Sentence examples similar to pretentious emotion from inspiring English sources

The twin towers, when they arrived in the early 1970's, seemed oversized and inhumane, "pretentious and arrogant," Paul Goldberger wrote with emotion in 1979, buildings that "should never have happened".

For those of us who don't find Sondheim's songs pretentious and unfeeling, it encapsulates the deeply felt Sondheim signature emotion in its fetal form: the aching, ambivalent and often thwarted desire to connect with someone.

Holden goes on to say: "The movie is so devoid of emotion that its ritualized gore acts as a narcotic"; he sums things up in three words: "pretentious macho nonsense".

Pretentious jerk.

How pretentious.

Very pretentious.

Nothing pretentious.

Pretentious - clearly.

How... pretentious?

Overbearing, pretentious, madly repetitive".

— Super pretentious vibe.