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.
Suffice it to say that teacher and pupil are looking for the same thing surcease from what a more pretentious playwright might call existential loneliness and that, against all odds, they find it.
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As a thesis, this might seem appallingly pretentious or just downright weird.
David saw him suddenly at the kitchen table, a few of his university cronies alongside, bearded and complaining around the glowing wine bottle bastard politicians, pretentious films, popular potboilers, historical rogues, critical tirades turned into a competitive sport while Mrs.
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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