I don't think it was too pretentious.

With crime going down, all of us bragging about crime going down, when this kind of ordinance gets introduced, it sort of blew our mind. We think it is one more imposition on business.

Almost all people knew the hidden fact beforehand, only after a person has spoken about it.

I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.

There occurred within a causal radius of Brandon Station one of those infinitesimal ripples in the creative silence of the First Cause. In the soul of the great blazing sun there were complicated superhuman vibrations [connected] ... with the feelings of a few intellectual sages who had enough imagination to recognise the conscious personality of this fiery orb as it flung far and wide its life-giving magnetic forces. Roaring, cresting, heaving, gathering, mounting, advancing, receding, the enormous fire-thoughts of this huge luminary surged relentlessly to and fro, evoking a turbulent aura of psychic activity.

There was nothing artificial about him or pretentious.