Sentence examples for pretentious statement from inspiring English sources

The guy would rather commit hara-kiri under a cypress tree in Carmel than utter a pretentious statement.

Jack and Meg White announced the end of the band with a lightly pretentious statement on their website, accompanied by a picture of the pair in a playground, Meg flying girlishly through the air on a swing.

If the twin towers were in his eyes "pretentious statements of big business" and New York the quintessential city of capitalism, the history of the city's avant-garde is a paradox.

After being challenged by reporters this week, Mr. Cerny admitted that he and two of his friends constructed the whole thing themselves, making up the names of artists, giving some of them Web sites and writing pretentious, absurd statements to go with their supposed contributions.

This multiple billion dollar global company has a very pretentious corporate mission statement.

If you've ever felt detached from lofty artist statements, pretentious press releases or the art world's endless ability to spout "isms," Premo is a much appreciated breath of fresh air.

Most artist's statements are pretentious garbage — much like their art.

It is also — despite their pretentious name, work titles and accompanying statements — some of the most straightforward.

It's a typical Swinton statement: impassioned, thoughtful and just a tad pretentious.

But how much more urgently truthful is this than the standard artist's statement, which overflows with regurgitated cliches and pretentious, pseudointellectual guff?

The album is a batch of songs, not a grand statement; it moves from giddy dance-floor highs to pretentious lows.