Sentences with phrase «pretentious uses of music»

Notably, this time the bounty of material is handled with lightness and confidence, minimizing the sense of overload and hectoring that has hampered his other densely populated features — epitomized by the rhetorical uses of an American flag toward the end of Nashville, the pretentious or mock - pretentious uses of music in A Wedding, and an overreliance on 11th - hour violence to goose the dramatic effects of these and many other films, including The Long Goodbye and Short Cuts.