pretentiousness
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The nuances of race are also present in the show’s cultural specificity, such as the depiction of a Korean American church community or the fine art-world pretentiousness of Amy’s Japanese American husband and family.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 17, 2023
Some of X’s pretentiousness — she is given to statements like “To be rebellious and to distrust rebellion is the plight of the tragic artist” — bleeds over into the book itself.
From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2023
In her landmark essay "Notes on 'Camp,'" Susan Sontag defines the aesthetic as such: "artifice, frivolity, naïve middle-class pretentiousness and shocking excess."
From Salon ● Nov. 21, 2022
There seems to be a really great sense of humor and lack of pretentiousness in Chicago and Illinois.
From Washington Post ● May 26, 2022
But Cassy, instinctively insolent to pretentiousness, was very simple with the simple.
From The Paliser case by Edgar Saltus
