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  1. On his early life. At age eleven, Degas (in adulthood he abandoned the more, pretentious ,spelling of the family name) began his schooling with enrollment in the Lycée
  2. Of like a little more of a punk rock Mechanical Animals without sounding too, pretentious , " For much of the early half of 2011,Marilyn Manson removed himself from the
  3. Yikes! " Or" uh-oh! " The" Bowie" intent does exist in French, but is not as, pretentious ,as the English usage.; outré: out of the ordinary, unusual. In French, it means
  4. And has psionic abilities. Additionally, he has a non-standard weapon and a, pretentious ,). He's the last of the actors to embrace his television role (in order to
  5. Progressive rock had fallen into disrepute. It was dismissed as overblown, pretentious ,and elitist. Fans were embarrassed to publicly admit they liked an act
  6. To Emerson, calling the book" trashy, profane & obscene" and the author" a, pretentious ,ass ". On July 11, 1855,a few days after Leaves of Grass was published
  7. Then you had no hope in hell and no career prospects at all. Out of that came, pretentious ,moi and the Sex Pistols and then a bunch of copycat wankers after us.
  8. Threatened by a group of monochromatic bikers who consider Roger's 256 colors, pretentious ,(or comment on other graphics modes if played in EGA or Monochrome). Space
  9. And possesses moderately good manners, at best. She is a boasting, domineering, pretentious , woman who likes to be the center of attention and is generally disliked by Emma
  10. Ask either the greatest film director since Orson Welles or ... a hypnotically, pretentious ,fake ". Initially, Roger Ebert gave a poor review of The Shining which now
  11. Amateurishly constructed ... from the stylistic points of view annoyingly, pretentious ,"),instead of Clifford Odets' The Flowering Peach (their preferred choice)
  12. Too hokey. " The New house News Service called the film a" lurid, violent, pretentious , piece of claptrap ". The film won three Saturn Awards for Best Science Fiction
  13. Had its monarch in London, the Colonial Office opposed as" premature" and ", pretentious ," the term" kingdom ", as it was felt it might antagonize the United States.
  14. By objecting with numerous arguments to every order.;: lit. Searched; obscure;, pretentious , In French, means sophisticated or delicate, or simply studied, without the
  15. Writing have varied greatly, running the gamut from cerebral and insightful to, pretentious ,and preachy. During the band's early years,Peart's lyrics were largely
  16. Take mischievous delight in the discomfort or downfall of their conventional, pretentious ,elders. Shortly before the Great War, with the genre of invasion literature
  17. And misguided ". The film's director, Phil Joan, described it as" an overly, pretentious ,look at U2 ". Most of the album's new material was played on 1989's Love town
  18. Anyone can make a mistake, Preston Surges, even. The mistake in question is a, pretentious ,number called Sullivan's Travels. " Awards and honors In 1990,Sullivan's
  19. By Warren Carlyle. The cast includes Patrick Page as the" deliciously, pretentious ," director-actor-producer Jeffrey Cordova, Mara Davis playing Gabrielle Gerard
  20. Reception Howard Thompson of The New York Times called the film a" pallid, pretentious ,and overlong reflection of the Japanese original "; according to Thompson," do
  21. Provides a glimpse of the society which Rococo reflected. " Courtly" would be, pretentious ,in this upper bourgeois circle, yet the man's gesture is gallant. The stylish
  22. The Brilliant, the Bad, and the Ugly," derided" Revolution #9" as a ", pretentious ," example of" idiot immaturity" and, in the following sentence, assigned the
  23. Green and others, the original purpose of" Jabberwocky" was to satirize both, pretentious ,verse and ignorant literary critics. It was designed as verse designed to show
  24. Criticised by some music critics. Critics frequently lambasted the band as, pretentious , One critic went as far as asking" how do you spell pretentious ? Emerson, Lake
  25. Not what he is currently pretending to be. " He had a lifelong disgust for the, pretentious , fake or phony, as his son Stephen told Turner Classic Movies host Robert
  26. The band as pretentious . One critic went as far as asking" how do you spell, pretentious , Emerson, Lake,And Palmer? ". With an even more cruel take on ELP, even going
  27. Divided between those that consider him" immensely profound" or" just plain, pretentious , " Likewise, Tony Mills in The Sunday Times Book review said he is" depending on
  28. Choice to lead the force; historian John Hall characterized him as ", pretentious ,and unqualified ". Before long, the Indians became frustrated with marching
  29. As audiences struggled to understand the score's originally—many found it, pretentious ,and monotonous, lacking in both rhythm and melody. By contrast, modern critical
  30. Association with royalty and luxury, the term purple is often used to describe, pretentious ,or overly embellished literature. For example, a paragraph containing an
  31. Original Broadway production:" At its worst moments, Follies is mannered and, pretentious , overreaching for Significance. At its best moments—and there are many—it is
  32. At the Golden Dawn with his pedantry. Crowley voiced the view that Waite was a, pretentious ,bore through searing critiques of Waite's writings and editorials of other
  33. Played Jane's art camp companion, and rock musician Dave Grohl played Jane's, pretentious ,art camp host. Several songs by the band Foo Fighters (for which Growl is
  34. Seen as doggedly battling adversity, *the urban, nouveau riche" incomers ":, pretentious ,and domineering, Lynda Snell is the butt of many jokes, although her sheer
  35. Station. More than that, she worries that her ambitious and increasingly, pretentious ,elder daughter, Veda,will think her new job demeaning. Mildred encounters both
  36. Has been quoted as saying" The truth is Enid Byton was arrogant, insecure, pretentious , very skilled at putting difficult or unpleasant things out of her mind, and
  37. Displayed in a two-panel format with the first panel showing some deceptive, pretentious , unwitting or scheming human behavior and the second panel revealing the truth
  38. By Sean Hennessy in a Pitchfork Media review of the album as both" bizarrely, pretentious ," and" reason alone to give it a listen ". Name Hennessy/> Baruch and
  39. In the kingdom of I'd. An unscrupulous, incompetent shyster with a big, pretentious ,nose and stovepipe hat, he lies and cheats to protect criminals. While inept as
  40. A young couple forced to cope with life after death, as well as a family of, pretentious ,yuppies invading their treasured New England home including their teenage
  41. Oceans (1973). Waksman, however,felt Tales from Topographic Oceans was, pretentious ,and – despite its ambition -insubstantial. He disliked performing the album on
  42. Narrator's father. He is involved with Mme de Villeparisis. *Albert Bloch: A, pretentious ,Jewish friend of the Narrator. *Julien: A tailor who has a shop in the
  43. Play will restart his career. However, the play's director wants to make it a, pretentious ,retelling of Faust, and brings in a prime ballerina who clashes with the star.
  44. Him as an aloof and impressive genius and aesthete, the other that saw him as a, pretentious ,and insecure poseur. His students almost always fell into the former category
  45. Ignored Bad Moon Rising upon its release, now viewing the band as too arty and, pretentious , Sonic Youth was becoming quite critically acclaimed in the United Kingdom
  46. Distinguish themselves ... and who offer some attraction and some excuse in the, pretentious ,show of window dressing and infantile daubing ”. Cassatt displayed eleven works
  47. Or New Foes with an Old Face, which portrayed the scholar as a" helpless, pretentious , and erotic heroine ", recounted her conversion by a Jewish-Christian named
  48. With anarchism *Radical chic, a term coined by Tom Wolfe to describe the, pretentious ,adoption of radical causes by celebrities, socialites,and high society In
  49. Music, calligraphy and Japanese poetry. She was aware that others saw her as ", pretentious , awkward, difficult to approach, prickly,too fond of her tales, haughty,prone
  50. Robert Christian said of the band" these guys are as stupid as their most, pretentious ,fans ". Stale and full of ennui, this album makes washing the dishes seem a

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