This model works in the first half but it does unravel into messy pretentiousness towards the end. |
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They invite questions but also somehow avoid pretentiousness, obscurantism or any form of exclusivity. |
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Ultimately what it amounts to is an aversion to pretentiousness and egomania. |
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It's a title that loses a lot in the translation and gains only a characteristically Gallic whiff of pretentiousness. |
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In music, pretension is nine tenths of the charts, but trade a bit of that pretentiousness and you can uncover gems. |
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Contemporary dance is constantly called upon to protest its relevance against accusations of complacency and pretentiousness. |
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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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The Grave has none of the oppressive self-pity or pretentiousness of Night-Thoughts. |
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It's a satirical portrait of museum-mania, a briliant send-up of the pretentiousness of the artworld and its afficionados. |
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A review represents someone's opinion and we do not have the pretentiousness to want to make you think it's more than just an opinion. |
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Without any pretentiousness whatsoever, but rather in all simplicity, I wish to share with you my reaction to your letter to Mother Paul-Marie. |
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House, m.d., was a series from the get go, so no worries about pretentiousness. |
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I don't feel pretentiousness enough to handle some projects that could be too big for me. |
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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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The infamous cable about the pretentiousness, quirks, and unpredictability of Muammar Gaddafi is but one example. |
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There he discovers a kind of parallel universe where intellectual pretentiousness is appropriate and whose captive he quickly becomes. |
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The complete unselfconsciousness and lack of pretentiousness in her work appears to stem from the artist herself and the down-to-earth quality that resonates from her. |
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It is with a lot of respect for the music and the artists who support the independent scene, and above all without the slightest pretentiousness, what we start the creation and the running of a musical label. |
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Childlike in his need to satisfy his appetites immediately and to hold the centre stage, Chatwin also possessed the very adult faults of vanity, snobbery, hypocrisy and pretentiousness. |
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Eliot did at times give sources but was laughed at for pretentiousness. |
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A self-deprecating tone saves her from pretentiousness. |
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Meditation is not pretentiousness, but is a dialogue, a personal encounter with the You which has been revealed to us as the He during the reading. |
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The simplicity of their outlines, notwithstanding the baroque style that it followed, and the lack of pretentiousness, emphasizes the religious character of the place, to the detriment of decorative exuberance. |
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There is no pretentiousness in Life of Love, only a soul totally surrendered to whatever the good Lord desires, no matter how crucifying His will might be. |
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We had got accustomed to a life of mediocrity and coarse pretentiousness. |
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Marc Bosquart never had the pretentiousness of imposing this explanation and even less of substituting it for the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed, the Apostles' Creed or Paul VI's Credo. |
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Should the project aspire to a comprehensive inventory or is it preferable to start step by step with less pretentiousness, and progress modularly? |
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I can honestly say it is up there with The Black Swan at Oldstead, which you gave six stars, with not an ounce of pretentiousness or snootiness. |
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But there's an awful lot of artiness, pretentiousness and general flouncing-about that spoils what could have been a much tighter, funnier and emotionally rewarding film. |
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