Sentences with phrase «pretentious at»

It was not pretentious at all.

As Fry says, it may sound pretentious at first to suggest such a thing.

There is sometimes a nice American deadpan to his work — as in the neon Run from Fear, Fun from Rear — that keeps the solemn, sleepy, and pretentious at bay.

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

Slavery is always a tough subject to tackle, and one that is often considered pretentious at this point — after all, how many Roots and Color Purples do we need before we recognize that slavery is bad?

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

Actually, it doesn't sound pretentious at all.

The script, cowritten by Anderson, Schwartzman and Roman Coppola (who is Francis Ford Coppola's son and Schwartzman's cousin) can be a little pretentious at times, and it is a little too easy that the trio have no money issues whatsoever, but Anderson fans will love this addition to the quirky comedy canon... Full Review

The script, cowritten by Anderson, Schwartzman and Roman Coppola (who is Francis Ford Coppola's son and Schwartzman's cousin) can be a little pretentious at times, and it is a little too easy that the trio have no money issues whatsoever, but Anderson fans will love this addition to the quirky comedy canon...

The Thirsty Beaver isn't pretentious at all — you won't find any draft beers or specialty liquors here.

These seem pretty pretentious at first glance, but with a little imagination you can get sensational summer skirt outfits.

(Not being pretentious at all here).

Somehow, this didn't seem pretentious at the time.

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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.

Solomon was ambitious for the kingdom — of Solomon; and relative to anything ever known in Israel, at least, his public works» program was incredibly lavish and, no doubt to the discerning, ostentatious and pretentious.

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.

How about we count to three, and at the same time we all drop the pretentious affirmation that we - or anyone - knows what God is, and that we know better than our neighbor?

With design details to echo the beautiful surrounding landscape, the atmosphere at Jacks Monterey promises to be sophisticated — never pretentious.

Dishes are mostly simple, mostly healthy and not at all pretentious.

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.

Don't really care how much we get as long as he is off the payroll, he is a layabout lazy pretentious millionaire who doesn't deserve to wear arsenal shirt for at least two seasons now but as usual wenger doesn't see that apart from poor arsenal punters

That's a pretentious way of saying I'm... unemployed at the moment.»

«We're loose, we're laid - back, we're not pretentious,» Bryan Sperry is saying about Art Attack, the storefront gallery he and fellow artist Troy Abshire opened last April at 1937 W. North Ave. in the bustling neighborhood where Wicker Park and Bucktown meet.

«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.»

You sound so convoluted and fucking pretentious, I don't see how all this even affects you at all.

Former US Attorney Preet Bharara has a new title these days — scholar in residence at NYU — which is almost as pretentious as the tweets he's been spraying around...

A mix - up between himself and the orchestra at the royal banquet left the president blurting out a rather pretentious toast over the top of - that's right!

Actually, wearing it at work might just be a bit too pretentious.

I actually call him my boyfriend at times because saying fiance out loud sounds a bit pretentious to me (I know, I need to get over this).

To be honest I felt it was pretentious & certainly not for me at the time — I was doing Punk!

Yes, it's a bit Balenciaga-esque but at the same time more wearable and less pretentious.

At first, I thought it was a little pretentious but now I realize that it's actually quite wearable.

I love music, languages, and traveling, but at the risk of sounding like a pretentious asshole, the music is electropop and I like to travel mostly for the food and the guys.

The film feels like an experiment that always straddles the line between provocative and pretentious, but at feature length, that sort of strategy becomes tedious.

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.

At times this film can be fun to watch, but it tries so hard to deliver a message regarding the world being phony and pretentious and obsessed with physical beauty that it becomes what it is trying to parody.

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 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.

Adapted by Ayoade from the novel by Joe Dunthorne, it tells the story of fifteen year old Oliver Tate (Roberts), the sort of pale faced, pretentious youth who is routinely bullied at school.

Or that, at their best, these movies offer an enjoyable antidote to the crushingly pretentious psychodrama of Bruce Wayne, Clark Kent and other cape - carrying members of the Martha Cinematic Universe.

It adds intrigue into this mysterious suicide circle and the individual stories, while the constant voice over monologues are probably the worst (as in self - indulgent and pretentious) part of the movie other than the length, at least seem to be hinting that they're all heading toward the same end.

It is an annoying, self - righteous finger waving rant that is at once pretentious and florid and broad and overly simplistic.

Popper's assistant Pippi (Lovibond) speaks almost entirely using words beginning with «p» which is precisely as preposterous, pretentious and pitiful as it sounds and isn't the comedy genius it wants to be but other than that it's not at all bad.

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.

At times, this film is more like a pretentious stage play.

The epitome of what a feel - good movie is supposed to be but rarely is, this one is beautiful to look at and life - affirming to think about, and it doesn't have a pretentious bone in its head.

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).

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.

It is virtually unwatchable, jittery and incomprehensible and pretentious, all at once.

Herzog's languid, meditative anti-horror film was completely at odds with both the times and stateside sensibilities and his film, Nosferatu: Phantom Der Nacht (or Nosferatu: The Vampyre as it was known in the US and UK), although critically praised by many, got lost in the sanguinary shuffle, deemed by some as pretentious and thought by some critics to be a pointless attempt to revisit a picture that was already perfect as is.