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