Sentence examples for pretentious manner from inspiring English sources

He also comments on the quality of Chilean drugs in the pretentious manner of a connoisseur.

If you love the scenery, shifting allegiances, and palace intrigue of GoT but find yourself wishing the pace were a little slower and that the sex scenes were filmed in a more pretentious manner with lots of slow pans and softer lighting, here's your show.

His strong dislike of the sycophantic "petty men," whose clever talk and pretentious manner win them an audience, is reflected in numerous Lunyu passages.

Almost every movie ever made, including pornography, depicts lovemaking in a pretentious manner.

She affects pretentious manners to disguise her lower-class background, and her conversation is superficial.

A virgin in middle age, a man of pretentious manners and a nonstop talker whose highfalutin patter drives everyone to yearn to be out of his presence, Aymer is played by Richard Crawford with an entertaining grasp of the man's irritating qualities, but he still manages to elicit our compassion for his painful loneliness.

Not in a pretentious way.

Way too pretentious.

Disturbed played a set full of slow, comfortable rhythm, and its singer, David Draiman, has a slow, authoritative manner, just this side of pretentious but totally commanding.

I say something about the use of color in them, and in a manner I'd identify as pretentious, had someone else been talking, go on about the biblical implications of the use of purple throughout.

This style can look pretentious.