pretentiousness

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My tastes broadened a bit in college, with a whiff of pretentiousness: Sam Cooke, Duke Ellington, Tom Waits, Benny Goodman, Jacques Brel and a jazz fusion band called Weather Report.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 27, 2022

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 pretentiousness of acting is a fun thing to lampoon, and “Official Competition” does it with surgical precision.

From Washington Post • Jun. 21, 2022

Hence the confusion of fundamental conceptions, and in general the unspeakable crudeness and awkwardness that appears from under the covering of affectation and pretentiousness in the philosophical attempts of the generation thus brought up.

From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Schopenhauer, Arthur