Sentence examples for pretentious performance from inspiring English sources

Have we lost the art of pretentious performance?

Some of the film's least convincing scenes involve a cursory tour of downtown bohemia overseen by Rachel's best friend, Russel (Jared Harris), a stridently pretentious performance artist of indeterminate sexuality.

I like that sudden simplification of the pretentious "vocal performances" with "songs," but the writer's wry phrase "in other words" doesn't work with the single word "songs".

"I might use a word that sounds pretentious, but his performance was almost holy," she said.

At P.S. 122, she and Javier lose patience with a pretentious environmental art performance staged by an Argentine dancer.

"Double Third Portrait," made in collaboration with the artist Carter, is an amazingly pretentious pastiche of performance art, experimental film and appropriated voice-overs and flaming arrows.

The album that hooked me was "Amorica," from 1994, which had plenty of pretentious lyrics and performances that sounded like the audition tapes for a Faces tribute band.

It appears that in rural America, way back in the early 19th century, the template for pretentious late-20th-century performance art had already been discovered and perfected.

Whatever your thoughts about Drive – fascinating and original versus pretentious and empty – Brook's chilling performance as the sadistic gangster was a brilliant piece of anti-typecasting.

As directed by Tucker, her performance in Konstantin's pretentious play-within-the-play is particularly amusing.

Some reviewers thought it little more than pretentious titillation, while others praised the performances and direction and congratulated Lewis for raising some difficult questions.