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Example sentences for: pretentiousness

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As her husband, William Hurt is an expert at appearing to think deep thoughts, but the character's groggy pretentiousness and the actor's merge uncomfortably.
They invite the charges of pretentiousness by calling themselves arbiters of "taste" and "highbrow."
Even a "semi-spontaneous tribute to Muhammad Ali couldn't rescue the festivities," says Brian Lowry of the Los Angeles Times . Redeeming features included the return of master of ceremonies Billy Crystal and his "repeated relief from the pretentiousness of presenters" (Tom Shales, the Washington Post ); Jessica Yu's crack that her evening's outfit cost more than her Oscar-winning documentary; and David Helfgott's performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee . (See "The Week/The Spin" for more on the results.)
The British press was also sniffy about what it saw as tedious French artistic pretentiousness.
And are Kinsky's rippling, Philip Glass-like progressions meant to suggest profundity or empty pretentiousness?