Sentences with phrase «on pretentious»

His work «Masterpiece» has stood the test of time, the humorous take on the pretentious nature and celebrity culture of art is just as relevant today.

While the film occasionally borders on pretentious, it crafts a powerful portrait of socioeconomic despair without turning heavy - handed.

So, let's pin the blame on a pretentious director who was totally NOT in control of his material.

We've always liked this word, but it's a stumbling block here and verges on pretentious.

The atmosphere is smart with a high - end feel that doesn't border on pretentious.

Let me put on my pretentious artists fedora and talk about wabi sabi.

Not exact matches

And on the second, I think he means «highfalutin» which means «pretentious, arrogant, bombastic, proud.»

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?

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.

I do think politics, family, education, art, religion and so on, can be particularly pretentious manifestations of our darkest selves.

Other coffee concepts try to give off a high - end vibe that can come off as pretentious or intimidating to people who just want to grab a cup of coffee on their commute or hang out with friends.

What I love so much about Zahav is that every recipe is approachable, and unlike some of the other cookbooks on Middle Eastern cuisine, Zahav is the least bit pretentious.

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.

That sounds like such pretentious food blog recipe writing, I'm going to pat myself on the back with a large dagger.

There was this small town feeling of community, like everyone in the city was on one team and they were there to crush it — while being non pretentious, incredibly kind, and filled with a sincere love for their town.

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.

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

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.

It would be pretentious of me to say that I have it but I have worked on it for a long, long time.

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.

«Whether colleges are a bit pretentious about courses taught at other colleges or the fact that they lose money when students arrive on their campuses with credit, dual enrollment is not universally accepted and students should do their research before signing up for it.»

With his entire access rout blocked and unable to see the President, Mr. Agyapong, declared on radio; «I will plead with NPP, especially those who are closer to him (the President) to be courageous and tell him the truth because your pretentious deeds are destroying the man.»

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!

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On top of that, big venues attract some really shitty people (mean, pretentious, and rude as hell — basically «walking talking diarrhea» people).

Well - read, multi-lingual, easy going, not pretentious, non judgemental, straight but LGBTQ friendly, reader of a shit - ton o» books, wrote my thesis on the conquest of the Vikings, have traveled to Norse locations around Scandinavia and have attended Midgardsblot Metal Festival every year since...

You don't intend on acting pretentious, and you certainly don't want a man who boasts about a career that isn't so great, or who talks about his car all the time.

When she asks what you're up to on a Friday night, don't seem pretentious and lie about having to go a tear up the clubs with your guys.

Pretentious and unapproachable females were seen as insecure and often had a chip on their shoulder.

From the pretentious overpriced bars and restaurants on Ilha; to that charming little garden restaurant inside the Fortaleza.

Mom is currently enamored with pretentious - filmmaker David Dukes, and it is on the set of Dukes» latest picture that Lane meets another 13 - year - old, insatiable French film buff Thelonious Bernard.

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.

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.

What I can criticise is an over-reliance on religious symbolism, pretentious themes, a jarring, overly melodramatic score and a nigh - on incomprehensible final act.

Is it a pretentious gloss on a very old story about men's fear of women, and women's discomfort with their own allure?

It invites to appreciate and meditate on life and in such a pleasant and non pretentious way.

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.

Instead of asinine comments on how impossible it would be to have a woman in combat (nevermind that she arrived in the final battle independent of the other fighters and so could not have been prevented from joining by the other men), it might have crossed your mind to mention how pretentious it was for the heroin of the film (which is what she is) to be directly compared to such a major historical figure.

We Don't Live Here Anymore is such a pretentious movie about two couples who cheat on each other.

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.

Note that her pretentious accent aigu was superimposed over Renée Zellweger's first name for the cover - art credits of this disc (she's plain old «Renee» on screen), and that, so far as one can tell, Tobey Maguire's expunged role continues to reside in a vault somewhere.

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.

Considerable talent on both sides of the camera is drowned out by a pretentious script in this ambitious but muddled romance from acclaimed director Wim Wenders (Wings of Desire).

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

Everyone in the room is smart, and yes, they enjoy craft beer and a nice wine, and they play «Rogers Parkopoly» instead of mere Monopoly on game night, but they're not pretentious or affected.

Compare the western cultural reputations of the vagina and the penis: on stage, the former gets a pretentious monologue performed by everyone from Glenn Close to Alanis Morissette; the latter gets a puppet show.

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.»

A timid British sound recordist (Toby Jones) heads to early -»70s Rome for a gig on a gory thriller, directed by a pretentious, Dario Argento — esque artiste.