Submarine call themselves "the world's premier destination for original transmedia dramas, documentaries and genre-defying entertainment", which sounds verbose and pretentious, but their latest interactive documentary – Who are the champions?
That could have been pretentious, except this show was also boisterous, earthy and funny.
2. Maria calls Malvolio "a time-pleaser, an affectioned ass" - a follower of fashion and a pretentious idiot in Twelfth Night.
It's an entertaining film, in which Peston breaks out his impressive French, gleaned during a year off in Normandy and an admittedly pretentious teenage period watching nouvelle vague films ("When I was a kid I was very, very, very angry with my parents for not being French"), and whizzes through idyllic countryside in a 1960s Citroën DS – simply because he could, one suspects.
'High Art' was perceived by the majority as desiccated, pretentious, irrelevant bullshit - a symbol of the worst traits of the posher classes - while on the other hand the demotic and popular pieces of art that spoke to this majority were regularly demeaned as being formally simplistic, or dismissed as sentimentally inclined, as if this were a fault in itself.
Though communal living has its downsides – Linda Grant writes about the pretentious political dogma and macrobiotic obsessions of a hippy commune in her novel We Had It So Good, while what went on in RD Laing's living experiments was altogether more disturbing – I'm convinced that witnessing how resources, material and intellectual, could be pooled at such a young age has shaped me as an adult.
You'd be forgiven for thinking that this is a load of pretentious rubbish, and that any DJ who makes everybody leave the club on their first night will get the sack immediately.
The slate is called Sad Puppies, because fellow author Larry Correia once said that not having his books nominated for the "snooty and pretentious" awards "made puppies sad".
All seven did at least try to give this dire and pretentious concept some life.
Jolie was actually better in the more enjoyable, less pretentious Pushing Tin, and she was easily outclassed by Catherine Keener in Being John Malkovich.
For his "Come Dine With Me" menu, would want "pretentious fish and chips" or "sausage en croute" – "some kind of regional, working class food, seriously tarted up".
