In lesser hands what he does would be pretentious student comedy.
The epitome of a pretentious student, his 'God is love, I am love, therefore I am God' speech made me feel physically sick.
In "The Last of the Wine," Socrates, faced with an earnest, if pretentious, student, resorts to "teasing him out of his pomposities" — as canny a characterization of what it's like to teach freshmen as any I know of.
If you're the kind of reader who finds sentence fragments irritating, then they are just as irritating when Roth does it as when your most pretentious student copies him.
In "The Last of the Wine," Socrates, faced with an earnest, if pretentious, student, resorts to "teasing him out of his pomposities"—as canny a characterization of what it's like to teach freshmen as any I know of.
In a Republican primary process that has been more convoluted than a pretentious student film, Missouri's rules are uniquely confusing and uniquely prone to exploitation by a well-organized campaign.
In other words, the time is ripe for Ms. Bag to revive one of her most reliably acerbic characters: the pretentious art student.
The Tony Award-winning actress Jan Maxwell swears a fortune cookie determined her fate, while the writer Robert Cohen admits to being the kind of pretentious prick student he now hates to have in class.
My favourite is in Good Will Hunting, when a pretentious Harvard student with a ponytail tries to exert his intellectual superiority over Will Hunting's friend by plagiarising a textbook he's read.
There's no way to say that without sounding like a pretentious grad student.
