Sentences with phrase «pretentious way»

I don't say this in a pretentious way, by any means.

That's just a pretentious way of saying, «it's hot.»

Did you know there was an even more pretentious way to refer to comics than «graphic novel»?

Tedious at least, Interview is vaguely insulting in how it disdains anything approaching usefulness in as pretentious a way as possible.

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

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

«Skill set» just means skill («A skill is a skill — that is it,» wrote Stephanie Hamm - Wieczkiewick from Litfield Park, Ariz. in support of getting rid of the word), «curate» is too often an unnecessarily pretentious way of saying «select» («It used to have a special significance reserved mainly for fine art and museums.

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

Not exact matches

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.

He had a way of taking an unbearably pretentious field and making it accessible, relaxed, funny and even exciting.

And there is something a bit pretentious about the way in which we select and expound «our» theology.

Yes, lets do... because emotionally pretentious and image based propaganda packed with self defeating argument and unreferenced, scholarly weak conjecture is a productive way to get one's point across.

One of those Somms might very well be Patrick Cappiello, Wine Director of Pearl & Ash and Rebelle restaurants who is an enthusiastic user of Instagram finding it to be «a fun creative way to present what can often be a pretentious and «show off» based career.»

«It sounds pretentious when you start calling it a food hall, but patrons can come here in and talk to the Todd Ginsberg [of Yalla and Fred's Meat & Bread], a James Beard - nominated chef who doesn't act that way, and even when he's sweating behind the line, he will come out and talk to you.»

They always find a way to take something completely normal and make it pretentious and annoying

This small resort was the most expensive of the 3, but its luxury was in no way pretentious or intimidating.

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

A much more restrained Xavier Dolan after his pretentious previous film, and he displays an assured direction and firm control of this suspenseful thriller, even though the narrative seems to move too fast as the characters start to act in ways that are not always convincing.

(Not to mention, I don't like real pretentious things either and this movie made me tear up in certain scenes because of the realism and the way it reminded me of my own memories) In what way was he pretending to be something he wasn't (pretentious)?

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

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.

Everett has said his comically snobbish crook is a kind of homage to the late, beloved British comedian Terry - Thomas, whose plummy accents he recalls; he and Dunaway play the pretentious types that movie comedy has loved to deflate all the way back to Mack Sennett.

This girl is trying to fit in, in a world of struggling parents, richer classmates, brighter friends, prettier competition, pretentious well - off brats sitting next to private swimming pools and declaring they «don't like being rich», and boys who wait for her to make the first move — in her own ways.

This looks schmaltzy as all hell, and not in a good way but in a pretentious self - important way.

Aaron Schimberg's aggressively pretentious Go Down Death is an attempt to speak to the idea that communal storytelling is the key way in which humans communicate culture.

This is the show that made him — and apologies if this is way pretentious sounding — a serious artist.

There may be a way to mix the monumental tragedy of the Native American genocide with a screwball comedy about a well - meaning chucklehead and his mystically addled Comanche sidekick, but Gore Verbinski has not found it in his pretentious and smug version of THE LONE RANGER.

No crime to be of no consequence, certainly — a shame that The Skeleton Key had not resisted being a pretentious, racist piece of mainstream garbage speculating in its empty - headed way about the white man's burden and the black man's envy.

Hux spouts off pompous, pretentious threats about how many different ways he is going to destroy the rebellion, and Poe just trolls him while the rebels gear up for their traditional - but - never - old trick of being quick and cunning instead of enormous and cumbersome.

Directed and scripted by the MIA Bruce Robinson («Withnail & I»), «The Rum Diary» is a talky, pretentious send - up of the island - getaway adventure Graham Greene by way of Donald Trump.

Apocalypse Now is so overheated and pretentious, in fact, that the best way to explain its thematic core might be through an examination of the ways it uses three T.S. Eliot poems (The Wasteland, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The Hollow Men) and nods obliquely towards a fourth (The Dry Salvages, which refers to the animalism of rivers as the «brown god»).

After Shia LaBeouf was accused of plagiarizing Daniel Clowes in December of 2013, the Transformers star kicked off a campaign of bizarre public behavior he later explained by way of borrowing the go - to excuse of Hollywood's pretentious and / or just - fucking - around class: It was all performance art.

The duo isn't afraid of the natural awkwardness of relationships, but not in the pretentious sort of way that leaves you reaching for a barf bag at every step of the way.

By doing things this way, the movie ends up having nothing in the way of tension or mystery, the whole thing ending up being more of a pretentious talk - a-thon character study than the violent, bullet - riddled revenge thriller hinted at early on.

The comedy here is socially relevant in only the slightest of ways, allowing for the troupe's inherent silliness to loosen up any pretentious idea of satirical grandstanding.

Got ta say, my most hated car market sector, too big, way too pretentious and totally unneccesary....

I can remember as a kid thinking that Bill Mitchell was outrageously pretentious when he said «coupe» that way in the»50s, but the gloriously vulgar then - No.

Volvo's flagship sedan has a way of prioritizing luxury and comfort without the side effect of being pretentious.

I enlarged the font a bit to 16 points, which, by the way, was supposed to be the standard size for all on - screen fonts before some pretentious designer thought 12 point Helvetica on a screen was more aesthetically pleasing or whatever.

The Secret History is one of those books that I reject in certain ways — it's borderline pretentious, and it's totally devoid of a sense of humor — and yet respond to very powerfully on an emotional level.

This area is in many ways similar to parts of the 16th, but is generally less pretentious.

Way too artsy, coming off as pretentious.

«Even though he wasn't a pretentious philosopher, Warhol was very conscious of his contributions to a new way of thinking.»

Maybe in such an audacious title for a small solo exhibition some viewers will find the absurdity in genre - defining elsewhere, or maybe they will just think I am a pretentious asshole; either way, I'm happy.

It's odd that you would rail against this because network connectivity is the way that Tsonis proceeds with his analysis — much too mathematically pretentious but those are his «connections» in any event.

You might think that's a little pretentious, but I think it's a truly radical way of envisioning and branding the band's work.