But, reader, you will need time, a stomach for the pretentious, and a very hearty appetite.
Some will call Cloud Atlas spiritually profound, and others will call it disjointed and pretentious.
"It would be very pretentious for a cardinal to say, 'I am prepared, '" Scherer said.
It looks like bad karma is finally catching up with pretentious, pious Piers Morgan.
His praise is lavished on the good and great and the dull and pretentious alike.
It would prevent pretentious governments from forcing citizens to finance their care in fashions fancied by bureaucrats.
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Tenured-professorial in the pretentious facial hair, without it Zwelish was revealed to be no more than thirty-five.
If you're pretentious enough to have moved beyond laughing at booger-picking, you should probably stay at home.
This is a pretentious city, and expertise in pretentiousness is a necessity for survival in the city's nights.
Plain and ordinary is preferable to the pretentious signature buildings of celebrity architects.
Even more than Assange, too, Zuckerberg guides where we are going next, as, yes this sounds pretentious, a civilization.
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.
John and Kathryn, who live on Long Island in New York, are the most likable, as they're the least pretentious.
In contrast to Holder's bombastic speech, President Bush's Black History Month speech last year was refreshingly retrospective without being pretentious.
Shot in black and white, it was baffling and pretentious, but afterward the director and cast got up and took questions.
One yearns for Rukeyser's urbane way of puncturing such unsubstantiated, pretentious pessimism.
As a thesis, this might seem appallingly pretentious or just downright weird.
"It was less about being protective, pretentious jerks and more about just getting people to slow down and really feel these songs, " she said.
"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.
Anything not enumerated was denied the pretentious meddling of public servants.
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Like pretty much every other room he has created, the overall effect bears close resemblance to Romualdez himself: elegant, civilized, glamorous but not remotely pretentious.
It isn't pretentious, in the old-fashioned social sense of conspicuous display.
It was all quite pretentious, in a make-believe sort of way.
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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Her faux sophistication, pretentious throwing around of French words and uncalled for references to her own acting has the potential to get really old, really fast.
Along with the invincibly pretentious and the implacably turgid, the Oedipal blather and the digital bats, "Batman Begins" summons up moments of great eloquence and power.
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.
"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.
His television show has tens of millions of viewers, and his videos are watched on YouTube by millions more, who laugh at the powerful, the pretentious and the holier-than-thou.
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