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Pretentious Game is a puzzle-platform game designed by independent Filipino studio Keybol. It is a satirical take on puzzle games in which poetic hints...

YouTuber. He came into prominence through the YouTube comedy series, Pretentious Movie Reviews with fellow comedian Kanan Gill. He played a supporting...

Record Collectors Are Pretentious Assholes is hardcore punk band Poison Idea's second EP. It was released in 1985 through Fatal Erection Records. The...

coined from existing roots, which is deemed to be unnecessary or over-pretentious. An inkhorn is an inkwell made of horn. It was an important item for...

Punch Line Bangalore Competition. He is known for the YouTube series Pretentious Movie Reviews where he reviews campy Bollywood films along with fellow...

London in 1987. The plot centers on a pretentious Oyster Bay socialite who is planning to wed an equally pretentious executive, when her ex-husband arrives...

Label Pusmort, Reflex/Wolfpack Poison Idea chronology Record Collectors Are Pretentious Assholes (1984) Kings of Punk (1986) War All the Time (1987)...

12-inch single through DFA Records on January 13, 2004. The Crass and Pretentious mixes of "Yeah" later appeared on the CD version of the band's eponymous...

spinoff Angel (2001–2004). She additionally is known for her role as pretentious Amanda Buckman in Addams Family Values (1993) and Misty in the horror...

She was best known for her role as Shirley Hastings, the over-zealous, pretentious mother of Scott Hastings in the film Strictly Ballroom, written and directed...

Précieuses ridicules, the original French text of the play by Molière. The Pretentious Young Ladies, English translation of Les Précieuses ridicules by Henri...

revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin who apparently saw in it little but a pretentious Futuristic experiment. Mayakovsky conceived and started writing the poem...

income people, it means “vulgar”, “bad taste”, "las de suchi", and “pretentious”. The Cuban lexicographer Felix Ramos y Duarte, in his Diccionario de...

received generally negative reviews from critics who panned the trashy, pretentious and misogynistic viewpoint of street culture. However, DMX received praise...

free dictionary. La De Da (spelled various ways) is a derisive term for pretentious refinement or affected gentility La De Da (and variant spellings) may...

ingenious Rooster Dậu Brave and resilient, but can also be self-absorbed and pretentious Dog Tuất Considered lucky, loyal, and likeable Pig Hợi Honest, patient...

Jonah Hill, Jarrad Paul, and Andrew Mogul for Fox. The series follows a pretentious seven-year-old boy named Allen Gregory De Longpre, who, along with his...

boyfriend Andy O'Brien (Ross Davidson) and she tends to be a bit too pretentious for the working class locals of Albert Square. Debbie Wilkins was one...

offered mixed assessments of the entry. Tandarić found the song "a little pretentious" but acknowledged its potential to reach the Eurovision final, praising...

reception from critics, largely for being too self-conscious and overly pretentious. From November 2006 to May 2007, Hawke starred as Mikhail Bakunin in...

climbing and the bourgeois personality, poking fun both at the vulgar, pretentious middle-class and the vain, snobbish aristocracy. The title is meant as...

sees as the rather shallow and superficial city of L.A., from overly pretentious coffee orders to bizarre shooting etiquette rules on the freeway. Furthermore...

loose spaghetti." He added: "[It] uncoils and meanders so deviously and pretentiously, and the dialogue slips into such metaphorical mishmash that the result...

portrayed as a return to Classical methods after what was perceived as the pretentious style of the Sophist rhetoric and called for a return to the approaches...

week. A USA Today critic opined that the album could be perceived as "pretentious" or "simply dull" after a while, but "there is a moody musicality to...

three up-and-coming stars", the Los Angeles Times review called it "pretentious nonsense" and The New York Times said it "indulges in a distasteful brand...

displayed on wall-sized screens. Authors and readers are regarded as pretentious and dangerous to the well-being of society. He meets many characters...

nothing else about it except to make him look harmless." Ashley Ashley, a pretentious film critic from the recurring sketch, "Actors on Film" (her partner...

India rated 2.5 out of 5 stars and wrote "A feel good comedy that has no pretentious about it." A reviewer from Urbanly rated 2/5 and wrote "If you have been...

praised the actors' performances but criticized it as self-indulgent and pretentious on the part of Ferrara. It bombed at the box office, making $1.2 million...

"while and whereas". In American English, whilst is considered to be pretentious, archaic, and obsolete. Some publications on both sides of the Atlantic...

Christian Matijas-Mecca describes the album as an "experimental and pretentious album" that, similarly to Frank Zappa's album Lumpy Gravy, does not live...

architectural ornamention is at once pretentious and grotesquely ugly." In particular "few are more tasteless and pretentious than Woolaton Hall", which he analyses...

liked her name much. The stage name came about as what she calls a "pretentious, sort of scathing inside joke with myself, albeit with a silver lining...

Broadway show will revive his career, but the play's director envisions a pretentious retelling of Faust and brings in a prima ballerina who clashes with the...

that exposes or discredits claims believed to be false, exaggerated, or pretentious. The term is often associated with skeptical investigation of controversial...

film is about a young woman in a financially-struggling family and her pretentious attempts to appear upper class and to wed a wealthy man while she conceals...

New York Times praised the visual style but claimed that the film was "pretentious and monotonous." Time called the film, "never boring but never very precise...

birth to three children. According to Suetonius, Julia built a large, pretentious country house. Augustus disliked large, overdone houses and had it demolished...

soon after the lieutenant governor of Cochinchina moved to a new, less pretentious mansion. In 1902 the main seat of government in French Indochina was...

darkest points of their relationship, in which Marge has an affair with a pretentious history professor and a dejected, self-destructive Homer achieves brief...

Rimbaud displays no sense of manners or decency, scandalising Verlaine's pretentious, bourgeois in-laws. The 27-year-old Verlaine is seduced by the 16-year-old...

families of France, the infatuated son-in-law, the bewildered uncle, the pretentious cousin, the jealous husband, the cantankerous father. We have grown and...

critical of the series. Frederic Biddle of the Boston Globe said: "A pretentious exercise in cheap thrills, by great talents allowed to run amok." Howard...

Death of a Fantasy "Queen Bee" "Girl from the Internet" "Everyone's Pretentious & I'm Bored" Non-album single "Therapy!" 2022 Death of a Fantasy "Gay...

the weekly "Man on the Street" sketches, his characterization of the pretentious country-club braggart Gordon Hathaway, with his catchphrase, "Hi-ho,...

Reflex/Wolfpack Records Poison Idea chronology Darby Crash Rides Again (1982) Pick Your King (1983) Record Collectors Are Pretentious Assholes (1984)...

average rating of 3.9/10. The website's consensus reads: "Ponderous, pretentious, and—considering the subject matter—dull." Metacritic, which uses a weighted...

singing amateurish and comparable to "a Rosie & the Originals for our more pretentious time." In a retrospective review, AllMusic's Ron Wynn wrote that, along...

Xavier Dolan said, "I know a lot of people are saying, 'Oh, 1:1, how pretentious.' But for me, it seems a more humble and private format, a little more...

paint layers, graphic precision of details, the fragile and somewhat pretentious delicacy of characters' postures and gestures, the richness of their...

rather the score itself". Kenrick calls the recording badly miscast "pretentious trash". Kenrick gives mixed praise to the 1988 London revival cast album...

issues that are comparatively newer. Student elections, campaigning, pretentious conversations, betrayal, social media influencers and romance, along...

Kyung-rok's father Lee Bong-ryun as Kyung-rok's mother Lee Sang-jin [ko] as Pretentious guy On April 2, 2024, Byun Yo-han was cast. The next day, Go Ah-sung...

the barman Felix Forsythe in Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy (1972) and the pretentious hotel guest Mr Hutchinson in the Fawlty Towers episode "The Hotel Inspectors"...

while others felt it forced some of Wreden's thoughts too hard and in a pretentious manner. The gameplay in The Beginner's Guide is presented in a first-person...

Retrieved March 3, 2019. Getlen, Larry. "The Comic Who Calls Louis C.K. 'Pretentious' and Jimmy Fallon a 'Phony'", New York Post, May 15, 2015. Accessed May...

Acid Orchestra". The song titles are presented with faux, intentionally pretentious parentheticals pertaining to classical pieces. Our Little Secret was...

album title, with the exception of Poison Idea's Record Collectors Are Pretentious Assholes In 2009, the album was chosen as the number 1 sludge album by...

character of the 1980s, preppies range from benign (albeit materialistic and pretentious), to arrogant or even immoral. In movies set during the 1950s, the antagonistic...

gave the film two stars, dismissing the visual style as "tiresome and pretentious". In the narrative he wrote, "The elements are in place for a powerful...

wanted to differentiate themselves from "stodgy establishment and its pretentious products in a new educational institution different from a culture of...

Canadian journalist Martin Popoff defined Ace Frehley as "the least pretentious, heaviest and best-selling platter of the Kiss' solo album quartet",...

anti-conceptual art, mainly because of its lack of concepts." They also called it pretentious, "unremarkable and boring" and on 25 July 2002, in a demonstration, deposited...

Francisco Chronicle wrote that the film was "one of the most self-indulgent, pretentious and unfunny movies of the year", while Scott Tobias of The A.V. Club...

regret and loss is actually a boring and monotonous character drama... a pretentious mess that's a chore to sit through." Emma Thrower of The Hollywood News...

idea of me putting out a record where I sang seemed ostentatious or pretentious. Like the music of Telly Savalas . . . I don't sing very well, I was...

attempts at greater idiosyncrasy coming across as self-important and pretentious, when he makes a somewhat misguided delve into poetry. Danny starts to...

particularly praised the album for being ambitious without being excessive or pretentious, and for its lyrical content. Village Voice critic Robert Christgau panned...

is used occasionally as a joke to make the sentence sound either more pretentious or refined, especially in the first or second person plural, which are...

mispronouncing Petrie. Rob and Laura are very uncomfortable with the pretentious guests. It turns out the party is a fund-raiser for the Henry Walden...

the mystery genre which had made him successful, preferring to write pretentious literature. After attending Alan's funeral, Susan makes a list of potential...

Brodesser-Akner referred to the novel as "an infuriating, frustrating, pretentious piece of work — and also absorbing, delightful, hilarious, breathtaking...

Atkinson, who commissioned the property for his wife. She found it "pretentious", so the couple never lived there. The house, decorated by Henri Samuel...

of the Vanishing Ghost (1991) through The Pretentious Press The Grave Secret (1991) through The Pretentious Press The Hero as Werwolf (1991) Pulphouse...

the family and the society of upper-middle-class Argentina hollow and pretentious. Gradually, the other characters learn that Meme and Jere, neither of...

developer commentary. Navarro, Alex (May 6, 2011). "'So, Here's Something Pretentious!' – Anecdotes and Thoughts from Erik Wolpaw's Portal 2 Discussion at...

thriller—'into the abstract,' you know you've entered the realm of the lousy-but-pretentious, which is not a particularly fun place to spend a Saturday night. I promise...

a story about the hedonistic, wealthy Tarquin Superbus. Superbus, a pretentious aristocrat commissioned construction of a vast library to find to his...

to emulate. Nadine, Ellen's aunt on her maternal side, is false and pretentious and lies to herself that she is wealthy and successful to gain confidence...

December 2020. "Paurashpur teaser: Milind Soman, Annu Kapoor-starrer looks pretentious and sleazy". The Indian Express. 6 December 2020. Retrieved 10 December...

Retrieved 29 April 2026. Zore, Suyog. "Soppa Nasta Kahi review: This pretentious, predictable relationship drama is a letdown". Cinestaan. Archived from...

of the 2006 anthology film Paris, je t'aime. In 2007, Dafoe played a pretentious film director in the British comedy film Mr. Bean's Holiday, starring...

Music critics, who often labelled the style of progressive rock as "pretentious" and the sounds as "pompous" and "overblown", tended to be hostile towards...

Felix first throws his typewriter down an embankment, saying that the pretentious words he's used as a writer made him sick, then he throws her over: "Four-letter...

praised Killing Joke, stating, "There is nothing phony, gimmicky or pretentious about this record or this band. Simplicity: powerful riffs and gang choruses...

critic Push wrote that although "some of the ideas could be called pretentious and others sound a tad MOR", Seal showcases "Seal's passionate and emotional...

Retrieved 26 August 2025. Cormack, Mike (26 July 2025). "Tedious, lazy and pretentious – Irvine Welsh's Men in Love is a disgrace". The Spectator. London. Retrieved...

Wood had some reservations about the words, which she felt were too "pretentious." In addition to that, while Peggy herself was an accomplished singer...

2014). "Prestige novelist: Christopher Nolan's Batman movies 'boring and pretentious'". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 13 December 2022. Retrieved...

negative review, calling it “…an infuriatingly opaque, unrelentingly pretentious narrative…” The Martini Shot received over 60 award wins at film festivals...

"a pretentious rocker", Cohen said: "It's because we don't make music about social issues so it comes across as unsocial and therefore pretentious. Which...

Michelin cook Santi Santamaria who described his approach to cuisine as "pretentious". Traditionalist Santi Santamaria attacked Adrià's dishes in elBulli...

for its numerous in-jokes skewering movie stars, starstruck audiences, pretentious film critics and pompous directors, including Cecil B. DeMille, Federico...

international sales. Synecdoche, New York polarized critics: some called it pretentious or self-indulgent and others declared it a masterpiece, with Roger Ebert...

Weekly gave the album a 'D', commenting that "The songs combine the most pretentious and overworked elements of their influences." The album ranked number...

easier to have foolish thoughts. Orwell discusses "pretentious diction" and "meaningless words". "Pretentious diction" is used to make biases look impartial...

finds approximating the French pronunciation [timɔte ʃalame] "really pretentious" and "too much of an obligation". On The Graham Norton Show, Chalamet...

slowly falls in love with her lively character and her rejection of pretentious social norms, and regards her as her granddaughter. Later, it is revealed...

the film as the second best of the year, describing it as "ambitious, pretentious, gentle, goofy and mesmerizing". Texas Monthly critics Marie Brenner...

BPI in November 1994. Described by Rolling Stone as "one of the most pretentious albums ever released by a major label," the record was released in a...

the artisan more than the artist". Bosley Crowther called the film a "pretentious and pedantic production" based on "an idea that called for slashing satire...

level any criticisms at Retrospective." The only problems he saw were "pretentious sleeve notes" not written by Vega herself and "the lack of a chronological...

Dean, Jonathan (3 July 2024). "The Last Dinner Party: 'It's fun to be pretentious'". The Times. Retrieved 3 July 2024.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated...

Winter Garden: Stars of Varied Fields of Theatric Art Assembled for Pretentious Premiere of Theater Newly Rebuilt". New-York Tribune. January 25, 1923...

Gardner of USA Today wrote that the vibe on Downey's album "can seem pretentious or simply dull after a while, but there is a moody musicality to tracks...

During the early 2000s Behn was often portrayed in Norwegian media as a pretentious poseur. He was known for "harsh public feuds" with critics and artists...

violence if it was well crafted, its inclusion within Twelve Minutes was "pretentious and exhausting", and considered the twist ending "terrible". According...

Francisco Chronicle. In 2010, TechCrunch asked: “Does Quid have the most pretentious website of any startup ever?” The jab followed a debate on Quora discussing...

Some reviewers panned it, feeling that U2 were making a deliberate and pretentious attempt at rock and roll renown. Jon Pareles of The New York Times called...

Noah and Adam. (This extension offered the side-benefit of connecting pretentious rulers with the prestigious genealogy of Jesus.) Modern historians and...

his performance. Much of his work specialised in playing eccentric, pretentious, or wimpy characters, as in The Fisher King, Waterworld, Fear and Loathing...

artist, and the two bond over mutual contempt for their pretentious mentor and equally pretentious peers. However, Alison repeatedly tries to come onto Jane...

hornsup.fr. "L'Ordure à l'état Pur — Peste Noire". Last.fm. "My long and pretentious review of Peste Noire's 'L'Ordure à l'état Pur'". 26 July 2011....

stop at the nightclub and insist on seeing Bobby. Vonnie has become a pretentious name-dropper and Bobby is at first repulsed by her. However, he agrees...

critic in the Montreal Star called the film "a beautiful but sometimes pretentious outdoors saga." On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds...

overnight concept albums were suddenly perceived as rather naff and pretentious."[citation needed] In 2013, progressive death metal band Witherscape...

it "John Boorman's most underrated film—an impossibly ambitious and pretentious but also highly inventive, provocative, and visually striking SF adventure...

maintain her sense of self and family while dealing with the wealthy, pretentious, arrogant housewives and their privileged children in her new hometown...

Walter Friedrich Otto remarked of trying to use a "name as futile and yet pretentious as 'Vegetation deity'". In the Mesopotamian tradition, during the journey...

and the word hipster is often used as a pejorative for someone who is pretentious or overly concerned with appearing trendy. The subculture is often associated...

and rowdy piece of business." John Simon wrote, "Brewster McCloud is a pretentious, disorganized, modishly iconoclastic movie which, in the manner of its...

before Billy Corgan ever showed up." He went on to describe Corgan as pretentious and "thinks he's Brian Eno." The band subsequently employed Michael Beinhorn...

"Katharevousa mentality", characterized by "cliches, empty rhetoric, and the pretentious display of lexical and grammatical virtuosity". Katharevousa had by now...

exception of Sōma, are visiting too. Afterwards, they encountered a pretentious and disenchanted Urara working in a cosplay restaurant, before bumping...

consumption" and described it as "preposterously lavish" and "showy, even pretentious." Architect Gregory Stanford described the atrium as "pretty horrible...

the film one out of four, calling it Villeneuve's "latest exercise in pretentious poopery" and referring to a lack of action in the storyline. The Guardian...

Yakovlevitch. Major Kovalyov's nose serves as a symbol of his own snobbery and pretentious attitude. Once he loses it, his entire demeanor towards the world changes...

who is always seen wearing a horned helmet. Todd's narcissism, use of pretentious language, and eccentricity, often blurring the lines between his Dungeons...

America to denote "decrepit person" (in Peru), a poor foreigner (in Cuba), pretentious person with few merits (in Colombia) and Italians - in particular Italians...

June 2024. Garner, Dwight (10 June 2024). "The Artist Is Present (and Pretentious) in Rachel Cusk's Latest". The New York Times. Retrieved 18 June 2024...

Simpsons creator Matt Groening was concerned that it would be seen as pretentious. On Halloween, Bart, Lisa and Maggie sit in the treehouse and tell scary...

the party rooms, a part of what made Nero's palace so breathtakingly pretentious to traditional Romans, for no one had ever seen domes and exedrae in...

down … but it's just rock 'n' roll, you know. I'm not meaning to be pretentious about it at all." The band released a mobile app created specifically...

presents an improvisational comedy show. To end the show, Chris stages a pretentious ballet about a caterpillar. 12 5 "The Cornley Drama Festival Part 2"...

one sees deeply into the lives of his characters without the sort of pretentious distortions of most movies that deal in metaphors". In contrast, Pauline...

Torry. The New York Times called it a "message novel, only slightly pretentious, relevant but under paced." The novel was greatly changed in the adaptation...

follow-up to Tales from Topographic Oceans (1973), an album they felt was pretentious and overblown. In a retrospective review, AllMusic rated the album three...

five: "Instead of getting better or worse, this band simply grew more pretentious with each passing year ... by Spirit of Eden, Mark Hollis's Pete Townshend-on-Dramamine...

humorously pretentious quotations from actors and other theatrical celebrities. The term "luvvie" pre-dates the magazine as a derogatory noun for pretentious, overblown...

protagonists with lack of self-awareness, as well as "books favored by pretentious artsy college boys." In the 2010s, writer Dana Schwartz created the satirical...

significant airplay on MTV. AllMusic critic Mike DeGagne considered it to be "pretentious, weakly composed, and rhythmically anemic." It would be released as a...

and electronic sounds. Its lyrics satirize a relationship between two pretentious artists, mentioning the poets Dylan Thomas and Patti Smith and the musician...

technique more than once tips over from inventively arty to film-school-grad pretentious. Slasher-movie fans, however, need not be put off by the stylized camera...

artwork of CLAMP's career" and has "gorgeous production values" but that "pretentious poetry conceals a thin plot and even thinner characterization." A Publishers...

indicates that the word means "wise fool"; consequently "sophomoric" means "pretentious, bombastic, inflated in style or manner; immature, crude, superficial"...

myself managed to get some notable roles abroad. I don't want to come off pretentious, but it's a fact that from the early 1960s until the 1980s the two of...

making the band to be more an entity—without hopefully sounding too pretentious – as a work of art [than a traditional rock band]". Turner has also said...

Chantelle Chantelle, also known as Chantelle Tiffany Koh, is described as "pretentious" and "Singapore's most famous influencer". In 2023, she interviewed Yoo...

described Far Side as "mellow and reflective" without being "too sleepy or pretentious". Although popular among Buffett's fans, the music style was criticized...

earlier, more upbeat work. He notes a shift from catchy dance-pop to pretentious ballads, with even the dance track "Fastlove" lacking energy. While acknowledging...

were "preposterous", while the Chicago Tribune's Mark Caro deemed it a "pretentious B movie". Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly made similar criticisms...

typical sitcom problems including zany servants, odd neighbors, and pretentious, snobbish in-laws, as their daughter Mitzi (Sue Ball) had married into...

Bonnie and Clyde in subject matter, "happens to be more honest and less pretentious, with no grudging admiration for criminal 'rebels'. What hoists the picture...

performance from Ally Sheedy elevates High Art from pretentious melodrama to compelling—if still a little pretentious—romance." On Metacritic, High Art has a score...

that in other hands could come off as either unbearably precious or pretentious. Fortunately, Time is shepherded by Desmond Davis, who handles the material...

New Zealand Observer (1907) shows Prime Minister Sir Joseph Ward as a pretentious dwarf beneath a massive 'Dominion' top hat. The caption reads: The Surprise...

stars out of five, writing: "although interminably slow and hilariously pretentious at times, its aura of faded Swinging Sixties decadence is interesting...

Continue to Publish The New York Times Macnab, Geoffrey (7 April 2001) Pretentious, nous? The Guardian Ismaël Houdassine (6 December 2015). "Le magazine...

the list when he invented, initially in separation, both the affected, pretentious, domineering Emmeline Lucas ('Lucia') and the devious, manipulative and...

because enough self-discovery has gone on ... My work has become less pretentiously fake and over the top". This "modern era" began in 1993 for Hanks, first...

the same generation as Stepan Trofimovich, Karmazinov is a vain and pretentious literary has-been who shamelessly seeks to ingratiate himself with Pyotr...

Morrison of Empire rated it 3/5 stars and wrote that the film becomes more pretentious as time goes on. Total Film rated it 2/5 stars and called it "intense...

show tacky." Tech Advisor similarly described the series as "messy and pretentious" and "not entertaining enough for a decent guilty pleasure." Writing...

mind". Peter Biskind described the film as "self-consciously arty and pretentious [...] fatally trapped between America and Europe, commerce and art,"...

proprietor of the local newspaper, the Black Hills Pioneer. Somewhat pretentious in his bearing, he prides himself as a newspaperman with a duty to print...

"everything you never liked about Yes—the endless fiddling around, the pretentious, waffling arrangements, and of course Anderson's peculiarly grating,...

craving for freedom.." As a bottomline he said that Guzaarish is "Highly pretentious, boring film with leftover craving-for-your-sympathy melodrama from Black...

analysed at book length; a trenchant reviewer of writers he considers pretentious (Marshall McLuhan, Christopher Norris, Geoffrey Hartman, Stanley Fish);...

at the party, Grace becomes instantly attracted to Chevy Olsen, the pretentious, self-absorbed lead singer. Although Madeleine describes Chevy as "the...

(back cover). In 1984, the group released the Record Collectors Are Pretentious Assholes 12-inch (the cover features Pig Champion's substantial vinyl...

Ashutosh (8 February 2020). "Anveshanam Movie Review: Jayasurya Stars In A Pretentious Thriller That Does Not Take A Moral Stand". www.filmcompanion.in. Retrieved...

commerce will be blended; and in fact, they are surprised by the rigid and pretentious Western hierarchy of "high art." In the West, it certainly is dangerous...

was cast, Meyer enthusiastically added more. He said, "Whether it's pretentious or not, I think it depends on how it's used. [...] I don't quite agree...

storyline, and the record was gonna be a concept record that had a number of pretentious elements to it. I was gonna talk about multi-layered reality and waking...

stated, "Depending on who you ask, Chris de Burgh either specializes in pretentious, bombastic art rock disguised as pop or is a master of penning soaring...

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producer Don Boyd, who was making Captive. The Observer called it "hollow, pretentious". LA Weekly felt it was an "impressive directorial debut". Sight and...

killed on Yossarian's 23rd mission. General P. P. Peckem – A pompous, pretentious and highly delusional general who desperately wants to take over General...

praising the album's polka medley, saying it "exposes the songs for the pretentious rock babble they are." Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic claimed that...

housekeepers, nannies and cooking staff. It was once described as "the most pretentious and elaborate villa in Newport,"[citation needed] and Barreda's wife...

Houseman sent a memo stating he thought the title was "meaningless, pretentious, and vulgar". He begged Schary to reflect "a year from now" should the...

Morning News called the film "Murky, meandering, and mind-numbingly pretentious". In a retrospective assessment, Andrew Todd of Polygon referred to the...

1933 issue of Vanity Fair, Pare Lorentz panned it: “It is a clumsy, pretentious, aimless motion picture—self-conscious and stilted from beginning to...

that some of the previous authors of the character may have found it pretentious. He interprets the story as a fascinating deconstruction of Wakanda that...

the name of Saint Audrey gave rise to the adjective tawdry "cheap and pretentious; cheaply adorned". The lace necklaces sold to pilgrims to Saint Audrey...

polarized reviews from critics upon its release. While some deemed it pretentious, self-absorbed or exasperating, others hailed it as a work of art, spectacular...

accessories and clumsily attempting to use chopsticks to eat Italian food in a pretentious way. The video narratage is in Standard Mandarin with a hubristic and...

Richards, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Christian Slater. Variety called it "a pretentious vanity piece as much as a political tract" noting that it "could have...

Times, October 16, 2005 Gray, Mary (April 17, 2012). "The Creepy (and Pretentious?) Sustainable Community of Serenbe". Black Walnut Dispatch. Retrieved...

Sheila Benson of the Los Angeles Times panned the film, saying "Cobra's pretentious emptiness, its dumbness, its two-faced morality make it a movie that...

his dislike of the album and panned McCartney's songs in general as pretentious "crotchets ... so lightweight they float away even as Paulie layers them...

episode received mixed reviews from critics; many called the dialogue pretentious and criticized the characterization of Scully. However, viewer response...

continued to operate the hotel, being described in 1886 as "by no means a pretentious-looking place, but it was scrupulously clean". In 1889, Eliza McPherson...

000 passengers use services of Armavia in 2010 Armtown.com - Armavia's pretentious programs Archived October 22, 2012, at the Wayback Machine New! Code...

Country'. It's got all the elements of beautiful folk writing without being pretentious. In the lyrics and the melody, there is an absence of Bob's later cutting...

Mark Bell gave the film 4.5 out of 5, writing, "Never boring, never pretentious, never preachy, Neo Ned could find its place alongside some of the great...

ignoring the best of the tragedian’s craft. To hang around killing time in pretentious conversation and hairsplitting twaddle is the mark of a man who's lost...

Jacques's character—Hattie (Hat) Sykes—was "a middle-class, slightly pretentious lady struggling to keep her dignity as the men made fools of themselves"...

stating that while he felt the film had some highlights, its subplot was "pretentious" and "overreaching". Others lamented the relatively little screen time...

Newhouse News compared the film to An American Tail as "less gloomily pretentious" and the Care Bears and Rainbow Brite cartoons as "less sickly-sweet"...

Brian tries to paint Caulfield in a positive light is because both are pretentious. In 2017 the Criminal Minds episode "False Flag" (S13: E9) was based...

with some calling it the best film of the year and others finding it pretentious.[failed verification] In the years since its release, it has appeared...

younger sister, Olivia, as child prodigies; Phoebe's mother, an author, pretentiously remarks that her daughters' poetry is reminiscent of E. E. Cummings...

more of an impression of a "gritty documentation" compared with the "pretentious and almost glorifying" way in which the earlier film presented its subject...

Records, 2008) We Got The Movement (Pretentious Records, 1999) The Dreaming/The Smallest Skyline In The Sky (Pretentious Records, 1998) Alstyne, Rob van (May...

a Polish-British sociologist. He is known for his indictment of the "pretentious nebulous verbosity" endemic in the modern social sciences in his classic...

thriller which critic Sarita Tanwar described as a "boring, exhausting and pretentious" film. The series of financial failures continued with his next release...

Bianca (August 2, 2021). "Savannah Smith and Zión Moreno Are Catty, Pretentious Perfection in 'Gossip Girl'". Harper's Bazaar. Archived from the original...

Photo Finish (voiced by Tabitha St. Germain) – A CHS student who is a pretentious photographer often accompanied by two silent assistants, Violet Blurr...

12 April 1980 (1980-04-12) A dinner party takes a surprising turn when one pretentious guest is challenged to a wine-tasting contest. Cast: Ron Moody (Richard...

mood, concluding that Sonic Youth "transcends the confining roles of pretentious art-rock band or palatable alternative group, and instead offers a penetrating...

without revealing too much. Therefore, what could have been yet another pretentious accusation levelled at middle-class indolence is, in fact, a touching...

Norman Jopling and Peter Jones wrote in Record Mirror that the album was "pretentious" and failed to match "Somebody to Love" and "White Rabbit" or contemporary...

Journal said, "Seven was stylishly gloomy, and Fight Club was smarmily pretentious, while Panic Room has been admirably stripped down to atmosphere as a...

Colonial Office in London opposed this potentially "premature" and "pretentious" reference for a new country. They were also wary of antagonizing the...

they quickly become close friends as both despise the performative and pretentious platitudes of students and staff of the university. A particular object...

show off their comedic talents. Lee is particularly amusing, spouting pretentious dialogue and quotes from the classics even while ludicrously clad in...

those who aren't ready to go along with him will dismiss as arty and pretentious but that pays off for those willing to pay attention and go the distance...

Hancock's Half Hour, and Harold Steptoe, played by Harry H. Corbett, were pretentious would-be intellectuals who found themselves trapped by the squalor of...

8, 2017. Whitehill, Gaby. "13 brilliant concept albums – that aren't pretentious in the slightest – Gigwise". gigwise.com. Retrieved July 8, 2017. "Tales...

the pastoral and 'arty,' yet these tunes could hardly be described as pretentious." In the 18 months between English Settlement and their next release...

kind of humility is more akin to obsequiousness and to other kinds of pretentious humility. Research suggests that humility is a trait of effective leadership...

pushed for it to be pared down to a single disc, feeling that it was pretentious for such a new and unknown band to release a double album. The record...

storyline is that of five-year-old Bertie, who is controlled by his pretentious and domineering mother Irene - he has Grade Six on the saxophone, speaks...

however, criticized that the music took it far too seriously, calling it pretentious. Roman Cooney from the Calgary Herald opened his review of the Edmonton...

opinion about such a move. Ted must make his decision when the firm's pretentious president and his wife pay the Lawsons a visit to look at the entire...

episode a grade of B−. Dennis Perkins writes "Bob’s a lonely, cultured (if pretentious) soul in a world that venerates the likes of Krusty and, watching our...

or great painting. He found the latter to be isolating, mundane, and pretentious, and wrote in his Prospectus aux amateurs de tout genre that his aim...

words." Nick DiMartino at Shelf-Awareness.com said "forgive the book its pretentious, silly name. Otherwise, it's... a gem of a book about the role animals...

truths—the utter absurdity of it all being concealed through obscure and pretentious language. As a pseudoscientific opus, the article "Transgressing the...

"generally unfavorable" reviews. Variety described it as "a pointless and pretentious drama that -- given its title and direct linkage to the 1986 Challenger...

really strange characters during his endeavor, (a grumpy onion and a pretentious rose). The boy also undertakes quests on behalf of the hospital patients...

the Flying Machine days in the Village, Taylor had heard one too many pretentious white blues bands and wrote 'Steamroller' to mock them." Rolling Stone...

Joker's Greatest Triumph". Batman is portrayed for purposes of spoof as a pretentious French-speaking rich man. The Batman television series, starring Adam...

"made more sense than any of the alleged human characters [...] a bit pretentious." Leslie Halliwell said: "Initially suspenseful but finally disappointing...

delete key, loves vegan sweets and retarded goats. Dylan David Cross A pretentious man clad in a long scarf, even in hot weather, and friend of Droopy....

art; Doran describes the group as "Ambitious, bombastic, incredibly pretentious, erotic, thrilling, impossible to pin down, vaguely deviant, fun to dance...

difference between the brothers is that Frasier knows they're being pretentious; Niles honestly doesn't." Niles was born in Seattle, Washington, in 1957–1959...

boring and meaningless", while the NME's Alan Smith derided it as "a pretentious piece of old codswallop ... a piece of idiot immaturity and a blotch...

Braden was inspired by the American perception of French films as "very pretentious and self-involved. [...] And what could be more self-absorbed and pampered...

wrote in Spin that the album "comes off as a tad New Agey, art-rock pretentious, emotionally calculated, and sappy." Dream Hampton, writing in The Village...

Standard, "Apart from being incomprehensible much of the time, the film is pretentious, all of it. Whatever possessed them?" Joe Pollack wrote in the St. Louis...

Japanese girl who does video art. Her "art" is never much more than a pretentious monologue read by her as she takes a video of normal things happening...

Hancock in Hancock's Half Hour and Harold Steptoe (Harry H. Corbett) are pretentious, would-be intellectuals who find themselves trapped by the squalor of...

wrote that while the concept had originality, "it sometimes feels a tad pretentious", and that due to the minimalist staging and heavy dialog, the project...

aspect of funky jazz fusion. More interested in extrapolated grooves and pretentious motherchopper riffs... Carter cut a record that was as easy to dance...

OMD later regretted their decision, attributing it to being young and pretentious. Classic Pop described "She's Leaving" as "the great OMD single that...

Erickson came up with the idea of the non-dinner dinner party as a "pretentious, contrarian thing that people in this world might choose to do, to focus...

negative. Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly called the show "stiff, pretentious blarney" and an "unhealthy hugger-mugger", and cited its dialogue as...

Retrieved September 9, 2016. "Celebrity Chef Ted Allen Cooks His Favorite Pretentious Foodie Bullshit Meal". The Onion. November 7, 2011. Retrieved January...

the more celebrated of the fables are The Persevering Tortoise and the Pretentious Hare, The Arrogant Frog and the Superior Bull, and The Sycophantic Fox...

Cole Sear in The Sixth Sense, while Morgan played Cole's nemesis, a pretentious young actor. After the success of The Sixth Sense, I'll Remember April...

divorce. 4 "Enemy Dog" Clive A. Smith July 7, 1993 (1993-07-07) When the pretentious Mahoneys pick up a vicious police dog from an auction, the Binsfords...

1214/ss/1177013517. JSTOR 2245793. "Charles Stein: The Invariant, the Direct and the "Pretentious"" (PDF). {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help) "Special...

Catherine de Bourgh-esque society aunties, rakish Wickhams and Willoughbys, pretentious Mrs Eltons and holier-than thou Mr Collins types". Bloomsbury published...

In the essay, Standard English was characterised by dying metaphors, pretentious diction, and high-flown rhetoric. Orwell concludes: "I said earlier that...

the review aggregator site. The site's consensus states, "Its overly pretentious and melodramatic leanings notwithstanding, Backbeat explores the beginnings...

Mephisto Walz. AllMusic described the album as "rather grandiose and pretentious", but "one of the band's strongest albums" released by Valor Kand's incarnation...

Angeles Times called the film “a monumentally bad, awesomely wrongheaded, pretentious conceit." The film was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for...

where the minister concludes the service by saying "I now pronounce you pretentious and terrible". Peter explains that he is speaking incoherently after...

song after seeing a group of "pretentious" people in a Brisbane bar. In a 2013 interview, he said: I can't stand pretentious people like that. I remember...

George turns him into a talkative intellectual. Margaret becomes equally pretentious and agrees with all of Stanley's beliefs. When Stanley makes his move...

the end of the 20th century the term had "begun to be annexed by more pretentious premises". The etymology is unclear. The Dictionnaire de l'Académie française...

Postman as a failed yet well-meant effort at a parable, being "goofy", "pretentious", and "way too long", yet "good-hearted". He criticized Costner's putting...

favorably, describing Ackles' prior albums as stronger work and his style as pretentious. Chris Van Ness in the Los Angeles Free Press compared it favorably to...

and good sound but faulting the opera itself as "an empty, labored and pretentious work", whose "inept libretto" did not connect with the music. The New...

Retrieved 4 November 2023. Pieper, Liam (19 February 2021). "A playfully pretentious reimagining of Bacon's final days". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved...

0.75 in a scale of 5 and wrote that "Nivin Pauly struggles through a pretentious, pompous affair ... the irritating music and pseudo-philosophical mumbo...

Mahoney 3:34 5. "Yeah" (Crass version) Murphy Goldsworthy 9:21 6. "Yeah" (Pretentious version) Murphy Goldsworthy 11:06 7. "Yr City's a Sucker" (Full version)...

faithful/loyal, modest/unassuming, fair-minded versus sly, deceitful, greedy, pretentious, hypocritical, boastful, pompous Emotionality Fearfulness, anxiety, depenence...

can handle the dirty work, with Akane and Nanako capitalizing on his pretentious attitude. Arriving at Fort Cantor with defending guild Emperor Sword...

the film, labelling the band's exploration of early American music as "pretentious" and "misguided and bombastic". U2's high exposure and their reputation...

and whimsical; the satire may verge on dopey at times, but it's never pretentious. And Brokaw elicits breezy, witty performances from his players, who...

in Die Clatterschenkfieternmaus. The act was styled as Germany's most pretentious and confrontational synth-pop duo. His 2007 solo show, My Confessions...

com. Zinoman, Jason (January 28, 2022). "Moses Storm and the Case for Pretentious Modern Stand-up". The New York Times – via NYTimes.com. "Classmates.com...

book can discuss its underlying themes so directly without becoming pretentious...is one of Herbert's strengths." Campbell also defended Herbert's use...

exception". PopMatters's Nathan Wisnicki said Morrison's lyrics were less pretentious than previous work because of L.A. Woman's "more conventional blues"...

Even Chicago's Newberry Library considers Steinberg's satirization of pretentious New Yorkers to be the grandest presentation of the subject. A 2011 scholarly...

read the so-called Lettres du Voyant and Bateau ivre together. What is pretentious and adolescent in the Lettres is true in the poem—unanswerably true."...

knowledge of T.E. Lawrence, however, the character in Chronicles is a pretentious drag; similarly, without a context, Pancho Villa is just an anarchic...

pointed talk show appearance, he remarked that he had found the film "pretentious and false" and that his brother was "one of the nicest, kindest and most...

intends to repeat Miranda's success, Sangalo said, "It would be too pretentious for me to even dream about that parallel. But I would like to follow...

Lockwood and Joe's brother-in-law Clayton Angevine (Tom Francis), a pretentious, self-absorbed, aspiring author whose vindictive, controlling nature...

strays too far from its rock and roll foundations ... as on the Gothic-pretentious numbers by Dennis DeYoung like 'Lords of the Ring', it starts getting...

the horizon". Critic John Simon called Before the Revolution "murky, pretentious, and juvenile". "Before the Revolution". Bertolucci.org. Retrieved 8...

farm-to-table concept and calling the food "sophisticated without being pretentious". Mariana Camacho of The Infatuation recommended the tasting menu for...

Rich of DVD Talk called it "an effective film, albeit a tad clumsy and pretentious" that is "still a progressive and interesting experiment worth the time...

effective; the film version, however, comes across as grim, tasteless and pretentious." Leslie Halliwell said: "Thoroughly objectionable and unpleasant melodrama...

least favorite song that he wrote: “I’m embarrassed of that song. It’s pretentious. It’s like me telling the masses, ‘I am your savior, but you don’t want...

not positively bad, but it could have been infinitely better. It is pretentious, in that it uses the ancient Marbles to decorate itself. This is a long...

tracks throb like accelerated Talking Heads arrangements...Heady stuff, pretentious yes, but sharp inventive and hot." Bill Cassell of Allmusic in a 4/5...

would indicate an insufficient host, while over seven would indicate a pretentious host. While the tradition started in Sweden, it has since spread to Norwegian...

had said. From the 2011 film and onward, Owl is portrayed as a more pretentious and egotistical character than before. He's sometimes heard boasting...

riddles, manipulating texts within texts, which could of course all turn pretentious and hard-going if it weren't handled with charm and dexterity." Traugott...

they couldn't complete the session. Which seemed to me to be unbearably pretentious of them". Some albums by the Fall were entirely recorded there. The last...

limelight after comedians Biswa Kalyan Rath and Kanan Gill made a sketch (Pretentious Movie Reviews) about the film Prem Aggan. She, along with Hansal Mehta...

Cream movie review: Ira Dubey, Imaad Shah starrer is interesting but pretentious". The Indian Express. 22 July 2016. Retrieved 14 June 2023. "M Cream...

criticized the dialogue, particularly in the trial scenes, as "so arch and pretentious the film seems unconsciously comic". TV Guide added, "Since director...

unconvincing and [apt to] destroy illusion" and Wells' original story as "pretentious." Writing in The New York Times, Frank Nugent noted "a delightfully humorous...

National Review described The Fisher King as "one of the most nonsensical, pretentious, mawkishly cloying movies I ever had to wretch[sic] through". Following...

Weyden travels through the Santa Fe Trail to Horizon. Among them are the pretentious British couple Juliette Chesney and Hugh Proctor, along with the extended...

It was praised as passionate, authentic and unique, but criticized as pretentious, mean-spirited and elitist, playing into stereotypes of the cynical hipster...

Sagacious Shrewd Graceful Adamant Disdainful More disdainful Nothing Pretentious Traits Manly Childish Opportunistic Imitative Womanly Inscrutable Mediocre...

music critics, who found its attempt at serious commentary laughable and pretentious. Adam Zacharias of Drowned in Sound panned the song for cribbing the...

wrote that, apart from some psychological insights, the book was "a pretentious metaphysical thesis" and "principally an exercise in misusing the verb...

of her albums on, though she later asked herself why she was being "pretentious". The album represents her separating from such notions and in her words...

film a negative review: "A crime drama that is as interminable (and as pretentious) as its title, IN THE KINGDOM OF THE BLIND, THE MAN WITH ONE EYE IS KING...

and because he found all the other suburbs of Dublin mean, modern and pretentious". It is the setting—as well as the scene of the home and hostelry of...

1989 The Mound Edinburgh Allies and Morrison "a series of pointless, pretentious structures" Eye 733 p. 9 1990 Concert Hall Glasgow Sir Leslie Martin...

Skinny called the release "complex and seductive, without ever feeling pretentious", rating it 4 out of 5 stars. Editors at Stereogum chose Tracey Denim...

about half, thereafter increasingly gory and tedious", with "absurdly pretentious quotes and allusions" and "too much brawn, not enough brain." However...

"almost religious" tone, anticipating that some listeners would find it "pretentious" but stating that he found it an effective interlude between the harder-rocking...

2015. Bawden, Tom (19 January 2015). "King's College London ditches 'pretentious' rebrand after student anger". Independent. Retrieved 26 December 2015...

written parts, but in fact the work is in many places "derivative... pretentious, boring and banal". The novel won the 2024 Booker Prize for the best...

same austerely geometrical effect is achieved without great cost or pretentious effects at the stadtholder's summer residence of Het Loo. The Dutch Republic...

review by Dwight Gardner called the book "sludgy, claustrophobic and pretentious." Winner, 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Longlisted, 2023 National Book...

of the song as the duo feared the passage would be construed as "too pretentious". The first two lines of the outro, however, are sung within the lyrics...

Mayfield was "confusing his strengths with his weaknesses", and was writing pretentious and embarrassing lyrics, and that his high voice didn't work well when...

Tony Gardner as Professor Tony Shales – Oregon's charming, somewhat pretentious English lecturer and love interest turned stalker. Sara Stewart as Professor...

his teammates. Papan Voiced by: Shizuka Kochi Jupiter Wings The most pretentious player in Jupiter Wings. Sofia Ruggiero Voiced by: Ai Orikasa Roberto's...

in which Herring heckled him and ran on stage, berating him for his "pretentious" new book. Lee also "appeared" as a recorded voicemail message on The...

displayed in a two-panel format with the first panel showing some deceptive, pretentious, unwitting or scheming human behavior and the second panel revealing...

in 2017 for a 6th and final season. In 2015, Weeks guest-starred as a pretentious method actor on the USA Network series Royal Pains. The same year, he...

communist-straight edge band. It was originally named Profound. Due to the pretentious nature of their name, it was changed to Manliftingbanner after a Communist...

more briefly, Richard Carstone. His chief foible is his love of grand, pretentious, and empty rhetoric. Mr Gridley (the "Man from Shropshire") is a farmer...

that some of the previous authors of the character may have found it pretentious. He interprets the story as a fascinating deconstruction of Wakanda that...

but it does not approach that offering in laugh possibilities. It is pretentious as cartoons go. Full of fire and brimstone with a sort of a Jack-and-the-Beanstalk...

Miller For the CanWest News Service, Brendan Kelly wrote that "It sounds pretentious, and sometimes it is. But mostly it isn't, which is the real surprise...

and goggles. James, rough-hewn friend to both Lombard kids. Cylene, pretentious schoolmate from a rich family and occasional playmate of the Lombard...

negative review, calling it "an old melodramatic formula hidden under pretentious TV-commercial-slick photography". Michael O'Sullivan wrote "There are...

least the world of serious scientific scholarship uncontaminated by pretentious charlatans of exactly the kind Dr Boghossian and his colleagues were...

2000, a 90-second theatrical spot for Toyota in which he stars as a pretentious and insecure commercial director, won a 'Gold Lion' at the Cannes International...

[citation needed]. Critics of Neo-Eclectic architecture see the style as pretentious, wasteful and/or garish, and unoriginal. Typically and somewhat deceptively...

iconic, astonishing opportunity for Scarlett Johansson or a plotless, pretentious mess?". The Independent. 5 September 2013. Retrieved 14 December 2022...

8 June 2022. M.N. Miller (30 April 2022). "I Love America review – a pretentious misfire". Ready Steady Cut. Retrieved 8 June 2022. Frank J. Avella (27...

"Sailor's Lament" as "a little more so," and "Rude Awakening #2" as "a pretentious moment I hope—and expect—he [John Fogerty] has the sense never to repeat...

Consequently, why should anyone subject himself or herself to this pretentious and contrived two-person drama, which punishes the audience rather than...

professional suicide ... The movie is as self-indulgent as a burp. It's also as pretentious as its form ... The movie is not so free and loose as it is simply out...

is making music at the moment. The fact that she is one of the least pretentious and one of the most courageous people without courting the sensationalist...

critics consensus states "More dull than hypnotic, The Brown Bunny is a pretentious and self-indulgent bore." Metacritic gives the film a score of 51 out...

Jim DeRogatis panned its lyrics as "empty cliches" and found the music pretentious. Robert Christgau, writing for MSN Music, named it "dud of the month"...

first since Hag—does more justice to its title than many of his more pretentious efforts. Nothing special, just marriage and its travails, but play it...

real people…" He was less enthusiastic about the ending, calling it "a pretentious, dramatic wind-up all but spoils the picaresque flavoring of some dandy...

1820s. Ghil'ad Zuckermann proposes the term snobbative to refer to a pretentious, highfalutin phrase used by a person in order to sound snobbish. The...

choreography, and Scheider's performance, although it was labelled by some as pretentious or "egomaniacal", in particular in regard to its autobiographical nature...

campaigns. The order was initially created to satirize the pompous and pretentious Military Order of the Dragon. Descendants of those eligible for membership...

Like Belgium", "Fascist Faces", and the title track, feeling their "pretentious similes" and "purple imagery" got in the way of the songs' "streamlined...

she plays an innocent and sweet girl in Alilathaali, she portrays a pretentious woman in Oridathoridathu. However, it was through Minnukettu that she...

did not try to reinvent themselves on the album: "Nothing sounds more pretentious than someone being something they're not. One of the things we've always...

Götgatan and all of the Southern Isle have long been known as a less pretentious and more relaxed – and so less fashionable – area than other parts of...

calling it "this punishing six hours of gibberish... this cosmically pretentious, self-important, imitative goulash about technology incestuously screwing...

was satirised as having an audience consisting of tradesmen and their pretentious wives. Ned Ward described the clientele in 1699 as: Butchers and bailiffs...

Collis, Clark (3 October 2022). "The secrets behind the authentically pretentious food in The Menu". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on...

Stars - Stylus Magazine". stylusmagazine.com. Dull, aimless, slightly pretentious, and overall a work that few people will ever find reason to put on the...

required special permission. Others objected to the construction of such a pretentious structure to honour the putative miracle, occurring from August 29 to...

and Japan. Its new sound divided listeners, and some dismissed it as pretentious, derivative or wilfully obscure. However, it was later named one of the...

Maltin awarded the film two and a half stars, describing it as "A bit pretentious and involved; fairly absorbing." Young, R.G. (2000). The Encyclopedia...

to dismiss the film as "a rambling, contemporary fable that is merely pretentious". "Richard Pryor. Is he the biggest and richest Black movie star ever...

incomparable childish concept. It is at once chaotic and vague, bloated and pretentious, pompous and empty. And what if, instead of paying for 300,000 francs...

World may be a jarring departure from traditions, but unlike the more pretentious attempts at alternative gaming experiences we’ve seen in recent times...

Didn't Just Go Against the Grain, They Shoved It in the Faces of the Pretentious Hardcore Fans". New York Post. Retrieved June 21, 2013. Sunderman, Zack...

collection Les Joues en feu (Cheeks on Fire), referred to the poems as "pretentious absurdities that they want to make us admire at all costs." Georges-Emmanuel...

successful at the box office, Time magazine panned it, calling it "a pretentious resurrection of Robert Louis Stevenson's ghoulish classic ... As for...

Sweet Home", that sounds as if it has the makings of a hit. The most pretentious item is an Englished version of Puccini's "Un bel di" ending prettily...

(2021-09-28). "Death Stranding, even in Director's Cut, is just as weird and pretentious as ever". PinkNews. Archived from the original on 2024-11-12. Retrieved...

Walken's performance as self-indulgent and scornful. We got a series of pretentious and unfunny vaudeville sketches that dimly and distortingly alluded to...

commended the song for being "sentimental and expressive without feeling pretentious". In Billboard's staff list of the 100 best songs of 2020, "POV" was...

while the book was "not without some cool sections" it was also overly pretentious. Publishers Weekly panned the first novel but praised the second, which...

while some critics praised the concept and performances, others found it pretentious and difficult to follow. Ben Brantley said in his review of the production...

real life, mocks Wales's devotion to culture and learning as false and pretentious. Nick Bentley (2007). Radical Fictions: The English Novel in the 1950s...

Collis, Clark (3 October 2022). "The secrets behind the authentically pretentious food in 'The Menu'". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original...

Matthew (September 12, 2003). "'Carnivale' atmosphere gets lost in pretentious new HBO series". The Boston Globe. Archived from the original on 2008-12-27...

than the previous one. In Scene I, it is 1934, and Richard Niles is a pretentious 40-year-old playwright who writes successful but forgettable frothy comedies...

Civic Union Radical chic, a term coined by Tom Wolfe to describe the pretentious adoption of radical causes Radical feminism, a perspective within feminism...

du Cinéma. 311. "Michelangelo Antonioni: stately cinematic master or pretentious bore?". The Guardian. 25 August 2015. Kurosawa 1982, p. 242. Ciment 2003...

His songs were polished without being slick and smart without being pretentious", while Badu "brought an iconoclastic spirit to soul music, with her...

& Satirical Sketches Yad-dasht-hayeh Adameh Por Modea (The Notes of Pretentious Man) Ahay Zouzanaqeh (Mr. Trapezium) Shabahat-hayeh NaGozir (Inevitable...

detractors of Mylène who had blamed her for an outdated expression and for a pretentious vocabulary are fulfilled... The poor melody is easy to remember. We wonder...

his television comedy Upstart Crow. The great but "self-regarding and pretentious" actor Wolf Hall (played by Ben Miller) joins Burbage's acting company...

and again Perry announces he cannot do the scene, claiming it is too pretentious. Stripping off his crown and costume, ignoring various people who want...

‘understands kids’;‘He is just a very special man… and he is not at all pretentious.’ Many of the tutors at Collingham are expert academics, who join the...

forest, Kabir initially resents Jia's visit, taking her to be another pretentious expert on an excursion. Jia returns the cold vibes, but takes a liking...

consider to be making films which are either "very boring or extremely pretentious in many cases both" and decide to make a film themselves. Their attempt...

sketch and in his stand-up performance The Pride Is Back, calling him "pretentious." Lipton, who thought Cross's impression of him was not good-natured...

it has that eyewitness documentary quality. It is neither a big nor a pretentious picture in story values, but it is considerable of a production in its...

The cost to the Kalem Company far exceeded that of some of their most pretentious dramatic productions, in which large companies of actors are employed...

prepares"), where a teacher (Stephen Fry) with delusions of grandeur gives pretentious, nonsensical acting advice to his eager student (Laurie). A sketch about...

York Times architecture critic Herbert Muschamp, who described it as "Pretentious ... the artists' basic miscalculation was to assume that a large surface...

"Given its earnest claims to Freudian psychological complexity, this pretentious gorefest (recipient of a self-imposed X rating) would be laughable if...

within the website's community, with users calling the band "extremely pretentious" and the track "one of the worst forms of electronic creations [they'd]...

is titled Despair. The film consists of vignettes featuring equally pretentious and as yet unsuccessful members of the arts scene including Ira's friend...

" He further described the term as a view that "intellectuals...are pretentious, conceited... and snobbish; and very likely immoral, dangerous, and subversive...

generally mishandling his actors, but he can't take the rap for the pretentious bedroom farce bouncing on the bedsprings before us. Wuhrer is a sweet...

artistic gift", calling it "amusing, paradoxical and challenging", "often pretentious and bombastic", and saved by "the humor and the acute intelligence of...

tribe in Canada, "...may seem the latest in a long line of eggheads pretentiously but harmlessly romancing the noble savage." Peterson perceived Mishra's...

distinguish themselves... and who offer some attraction and some excuse in the pretentious show of window dressing and infantile daubing". Cassatt displayed eleven...

Retrieved 29 March 2016. Shaikh Ayaz (10 January 2006). "Mumbai is pretentious". Daily News and Analysis. Retrieved 10 March 2016. "Amul remembers Tribhuvandas...

Bartender, bar owner, ex-athlete Diane Chambers (Shelley Long): often pretentious college-student, and waitress, the moral compass of the bar Ernie "Coach"...

m. Eastern Time. In anticipation, one newspaper reported: "The most pretentious broadcasting program ever presented, featuring among other stars of the...

Writing for DownBeat, Ray Townley gave the album 3.5 stars. "There's no pretentious concept behind the various tunes; just lots of electronically-twisted...

Tokofsky had asked him to change his name, saying Harrison Ford was "too pretentious a name for a young man". By 1968, Tokofsky had become head of Columbia's...

October 2015. "White Movie Review: Mammootty's romantic flick is stagnant, pretentious". The Indian Express. 6 June 2020. Retrieved 4 December 2025. "New Malayalam...

"pointless." Dennis Harvey of Variety called the film "an insufferably pretentious arthouse drama." Other critics disagreed, with reviewers at Hammer to...

festivals, and won awards at two. Critics had polarized responses. "Kind of pretentious.... Kind of amazing, too," was the summation in New York's L Magazine...

its "self-indulgent and cluttered" production, "undistinguished" and "pretentious" lyrics, and an overall lack of unity and flow. All songs written by...

an average rating of 3.9/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "Pretentious, overly perverse and dull." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average...

his imprisonment. Trotsky criticised Barbusse as representative of a "pretentious ... humanitarian, lyric and pacifistical 'communism'".[clarification...

two Michaels play fictionalized versions of themselves, having overly pretentious conversations about serious subjects, such as "Does God Exist?" and "Gender"...

Cobain discussed Jandek in a 1993 interview, stating "He's not pretentious, but only pretentious people like his music." In 1999, Texas Monthly reporter Katy...

FilmFocus gave it one out of five stars, calling it, "tedious, humourless, pretentious and nasty". Adrian Hennigan from the BBC wrote, "the cheeky charm has...

that while the cast gave good performances, the film itself is overly pretentious to the point of comedy. Entertainment Weekly critic Lisa Schwarzbaum...

website's critics consensus reads, "The meandering Chelsea Walls is more pretentious than poetic." On Metacritic, the film holds a weighted average score...

Including narcissistic features Grandiose beliefs are irrational and flimsy; pretentious, expensive supercilious contempt and arrogance toward others; lost pride...

The Village Voice, music critic Robert Christgau found Tench's singing pretentious and the songs tedious: "Despite some superb textures, this is as sloppy...

Pitchfork reacted negatively to the album, describing the album as pretentious and as a bizarre departure from their previous work, claiming "Deftones...

Me in the Dark". Simon Le Bon described So Red the Rose as "the most pretentious album ever made", while AllMusic called it "the best album Duran Duran...

Kirby's performances. Initially concerned about the project being seen as pretentious, Kirby thought of not creating the album at all, although he spent more...

ornamental fenestration surrounds. It is therefore one of the parish's most pretentious and most high style period buildings." The church was added to the National...

David Dixon as Rob Fury (record producer, series 1) Simon Jones as Juan (pretentious waiter in restaurant/club, series 1) Beth Porter as Kitty Schreiber (manager...

Tenkūbashi. Aika is a student who can alternately be shy, stubborn, and pretentious. She is also innocently fascinated by the outside world. Kimito Kagurazaka...

perhaps derived from its being "easy to read, with nothing grand or pretentious about it". On its first publication by Gollancz in 1931, the novel became...

(Classic Animation Frames)|Zippy Frames 'The Critic': Animation at Its Most Pretentious - Animation Obsessive Gibson, Jon M.; McDonnell, Chris (2008). "First...

not educated in Chinese." Murasaki was aware that others saw her as "pretentious, awkward, difficult to approach, prickly, too fond of her tales, haughty...

– 1959 -". cartoonresearch.com. 'The Critic': Animation at Its Most Pretentious - Animation Obsessive "The 36st Academy Awards". The Academy of Motion...

rude, egotistical, lazy, quasi-elegant, very self-centered, arrogant, pretentious and greedy. He is also the one who is the most disinterested in everyone...

Hatim, wants them to marry his nephews Akbar and Asghar. Akbari is a pretentious girl who wants to impress her parents but does whatever she wishes. On...

years, reception has become more negative, with many criticizing his pretentious, self-righteous, narcissistic, and hypocritical behavior as well as his...

proved highly divisive when it aired, with some finding it empty and pretentious, but further rewatches have made clear that it’s anything but." Kyle...

a "critical and box-office disaster" Time magazine called the film "pretentious and confusing", a film that "suggests that the rumors of his expertise...

ultimately concludes that the film is a "homespun exploitation" with a "pretentious conclusion", lacking the courage needed for impactful storytelling. Robinson's...

novel" and "a virtually unreadable book that manages to be simultaneously pretentious, sentimental, bubble-headed and gratuitously violent." In a mixed review...

Center (opened 1946) by 5 years. It was more regular in plan and more pretentious in appearance than Farmer's market across the street. It promoted its...

Eichelbaum of the San Francisco Examiner called the film "a dud, so pretentious and arty that it nearly drowns in dull, studied technique." Dennis Schwartz...

Serkan's old friend. EGO's partner and later new owner. A manipulative and pretentious person who often resorts to dirty and dishonest tactics, she's not liked...

British mathematician Bertrand Russell, Niebuhr said that it would be "pretentious" to deem himself superior in the eyes of God to anyone else because of...

Bonnefoy has said: One should not call oneself a poet. It would be pretentious. It would mean that one has resolved the problems poetry presents. Poet...

wrote that "'The Hanging Garden' is often in danger of seeming overly pretentious, but Fitzgerald wisely undercuts the formal artiness with strong, emotional...

this 150-page novella is "taken on its own ... an engaging piece of pretentious juvenilia; read as a precursor to Infinite Jest, it stands as a fascinating...

previous three albums as having "sagged with overwrought ballads and pretentious soft-rock", while The Hunting Party "gets on with the task of rap-rocking...

Africa, he replied: Let’s be modest. Africa is vast, and it would be pretentious to speak in its name. I’m fighting the battle with words because I’m...

series has ever taken the plunge into the film talent pool in such a pretentious way." Stars who appeared under the new policy included Marlene Dietrich...

"natural and lucid", and he was disapproving of over-intellectual or pretentious writing. In The Georgian Literary Scene, an evocation of the era of the...

the song. the song was met with mixed critique by the fans, calling it pretentious and repetitive and more notably a big cliché of a girl coming from a...

echo and pristine recording quality, or maybe the playing is simply pretentious. A decision can be made at the end of the recording, if the listener...

Aaron Chen November 28, 2018 (2018-11-28) TBD Daffy heckles Viktor's pretentious circus act and tries to liven things up with some classic circus antics...

who went from being a guitar tech [for Tool] to being in a band with a pretentious, famous singer and having to live in that shadow. It was important for...

original on 1 May 2014. Retrieved 26 February 2014. Pakal Nakshatrangal is pretentious Archived 5 January 2016 at the Wayback Machine - Rediff News Ranjith's...

describes the song as "the war cry of the meek, the quiet and the non-pretentious common man. This almost six-minute song features the band’s commentary...

stills of nude scenes from foreign films. However, Cinema X was far less pretentious and, being mostly in colour, much more glossy. Seen today, early issues...

Diegues characterizes as "sometimes cerebral and often ridiculously pretentious." This traditional cinema was supported by foreign producers, distributors...

Moon Rising upon its 1985 release, now viewing the band as too arty and pretentious, Sonic Youth gained critical acclaim in the United Kingdom, where the...

Fan reception was divided: some felt that Townshend's ideas were too pretentious even for him, while others have embraced it as the first worthy concept...

own mischief. Along the way, he has to deal with Elliot and Conor, two pretentious men who are richer, more charming, and more famous than him. Brett's...

brick rowhouses were constructed around the Common. Substantial but less pretentious middle-class housing, three story, brick sidehall Federal rowhouses with...

2012). "Now It's Rob Liefeld Vs Scott Snyder – 'Get Over Yourself You Pretentious Prick'" Archived August 29, 2012, at the Wayback Machine. Bleeding Cool...

not keep up with the new Queens airport, which TIME called "the most pretentious land and seaplane base in the world". Even before the project was completed...

nervous about "The Raven" segment, and felt it would be "the worst, most pretentious thing [they had] ever done." The Treehouse of Horror episodes are difficult...

Runners Club of America. He has said of his literary work: "Without being pretentious, I want to show running as a subject really worth writing well about...

people mean when they talk about how bad videos can be, as cold and pretentious and humorless as the worst fashion photography". MTV found the video...

and horrid orphanage run by the even more horrid Mrs. Brisket and her pretentious, spoiled, unscrupulous and abusive daughter, Diana. Sylvia quickly weakens...

(the games teacher) Miss Quentin (a drama teacher) Miss Willcox (the pretentious temporary English teacher) Miss Walker (an art teacher) Mam'zelle (the...

Instagram, YouTube and a newsletter. She frames the project as "non-pretentious, non-patronizing" AI education and presents herself as a social media...

Jonathan (4 February 2024). "The Last Dinner Party: 'It's fun to be pretentious'". London, England: The Times. Retrieved 1 February 2026. Savage, Mark...

embarrassed to call herself an actress since she was afraid to be called pretentious. Her desire for drama classes helped her overcome the insecurities that...

Dallas Observer said that Tedder's hat on the video made him look like a "pretentious flatterer". Some brand ads were retroactive digitally inserted in the...

"Today Now!" special, showing how to cook a dish from his "new book" Pretentious Foodie Bullshit. To further invoke the atmosphere of a 24-hour network...

to number one is a thing to be savoured, especially when a), it stops pretentious tosh like "Stan" from reigning at the top of the charts and b), when...

exercise in Satanic blood and thunder, both less grandiloquently and less pretentiously put together than The Exorcist ... In fact, the narrative is so straightforward...

whilst the line was being built stated: On the highest point at Lynton a pretentious mansion has been built for himself by the proprietor of a certain well...

intuitive leaps to the cavalcade of Grand Guignol crime scenes to the pretentious dialogue. (When asked what it's like to put himself in the place of a...

anti-conceptual art, mainly because of its lack of concepts." They also called it pretentious, "unremarkable and boring" and on 25 July 2002 deposited a coffin outside...

Shekhar of Mid-Day rated the film 11⁄2 and commented "Untangling this pretentious nonsense". Half Moon Street, a 1986 film with a similar premise "EXCLUSIVE:...

work-obsessed actress in New York and is engaged to Jones, an occasionally pretentious television executive whom her friends dislike. On a train trip to an...

had rejected him, describing Antheil's compositions as "empty" and "pretentious"; however, the teacher was won over by Antheil's enthusiasm and energy...

technique whenever they can. Following a drunken confrontation with pretentious and dreadful Shakespearean actor Sir Jeremy Burtom, they are forced to...

string arrangement". O'Brien felt that the strings were dramatic and pretentious. She described Madonna's singing as consisting of "Courtney Love-style...

attempts to assert itself as authoritative. But if one overlooks the pretentious name and the confused preface with its outrageous claims, then one can...

Reviewer James "Harry" Hinchliffe called it "a bold and wonderfully pretentious re-interpretation of BM, inspired as much by Sartre as Satan and careening...

is a charming film that's plainly life-affirming without being overly pretentious or markedly melodramatic". Paresh C Palicha at Rediff.com opined that...

clumsily idealizes Suze Rotolo, while "viciously characterizing Carla as a pretentious, social-climbing parasite". The song relates how tension between Dylan...

nasty criminal and his cohorts, sacrifices coherence and credibility for pretentious stylization." Villareal, Roberto (March 28, 2014). "CINE EN CASA". El...

was less impressed, writing of the film that it was "[s]tylistically pretentious and narratively impenetrable", with "[p]erformances [that] are amateurish...

exhibitions, even though she grows concerned that the kids are becoming pretentious. The Simpsons are invited to T-Rex's birthday party, where Marge makes...

2014). "Prestige novelist: Christopher Nolan's Batman movies 'boring and pretentious'". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 12 November 2020. Retrieved...

opportunity not just to be seen, but to change the way they're seen. It is, pretentious as it may seem, a chance to live anew." Kenny Herzog of Vulture gave...

believed that the various academic societies in Europe were increasingly pretentious and concerned with the impractical. Revealing his "bawdy, scurrilous...

their differences, Alfredo, somewhat rebellious against his family's pretentious hypocrisy, befriends Olmo, who is raised as a socialist. During their...

rocker’s best-known hits." He also called it "Smartly-written, but not pretentious. Wild, but not careless. Familiar, but not tired". Bobby Peacock of Roughstock...

but Vince Vaughn's pretentious don't-call-him-a-gangster gangster didn't leave me too bothered or baffled with his pretentious patter, while Colin Farrell's...

demonstrate his ability to speak in Queens English by using a bombast or pretentious style of speaking, albeit with a thick Yoruba accent. James Iroha as...

GMA Network. November 13, 2022. Retrieved February 4, 2024. "Obra: The pretentious beauty queen's fake identity (Stream Together)". GMA Network. November...

Sacred Poetry by Francis Palgrave. Thomas Carlyle, however, found Sutton pretentious. In a collected edition of his poems (1886) Sutton added, among other...

Orósio understands its hermetic symbolism to refer to himself and his pretentious men, which proves to be correct, and he is capable of saving his life...

smooth numbers, the large sieve, and the recent highly innovative "pretentious" approach to number theory. In establishing these results, he has shown...

use is from 1684) appeared the term criticaster for an inferior and pretentious critic. Doggerel Vogon poetry Erasmus, Letters 25 March 1521 (see Oxford...

Paul Newman's cool, lucid direction transforming what could have been a pretentious domestic drama into a touching account of small joys in sad and stunted...

noir bear this out - can show discernment and restraint when there are pretentious aspects implicit in the material." Film critic Dennis Schwartz gave the...

own a local catering business. They develop a bitter rivalry with the pretentious Malacicis, recent immigrants from Florence and owners of a fine Italian...