Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic considered the album a failed attempt by Idol to recast himself for the '90s, and judged the content of the album as being mostly "...padded with pretentious speeches, sampled dialog, and underdeveloped songs".
What you now have is all these grotesque creatures appearing randomly and arbitrarily, all of them snarling and plotting and cursing, earnestly reciting pretentious speeches designed to convince the audience that the outlandishly concocted story lines being presented to us actually make sense.
Avoid cliches and pretentious words.
Alex Green (Stellan Skarsgard), the Red Mullet honcho whose florid dysfunction has bled upward and diagonally from the lower right-hand quadrant of the screen for much of that time, pronounces Ana's speech pretentious nonsense.
And the use of dictionary definitions to offer glimpses into one's emotions, which Vangie recites as part of a self-improvement campaign throughout, has long ago been tainted by valedictorian speeches and pretentious coming-of-age films.
I misunderstood this sentence, when I first read it, as a statement about the fallibility of memory; now I see it as a statement about the distorting power of speech — or of speech's pretentious cousin, writing.
The epitome of a pretentious student, his 'God is love, I am love, therefore I am God' speech made me feel physically sick.
By Hendrik Hertzberg The old Merchants' Exchange, where George W. Bush delivered his big speech on corporate malfeasance last Tuesday morning, "was considered one of the 'most costly and pretentious' buildings within the United States when it opened in 1842".
-Hendrik Hertzberg The old Merchants Exchangee, where George W. Bush delivered his big speech on corporate malfeasance last Tuesday morning, "was considered one of the 'most costly and pretentious' buildings within the United States when it opened in 1842".
The old Merchants Exchangee, where George W. Bush delivered his big speech on corporate malfeasance last Tuesday morning, "was considered one of the 'most costly and pretentious' buildings within the United States when it opened in 1842".
