Sometimes even a modest display of wine knowledge can provoke accusations of pretentiousness or worse.

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This is a pretentious city, and expertise in pretentiousness is a necessity for survival in the city's nights.

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The comic pretentiousness baked into the exercise of comparing all culture to the greatest classics is lazy at best, passive aggressive at worst.

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On occasion Mr. Ferguson's ticlike dislike of pretentiousness steered him wrong.

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Prog rock and arena rock were not good weapons to be holding in this war because they were nothing more than different forms of the pretentiousness that was disco.

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