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

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

From Washington Post • Jun. 21, 2022

There is no affectation, no pretentiousness, in Marryat.

From The Age of Tennyson by Walker, Hugh