pretentiousness's Usage Examples:

exhibit characteristics such as social awkwardness, underachievement or pretentiousness.

stories focusing on religious and social repercussions of showing off, pretentiousness and posturing.

Myers criticized what he saw as the growing pretentiousness of contemporary American literary fiction, especially in relation to.

emphasized its key elements as: "artifice, frivolity, naïve middle-class pretentiousness, and shocking excess".

The episode lampoons pretentiousness in the contemporary art world, and pays homage to Agatha Christie's.

described as both "pretentious nonsense" and "avoiding the pitfalls of pretentiousness".

Edwardian elegance of style is amusingly suited to satirizing upper-class pretentiousness, but his Negro characters are simply stereotypes and his twittering.

information, The Works epitomizes Beerbohm's penchant for deflating pretentiousness with satiric imitation," wrote Ann Adams Cleary in the Dictionary of.

Times review remarked on the satirical nature of the novel, and the pretentiousness of the characters' obsession with exotic food, with one character explaining.

They are brilliant on French pretentiousness, citing in particular art-films by Jean-Luc Godard and the fraudulent.

Street's satirical works assailed "snobbery, hypocrisy, vulgarity, and pretentiousness at all levels of society, especially among the aesthetes and the upper.

Aside from financial status, the term "lace curtain Irish" connoted pretentiousness and social climbing, while the "shanty Irish" were stereotyped as feckless.

In pretentiousness it has no equal.

difficult patients and wrote "in language devoid of jargon, dogma, or pretentiousness" about her cases.

Created originally as a performance piece criticizing pretentiousness in the artistic world, when it disbanded in late 2005, its remaining.

and, more broadly, on fads, superficiality, vanity, hypocrisy and pretentiousness; it also satirises romantic love, rural simplicity and military bluster.

Dylan Thomas was made to stand for everything they detested: verbal obscurity, metaphysical pretentiousness, and romantic rhapsodizing Angry Young Men.

56 measures long, has a wonderful, soaring melodic line, free from pretentiousness, but full of passion and intensity which is superbly supported by the.

Synonyms:

ostentation; inflation; puffiness; pomposity; inelegance; splashiness; ostentatiousness; pompousness;

Antonyms:

disinflation; deflation; tastefulness; unpretentiousness; naturalness;