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
Lola’s ironic, artsy pretentiousness rubs up against Iván’s super serious reverence for his craft and code of ethics, which then clashes with Félix’s diva behavior and demands.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 30, 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 Arthur Schopenhauer
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