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Definiția pretentious în dicționarul Engleză
Definiția pretențiosului în dicționar face să pretindă o distincție sau o importanță, esp nemeritat. O altă definiție a pretențiunii este crearea sau crearea unei aparențe exterioare înșelătoare de mare valoare; ostentativ.
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pretentious.
People need realness, reality. People can sense when someone is being pretentious or fake. It's because you feel it; you see it in someone's body language.
Don't call me a journalist; I hate the word. It's pretentious!
I don't want to sound pretentious, but you could hire a bunch of monkeys to be on a TV show, and if it's successful, then everything's perfect and everybody's happy.
I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don't gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.
It seems pretentious to assume that we are not creatures of action. I think often it takes a situation of extreme absurdity, extreme action, to push us to the limits of what our character is, and to change us as people.
It sounds stupid, but there's nothing like walking down the street and seeing a building that's older than 100 years old. I think London - not to sound pretentious - like New York, it's a big melting pot for all things and it's just got this energy that you can't find anywhere else.
I think some period drama can be quite alienating, but 'Downton' isn't. This is going to sound quite, um, pretentious, but someone said that it's like a soap written by a poet.
It's quite pretentious, really, isn't it? The notion the audience is going to be interested in you for an hour and a half. Think too much about that and anxiety takes over.
Call it my little gesture toward social conscience, but I like to think I'm teaching a certain number of people to read. Now that sounds pretentious!
I don't do interviews at home any more because my wife doesn't like having her taste in interiors put through the mill. And I get annoyed when journalists make snide remarks about the annoyingly pretentious shops in the neighbourhood - because I hate them just as much.
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The
Pretentious Young Ladies
This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features the table of contents linked to every part and chapter.
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101
pretentious hors d'oeuvres
Provides recipes for appetizers which feature seafood, meat, poultry, vegetables, fruits, nuts, eggs, or cheese as the main ingredient
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100
Pretentious Proverbs
If you want to sound as though you’ve swallowed a dictionary, here are 100 simple proverbs and their verbose translations for you to memorize and recite at dinner parties and other social gatherings.
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Australians and the Arts
Exactly half the sample population believe that the arts attract people who are
elitist or pretentious (51%), with only about one in ten expressing this view
strongly. Just under half are prepared to agree that the arts are about class in
Australia ...
It should be possible to interpret a pretentious wine as one that looked, tasted,
smelled, and felt like an aged Chateau Lafite but was really a jug wine from the
San Joaquin Valley selling for $1.89 a gallon—truly a wine buyer's fantasy.
Adrienne Lehrer Professor of Linguistics University of Arizona,
2009
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The
Pretentious Persuaders: A Brief History & Science of ...
Second Edition - Revamped - Updated - Uncut This book is sure to become one of the most influential of modern times.
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100
Pretentious Nursery Rhymes
If you want to sound as though you've ingested a thesaurus, here are 100 nursery rhymes and their long-winded translations to memorize and declaim at children's parties. You'll be the most popular person there!
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The Buddhist Coffee House
notes seem like prayers, some are more like journals, but a few of the visitors
write pretentious poems. Meanwhile, in Scotland, a bearded bald headed guy
sang with a heavy Scottish accent and William decided to write a very pretentious
...
Luther Hughes, Waccamaw Press,
2010
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Aesthetics and the Theory of Criticism: Selected Essays of ...
11. 'Pretentious'. as. an. Aesthetic. Predicate. I can do little more in this paper
than, first, to say what I think the importance of the subject is and, second, to point
out what I think are the main difficulties of the subject. The chief general problem
...
Arnold Isenberg, William Callaghan,
1988
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Confessions of a
Pretentious Poet
Confessions Of A Pretentious Poet is filled with poems meant to make you laugh, cry, think and most importantly: break out the old notebook and confess your own pretentious poetry!
Marquis L. Woolford,
2013
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pretentious în contextul următoarelor știri.
NFL's Deflategate prevention plan is overdone, 'pretentious'
Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, the star of the NFL's Deflategate scandal, passes the ball during OTAs on May 29. Photo: AP ... «New York Post, Iul 15»
'Church in Ruins'
... captors, but Vince Vaughn's pretentious don't-call-him-a-gangster gangster didn't leave me too bothered or baffled with his pretentious patter, ... «Entertainment Weekly, Iul 15»
Friends, family celebrate life of late country star Norwood
“There wasn't a pretentious bone in his body. He loved everybody.” Norwood's cause of death remains under investigation. Hereford police ... «LubbockOnline.com, Iul 15»
BBC: the Secret Files, BBC4 - TV review: The BBC opens its vaults …
"This, unless you understand exactly what they're trying to do, is crap, and pretentious crap at that." That's the dismissive verdict BBC assessors ... «The Independent, Iul 15»
BBC drama Life In Squares review by CHRISTOPHER STEVENS
Television more pretentious than Life In Squares (BBC2) cannot be imagined. If you'd watched wearing a beret and neckerchief, while smoking ... «Daily Mail, Iul 15»
Each farmers' market has its own vibe
It was very pretentious, crowded, and uninviting. Thankfully, the Saturday morning market held downtown in Toledo is nothing like that one. «Toledo Blade, Iul 15»
'The End of the Tour' review: One of the year's top films, with Jason …
Wallace, a gentle giant who wears a bandana over long hair, is aware that in a magazine profile he could come off pretentious and awkward. «New York Daily News, Iul 15»
No. 4: Libertine Liquor Bar
... they gradually gave way to beanies and flannels as management fretted about the joint feeling too pretentious. Now that the Libertine is open ... «Indianapolis Monthly, Iul 15»
Partch: Delusion of the Fury, Lincoln Center Festival, New York
Still, one recalcitrant iconoclast — OK, this one — had trouble distinguishing creative profundity from pretentious claptrap. Sorry. «Financial Times, Iul 15»
Irish hotel gets heat for US$42 bottled water
... with critics lambasting the new service as “disgusting”, in light of water scarcity issues around the world, and insufferably “pretentious”. «The Malaysian Insider, Iul 15»