How To Use Pretentiousness In A Sentence
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Burns' dialogue has a natural, unforced rhythm that contains a fair number of wry one-liners that compensate for occasional bouts of triteness and pretentiousness.
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There is a lot of pretentiousness and snobbery associated with literature.
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There was no hint of pretentiousness in her manner.
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But at the same time this pretentiousness puts me off.
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If we remove from Rice's statement its pretentiousness, prevarication, illogicality, and (possibly!) shameless opportunism, is there anything left worthy of our attention?
John Shore: Anne Rice: 'I Quit Being a Christian!' Yaaaaawn.
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I think of his profound irreverence, his constitutional opposition to any kind of pomposity or pretentiousness and irreverence and an opposition that, as far as I could tell, were part of the fiber of his person.
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What was Joyce's excuse for such pretentiousness?
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Though Shakespeare was using the word to lampoon the pretentiousness of Elizabethan pedagogues, there was a joy in the cascade of vowels and consonants that beat anything I had heard on television.
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One of the reasons I think he has come through so much unseduced by his own success and with an unimpaired ability to strip pretentiousness to its drawers is that he has a built-in Geiger counter for sussing out the false.
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It is not surprising to see the mightiest hunter teased because he fears getting too close to a granny whose n|om may track him down and result in an arrow that slices through any pretentiousness he might carry.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God
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Oh, how the Simpson's writing staff can truculently castigate styli of pretentiousness when necessitated by buffoonery...
Succulent truculence.
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The censorship stooshie may stir up some media attention, but it also creates a misrepresentation of a film defined more by ponderous pacing and pretentiousness than by gratuitous sensation.
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There is a vulgar pretentiousness about what we may call the sappy style of work which is very undesirable.
Scientific American, Volume XXIV., No. 12, March 18, 1871 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.
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There was no hint of pretentiousness in her manner.
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Ultimately what it amounts to is an aversion to pretentiousness and egomania.
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Fortunately we're not au fait with pretentiousness and ‘inflated self-opinions’ here.
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The missing apostrophe from area's you might put down to a typing error; the missing hyphens from well-maintained, 5th-floor, and ready-to-move-into you might ascribe to the pandemic mishandling of those simple punctuation marks; the misrelated clause at the beginning and the dubiously related clause at the end are not so easily shrugged off: they are the faults of pretension rather than ignorance, and the illiteracy of pretentiousness is the vulgarest and most reprehensible.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 2
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Creating a character is all about ‘problem solving’ and self-deprecation is the best defence against the temptations of pretentiousness.
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The well-scrubbed Dutch stoop is famous and has come to serve as an example of public exhibitionism and bourgeois pretentiousness .... but it was no pretense; the interiors of the Dutch houses were equally scrubbed and scoured.
Dutch Domesticity in the Golden Age
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This model works in the first half but it does unravel into messy pretentiousness towards the end.
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I came to Milwaukee because I wished to live deliberately, to confront only what was essential in life away from the pretentiousness of the east coast and the frenzy of the west.
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Contemporary dance is constantly called upon to protest its relevance against accusations of complacency and pretentiousness.
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A discussion about the merits of Bob Dylan's new memoir, for instance, quickly degenerated into a patchouli-scented haze of dewy-eyed 1960s nostalgia and hippie-dippy pretentiousness.
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The hypocrisy, double-speak and pretentiousness among the so-called illuminati is astounding.
Center for American Progress Action Fund
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His manner is both warm and friendly, with not a hint of the pretentiousness of some of his better known colleagues.
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They invite questions but also somehow avoid pretentiousness, obscurantism or any form of exclusivity.
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There is a lot of pretentiousness and snobbery associated with literature.
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What was needed therefore was a superlative comeback - original, clever without pretentiousness and above all very funny.
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They're too tongue-in-cheek, too savvy and intelligent to be discounted as amateurs, yet sophomoric enough to not buckle to pretentiousness and delusions of grandeur.
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He has a tendency towards pretentiousness.
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Ultimately what it amounts to is an aversion to pretentiousness and egomania.
