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The New Yorker 's Lane calls it boring and pretentious: "The characters in Crash are so unsmiling--so driven, in every sense--that they make you ashamed of ever having enjoyed yourself."
Maybe I'm being pretentious here and shoehorning pop culture into a literary context to which it doesn't belong, because television is obviously less compressed and more mundane than the movies.
She was a born writer, but she wasn't pretentious enough to regard writing as her only possible destiny.
The first time I saw Affliction , it struck me as both arid and pretentious; the second, arriving with no narrative expectations, I found myself more tolerant of the pacing and more drawn in by the performances.
Pooh is naive and ignorant: He spells poorly ("honey" is "hunny"), and he is impressed by the pretentious wisdom of Owl.