Sentence examples for getting pretentious from inspiring English sources

[Grins] We're getting pretentious.

"I'm not trying to be highbrow for the sake of highbrow, and when things start getting pretentious, she lets me know," he says.

Tensions began to emerged as Townshend believed Daltrey just wanted a money-making band and Daltrey thought Townshend's projects were getting pretentious.

"Most bartenders I know think cocktails are getting pretentious," says Aidan Demarest, one of L.A.'s most sought-after mixologists and the owner of Neat in Glendale.

"I love it when we get pretentious," Colón said.

"We didn't have time to get pretentious," Mr. McConnell said.

I think it probably boils down to the very nature of supporting a club, just to get pretentious for a moment, and the way in which we see our teams as an extension of ourselves.

Essentially, if you love tabloid trash but want to get pretentious about it, this is the show for you.

At the risk of sounding pretentious (and Tambor himself can get endearingly pretentious when talking about his acting), he completely immerses himself in the role.

But Mr. Aragon makes the reasonable assumption that all ghosts are ageless and turns the callow behavior of Fabrizio (asked how he got this pretentious name, he blandly replies that he read Stendahl's "Rouge et Noir") into an arresting search for truth.

Just when things threaten to get too pretentious, mercifully, she can also be very funny (there is a particularly good scene in which she arrives in her favourite cafe to find a woman sitting in her customary chair, and erupts in comedy rage: "If this were an episode of Midsomer Murders she would surely be found strangled in a wild ravine behind an abandoned vicarage").