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Перевод: pretentiousness

[существительное]
претенциозность

Тезаурус:

1. "Pretentiousness is the cocaine of the caring classes," he soliloquized.
2. His manner is both warm and friendly, with not a hint of the pretentiousness of some of his better known colleagues.
3. I suppose we ought to take all this seriously, as a searing analysis of the plight of trans-sexuals, but the play's mixture of pretentiousness, bathos and screaming melodrama becomes increasingly hard to stomach.
4. It takes either great pretentiousness or great brilliance (or an outrageous combination of the two) for a young poet to proclaim himself as Orpheus in the first poem of his first book.
5. How to move between pretentiousness and cynicism?
6. The ultimate distinction for any performance of this work must be to topple over and drown in its own pretentiousness and Segerstam's direction doesn't possess quite the urgency or the dazzle to achieve that.
7. They belonged to a category of fabric called fustian (derived from the name of the Egyptian town where it originated), and by Shakespeare's time the very word fustian had become synonymous with bombast and pretentiousness.
8. But it's clear that it's hardly plausible to account for the current indie mire in those terms, as a problem of indulgence, pretentiousness, over-inflated ambition and gross-out.
9. On the other hand, I didn't have to think about it at all to decide it was flamboyant, asinine pretentiousness.
10. Exclusiveness can be pretentiousness; amateur status can sometimes be an excuse for shoddiness and inefficiency; addiction to antiquity can result in obscurity and a tedious nostalgia.
11. Despite some hilarious interjections, Finney is largely confined to the sidelines as we watch the play itself, a dreadful parade of pretentiousness, with Pseud's Corner voice-overs, eerie sound effects and sub-Coronation Street dialogue.
12. An intellectual ripper, which veers between poetry and pretentiousness.
13. This petrification of the sound of adolescence has meant a loss of the essential dynamism, fluidity and reach of adolescence, its true pretentiousness.