pretentiousness

Example Sentences

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It slips into pretentiousness only to slip right back out again.

From New York Times • Nov. 28, 2022

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

The class had been watching French New Wave films and Braden decided to parody their pretentiousness.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 24, 2022

The pretentiousness of acting is a fun thing to lampoon, and “Official Competition” does it with surgical precision.

From Washington Post • Jun. 21, 2022

The typical young lover, well built, good-looking enough but without charm; his youthfulness armed with a timid pretentiousness.

From Woman by Marx, Magdeleine