But, reader, you will need time, a stomach for the pretentious, and a very hearty appetite.
"It would be very pretentious for a cardinal to say, 'I am prepared, '" Scherer said.
Even more than Assange, too, Zuckerberg guides where we are going next, as, yes this sounds pretentious, a civilization.
This is a pretentious city, and expertise in pretentiousness is a necessity for survival in the city's nights.
"He doesn't have a pretentious or egocentric bone in his body, " said Steve Nelson, the head of The Calhoun School, a private institution Karp attended until the eighth grade.
Set in a fairytale New York where danger lurks in every corner store, the movie dresses its slummy scenario in pretentious dialogue and a woozy camera style.
While that might sound a bit pretentious, and just about as fun as, say, a sewing needle injury, Fashion's Night Out started for a more practical reason: To help the struggling U.S. clothing industry in an era of economic uncertainty.
William had set the poem to music for a pretentious tenor at school.
The use of a pretentious private vocabulary reassures authors and readers that they are initiates in an exclusive sect.
It was all quite pretentious, in a make-believe sort of way.
But he also shoehorns in lugubrious scenes from Poland, a sitcom apartment inhabited by people wearing rabbit heads, and mysterious appearances and disappearances, and jumbles the strands together as a pretentious puzzle.
When Riverside wanted to adorn an album with a pretentious cover, he protested that he got some of his best ideas for tunes just sitting in his son's wagon outside the family home.
Like Orwell, Mr. Ferguson was a sworn enemy of the pretentious, and he wrote in a casual, slangy "spoken" style well suited to his preferred topics.
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"What's so nice to discover is that if I have to be a playwright, at least I'm a deeply pretentious playwright, " he says, laughing.
As a thesis, this might seem appallingly pretentious or just downright weird.
This introduction would be apropos of nothing besides pretentious wine writer affectations were it not necessary to establish the backdrop for what is a compelling convergence of issues in the wine world.
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