Sentence examples for pretentious ideas from inspiring English sources

8 Theo Hutchcraft The Hurts singer has grand, pretentious ideas about pop and is better dressed than most rock stars these days.

Three decades ago pretentious ideas about space, mirroring and repetition might have surrounded this piece; today it seems like a sarcastic meditation on the countless women who have figured in generations of avant-garde film and performance by men.

What saves it all from becoming just a parade of weird images and pretentious ideas is the sheer power and grandeur of much of Stockhausen's music, with moments that recall his fiercely original works of the 1960s and 70s, and especially the electronic music, which no other composer could have come close to matching.

In harmony with all the work I was doing in France are lists of Malmaison-patterned silverware settings I was hoping to receive as loot, and rather pretentious ideas about the wedding menu --of soupe de truffe and mousse de homard and lots of overpriced Dom Ruinart champagne.

Secondly, the game is an expressionistic re-reading of a classic novel – this is a really pretentious idea.

He rejected the "pretentious" idea that his portrait should hang in the Capitol in Albany, and refused to sit for one.He had to wrestle, too, with his passion for politics.

But Mr. Mansfeld, who died in 2004, also had the somewhat pretentious idea of an Acropolis, with a hilltop entry reached only after a long, hot march up a central promenade of uneven stones, pavement and steps that rise nearly four stories to the summit.

Often, this is imagined to be some sort of victory over Romanticism and its fusty, pretentious, élitist ideas about creativity.

"It was such a pretentious, horrible idea for a play," she said.

TV on the Radio isn't all about crowd-pleasing, but Adebimpe's improvised lyric was typical of the band's skill at making potentially pretentious sounds and ideas seem casual.

The terminology may be pretentious, but the idea is simple.