Sentence examples for pretentious language from inspiring English sources

At times Ms. Carpenter slips into laughably pretentious language — it's hard to imagine two SEAL members having drinks, and one of them saying he thinks women need an "emotional littoral zone" in "the presence of the chaos of motherhood".

This shortsighted thinking is not logical as it may sound by the pretentious language used; it is simplistic and misguided.

To walk turkey is to strut like one and to say or talk turkey is either, depending on context, to use pretentious language (gobbling, in effect), to talk pleasantly, or to speak very frankly.

At first I thought Cherrywood takes itself too seriously, that it wants to be more than it is, but the key to understanding the production is its acting--those formal lines playing these pretentious language games and sanctimonious political talk delivers the critical distance Brook ordered.

Responses that consisted of, or contained extraneous language, which we term "cant", that is, "to use pretentious language, barbarous jargon, or technical terms; to talk with an affectation of learning" (Webster's Dictionary), which equates with "conceptual noise", were plotted as positive +1 on the Y axis.

This is, however, the sort of pretentious bullshit language a minister for Europe can only use when speaking French.

His book is cogently argued and impressively informed, but it is also needlessly convoluted, stuffed with pretentious shards of language and therefore annoyingly difficult to follow.

It was only in the twentieth century that the use of "bull" to mean pretentious, deceitful, jejune language became semantically attached to the male of the bovine species — or, more particularly, to the excrement therefrom.

Be sure to use pretentious and arrogant language at all times.

Mix in some French or Italian, overemphasizing the pronunciation, and you'll be pretentious in four languages.

And Scrabble, one imagines, would have appealed to Shakespeare and Molière — it lends itself to the comic comeuppances that occur at class intersections, where gullible plebeians affect courtly language, and pretentious know-it-alls are cornered by their bluffs.