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pretentious game: A.E. Housman Christopher Stray, 2013-11-01 A.E. Housman (1859-1936) was a man of many apparent contradictions, most of which remain unresolved 150 years after his birth. At once a deeply emotive lyric poet and a precise and dedicated classical scholar, he achieved fame in both of these diverse disciplines. Although his poetic legacy has received much scholarly analysis, and yet more attention has been devoted to reconstructing his private life, no previous work has focused on Housman the classical scholar; yet it is upon scholarship that Housman most wished to leave his mark. This timely collection of papers by leading scholars reassesses the breadth and significance of Housman's contribution to classical scholarship in both his published and unpublished writings, and discusses how his mantle has been passed on to later generations of classicists. |
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pretentious game: The Romance of Flamenca E. D. Blodgett, 2014-04-23 Variously described as a comedy of manners, a psychological romance, and a type of fabliau, the 13th-century narrative Flamenca is the best medieval romance written in Occitan. Its uniqueness springs from qualities that anticipate the preoccupations of modern-day narrative. Not content with being a love story fraught with risk and intrigue, the poem is layered with responses to the troubadour tradition of love and poetry, as well as the Bible and the classics. Though among the most bookish of romances, its tone is invariably ironic, comic, and satirical. This playfulness may be measured by the variety and vehemence of critical response to the poem. Is it a vindication of the troubadour ideal, a mockery of the Church, a satire on jealous husbands, or an undermining of the ideals that romance is said to inscribe? Or is it all of these elements held in suspense? The introduction confronts these questions. The most recent edition and translation of Flamenca , by Hubert and Porter, is now out of print; their translation was into octosyllabic couplets that match the original. Blodgett's translation is unrhymed and line-for-line, on pages facing the edition; it adhers as closely as possible to the literal meaning of the original. The edition follows the recent text prepared by Gschwind. |
pretentious game: Walt Whitman Milton Hindus, 2014-04-04 This set comprises of 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995. |
pretentious game: Sapogonia Ana Castillo, 1994-01-01 A New York Times Notable Book • A complex, engaging novel...Sapogonia will establish Castillo as one of our finest Chicana novelists. --Rudolfo Anaya The author of So Far From God, Ana Castillo confronts the complex issues of race and identity facing those of mixed heritage through the struggles of Máximo Madrigal, an expatriate of Sapogonia, the metaphorical homeleand of all mestizos. Subtly political, it demonstrates how warring blood within a single body resists any peaceful resolution. |
pretentious game: Reflections on Philosophy and Religion Alan Donagan, 1999 This book contains the collected papers of Alan Donagan on topics in the philosophy of religion. Donagan was respected as a leading figure in American moral philosophy. His untimely death in 1991 prevented him from collecting his philosophical reflections on religion, particularly Christianity, and its relation to ethics and other concerns. This collection, therefore, constitutes the fullest expression of Donagan's thought on Christianity and ethics, in which it is possible to discern the outlines of a coherent, overarching theory. Editor Anthony Perovich has supplied a useful introduction, which brings Donagan's work into focus and brings out the unifying themes in the essays. |
pretentious game: Poetic Justice: Fame Fran Raya, 2020-06-28 Randal Forbes calls his phenomenal telepathic powers ‘the gift’. In this third book of the Poetic Justice series, he achieves widespread fame, as an author and entrepreneur. |
pretentious game: The Political Economy of Racism Melvin Leiman, 2011-02-02 An intense and compact resource for understanding how the political economy of racism evolved in the United States.'' - Science & Society Racism is about more than individual prejudice. And it is hardly the relic of a past era. This scholarly, readable, and provocative book shows how the persistence of racism in America relies on the changing interests of those who hold the real power in society and use every possible means to hold onto it. |
pretentious game: Eugene Onegin Alexander Pushkin, 2009-01-29 Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in 1820s Russia, Pushkin's novel in verse follows the fates of three men and three women. It was Pushkin's own favourite work, and this new translation conveys the literal sense and the poetic music of the original. |
pretentious game: Murder at the Opera Margaret Truman, 2007-10-30 Margaret Truman, who knows where all the bodies are buried inside the Beltway, has written her most thrilling novel of suspense yet. Murder at the Opera features the popular crime-fighting couple Mac Smith and his wife, Annabel Reed-Smith, as they navigate the glitz, glamour, and grime that is Washington, D.C. It ain’t over till the fat lady sings . . . but the show hasn’t even started yet when a diva is found dead. The soprano in question, a petite young Asian Canadian named Charise Lee, was scarcely a star at the Washington National Opera. But when the aspiring singer is stabbed in the heart backstage during rehearsals, she suddenly takes center stage. Georgetown law professor Mac Smith thought he’d just be carrying a rapier in Tosca as a favor for his beloved Annabel, but now they’re both being pressured by the panicked theater board to unmask a killer. Providing accompaniment will be former homicide detective, current P.I., and eternal opera fan Raymond Pawkins. Soon the Smiths find themselves dangerously improvising among an expanding cast of suspects with all sorts of scores to settle. What they uncover is an increasingly complex case reaching far beyond Washington to a dark world of informers and terror alerts in Iraq, and climaxing on a fateful night at the opera attended by none other than the President himself. |
pretentious game: The Experimentalists Joseph Darlington, 2021-11-18 The Experimentalists is a collective biography, capturing the life and times of the British experimental writers of the swinging 1960s. A decade of research, including as-yet unopened archives and interviews with the writers' colleagues, is brought together to produce a comprehensive history of this ill-starred group of renegade writers. Whether the bolshie B.S. Johnson, the globetrotting Ann Quin, the cerebral Christine Brooke-Rose, or the omnipresent Anthony Burgess, these writers each brought their own unique contributions to literature at a time uniquely open to their iconoclastic message. The journey connects historical moments from Bletchley Park, to Paris May '68, to terrorist groups of the 1970s. A tale of love, loss, friendship and a shared vision, this book is a fascinating insight into a bold, provocative and influential group of writers whose collective story has gone untold, until now. |
pretentious game: Nation and Narration Homi K. Bhabha, 2013-05-13 Bhabha, in his preface, writes 'Nations, like narratives, lose their origins in the myths of time and only fully encounter their horizons in the mind's eye'. From this seemingly impossibly metaphorical beginning, this volume confronts the realities of the concept of nationhood as it is lived and the profound ambivalence of language as it is written. From Gillian Beer's reading of Virginia Woolf, Rachel Bowlby's cultural history of Uncle Tom's Cabin and Francis Mulhern's study of Leaviste's 'English ethics'; to Doris Sommer's study of the 'magical realism' of Latin American fiction and Sneja Gunew's analysis of Australian writing, Nation and Narration is a celebration of the fact that English is no longer an English national consciousness, which is not nationalist, but is the only thing that will give us an international dimension. |
pretentious game: The Comic Mind Gerald Mast, 1979-09-15 Although books on the comedies of the silent era abound, few have attempted to survey film comedy as a whole—its history and evolution, how the philosophical visions of its greatest artists and directors have shaped its traditions, and how these visions have informed both the meaning and manner of their work. Blending information with interpretation, description with analysis, Mast traces the development of screen comedy from the first crude efforts of Edison and Lumière to the subtlety and psychological complexity of Annie Hall. As he guides the reader through detailed discussions of specific films, Mast reveals the structures, the values, and the cinematic techniques which have appeared and reappeared in comic cinema. The second edition of The Comic Mind treats the comic developments of the 1970s in terms of the traditions of film comedy set forth in the first edition, including a discussion of the evolution of Jacques Tati and the emergence of Mel Brooks and Woody Allen as the two greatest American comic stylists of the seventies. The most comprehensive study of film comedy yet written in English. . . .The book's extensive index with references to companies from which 16mm prints of many of the cited films may be rented will be of great value to the film teacher and audiovisual librarian.—Choice |
pretentious game: Legends of the Lost Sacred Kingdom K.A. Nephawe., 2014-10-16 The Vhangona people, natives of the sacred kingdom of Mapungubwe, had embraced their mythological beliefs indoctrinated throughout generations. Traditional healers had used supernatural powers vested upon them by their ancestors to protect their monarchy from any calamities. However, the malevolent monster from the forbidden mountains had begun to terrorize the kingdom. Aristocrats and untouchables of the tribe convinced their great king that the monster could not be defeated. Regrettably, not even their powerful wizard and his waters of Babele could stand against the monsters wrath. Will they succeed in rescuing the missing girl captured by the monster? Their actions could put the entire kingdom on the verge of extinction. The monster could disguise itself, use her body to re-enter their land, and destroy their kingdom. As their last resort, the most decorated traditional healer and his explorers should find the untraceable fountains of Lunandau, the land of supernatural, home of the sacred white spirits. Great witchdoctors, nobles, and untouchables had embarked on a journey to Lunandau before, but there was yet a single person to return. |
pretentious game: Lacanian Realism Duane Rousselle, 2018-01-25 Alain Badiou has claimed that Quentin Meillassoux's book After Finitude (Bloomsbury, 2008) “opened up a new path in the history of philosophy.” And so, whether you agree or disagree with the speculative realism movement, it has to be addressed. Lacanian Realism does just that. This book reconstructs Lacanian dogma from the ground up: first, by unearthing a new reading of the Lacanian category of the real; second, by demonstrating the political and cultural ingenuity of Lacan's concept of the real, and by positioning this against the more reductive analyses of the concept by Slavoj Žižek, Alain Badiou, Saul Newman, Todd May, Joan Copjec, Jacques Rancière, and others, and; third, by arguing that the subject exists intimately within the real. Lacanian Realism is an imaginative and timely exploration of the relationship between Lacanian psychoanalysis and contemporary continental philosophy. |
pretentious game: International Theatre Festivals and Twenty-First-Century Interculturalism Ric Knowles, Richard Paul Knowles, 2021-12-16 A far-reaching examination of how international theatre festivals shape 21st-century intercultural negotiation and exchange. |
pretentious game: Under Wrapped Charmaine R. Parker, 2015-01-27 A savvy entrepreneur, happily married woman and now mother, Tai's life couldn't be more complete. But she starts to suspect that someone is stalking her, or is her mind playing tricks on her? Tai recruits her intuitive sidekick, Nevada, a successful Washington, D.C, but even the seasoned sleuth is in for a shock when she discovers who the culprit is. Meanwhile, fashionista Candace has been enjoying her long engagement, but something is amiss and she can't figure out what's keeping him from taking the plunge. So just like Tai, she decides to call on Nevada's good instincts. |
pretentious game: The Ragged Pursuit of Truth Randall Lee, 2015-10-27 Spiritual error is never a flat issue of doctrinal aberration or bad theology. It is at a deeper level a twist in our thinking about God, and a distortion in our views of ourselves and other people. Error is devious business precisely because it departs from the spirit and content of the Christian Scriptures while purporting to illuminate them. It force-fits the exegesis to get there and introduces its version of special revelation to jump the bumps in biblical interpretation. But the real evil lurks in recasting the package as God's message for the times. Every listener is pressed into the corner and compelled to make an ultimate decision: to remain faithful and embrace this fuller truth, or reject it and be consigned to the margins of God's Kingdom. New truth becomes its own gospel, foisting a burden on ordinary believers, with God's pleasure or displeasure hovering over what they do with the new message. This device is shamelessly perpetuated in the contemporary Pentecostal-Charismatic world. Quite apart from the content, this methodology is devilish business and spiritual bullying.... |
pretentious game: Straight Alec Parker, 2014-07-02 Alec Parker was only trying to make enough money to finish college when his all-American good looks caught the eye of an agent of one of New York's most prestigious modeling agencies. Quickly swept up in the glamorous world of high-fashion modeling, he emerged in a short time as one of the hottest models in their stable. However, despite his ever-growing portfolio and solid credentials, there was still something holding him back from reaching the heights both he and his agent felt he was capable of reaching. Alec was straight! |
pretentious game: Murder, She Wrote: Blood on the Vine Jessica Fletcher, Donald Bain, 2001-04-01 Jessica Fletcher must solve a wine country caper when she takes a trip to Napa Valley in this mystery in in the long-running series. Jessica Fletcher is visiting California wine country while doing research for her next book, and invites her old friend, Scotland Yard detective George Sutherland to join her at a cozy Bed and Breakfast. No sooner do they arrive than they find the valley abuzz over the murder of a waiter at the restaurant owned by infamous ex-Hollywood heavyweight Bill Ladington. Ladington’s blatant womanizing and involvement in a bitter vineyard land dispute have already marked him as a dubious character—and a possible suspect. But when Ladington turns up dead himself from a supposed “suicide,” Jessica knows that a murderer is on the loose—and with a little help from George, she must try and bottle up a motive for murder from an extensive list of less-than-vintage suspects... |
pretentious game: The Peace I Know Udochukwu Vincent Ogbuji, 2013-02 There is an ancient proverb that instructs, Physician, heal thyself. It helps to keep this saying in mind as we seek to bring peace to others. That is because our collective peace of mind makes for a beautiful life, family and society---and no one gives what he or she has not---. As a priest, my endeavor to bring inner healing and peace to many, comes with challenges, among which includes maintaining my own personal tranquility. Urged by my friends and wish to make a difference, I decided to write this book after my car accident and resulting paralysis. I hope that reading this book will inspire you to continue searching for peace and what makes life worth living. |
pretentious game: Nation & Narration Homi K Bhabha, 2013-04-15 Bhabha, in his preface, writes 'Nations, like narratives, lose their origins in the myths of time and only fully encounter their horizons in the mind's eye'. From this seemingly impossibly metaphorical beginning, this volume confronts the realities of the concept of nationhood as it is lived and the profound ambivalence of language as it is written. From Gillian Beer's reading of Virginia Woolf, Rachel Bowlby's cultural history of Uncle Tom's Cabin and Francis Mulhern's study of Leaviste's 'English ethics'; to Doris Sommer's study of the 'magical realism' of Latin American fiction and Sneja Gunew's analysis of Australian writing, Nation and Narration is a celebration of the fact that English is no longer an English national consciousness, which is not nationalist, but is the only thing that will give us an international dimension. |
pretentious game: Hydrologic Frequency Modeling V.P. Singh, 2012-12-06 Floods constitute a persistent and serious problem throughout the United States and many other parts of the world. They are respon sible for losses amounting to billions of dollars and scores of deaths annually. Virtually all parts of the nation--coastal, mountainous and rural--are affected by them. Two aspects of the problem of flooding that have long been topics of scientific inquiry are flood frequency and risk analyses. Many new, even improved, techniques have recently been developed for performing these analyses. Nevertheless, actual experience points out that the frequency of say a 100-year flood, in lieu of being encountered on the average once in one hundred years, may be as little as once in 25 years. It is therefore appropriate to pause and ask where we are, where we are going and where we ought to be going with regard to the technology of flood frequency and risk analyses. One way to address these questions is to provide a forum where people from all quarters of the world can assemble, discuss and share their experience and expertise pertaining to flood frequency and risk analyses. This is what constituted the motivation for organizing the International Symposium on Flood Frequency and Risk Analyses held May 14-17, 1986, at Louisiana State University, Bat-on Rouge, Louisiana. |
pretentious game: BOLD NEW WORLD and THE POTENTIALIST MOVEMENT Dr. Freeman Rader Ph.D., 2019-10-30 This very large 465 page book is actually 2 separate but closely related books bound together as one — an inspirational novel and a thought-provoking philosophy book. Together they tell the story of a bold and visionary group of people creating a highly advanced prototype community and way of life based upon applying a philosophy that believes in human potential rather than supernatural forces, helps individuals self-actualize, promotes values and responsibility for SELF, SOCIETY, & ENVIRONMENT; and creates harmonious communities in which human potential flourishes. This results in happy people doing great things and achieving a tremendous sense of enjoyment and accomplishment in the process (something we all seek). As the story unfolds, a bright progressive group of people in Colorado adopt this new philosophy, become part of the Potentialist Movement, and focus on how to fund and develop this highly advanced community. To meet the challenge, the founder (Freeman Valor Smith) convinces the Hollywood producer (Steven Spielman) that the story would make a good film, thus ingeniously getting the producer to make the development of the project possible by funding its construction as part of the cost of production. So the project gets underway. But the powerful editor of the local newspaper (Norman Sully) has a deep grudge against the founder and plans to totally disrupt the group's efforts — so he hires an attractive undercover reporter (Serene St. Haven) to infiltrate the group and dig up as much dirt as possible. But a romance ensues between the reporter and the founder that changes the situation dramatically. So the editor takes drastic measures on his own to sabotage the project. What results is an intricate web of romance, treachery, intrigue, and inspiration. With great courage, this resourceful group of Potentialists overcomes all obstacles and a BOLD NEW WORLD is created which shows what people with the right values in the right environment can accomplish. |
pretentious game: Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present John Stephen Farmer, 1904 |
pretentious game: The Class Menagerie Robert Lamb, Chris Horn, 2007 18 stories by University of South Carolina students from Robert Lamb's Fiction Workshop, plus one by the professor. |
pretentious game: The Zinn Reader Howard Zinn, 2011-01-04 No other radical historian has reached so many hearts and minds as Howard Zinn. It is rare that a historian of the Left has managed to retain as much credibility while refusing to let his academic mantle change his beautiful writing style from being anything but direct, forthright, and accessible. Whether his subject is war, race, politics, economic justice, or history itself, each of his works serves as a reminder that to embrace one's subjectivity can mean embracing one's humanity, that heart and mind can speak with one voice. Here, in six sections, is the historian's own choice of his shorter essays on some of the most critical problems facing America throughout its history, and today. |
pretentious game: The Avant-Garde Feature Film William E.B. Verrone, 2011-11-08 Here is a critical and historical overview of unconventional and aesthetically challenging films, all of feature length. The author focuses on the particular forms of contemporary avant-garde films, which often rely on characteristics associated with historical films of the same genre. Included are works by such visionary filmmakers as David Lynch, Luis Bunuel, Jean Cocteau, Jean-Luc Godard, Guy Maddin and Derek Jarman. The first of the two appendices contains a filmography of key avant-garde feature films, from Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922) to Maximum Shame (2010). The second appendix offers a brief list of directors who have made significant contributions to films that take alternative approaches to cinematic practice, establishing new grounds for analysis and evaluation. |
pretentious game: The Ode Less Travelled Stephen Fry, 2006-08-17 Comedian and actor Stephen Fry's witty and practical guide, now in paperback, gives the aspiring poet or student the tools and confidence to write and understand poetry. Stephen Fry believes that if one can speak and read English, one can write poetry. In The Ode Less Travelled, he invites readers to discover the delights of writing poetry for pleasure and provides the tools and confidence to get started. Through enjoyable exercises, witty insights, and simple step-by-step advice, Fry introduces the concepts of Metre, Rhyme, Form, Diction, and Poetics. Most of us have never been taught to read or write poetry, and so it can seem mysterious and intimidating. But Fry, a wonderfully competent, engaging teacher and a writer of poetry himself, sets out to correct this problem by explaining the various elements of poetry in simple terms, without condescension. Fry's method works, and his enthusiasm is contagious as he explores different forms of poetry: the haiku, the ballad, the villanelle, and the sonnet, among many others. Along the way, he introduces us to poets we've heard of but never read. The Ode Less Travelled is not just the survey course you never took in college, it's a lively celebration of poetry that makes even the most reluctant reader want to pick up a pencil and give it a try. |
pretentious game: Girl Forgotten April Henry, 2023-03-28 ★ An Edgar Award Winner ★ Piper Gray starts a true-crime podcast investigating a seventeen-year-old cold case in this thrilling YA murder mystery by New York Times bestselling author April Henry. Seventeen years ago, Layla Trello was murdered and her killer was never found. Enter true-crime fan Piper Gray who is determined to reopen Layla’s case and get some answers. With the help of Jonas—who has a secret of his own—Piper starts a podcast investigating Layla’s murder. But as she digs deeper into the mysteries of the past, Piper begins receiving anonymous threats telling her to back off the investigation, or else. The killer is still out there, and Piper must uncover their identity before they silence her forever. |
pretentious game: Baseballogy Edmund Vance Cooke, 1912 |
pretentious game: Overbearing CEO’s Exclusive Love Wen NanYin, 2019-11-21 On Valentine's Day, she happily went to her boyfriend and wanted to surprise him. She did not expect to witness the betrayal of her boyfriend. Not only that, her boyfriend and his mistress also designed to destroy the company of her family, and her father went to prison because of that. All this made her anxious, and she summoned her courage to finish something, first of all, reinvigorate the company, then rescue her dad, and finally make the cheap couple pay the due price. When she did this, she was also lucky that a man who loved her was protecting her silently behind her back. ☆About the Author☆ Wen Nanyin, an excellent online novelist, her won high marks on literary websites. Most people who read this novel gave positive reviews. The smooth and fresh writing and the ups and downs plot are loved by most people. |
pretentious game: Playwriting Sam Smiley, Norman A. Bert, 2005-01-01 The incidence of melanoma has increased by 2000% since 1930 and one person dies each hour from the disease. This cutting edge guide provides scientifically accurate information which patients and their families need, to understand melanoma and its treatment and to receive necessary reassurance. It is also a vitally important resource for those who want information about preventing the disease or finding it early when it is most curable. Catherine M. Poole, a melanoma survivor and melanoma patient advocate for many organisations, and Dr. DuPont Guerry, an internationally renowned melanoma expert, have collaborated to provide current, correct and easily understood information on the disease. The authors have had first-hand contact with a multitude of patients with melanoma, and they understand exactly how to empower patients to gain control of their situations and obtain the best treatment. |
pretentious game: The New Criminology Revisited P. Walton, J. Young, 2016-07-27 In 1973 The New Criminology was published and quickly established itself as a key textbook in criminology, casting a major influence over a generation of scholars. It has remained in print ever since. This volume, published twenty-five years later, traces the major developments in the field including feminism, postmodernism, critical criminology and realism. The articles are by leading authorities from Britain, the United States and Australia and include Stan Cohen, Elliott Currie, Pat Carlen and Kerry Carrington as well as separate commentaries by the three original authors themselves: Ian Taylor, Paul Walton and Jock Young. |
pretentious game: In the Cross of Reality Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, 2017-09-08 This book makes the first volume of Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy’s Soziologie available in English for the first time since its 1956 publication in German. Rosenstock-Huessy argues that social philosophy has favored abstract and spatially contrived categories of social organization over temporal processes. This preference for space-thinking has diverted us from recognizing the power of speech and its relationship to living on the front lines of life. Taking speech and the social responsibilities and reciprocities that accompany naming as the key to social reality, In the Cross of Reality provides a sociological exploration of “play” spaces as the basis for reflexivity. It also explores the spaces of activity and their correlation in war and peace to the spheres of “serious life.” If we are to survive and flourish, different qualities and reciprocal relationships must be cultivated so that we can deal with different fronts of life. Arguing that modern intellectuals and their obsession with space have created a dangerously false choice between mechanical and aesthetic salvation, Rosenstock-Huessy clears a path so that we better appreciate our relationship between past and future in founding and in partitioning time. |
pretentious game: CEO’s Coddled Sweet Wife Jiang MoXi, 2019-10-11 At the age of 13, she became the Luo Family's child bride. The noble him lifted her chin and only said, You are worthy!They had been married for many years now, and had only been separated from each other on a strange path, living on the other side of the world, for years and months and months and months and months and months and months and months and months and months and months and months and months and months and years and years and years and years and years and years, and now they had been married and years and years and years and years and years and years.Within a month, you must be pregnant and help the Luo Family to grow up, she said.After sleeping on the same bed, he used all sorts of methods to humiliate her.He purposely made things difficult for her, mocking her for her inexperience. Tang Wanyang, is this all you've got? If you want my seed, it won't be that simple. She almost bit off his vitals, but she did not hesitate to say, I'm sorry, I'm not good at martial arts.********Every member of the Luo family was ambitious, openly and covertly fighting with each other. Even after she had calculated everything, the old gramps still gave her 50% of the shares.If you promise me one condition, I will give you all the shares, she looked at him firmly, and allow me to break off my relationship with the Luo Family.At that moment, he was stunned and his heart ached.A year later, she started her own planning company, and news of his remarriage was common. He came to her with a beautiful bride and asked her to plan the wedding for him personally.In the swimming pool, he forced her into a corner, Tang Wanyi, do you think you can escape?Luo Juntian had always thought that she had never come close to his heart, but he had no idea that she had already set up camp in his heart and could not be pulled out. |
pretentious game: Alice Catherine Andriopoulos, 2006-03 She's forty, single, and hopelessly in love with a man she can never have. Convinced by society that she is not the super model of choice in a world that is run by false hopes, she tries desperately to lose weight and become the woman this perfect man wants. But a tragedy occurs and her whole life is turned around forever. Every woman will know a woman like her or identify with her. This is you, me and the girl next-door. Alice will make you laugh, cry, but most of all really think about what is important in your life. |
pretentious game: Papers Read Before the Herkimer County Historical Society During the Years ... , 1899 |
pretentious game: Flood Frequency Analysis Khaled Hamed, A. Ramachandro. Rao, 2019-04-30 After five decades, the field of Statistical Hydrology continues to evolve and remains a very active area of investigation. Researchers continue to examine various distributions, methods of estimation of parameters, and problems related to regionalization. However, much of this research appears in journals and reports and usually in a form not easi |
What Makes a Film Pretentious? : r/movies - Reddit
It's overly stylized to the point that it's pretentious about its own coolness/edginess, if not its emotional/dramatic content. I can also see how one would classify Se7en as pretentious, with …
Your opinion on pretentious writing : r/writing - Reddit
Pretentious writing though, fails to make its own case. It just assumes (pretense) it already has then keeps clubbing you in the head with its perceived truth. To me I think one sign of the kind …
My issue with the word "pretentious" used during discussion of
Pretentious is a perception of a viewer, a work seems pretentious, it's a subjective interpretation by the viewer. But that's what criticism is. EDIT: You also say "You can say that a film tried to …
[OPINION] What makes a poem pretentious? : r/Poetry - Reddit
Dec 16, 2022 · Or how to avoid being pretentious when writing poems. It's curious that - from what I've seen - people seem to consider a poem pretentious when it's using big words, obscure …
What makes a book “pretentious?” : r/books - Reddit
Pretentious is a highly subjective word that gets thrown around a lot. Many times it is because someone observing a piece of art lacks the framework to understand how the art works or …
r/unpopularopinion on Reddit: Pretentious, fine dining food can be ...
May 14, 2022 · Pretentious, fine dining food can be absolutely excellent and the people who hate on it have never eaten the real deal. I see a lot of people talk massive shit about high end …
"Pretentious" is an overused, dismissive criticism that to never be ...
If pretentious means what I think it does, then Garden State is probably one that comes to mind right off the bat. It seemed like a movie that was trying to be cooler than it was, deeper than it …
Anyone else really fucking tired of pretentious foodie ... - Reddit
Your criticism of pretentious places and Noma clones is valid, but there's equally shitty places on the other end of the spectrum. On the plus side, if you wade through all the shit, we have more …
What do you think is the most pretentious word? : r/logophilia
Jul 10, 2023 · Vis-à-vis, complete with pretentious accented letter and snooty French pronunciation. I love using in-language pronunciation when it makes sense, but this phrase in …
The term ‘pretentious’ is misused a lot in criticizing things.
Oct 1, 2020 · Whenever a piece of media (art, movie, story, game, etc) isn’t particularly straightforward in its message or presentation, it’s decried as ‘pretentious’; as if to say it’s filled …
What Makes a Film Pretentious? : r/movies - Reddit
It's overly stylized to the point that it's pretentious about its own coolness/edginess, if not its emotional/dramatic content. I can also see how one would classify Se7en as pretentious, with its …
Your opinion on pretentious writing : r/writing - Reddit
Pretentious writing though, fails to make its own case. It just assumes (pretense) it already has then keeps clubbing you in the head with its perceived truth. To me I think one sign of the kind of …
My issue with the word "pretentious" used during discussion of
Pretentious is a perception of a viewer, a work seems pretentious, it's a subjective interpretation by the viewer. But that's what criticism is. EDIT: You also say "You can say that a film tried to bite off …
[OPINION] What makes a poem pretentious? : r/Poetry - Reddit
Dec 16, 2022 · Or how to avoid being pretentious when writing poems. It's curious that - from what I've seen - people seem to consider a poem pretentious when it's using big words, obscure …
What makes a book “pretentious?” : r/books - Reddit
Pretentious is a highly subjective word that gets thrown around a lot. Many times it is because someone observing a piece of art lacks the framework to understand how the art works or …
r/unpopularopinion on Reddit: Pretentious, fine dining food can be ...
May 14, 2022 · Pretentious, fine dining food can be absolutely excellent and the people who hate on it have never eaten the real deal. I see a lot of people talk massive shit about high end ($$$$) …
"Pretentious" is an overused, dismissive criticism that to never be ...
If pretentious means what I think it does, then Garden State is probably one that comes to mind right off the bat. It seemed like a movie that was trying to be cooler than it was, deeper than it …
Anyone else really fucking tired of pretentious foodie ... - Reddit
Your criticism of pretentious places and Noma clones is valid, but there's equally shitty places on the other end of the spectrum. On the plus side, if you wade through all the shit, we have more …
What do you think is the most pretentious word? : r/logophilia - Reddit
Jul 10, 2023 · Vis-à-vis, complete with pretentious accented letter and snooty French pronunciation. I love using in-language pronunciation when it makes sense, but this phrase in …
The term ‘pretentious’ is misused a lot in criticizing things.
Oct 1, 2020 · Whenever a piece of media (art, movie, story, game, etc) isn’t particularly straightforward in its message or presentation, it’s decried as ‘pretentious’; as if to say it’s filled …