The phrase "pretentious style" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
"Her writing was filled with flowery language and pretentious style, making it difficult to understand the true message behind her words."
"The Discovery of America" is a satire about Italian television correspondents who imitate the pretentious style of American anchors.
Much of it was marred also by the pretentious style of the followers of William Owen Pughe, who tried to "restore" literary standards.
The rigid, old-fashioned and pretentious style of service at the Carlyle, a relic of olden days, is rendered laughable by the charmlessness and indifference of the tuxedoed time-servers who grudgingly take your order and clearly hope you will depart sooner rather than later.
Our global profile for cultural excellence, combined with exciting plans for 2008, will help Oxford attract more visitors to the UK than any other city in the competition". Probably the most ambitious and stylish website of all the bids; Belfast should also win some kind of award for the portentous - not to say pretentious - style of its bid document.
Fuller abandoned her previously ornate and pretentious style, issuing pithy reviews and forthright criticisms: for example, of Longfellow's poetry and Carlyle's attraction to brutality.
Writers, said Orwell, should avoid cliches, jargon and "pretentious Latinised style" because "language can corrupt thought".
It's quite hard to imagine Alan Johnson ever using a "pretentious Latinised style".
I disliked the rather pretentious way the narration was usually done — the Cocteau style.
But McCarthy's art world affiliations, and the rather arts-institutional intellectual currency he trades in, also raise the suspicion that his end product might turn out to be a bit pretentious, in the style of Deleuze-loving architecture theorists or Lacan-quoting gallery notes.
The color — not the pretentious European fashion magazine, and not the prose style.
To rail against pretentious restaurants' "gastropub style-over-content nonsense", he tweets photographs – largely submitted by his followers – of their more baffling presentation choices.
