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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?
Was he at the street corner all along, watching the pretentious parade go by?
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:
Pretentious boob: "What is your pedigree?"
The latest from avant-garde British director Peter Greenaway ( The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover ) elicits a familiar critique: It's judged a visual knockout but pretentious as hell.