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James Salter in the Times on the decline of civilization and the rise of pop culture: Fine, I wish people read books more, too, but didn't it read like a parody of a windy, pretentious old fogey?
In response to a reader's complaint that his restaurant reviews were becoming increasingly pretentious, with descriptions of the ... food ... sublimated to [his] profound architectural knowledge and appreciation of interior design, Jonathan Meades, the subject reviewer of The Sunday Times suited the word to the action:
’ The good lawyer, always mindful of Holmes's definition of the law as “the prophecies of what the court will do in fact and nothing more pretentious,’ will ask himself when drafting any instrument, “How will this hold up in court?
dark, ominous and pretentious" (Jeff Giles, Newsweek ) … "an unoriginal warming over of a skimpy Japanese production … an innocuous, if lengthy, commercial" (Michael O'Sullivan, the Washington Post ) … "its efforts to preach nonviolence while exploiting it are both patronizing and hypocritical" (Jack Mathews, the Daily News ) … "idiotic" (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). Many reviewers admit that they're powerless to influence the target audience and predict (correctly) that the film will be a huge hit no matter what they say.
Had he not been such a pretentious overlord, a platoon of screenwriters would doubtless have been engaged to rewrite him and make the movie halfway human.