Sentences with phrase «somewhat pretentious»

At the AC Project Room can be seen the somewhat pretentious, but still engrossing «Self Portrait as Still Life,» by AKI FUJIYOSHI, a combination of videotape and photography in which the artist creates a found - object still life and tells you all about it, creating a layering of images and narratives reminiscent of Joan Jonas's early performances.

Despite the somewhat pretentious slow motion cuts used in the new trailer, the game looks good.

With writing that just ends up being somewhat pretentious.

It can be somewhat pretentious if you don't use this tool in your writing.

A deeply sentimental and meditative film about the weight of grief and the attachments we have to the homes we build, A Ghost Story overcomes its somewhat pretentious trappings (long, Malickian takes with whispered narrative, shooting in Academy Ratio with rounded corners) and silly premise of watching Casey Affleck spend nearly the entire film with a sheet over his head and spins a metaphysical tale that transcends space and time.

It's «lady,» which can be interpreted as a somewhat pretentious or highfalutin term for a woman and «bird,» which is a metaphor for someone who wants to fly, but maybe launches out of the nest before she's ready.

If you haven't considered the somewhat pretentious yet delicate creamy orbs as jewelry, this style guide is for you.

This intuition of Taoism (and I think of Christianity and other religious traditions also) makes somewhat pretentious the philosophical demand that all reality show itself phenomenally.

Not exact matches

While it feels somewhat familiar, it's also confident enough to have me wondering if it is pretentious nonsense or admirably bold and bonkers.

Walter Hill's relatively recent status as an auteur may have been stymied by his unwillingness to take on sprawling, pretentious, or overstuffed shots or edits; for him, the somewhat anonymous vocabulary of the studio picture was one well enough worth perfecting.

That said, the redesigned Jetta does look somewhat plain without pretentious sport - styling cues, swoopy creases, or the like.

They are all somewhat typical of the publishing industry and include the self - published author, the newbie and the pretentious literary writer who looks down on Lucas.