pretentiousness
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In her landmark essay "Notes on 'Camp,'" Susan Sontag defines the aesthetic as such: "artifice, frivolity, naïve middle-class pretentiousness and shocking excess."
From Salon ● Nov. 21, 2022
“There’s no Cape Cod pretentiousness in the city, because we’re not really Cape Cod. We’re the South Coast,” said Allie Copeland, the curator, adding that New Bedford “has a very cool kind of vibe now.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2022
The class had been watching French New Wave films and Braden decided to parody their pretentiousness.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 24, 2022
There seems to be a really great sense of humor and lack of pretentiousness in Chicago and Illinois.
From Washington Post ● May 26, 2022
The cost and pretentiousness of her establishment caused her to be nicknamed "Mrs. House Parker."
From As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century by Marian Gouverneur
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