pretentiousness

He states pretentiousness can also be found in their prose.

Lucy is in the center of the battle against pretentiousness.

But several years ago, he took a detour from pretentiousness.

A. Sometimes there is a pretentiousness from the upper-elite class.

At that moment I found in what she wrote a pretentiousness, a lack of sincerity.

But all we had was an evening of pretentiousness.

In looking at them now I laugh at my pretentiousness.

The background is a painted wall, a study in oriental pretentiousness.

The pretentiousness of the titles should tell you something.

And even all the pretentiousness that's so horrid next to the real thing - well, it's better than nothing.

The group likes to present itself as the vanguard of a "new pretentiousness" movement.

Certainly it had nothing to do with pretentiousness or any obvious demonstrations of authority on his part.

There's an art to pretentiousness, you could argue - a certain creativity, possibly.

It suggests the kind of pretentiousness to which installation artists are prone.

Although there's a whiff of pretentiousness about recording your thoughts in public.

"There is a lack of pretentiousness to the work.

Otherwise they'll be branded with rock's scarlet P, for pretentiousness.

An important factor to keep in mind with all of this restaurant and food talk is yuppie pretentiousness.

Myers was particularly concerned with what he saw as the growing pretentiousness of American literary fiction.

He punctured pretentiousness and established a level of truth in his work as an actor.

And there is always a high-water mark of pretentiousness.

What keeps the 42-minute movie from drifting into pretentiousness is its acute visual focus.

Perhaps a note of pretentiousness is inevitable in discussions of great men.

But she was impatient with the pretentiousness of the opera world and never embraced it fully.

Compounding the pretentiousness is the fact that several of the characters are artists or writers.