Sentences with phrase «pretentious people»

Not stuffy mingler events where pretentious people exchange business cards.

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

I hate dishonesty, lies and pretentious people

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.

I am not a pretentious person by any means, but I have been around long enough to spot a problem before it occurs.

Not exact matches

Too much business buzzwords or jargon tends to make people sound pretentious, or worse, downright stupid.

It's great to know important and interesting people, but using every conversation as an opportunity to name - drop is pretentious and silly.

Before I joined the Pure Barre movement, I honestly assumed that the only people who took these classes were pretentious, svelte, ballerina types — not quite my personality nor my body type.

Millenials, and all people, should spend less time worrying about being entertained or finding a more traditional ritual (Catholic church not pretentious?????) and should instead be seeking what the REAL TRUTH is about God in the Bible is.

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.

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.

Applying this basic psychological principle to you Mr. Sarcastro, makes you a self - absorbed, smug, pretentious and intellectually lazy person.

He knew that hers would be invisible stones, the kind she'd grip tighter each time she saw the man who once shared her bed but not her public humiliation, each time she heard the whispers of her neighbors or the loud, pretentious prayers of the men who had grabbed her and surrounded her and threatened to kill her, each time she heard rumors that the person who saved her would himself be put to death.

Like Bonhoeffer, we yearn for unities and integrities that elude the grasp of so many faithful people in the world that one can easily conclude such yearning is pretentious.

Some pastors live up to their role very beautifully But often they are anxious about seeming pretentious or exclusive, and this keeps them from filling the role that they need to fill for the sake of other people.

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.

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.

Hey, what's that movie about the sister who probably has borderline personality disorder and ruins her pretentious sisters rich person wedding and I think maybe Parker Posey was in it but I might be making that part up?

I don't want to sound too pretentious, it is just a fact that all through my career, when I make a point or statement people listen.»

We all recall the way people rejoiced when Nnamdi «Andy» Uba was eventually thrown out from his pretentious perch as «governor».

Before I joined the Pure Barre movement, I honestly assumed that the only people who took these classes were pretentious, svelte, ballerina types — not quite my personality nor my body type.

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

Many also suggest that the dating community in Birmingham is less pretentious and striking up a conversation with people is much easier than in other cities.

If it's too perfect and pretentious I assume it to be fake, and too shady, unclear — the person don't have serious intentions if chooses to hide the face.

Looking for a spot to meet people that's stylish and welcoming without being pretentious?

Even giving every benefit of the doubt to people that use this word, I honestly didn't see anything pretentious in this movie.

I think cool / nerdy has taken over as what people think of when they think of artistic and pretentious is what people who want to look like they don't give a f*ck call art.

one of those awkwardly pretentious attempts to seem hip and profound by simply depicting people acting really goofy

The original source material was way too intellectually pretentious to appeal to the type of people who'd pay good money to see MacGruber.

A terrific performance by Laura Dern is the sole reason to see this pretentious slog through the miserable lives of unlikable people.

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

It's a word one person looked up and now everyone uses to make them seem... «pretentious»

Here, his more pretentious reference is to Tarkovsky (Broughton fights a bunch of henchmen at a screening of Stalker), and there is the suggestion that collapsing, nightmare - ish East Berlin has become like Stalker's zone: a lawless, borderless place that allows people to live out their desires, to find their true selves — for better or for worse.

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.

People often think of artists, especially the edgy kind, as pretentious and self - absorbed.

Considering that genre fiction is thought to sell so much more readily than literary, I'm always surprised at the vehemence with which some people will describe literary fiction as boring and «pretentious» — as if vampires prancing around in ill - researched period costumes aren't pretentious in their own fashion; as if utterly implausible science fiction isn't a form of pretension at warp speed.

And on the other end of the spectrum, Publishing companies also publish pretentious garbage that people buy and do not read.

Plenty of people hate pretentious concern trolling breakfast cock gobblers.

I think what drives people to do something like that is so deep that to apply a motive feels a little bit pretentious.

I do appreciate the informal atmosphere of people hanging out as apposed to the pretentious crowd.

All of a sudden, I see a bunch of people in black - and - white telling me how strong, cool, and pretentious they were (it's all in the eyes).

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Vagabond Dog was amazed by how many people liked their weird, pretentious game, and they're certainly happy with the outcome of their choices, even if it isn't the greatest possible result.

Its pretty sad when I can predict a certain someone who you know probably hits the F5 key every 5 seconds just to be the first person to say «something - something pretentious» will post on a new blog post.

You'll just confuse people and make yourself sound pretentious.

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.

Before we had pretentious quasi-mystical terms like «regenerative» and «permaculture» and the others, people practiced «crop rotation» and «lying fallow».

Maybe people don't make this argument because of the whole genocide thing - the pretentious Duncan sure glosses over that.

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

Referring to yourself in third person on your resume is just as pretentious as it is in conversation.