11. Dressed all in black but not pretentiously so, she is forthright and reserved, tired and funny. 12. Recurrent symbolic images of a white bird furiously beating its wings inside a cage strike a pretentiously false note. 13. But " Gridlock'd " is essentially as stalled-out as its pretentiously spelled title implies. 14. So the Japanese designers'notion of men's dress has long been a man who looks pretentiously unpretentious. 15. It doesn't help that director Salva keeps the pace pretentiously slow, making his short movie seem much longer. 16. They keep trying to sanitize the event and give it pretentiously serious overtones when all the children want to do is party. 17. Toss in pretentiously innocuous lyrics and what you have is the " Star Wars " of music _ geek worship. 18. The opera deserves a less pretentiously realistic staging, one that gives more breathing space to the broadly sketched personalities of the libretto. 19. Given the haughty nature of Tahilakifue, the area where she fell was named Foki angatoma ( toma meaning to dress pretentiously ). 20. After a less than promising start that had symbolic figures of fate posed pretentiously in the gloom there was one stylistic surprise after another.
