Utiliser "pretentious" dans une phrase

1. It worried me that perhaps he was getting above himself, and I thought the house rather pretentious at first

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2. ‘Sorry, that sounds pretentious

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3. Ava had always had the prettiest home, though hardly as pretentious as those of Delos Alverez or Haymon Kruger

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4. He needed to be reminded of his place; but you are correct, the pretentious little Ousa is becoming a problem

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5. Matai found Lord Boras to be a pretentious, arrogant ass who thought himself above anyone else on the planet

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6. We tend to nurture pretension and there is little more pretentious than sprouting the bard

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7. interest to build high and/or pretentious buildings on

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8. It avoids convenient or simple solutions to complex questions or easy expressions for hard-nosed assumptions that require testing, at every level; prepared to accept in whatever manner, the pretentious challenges of misleading or presumptive propositions whose attainment is (sufficient) reward in itself

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9. Arrogance, the off-spring of Low Esteem, is (fortunately) balanced, however, by the professional demeanor of other (exceptional) athletes with little or nothing to prove, whose quiet tenor, and business like attitude, free of pretentious designs and excessive self-regard; that is to say, individuals who are comfortable with themselves and in themselves, who feel that they have nothing to prove and are (generally) less likely to be influenced by money and glamour; speaks volumes about the fundamental character of an emotional secure individual

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10. City Planning, for example, was neither pretentious nor overpowering in its designs but simplistically proportionate in a stately manner

11. The Motion Picture industry has enjoyed a long running fetish with strong, physically intimidating women routinely beating up on or otherwise skillfully out-maneuvering the obnoxious designs of pretentious, self-centered males filled with a heightened sense of their (own) self-importance; convenient foils portrayed as anachronistic, insensitive, chauvinistic types deserving an occasional thrashing every so often from women scorned or in response to inopportune or unsolicited (sexual) banterings or harmless wisecracks intended to make a definitive statement about strong women coming of age

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12. Those few left their coin on the table and got up to leave in a boisterous but rather pretentious manner

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13. But it felt pretentious and lacking

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14. “This pretentious piece of meat believes he’s entitled to every woman in the world!”

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15. I hate sounding this pretentious, but I’m

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16. I don’t have to be pretentious with her

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17. Afraid that fans might label them pretentious, they try to

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18. You may try all you want to be nice and not pretentious at all, but haters wil come

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19. This is the time to worry about not being pretentious

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20. spreading the word and getting away with it without coming across as pretentious or

21. without seeming pretentious” and be required to actual y try and pull that off once in a while

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22. With the teeth as a tool I made another attempt, but what I did was hurt me and the pretentious jewel did not move an inch, seemed to be part of my own skin, as the dermis and the epidermis

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23. Their expression was indefinable; therefore I could not tell if they were friendly or pretentious

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24. It was a purposeless and pretentious way of life for a

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25. She selected, from her wide repertoire, the words that more mortification throw on the inflated self-esteem of the pretentious Beatrice and declared without mufflers:

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26. ” As an excuse it was no excuse, but I let him show me several pretentious silver cups and feigned interest while he stroked my neck

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27. -Look! That is the pretentious girl walking over there!!

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28. Curiosity made me turn my head and realized that the pretentious girl that was walking over there was me, to my surprise

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29. Ancient Thebes was too grandiose, too wasteful, too ridiculously pretentious after the serene simplicity of Kanu’s village

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30. In a bedroom of a somewhat pretentious Mediterranean style villa on a plot of land far too small to display it’s doubtful charms, a slim young man gazed at his reflection in the mirror

31. He didn't really care about Lily, but insisted meeting her after our meeting today? He was such a hypocrite, and a pretentious asshole to boot

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32. He was such a controlling, demanding, pretentious, pampas asshole! I had to put up with him all these years because he was Nathan's father, and did deserve to see him

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33. Such pretentious bastards they were!

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34. They now saw the wisdom of the Master's plan of sending them out to labor in a quiet and personal manner before the launching of their more pretentious public efforts

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35. " They were all greatly cheered by these words; this was their first clearcut and positive intimation that Jesus designed later on to enter upon more aggressive and pretentious public efforts

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36. Could it be the unstated policy of the Delhi operatives as well, he suspected, but, couched by the pretentious unsuitability labels!

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37. Lack of this authority in pretentious public teaching was looked upon as indicating either ignorant presumption or open rebellion

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38. guy for a meeting and he sat acting all pretentious and

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39. moderate, a little pretentious, but clean looking

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40. buttons to press while muttering to himself about the damn pretentious machine

41. Some men express themselves through art, others pluck the harp strings and play the lute, others write pretentious poetry or pointless novels that nobody really wants to read

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42. Don't be all formal and pretentious and trying to impress

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43. It was close to six o’clock and Mr Crow suggested they go to a pub for a meal, to Murray’s surprise Mr Hawk agreed, Murray refused saying that he was going to watch a bit of telly and have an early night, when they left he phoned Shirl and brought her up to speed, then he turned the telly on, next he went through the rubbish bin looking for the coke bottle Mr Crow had taken from his car before he sank it, there were two nice clear prints on the bottle so he wrapped it and put it with his other insurance, identities and money and stuffed the lot inside the drivers door of the truck, he still didn’t know who Mr Crow was but he was sure with all the resources the casino had at their disposal they would soon trace a fingerprint, one way or another Mr Crows career was about to go pear shaped along with a certain Melbourne ex-bookie, he got a beer from the fridge and began to watch a quiz show on the telly, a young quiz host, who was completely up himself, was being very condescending in his humiliation of an elderly couple who’s greed for the over-priced second rate prizes had stripped them of their pride, feeling upset for them he turned the telly off, he then had a whimsical thought that went like this, to get top ratings all that had to be done was for the TV company to set up one of the aged contestant to punch that pretentious little pricks lights out in front of a national audience, he reckoned the ratings would go through the roof, and with any luck it might also start a trend, he knew it was far-fetched but he was quite happy with his whimsical thought, maybe one day you never know

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44. Pretentious, I know

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45. The words were just short of pretentious, yet her description was

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46. While it may seem pretentious to attribute the return on a stock to wholly known

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47. “scientifically-attuned intellect,” which meant nothing to the rest of the trolls except that Brumvack was a pretentious idiot

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48. He however spoke up in a firm tone, looking the pretentious court noble in the eyes

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49. to do than make meaningless chitchat at a pretentious eatery at that time of night

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50. There was nothing pretentious, just excellent art of all kinds and with an obvious focus on Latin American artists

51. Then that pretentious class rep bitch interrupted us and ruined the whole thing

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52. cold, loveless heart out and shove it up your pretentious ass!”

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53. We usually stop off at this pretentious

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54. The whole performance was annoyingly pretentious

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55. Some of you are probably reading this and accusing me of being pretentious and/

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56. ment of heaven is the highest goal of temporal birth and its activities, and who speak pretentious words to describe the many rites and ceremonies that they regard as conducive to the achievement of worldly

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57. They use pretentious and ornate language

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58. Her Unexpected Admirer (Davis & Katherine) – Davis hated art; he thought the art world was pretentious and superficial

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59. Davis & Katherine – Davis hated art; he thought the art world was pretentious and superficial

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60. ‘Why would I want to spend an evening with pretentious wankers and D-grade celebrities,’ Michael had said

61. Enjoying her pretentious power, she states, “That was for finding you

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62. Everyone was leaving to go out on the lawn to smoke and talk except for a few pretentious jerks that stayed behind

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63. Perhaps she wasn't the pretentious self-absorbed person I thought she was

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64. You said it was barren, soulless, arid, pretentious, and police-ridden; that everybody was an official, and that all the officials were rude

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65. ‘She is being pretentious these days,’ she said pointing to Isha

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66. You are just as pretentious as selfish you are

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67. Ignoring the pretentious tone of that last thought, Darren continued to watch the screen

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68. It wasn’t exactly honest but feeling guilty about conning a car salesman was like worrying about feeling a pretentious cunt while watching a French film on your iPad

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69. They suited the homes of locals, but for some reason always seemed pretentious, out of place, in the home of a gwai lo

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70. “How pretentious of you! And what made you think you could do this to me—place me in such a position with my family, and the parish? Do you presume this has only to do with you?” Her fury seemed to mount as she spoke, and she stomped her foot

71. He was rude and pretentious and on top of that was obese

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72. The building wasn’t pretentious, but it was beautiful

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73. Still, it struck a balance of not being overly pretentious despite its grandeur

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74. Christians who are disposed to dwell in a pretentious spirit upon their 'privileges’ are very likely to look, complacently upon their own immortality, in contrast with the, perishable nature of their unsaved neighbors

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75. "What surprises me," he began, after a short pause, handing the letter to his mother, but not addressing anyone in particular, "is that he is a business man, a lawyer, and his conversation is pretentious indeed, and yet he writes such an uneducated letter

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76. Near it, chipped at all the corners, was a miniature given him by Emma: her toilette seemed to him pretentious, and her languishing look in the worst possible taste

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77. JAMES DUFFY lived in Chapelizod because he wished to live as far as possible from the city of which he was a citizen and because he found all the other suburbs of Dublin mean, modern and pretentious

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78. The shop where he had been apprenticed used to be just down at the bottom; the place had been pulled down years ago, and the ground was now occupied by more pretentious buildings

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79. She did not suffer lazy people, pretentious people, liars, the sloppy, or the inarticulate

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80. The house before me was the ordinary moorland farm, with a more pretentious whitewashed wing added

81. They implied that he was insolent, pretentious, and given to that reckless innovation for the sake of noise and show which was the essence of the charlatan

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82. This is not just a useful antidote to being baffled by pretentious jargon: it also helps establish whether one’s ideas are right

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83. What lessons—again using the pretentious title of my 1920 pamphlet—can the analyst of 1958 learn from this linking of past with current attitudes? Not much of value, one is inclined to say

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84. Why give this dish that’s always on the menu a Latin name? It is not to be pretentious, but rather because the Latin Satio Tempestas perfectly describes a dish that varies from day to day depending on what is at its best in the two gardens

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85. Zachary pushed his pretentious horn-rims a little higher on his nose

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86. The second shot took care of Zachary, right through those pretentious horn-rims of his

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87. ‘Because the composer’s pretentious and his music is bloody hard to listen to

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88. He knew it was unfair to think Griszt pretentious for that; a good number of people listened to, and wrote, music because they liked to hear the sound of mathematics

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89. Unlike many of the Kennedys, Ethel was down-to-earth, not at all pretentious

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90. Film chronicler Leslie Halliwell wrote: “a solemn, unattractive, pretentious film, which seldom stops wallowing in self pity

91. Laferrière seemed less pretentious and voracious to her, but her wise decision was to buy her fill of what she liked best in the secondhand shops, although her husband swore in dismay that it was corpses’ clothing

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92. It is stupid, unfit for children above seven years of age, a Punch and Judy show, pretentious, feigned, entirely false and without any music whatever

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93. A landscape representing a very unusual view, or a genre picture of a special subject, may not please every one, but ornaments, from Yakutsk ornaments to Greek ones, are intelligible to every one and evoke a similar feeling of admiration in all, and therefore this despised kind of art should, in Christian society, be esteemed far above exceptional, pretentious pictures and sculptures

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94. And when you do all this, applauded by no one, and expecting no praises for it from any one, nor any reward,—when you do this, not as an heroic deed, but like the laborer in the Gospel when he came from the field, considering that you have done only that which was your duty, then you know what the false, pretentious labor of men performed for glory really is, and that true labor is fulfilling the will of God, whose command you feel in your heart

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