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exhibits characteristics such as
social awkwardness, underachievement, or
pretentiousness. The term is
derived from the neck
beard style of
facial hair stereotypically...
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Atlantic Monthly magazine.
Myers criticized what he saw as the
growing pretentiousness of
contemporary American literary fiction,
especially in
contrast to...
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right to a jury trial. He
complained of what he
considered the
pretentiousness of the
other delegates,
writing to Abigail, "I
believe if it was moved...
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Margot requests a
cheeseburger and
French fries prepared without the
pretentiousness of fine dining.
Slowik finds joy in
personally attending to her meal...
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Katherine Hepburn's face on the screen, no
matter what was said
about her
pretentiousness..."—Novelist F.
Scott Fitzgerald in his The Crack-Up,
April 1936 Esquire...
- Indiana. Hunt,
Dennis (December 7, 1980). "Rock
singer wages war
against pretentiousness".
Lewiston Morning Tribune. (Idaho). (Los
Angeles Times). p. 2D. Wawzenek...
- from the BBC wrote, "the ch****y
charm has been
replaced by
plodding pretentiousness in a film that's
illuminated by
great action set-pieces and some powerful...
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Satire VI is the most famous[according to whom?] of the
sixteen Satires by the
Roman author Juvenal written in the late 1st or
early 2nd century. In English...
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performance grew "monotonous" and that the film
sometimes verged on
pretentiousness, but was
redeemed by a few
excellent suspense sequences and Gyllenhaal's...
