Sentence examples for be pretentious from inspiring English sources

He tried not to be pretentious.

It feels like he's allowed himself not to be pretentious.

(Conceptual music can often be pretentious and yawn-inducing).

To do any other would be pretentious, n'est-ce pas?

Naturally, these kinds of events can be pretentious.

It wouldn't be pretentious to call the process alchemy.

"To be pretentious," he says, "I'm going for l'art total".

And don't be pretentious: no titles or postnominal letters.

I did not want to be pretentious, superficial or predictable.

"Poetry can be pretentious sometimes," Ms. Garrison said.

To call this a religious rite would be pretentious.