pretentious
Example Sentences
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Here, Coppola brings her respectable, confident disregard for the outsider’s opinion to the documentary format, churning out a film that feels proud but not pretentious.
From Salon
I know that sounds super baseball pretentious, like I should be wearing a straw hat and a bow tie, but I don’t care.
Indeed, Ray’s initial draft was “very lean — I was so afraid of boring people, of seeming pretentious.”
From Los Angeles Times
If I really want to sound pretentious, I’d call the Super Bowl the final fireplace of the digital era, with a live audience that dwarfs every other show in the U.S., even Bluey.
That’s the burden of a comedy devoid of wasted dialogue or pretentious cleverness – and that merely refers to the joke setups and punchlines.
From Salon
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