Communication, Mr. Dexheimer said, is one more way to remove the pretension from wine.
He discarded the first novel, "destroying the evidence," and began writing "Mohawk," about people in a place like Gloversville, and he purged all literary pretension from his writing.
It's quite possible that a murky, highly-stylized pastiche and for Euro critics this would certainly be perceived as arty pretension from an "Americanized" director with a de-sexualized leading man to boot, would never go over well in Cannes.
From one angle, it's a covers album bloated by outsize pretensions; from another, it's a song cycle lighted by insight and solitude.
Brahmin, member of any of several old, socially exclusive New England families of aristocratic and cultural pretensions, from which came some of the most distinguished American men of letters of the 19th century.
It is nicknamed the "White House" by locals, partly because of Mr Bayrou's pretensions from a young age to go into politics to "defend" the rural voiceless, like his farmer parents.
In fact, I found Mamet rather patronizing of his characters, mocking their ignorant pretensions from a perch of superiority.... to label, as some have, this leaden excursion into meanderings of inarticulate, failed criminals as 'the best American play of the year' is merely to reflect what a trashy theater season New York has had.
Despite the high concept, it's a surprisingly low-brow entertainment, all pretension exorcised from the original script.
Pulkkinen, a Finnish author, trips the pretension alarms from the outset of this lugubrious multigenerational drama, in which a depressive young woman named Anna delves into the histories of her dying grandmother, her mother and her mother's girlhood nanny (also the erstwhile lover of Anna's grandfather).
The integrated structural electromagnetic design concept [16, 17] inspires us with a combined procedure, which makes a pretension design from multidisciplinary viewpoint of structure and electromagnetism.
Free from pretensions, children play from their hearts.
