putting on airs

"So I sound a bit like I have pretences, putting on airs for a while. It's abysmal for a while," she laughed.

Moreover, the script transitions him, through Finan’s effective performance, from a gawky, bespectacled nerd putting on airs, into an unctuous political predator.

“He legitimately loves movies and talks about them in a way that never feels like he’s putting on airs,” Huntsinger says.

We weren’t just putting on airs or trying to make a scene,” said Bhala Lough.

But they’re also people, neither showing strain nor putting on airs.