"At the risk of sounding pretentious, my approach is more novelistic than it is journalistic," he says.
Murasaki was aware that others saw her as "pretentious, awkward, difficult to approach, prickly, too fond of her tales, haughty, prone to versifying, disdainful, cantankerous and scornful".
Ignore the folks who approach whiskey with a pretentious, know-it-all attitude.
Although his surgical prowess was not questioned, his approach to practice was considered pretentious by a segment of his professional colleagues in the U.S., and his work was more highly regarded by his contemporaries in Europe than in Chicago.
Some saw her scholarly approach to popular art forms as pretentious.
Zanuck's pictures often suffered from pretentious seriousness, mawkish sentiment, and an overly-polite approach to subject matter that demanded earthy realism.
Ossian advises against pretentious art jargon, suggesting the only way to approach contemporary art is with a clear, open mind.
A blue-collar dad to the starched collars of Niles and Frasier, he frequently knocked the wind out of their pretentious sails with his straightforward practicality and no-nonsense approach.
"What I love about the Brainery is that they approach subject matter from an informative but not pretentious way".
That 30 would eventually approach my front door like a smug guest unannounced – pretentious and uninvited.
His stance reflects not only a practical Everyman approach to writing but the distinctive English aversion to looking pretentious.
