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We have to name one of our kids after Sidney, or S. J. Muntzinger, as he pretentiously writes under.
Tenemos que ponerle Sidney a uno de nuestros hijos, o S.J. Mutzinger, como pretenciosamente firma.
Are you sure you can keep up with topher And his pretentious hipster friends?
¿Está seguro que puede seguirle el ritmo a Topher y a sus amigos pretenciosamente alternativos?
Ah, Therese, aren't you being exceedingly foolish in acting so pretentiously with us.
Ah, Therese, ¿no eres muy tonta en actuar tan pretenciosamente con nosotros.
Upon reflection, our “post-game party” (as Stratton referred to it) was pretentiously unpretentious.
Pensándolo bien, nuestra fiesta «después del partido» (como la llamó Stratton), fue pretenciosamente no pretenciosa.
His nose was blocked again; he had to blow it on his cloak, the floor looked too pretentiously ornate.
La nariz se le congestionó nuevamente y tuvo que sonarse con su túnica, pues el piso estaba pretenciosamente adornado.
He was pretentiously vague and spooky on the phone, as though Dylan and Mingus couldn’t manage an encounter without his help.
Se mostró espeluznante y pretenciosamente vago al teléfono, como si Dylan y Mingus no pudieran verse sin su ayuda.
Cust pretentiously referred to as “The Bag,” was late that day, and we were waiting for the messenger to return from the airport.
Cust llamaba pretenciosamente «la bolsa», llegaría con retraso aquel día y estábamos esperando a que el recadero volviese del aeropuerto.
He ducked his head into Le Centre Nautique, as the sign pretentiously called the swimming-pool area, and then stepped back.
Asomó la cabeza en Le Centre Nautique, como decía pretenciosamente el letrero en la zona de la piscina, y luego retrocedió.
They were the sons of lawyers, and doctors at the hospital, and talked pretentiously about all sorts of things I knew nothing of but was fiercely interested in.
Eran hijos de abogados y médicos del hospital, y hablaban pretenciosamente de todo tipo de cosas sobre las que yo nada sabía pero que me interesaban enormemente.
Standing next to him, also with a tumbler, also laughing, and in his family’s pretentiously simple black, was none other than Ghreni Nohamapetan.
Junto a él, también sosteniendo un vaso y pretenciosamente vestido con el negro riguroso típico de su familia, estaba nada más y nada menos que Ghreni Nohamapetan.
We don't subscribe to the 'rational' story of human evolution and development, the story that has named us so pretentiously Homo sapiens sapiens.
No suscribimos la historia ‘racional’ de la evolución y desarrollo humanos, la historia que nos ha denominado tan pretenciosamente como Homo sapiens sapiens.
She paused and was joined by Rossi, his face pretentiously solemn as he stared upwards at the faded painting. ‘Where’s Aldo?’ she whispered.
Se detuvo y Rossi se le unió, con rostro pretenciosamente solemne y la mirada levantada hacia la descolorida pintura. —¿Dónde está Aldo? —susurró ella.
(I might mention this if I had time to make clear I liked it; though I see she is wearing Charley’s pretentiously plain gold band today, and the whole idea seems ridiculous.)
(Podría mencionarlo si tuviera tiempo para decidir que me gusta, pero veo que hoy lleva la alianza de oro pretenciosamente sencilla de Charley, y la idea, en conjunto, parece absurda.)
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