Significados de as pretentious em inglês

Some marveled at its ingenuity, others derided it as pretentious and dull.

It was not as pretentious as he expected, but infinitely more inviting.

Not as pretentious as Joyce's with her columns but not all that tasteful, either.

They were honest and in earnest, but it appeared to me as pretentious and even ludicrous.

They lived in a house which had been, in its day, as pretentious as the Saunders mansion.

Warning: not as pretentious as it sounds.

It came off more as pretentious.

We did not play bridge or baccarat and our rather intellectual and literary after-dinner games were looked upon as pretentious.

Jamie Stewart's breathy recitations about love and sex are as pretentious as they come on Black Dick and New Life Immigration.

Eras of barbarism have overtaken civilizations as pretentious as our own-intellectual nights in which the patiently acquired learning of ages was lost.

It happened last year with Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life -hailed as a masterpiece by some, derided as pretentious rubbish by others.

I found Muhamed D.'s poems silly and fake; his use of Beethoven struck me as pretentious and his mysticism alien to my own rock-and-roll affectations.

As pretentious as this may sound, the resort is surprisingly anything but.

As pretentious as it sounds, A Ghost Story is more about a feeling, an emotional response to a singular cinematic experience.

'Juvenile hyperspace' would just refer to the behavior of juvenile dinosaurs-ifyou wanted to be as pretentious as possible.