Sentence examples for slightly pretentious from inspiring English sources

It makes for hypnotic, unreal and only slightly pretentious viewing.

But maybe it would also have been slightly pretentious, which Ms. Anderson never is.

In the past the Knife's music has been profound and funny, spooky and slightly pretentious, but never actually ugly.

Conscious uncoupling, on the other hand, is just a slightly pretentious phrase for a pretty good idea.

Yet it feels slightly pretentious to be a Nigerian and muse about eggs; we are supposedly too no-nonsense for that.

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

You know, Brent is a pretentious, slightly sad man going through a bit of a mid-life crisis.

A very pretentious, slightly misguided, actually-fairly-reasonably priced bar in a part of town that's going through a lot of changes.

It's a private service, backed by $2.5m in venture capital and accessible to anyone who downloads its smartphone app, has a credit card and is willing to pay nearly three times as much for a slicker, slightly faster and undeniably more pretentious version of a bus ride to work.

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At 575 West End, we felt slightly above the bedragglement of the Chautaqua: no pretentious name; Claxton the part-time doorman (even if he mostly dozed at an old desk); and a high-culture Italian Renaissance design by Gaetano Ajello.