Sentence examples for pretentious means from inspiring English sources

"Pretentious means making claims of great importance doesn't it?

If "pretentious" means no more than "difficult" or "challenging", then it can't be denied that Bresson's films do indeed fit the description.

For those who believe vintage (another pretentious euphemism, meant to give castoffs the cachet of fine wine) means clawing itchily through rack after rack of stuff, there is within a mile the Salvation Army on Atlantic Avenue, Beacon's Closet on Fifth or the cheerful but chaotic Hooti Couture on Flatbush.

Though less finely crafted than her later books, Under the Net introduced readers to the wonderful Planet Murdoch, where engaging characters can discuss such topics as "the central knot of being" without being boring or pretentious — no mean feat.

The funny throat noise may have also come from the fact that, for many, the term "design art" means pretentious and opportunistic.

So if by pretentious, Lady Gaga meant overdressed, then sure.

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.

I'm not talking about my music, it may be pretentious, but I mean electronic music.

Just because we hate people assuming we're pretentious doesn't mean there aren't vegetarians who give the whole group a bad name.

Just because he had a poem published in some pretentious journal doesn't mean he's got "insight".

Speaking of replacements, moments after yesterday's contest went up and our eager in-boxes went suspiciously unfilled for longer than usual, it occurred to us that we'd created perhaps the most impossible covers contest ever, "accidentally" using British book jackets for most of our selections, which is, I mean, just pretentious on our part.