Sentence examples for pretentious terms from inspiring English sources

That is the theory that her relationship with Sartre was a post-patriarchal partnership of equals, combining genuine mutuality with genuine autonomy, and rejecting the superstitious equation of sexual fidelity with commitment — in less pretentious terms, an open marriage.

Assemble's work can, to use a more pretentious term, be called performative.

Scott McLoud, the author of a very helpful guide (in comic-book form) called "Understanding Comics," prefers the slightly pretentious term "sequential art".

NB: When searching for terms to try and explain what we are saying I think cinema vérité is a confusing and pretentious term, I would say it is much more something like "real cinema".

When the platoon's discipline comes under discussion, I enjoyed Mainwaring's testy irritation with Oxford-educated Wilson using what he considers to be pretentious Latin terms like "lax".

For all of us, an unfortunate part of being alive is behavior that we would have to acknowledge, however reluctantly, as sick or dysfunctional (to use the more pretentious and clinical-sounding term that has become fashionable).

Responses that consisted of, or contained extraneous language, which we term "cant", that is, "to use pretentious language, barbarous jargon, or technical terms; to talk with an affectation of learning" (Webster's Dictionary), which equates with "conceptual noise", were plotted as positive +1 on the Y axis.

But in pure evolutionary terms, even the pretentious, over-the-top, foolishly self-indulgent forms of haute macho beat butting heads.

Christmas intensifies the chiaroscuro (to use the pretentious kind of art-history terms I had in my head at the time): the contrast between light and shade.

DVT: "I don't like that term, it's pretentious.

Like her parents, she would have thought the term "mobile home" pretentious.