pretentiousness

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For a short book, Pretentiousness is impressively broad in its exploration of its subject, which it views from such vantage points as Greek philosophy, the Stanislavski acting method, the psychoanalytic theories of D.W.

From Slate • Apr. 5, 2016

Related: Pretentiousness by Dan Fox review – why anti-intellectualism is the real snobbery And what of music?

From The Guardian • Feb. 21, 2016

Pretentiousness defines a degree of dislocation between our circumstances and the image we are trying to project.

From The Guardian • Feb. 9, 2016

Pretentiousness shares with sophistication a lingering sense of “unnaturalness”; something faked, pretending, tampered with.

From The Guardian • Feb. 9, 2016

Pretentiousness or arrogance in Man can never be anything but ridiculous, and a sense of humour should alone be sufficient to save us from such error.

From The Romance of the Soul by Staveley, Lilian