The cab rolled a quarter of a mile and stopped before a pretentious building.

Next to the logies was a more pretentious building, clean, painted, smart looking, a mansion in comparison to the shacks.

Judging by its ruins it was a pretentious building.

While Moe Shrevnitz's cab was on its way there, a man entered the lobby of the pretentious building.

Great Longwood, a pretentious name for a pretentious building.

Resting upon his cane, the enthusiast waved his hand toward a pretentious building.

She spoke from the window of the pretentious half-timbered building.

The Shadow was standing in front of the narrow but pretentious building known as the Hotel Delavan.

On entering the pretentious building, he stopped in front of an open elevator, where the operator surveyed him in a casual manner.

How do we make a building dignified but not Disneyfied as post-modernism becomes passe or pretentious?