Sentence examples for just pretentious from inspiring English sources
People who don't like him find his relentless search for the meaning of magic tiresome or just pretentious.
Some people said they were depraved -- but in south London it was perfectly plain that they were just pretentious gits.
And Mr. Moore's screenplay, meant to be suggestive and scary in a noir sort of way, is mainly just pretentious, simultaneously obscure and heavy-handed.
"I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don't gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me".
In his view, the recent spate of flashy confections by big-name stars -- from Frank Gehry's glittering Guggenheim Bilbao to Rem Koolhaas's interactive Prada boutique in SoHo -- is not just pretentious and sterile.
At times it's smart andpostmodern in a puckish, Calvino-like sense.At other times, it's just pretentious andsmarter-than-thou, and entitled and smug ina McSweeney's sense — there are three titlesfor each chapter, for instance, and onechapter is numbered 12›.
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— ends up just feeling pretentious.
That just sounds pretentious, now, don't it?
The other politics students in my seminars were just too pretentious.
Does this make me an HDM or am I just being pretentious?
