Sentences with phrase «rather pretentious»

Take a look at this rather pretentious video for an explanation of the tower.

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

Poison won an award at Sundance but the pacing is clunky, the jumps are disorienting, and it all comes off as rather pretentious.

Kaufman's script is never especially clever and often is rather pretentious.

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!

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.

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

Not exact matches

It is rather that such active intent to acknowledge theologizing as perpetual reconstruction appears pretentious, overambitious, getting too big for one's hood, and other successfully self - intimidating motivations.

To call those who actually reflect on their own spirituality and make conscious efforts to live based on a moral compass, rather than as herded sheep, self - obsessed is not only pretentious but a reflection of your indoctrination in the school of those who believe out of fear — which is worse?

Without being pretentious or confusing, the author, a former Chez Panisse chef, teaches you the why of cooking rather than just the how.

The girls despise Tabitha (Natasha Lyonne), the irritating new squeeze of Colleen C.'s hapless dad (Tony Hale), but they're rather fonder of Yogi Bayer (Justin Long, sporting a beard and awesomely colorful workout pants), whose studio they visit regularly to learn such cutting - edge yoga moves as «the pretentious frog.»

«Arty,» to be sure, but it's not pretentious: rather, it's expressive of the scattered state of mind, the reflective state of mind, that attends grief.

She was magnetic, albeit in a mediocre and pretentious movie — but it was a throwback to the kind of girlish part that made her famous, rather than a leap into the kind of adult work that she keeps trying, and failing to quite pull off.

Or, rather he was more famous than he is now, and is pretty much a pretentious washout without much recent success.

His leads are slim until he begins looking into the works of a rather sadist author named Kozlow (Marton Csokas), who specializes in writing the kinds of novels where sexual torture is narrated with a pretentious tone.

Certain splashes of directional genius feel pretentious rather than cutting - edge.

This all may sound rather icy and pretentious, but there's plenty of delicious camp to keep it watchable, as provided by Thandie Newton, Evan Rachel Wood and Anthony Hopkins.

One of the more daring composers in service of the one of the more increasingly pretentious filmmakers, Johnny Greenwood's scores for P.T. Anderson's «There Will Be Blood,» «The Master» and «Inherent Vice» weren't exactly stitched from rapturous melody, but rather the need to say something strange for the sake of being unique.

barely a.1 shy in performance... twice the versatility and comfort... usable rather than pretentious rear seats... an AWD system that works at all speeds rather than bailing out above 60mph... not to mention superior reliability... and a far more extensive as well as quality service oriented versus snob appeal dealership network..

At least with the Mercedes you're buying and paying for a Mercedes rather than buying an over dressed pretentious VW paying Porsche prices.

once the car exceeds 59.9 mph the warning light comes on and AWD disengages... returning to RWD... because its a pretentious and fragile quasi AWD system not meant for Winter or Severe weather driving... engineered as a marketing device for the uninformed rather than for function.

But, with the world moving towards more road - oriented and comfortable SUVs rather than luxury mountain goats, Land Rover too needed something to satisfy the rich but pretentious road user.

I guess you might say that means I write psychological novels, but that sounds a bit pretentious to me — I'd rather say I create living characters who react with a certain degree of independence to the situation in which I've placed them.

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

The clothes are not too gaudy or pretentious, but rather neutral as they play with femininity's and masculinity's role of dress codes.

Its pretentious attempts at satirical parody, but its also rather fair.