W, you might ask, TF are a pair of alternative comedy writers with pretensions of artistry doing writing a pantomime in this day and age?
That's what's so offensive about a lot that we see: people have the pretension to do a big production of Chekhov, for example, without having an idea of what Russia's about.
The very term "old master" is a horrible, destructive piece of pretension – what does it even mean?
His intellectualism can look like pretension; why does the title of the show have to refer to the "aura" of the Old Masters, quoting Walter Benjamin, who believed that paintings have an aura of place and time?
The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture 810pp, Phaidon, £100 A real atlas of what is being built in the world today would be a confounding thing - a Domesday Book of cheapness, pretension and making do.
Now it's a point of pride for most artsy Brooklynites, some might even say a pretension, that they don't hang out in Manhattan.
This finding is consistent with the results of Panjabi et al. [ 32] who demonstrated that StabilimaxNZ, a flexible stabilizer without pretension, does not effectively stabilize the spine during axial rotation.
The artist has no pretensions, and he doesn't have any big dreams of changing the world.
Like every good artist, he makes us see the everyday differently but he does it without the pretension of so many other artists.
This study does not have the pretension of being or creating a perfect model of epidemiological projection.
