| I particularly liked affecting a Gallic air and posing pretentiously with them in the library. |
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| The dialogue is self-consciously clunky, the characters are stereotypes and each section is fronted with a pretentiously redundant quotation. |
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| Many of her speeches could sound pretentiously gnomic, or ramblingly incoherent. |
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| Mr. Speaker, it is my belief that if the Good Lord did not want us to behave pretentiously, She would not have made me so pretentious. |
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| The important thing is to get ridiculously and pretentiously creative, and let everyone know what you're doing and what it all represents. |
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| The pretentiously named Bones was taller and skinnier, and he always carried brass knuckles in his pocket. |
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| Mercifully, the official exhibition was not gerrymandered into national sections or pretentiously titled thematic subdivisions. |
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| Yet it's not pretentiously overblown nor dragged down by fanboy baggage. |
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| This movie, on the other hand, looks like it's going to be either a new horror classic that shapes the genre, or one of the most pretentiously awful films of all time. |
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| Speaking this and that pretentiously, walking all the while criss-across till the bell rang. |
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| The layman is surprised by the result, and the expert can pretentiously explain that the spread in the population is already relatively large. |
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| By then, pretentiously revolutionary political names had descended to the world of crack. |
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| But the Aston has its own annoying points, like the pretentiously styled dashboard on which the buttons are fiddly and the digital displays are unreadable in direct sunlight. |
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| As part of this pretentiously named process, human-resources staff have interviewed 150 senior executives and arranged 35 focus groups for employees. |
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