Sentence examples for pretentious writing from inspiring English sources

He said, 'There's a lot of you in the character.' So I read the book and fought my way through the fancy, pretentious writing.

Margaret W. Johnson, a junior taking her third class with the author, says that when she turned in her first short story, Professor Oates asked whether she understood how disorganized it was and remarked on the vague, pretentious writing.

In 1995 he made The Bridges Of Madison County, one of the directing roles that, with Unforgiven, raised his profile as a serious director; he called Robert James Waller's novel "fancy, pretentious writing" that he had "fought" to get through.

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.

Sorry, but is it really pretentious to write about global issues?

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.

But when he burst into the spotlight in 1996, it was in another pursuit: fighting what he calls pretentious academic writing in which scientific and mathematical language is misused to produce cultural and social commentary "that denies the existence of objective realities".

Many of those who are familiar with the Thornes' work love it, finding relief from the often pretentious world of food writing.

The film centres on a variety of Poles apart - a skating star (Claire Danes) being exploited by a greedy American management team, her estranged husband (Joaquin Phoenix), who still loves her, and their friend (Sean Penn), condemned to spend what is left of his life flying round the world writing a pretentious book on love and death.

Sort of Violent Cop meets Waking Life... Which is a pretty pretentious thing to write.

Like many great and "mercilessly pretentious" experimentalists, she wrote for a world that did not yet exist, and so helped to bring it into being.