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It "plays like a dead battery disguised as an objet d'art " (Jay Carr, the Boston Globe ). They are especially irked by the movie's artsy pretensions (Pip is turned into a tortured painter) and earnestness (its un-Dickensian fulminations about undying love), as well as flat performances by Ethan Hawke and Gwyneth Paltrow.
was a simple guy, self-made, with ordinary interests and no intellectual pretensions.
The French have no monopoly on intellectual pretensions or on muddled thinking.
This kind of establishmentarian guarding of the gates actually goes against the scientific pretensions of economics--and its progress as a field.
The pedagogical pretensions of encyclopedic dictionaries must be taken with a grain of salt, though their skewing may be a fair reflection of the limited knowledge that speech communities have of the worthies of whom other speech communities boast.