| Yes, but they have their good qualities, such as free advertising and name-dropping. |
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| No name-dropping, no technical language and don't expect the discussion to result in anything so banal as a conclusion. |
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| That wasn't at all an example of pretentious musical name-dropping, was it? |
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| It's just a bunch of pretentious name-dropping to make people think they're good via their influences. |
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| The little midfielder, now 34 and hoping to fan the embers of his career with Dundee United, certainly cannot be accused of name-dropping. |
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| The search for influences quickly degenerates into meaningless name-dropping. |
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| This safely protects me from name-dropping, or even dropping-dropping, because the place was quite immaculate. |
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| Harvey is given to name-dropping, idealistic stream of consciousness rambles, sentence fragments and gushing enthusiasm. |
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| Cardiff is just the place to expand your culinary horizons, meet your canny Celtic cousins and do a little name-dropping. |
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| The former Secretary of State popped in while host Stephen Colbert was taking her to task for name-dropping in the book. |
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| But please, don't stop name-dropping your glamorous existence in the sweaty cosmopolis on my account. |
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| If you don't get a handle on that insufferable smugness of yours, you'll grow up to be just like that name-dropping skite on the radio. |
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| She is all for name-dropping but, despite more than 50 years in the industry and her unmistakably diva-ish carriage, she has nothing bad to say about anyone. |
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| It was also the ancient world equivalent of name-dropping designed to differentiate him from the rest of the philosopher herd affected by divine radiation. |
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| Thankfully I wasn't blogging then, because apart from a bit of name-dropping that I need to add on to my CV, they're not jobs that I want to remember that much. |
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| Certainly you can't underestimate the good done by his championing of obscure bands to a wide audience, even if the way he did it smacked of name-dropping. |
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| The name-dropping in the last two paragraphs isn't so important. |
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| Antony Cotton blasted Ryan Thomas and Jack P Shepherd after they had a dig at him for constant name-dropping. |
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| This pretentious, precious, pseudo-poetic, name-dropping drivel is one of those endless monologues that in the hands of an arrogant, untalented twit become menaces to society. |
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| Kardashian is one of many celebrities who now command substantial fees for peppering their posts with commercial name-dropping. |
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| Retail rivals were carping this week that producers of the karaoke sideshow were name-dropping Tesco at every opportunity. |
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| Our drama teacher is always name-dropping, but I bet she's never even been to New York. |
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| The name-dropping soon becomes the plumb line that measures the novel's shallows. |
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| Hunter came across as a class act, Felice Picano behaved like a sleazy, name-dropping star-fucker. |
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| This subtle name-dropping lends you credibility, he says, and converts what would have otherwise been a cold call into something warmer. |
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| Somehow, I think the time when Sven could dazzle employers with name-dropping like that may have passed. |
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| I was too busy name-dropping to notice the clanger-dropping. |
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| Name-dropping throughout the 200 pages, he's clearly connected and experienced. |
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