Sentence examples for pretentiously from inspiring English sources

For every triumph, like "The Trojan Women" at La MaMa (I mean the 1999 revival), there are 500 pretentiously dreadful and dreadfully pretentious copycats.

THE best thing about "Frank", a bittersweet comedy about a band so pretentiously eccentric that their lead singer lives life permanently encased in a papier-mâché head, is just how very unpretentious it is.

As part of this pretentiously named process, human-resources staff have interviewed 150 senior executives and arranged 35 focus groups for employees.

The only surviving example hangs in the exhibition, displayed rather pretentiously at the end of a narrow room with its sleeves straight out from the shoulders, cross-like.In his lifetime and after, Klimt was acclaimed in Vienna.

And it thanked fellow tweeters for their condolences on the murder of the American ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens.Welcome to the new world of e-diplomacy, also called, more pretentiously, "21st-century-statecraft". Historically, governments left diplomacy to the cagey and the discreet, who mostly met behind closed doors.

My school had what was rather pretentiously called a "dining hall," and it was a 10-minute walk from the main school buildings.

I just loved fucking with that kind of pop-trash culture of Warhol, which was so goddam Catholic, and so boring, and so pretentiously American, where everything had to be a product, everything had to be disposable.

Puddings here are pretentiously divided into "Puddings" (sticky toffee, summer, bakewell) and "Desserts" (tarts, trifle, cakes, choc pot).

Depending on whether you're a fan, the results can seem pretentiously banal or enlightening and profound.

Was he referring to himself, pretentiously using the plural for his own person?

They grimace and make smutty cracks; they talk pretentiously about Dogme 95.