine art and museums.

I see this as part of a growing trend in the western world that is getting fed up with the ignorant, pretentious, number - crunching church buildings that claim to be preaching gospel when they're either preaching a list of do's and don'ts or they're preaching what's in demand, and im not saying all churches are like that but a lot are.

I've had quite a bit of experience with self - proclaimed satanists, and while two of them were not actually stupid, to a one they were all pretentious.

In fact, I was pretty disgusted with the rampant snobbiness and pretentious intellectualism of her posts.

It seemed at once pretentious and unfocused — characters too cursorily sketched to sustain interest, the clanking machinery of the plot irritatingly audible, and the narration shifting unsatisfactorily from lucid monologue to leaden description.

One of the ideas coming through the article is — this generation doesn't want hipper christian bands they like the old traditions and ceremonies they feel less pretentious.