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Buterin is wryly funny and almost wholly devoid of pretension or ego.

THE MAN BEHIND ETHEREUM IS WORRIED ABOUT CRYPTO'S FUTUREANDREW R. CHOW/DENVERMARCH 18, 2022TIME

As Lipstein skewers the pretensions and delusions of literary ambition, he reveals the mental tricks that allow writers to imagine that they care only for art, not money or fame.

HOW TO MAKE IT RICH AS A BAD ART FRIENDRON CHARLESJANUARY 18, 2022WASHINGTON POST

His great divide stemmed from his love of science and hatred of literary pretension.

WHO SAID SCIENCE AND ART WERE TWO CULTURES? - ISSUE 108: CHANGEKEVIN BERGERNOVEMBER 17, 2021NAUTILUS

Mia Hansen-Løve, always a perceptive director and often a terrific one, takes that risk with Bergman Island—and in the end, after nearly running aground on the rocky shoals of pretension, it pays off.

BERGMAN ISLAND IS THE RARE MOVIE ABOUT WRITERS TRYING TO WRITE THAT REALLY WORKSSTEPHANIE ZACHAREKOCTOBER 15, 2021TIME

Neighborhood bowling alleys have a total lack of pretension in the best way.

AMERICA’S INDEPENDENT BOWLING ALLEYS MIGHT NOT MAKE IT THROUGH THE PANDEMICEMMA ORLOWJANUARY 15, 2021EATER

The garden was in a perfect state of cultivation, but without the least pretension to taste in its arrangement.

A WOMAN'S JOURNEY ROUND THE WORLDIDA PFEIFFER

The comic poets ridiculed pretension, arrogance, quackery, and lies.

BEACON LIGHTS OF HISTORY, VOLUME IJOHN LORD

The truth about the Carlist pretension is so little known in England that it may be well to state it.

SPANISH LIFE IN TOWN AND COUNTRYL. HIGGIN AND EUGNE E. STREET

The coward is boastful when there is no danger: pretension succeeds in the absence of real merit!

THE INDIAN IN HIS WIGWAMHENRY R. SCHOOLCRAFT

And I'm actuated by positive benevolence; I've that impudent pretension.