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How to use pretentiousness in a sentence

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This model works in the first half but it does unravel into messy pretentiousness towards the end.
They invite questions but also somehow avoid pretentiousness, obscurantism or any form of exclusivity.
Ultimately what it amounts to is an aversion to pretentiousness and egomania.
It's a title that loses a lot in the translation and gains only a characteristically Gallic whiff of pretentiousness.
In music, pretension is nine tenths of the charts, but trade a bit of that pretentiousness and you can uncover gems.
Contemporary dance is constantly called upon to protest its relevance against accusations of complacency and pretentiousness.
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.
The Grave has none of the oppressive self-pity or pretentiousness of Night-Thoughts.
It's a satirical portrait of museum-mania, a briliant send-up of the pretentiousness of the artworld and its afficionados.
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.
Without any pretentiousness whatsoever, but rather in all simplicity, I wish to share with you my reaction to your letter to Mother Paul-Marie.
House, m.d., was a series from the get go, so no worries about pretentiousness.
I don't feel pretentiousness enough to handle some projects that could be too big for me.
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.
There is a lot of pretentiousness and snobbery associated with literature.
The infamous cable about the pretentiousness, quirks, and unpredictability of Muammar Gaddafi is but one example.
There he discovers a kind of parallel universe where intellectual pretentiousness is appropriate and whose captive he quickly becomes.
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.
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.
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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Examples from Classical Literature
Anecdotes were told of his self-assurance, his vanity, his pretentiousness.
The novelty of the thing, and the pretentiousness in which he had swaddled it, had deceived them finely.
He probed character with a glance, and was particularly sharp on pretentiousness and self-importance.
While tolerant of kinds in literature, he should be intolerant of pretentiousness.
But everywhere the ill-assorted marriage of pretentiousness and neediness was apparent.
Personally I like Polack and Savage the best of them, despite the lumbering pretentiousness and doubtful veracity of the former.
A great deal of pretentiousness, I think you can see, has crept into automobile paintwork.
Its futile pretentiousness is the rasping irritation of every hour.
I am no politician, nor given to tricks nor to pretentiousness.
Nevertheless he regarded it as essentially absurd in its pretentiousness.
She's a whiny neurotic while his intense pretentiousness will probably make you want to throw darts at the screen.
Macy and were blown away by his professionalism, humor and lack of pretentiousness.
Instead of wallowing in an indecipherable mudbath of puerile pretentiousness, why can't the allegedly brilliant writer just tell the story?
I do not embrace the pretentiousness that can surround the art world, I'm just trying to portray what can be the reality of life in Liverpool.
There's a lot of pretentiousness now, layers of pseudo connoisseurship.
I am completely at one with her assessment of 'Peacock' Sam Barton who not only has an excessive amount of vanity but an offensive pretentiousness and cheek.
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