31. The pagans are scrupulously honest, avoiding some of the pretentiousness of Christian Elizabethan society. 32. What keeps the 42-minute movie from drifting into pretentiousness is its acute visual focus. 33. The movie's dim visuals, however, are nothing compared with its metaphysical pretentiousness . 34. It was as if our glam literary bauble had committed a cultural outrage of criminal pretentiousness . 35. They like the furniture as much for its lack of pretentiousness as for its fine craftsmanship. 36. But she was impatient with the pretentiousness of the opera world and never embraced it fully. 37. Ultimately, the Sartre quotation is not a symbol of high art, but of high pretentiousness . 38. He goes on to complain about the predictability, the banality, the pretentiousness of their conversation. 39. His teammates say that they see no pretentiousness , that he is a teammate's teammate. 40. The problem lies in the calculating pretentiousness of using human misery to make shallow entertainment seem serious.
