Sentences with word «pretentious»

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

But the Dirt isn't pretentious at all.

This massaged + chopped kale salad -LCB- massaging kale isn't as pretentious as it seems, get the scoop below -RCB- with cabbage and nectarines is super light yet grounding all at the same time.

It sounds pretentious of me to say that this movie works on a number of levels, but it does.

There is something a little pretentious about the possessive directorial credit: «A Joe Blow Film,» but in many cases it is deserved and some it's more descriptive than a plot synopsis.

I'd like to say that Lutherans are busy instead with the silent labor of life, but that sounds too pretentious for Lutheran sensibilities.

Siri turns a bit pretentious at times, but hey, he's French - pretentiousness is a birthright for them.

Tag along with him while he continues to explore a strange world that's just a bit pretentious in this platformer game.

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.

Critics call it a fraud perpetrated on the wine world, for pretentious hipsters who want to cast traditional wines as somehow not good enough.

We may wish to ponder the development of less pretentious ways of defining ourselves.

But in «The Crossing Guard,» for which Mr. Penn wrote the screenplay, he and Mr. Nicholson seemed boxed in by a story that was basically a fancily embellished cat - and - mouse game with pretentious quasi-religious overtones.

Honestly, do you folks think that everyone is so pretentious as to want to be at a party that excludes others?

They're called Afflictions, and they're meant to be the most pretentious way of proving how good you are at the game; some drastically limit your ammo per weapon, whilst others cost you points each time you die.

Its amazing to me how pretentious film people can be and who they nominate for such positions.

I had given Matthew Barney way too much credit for the silliest, most pretentious video art of the year.

Details like how each favors a particular color scheme, or how three different composers each scored one of the game's storylines, might seem like pretentious excesses for most games, the sort of filmic techniques and sensory motifs that one takes for granted in films like Krzysztof Kieślowski's Three Colors trilogy.

De Palma is obviously a huge fan of Hitchcock, as the old master's spirit undeniably floats around all throughout the film, but little homages like this don't seem pretentious at all because Blow Out has the required cinematic power, and is made by a pair of hands so talented and self - confident, that it would be far from crazy to compare it to Hitchcock's work.

Newman creates a painting called Cathedra, but on a human scale that could make even the marvelously human artefacts of Rachel Whiteread today look pretentious by comparison.

I'd rather make a couple billion dollars than be admired by pretentious hipsters and «intellectuals» lol.

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.

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.

That rather pretentious title at once makes me suspicious, and I didn't have to read far before slamming into a trite platitude.

I know they smell like socks and have a rather pretentious name, but they're super healthy and tasty when prepared...

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

Okay, maybe I could, but I felt pretentious as hell for doing so.

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How many American students could quote Whitman, Melville, Fitzgerald or Emerson without being called pretentious assholes?

I have a very pretentious idea that I want to make life, I want to make sense out of it.

He's somewhat pretentious even in that respect.

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.

Kwade's displacements stick to the space and time of the gallery, even as more pretentious art stars like Doug Aitken and Urs Fischer are knocking them down — and, in the case of Urs Fischer, gentrifying as well.

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.

Don't come for the plot or social commentary because it's not pretentious enough to really try and say anything.

I never saw such a bunch of pretentious snobs as some of these Baptists I've met!!

It wears its influences on its sleeves, and it's never pretentious about what it is.

I hate pretentious people who just wan na be your friend / partner because of something.

Perhaps the most striking aspect of the entries is the degree to which the artists depend on more traditional artists, recycling their works in ways meant to be profound, but which many viewers just find pretentious.

From Thursday, September 24th to Friday, October 2nd, film geeks, press peeps, and industry folks will congregate in Austin, TX for the most fun, least pretentious film festival around.

As much as I can't stand comedies of the modern era — oh how pretentious Travis — this one has a fairly clever concept that gives the idea of Breaking Bad without the drugs -LSB-...]

Found this neat flash game that made a pick - of - the - day on Newgrounds called Pretentious Game.

Expressed otherwise, if the propositions are true, using less pretentious language, it's just a question of conventional market positioning and segmentation.

The writing is of a higher literary nature but ends up sounding a bit pretentious when spoken out loud.