|
Перевод: pretentious
[прилагательное] много о себе возомнивший; показной; притязательный
Тезаурус:
- A string of distinguished television current-affairs programmes are dismissed as being soft on criminals and terrorists; TV programme-makers turn out to be pretentious, corrupt, cynical and generally "nauseating these saintly people, living off the fat of the land, try to kid you that they are guardians of the common weal!"
- Once you've seen the production, in many ways an unexpected one, you'll understand that Mr Hall isn't being pretentious and that Mr Hoffman hasn't suddenly been struck by false modesty.
- An elderly English lady, with a tendency to pre-war propriety, who told me on the Friday that she was afraid it would all be "another load of pretentious American rubbish", said on Sunday that she had learned to open up for the first time in her life.
- Leapor recognizes the skill, but these lines follow hard on a suggestion that Sophronia is pretentious despite being one of the "menial Train'.
- Rescue the word "pretentious" (all it means, after all, is aspiring to something) and turn "unpretentious" into a pejorative.
- Of all the stupid pretentious names for a dog
- As a precis this is pretentious, and The Cook Co is full of the hyperbole and complicated allusions that identify a Greenaway work - The Draughtsman's Contract, Drowning By Numbers, for example - but in the darkness of the cinema the film has a stomach-churning directness.
- ('I got called pretentious for that, but you have to watch the rock "n" roll posing on MTV to see people really taking themselves seriously. ')
- There were at this time few, if any, pretentious stations.
- It was, all in all, a tourist factory, at once pretentious, shabby and expensive, and boasting levels of service unique to Eastern Europe, for no one in Western Europe would tolerate them for a moment.
- Speaking in Record Mirror , Johnny Marr answered accusations of arrogance accordingly.: "It always surprises me that people should call us arrogant or pretentious.
- There was a set of letters tied up in a bundle with a violet silk ribbon and all written in the same ridiculous and now-faded violet ink; they were scented with old makeup (each one bore at the bottom of its last page a lipstick kiss in Nuits de Paris ) and were on expensive and indeed pretentious notepaper as thin as an onion skin.
- "That pretentious sexpot."
|
|
|