Sentence examples for a pretension from inspiring English sources

"It's not a pretension.

Even that tilted camera seems less a pretension and more an endearingly dorky trademark.

It's a pretension I hear but that I don't think meets the need for coherence".

First, the paper gives a pretension simulation algorithm based on the fuzzy relationship between the prestress and internal force.

What he did was set a pretension barometer twice as strict as adult fiction's and started deleting every time the arrow ticked over.

Now it's a point of pride for most artsy Brooklynites, some might even say a pretension, that they don't hang out in Manhattan.

The restrained thermal expansion of a pretensioned strand causes thermal prestress loss during steam curing until sufficient bond strength develops.

The diameter of the strand was initially reduced by Poisson's effect when a pretensioning was applied (before cutting the strand).

Perhaps the most striking aspects of his character are a self-confidence and a lack of pretension, a rare combination.

In the months between the bishops' meeting and the Senate vote, the cardinal, in a letter, called the bill a "destructive pretension against the plan of God".

This paper proposes a new pretension simulation algorithm and examines the pretension feasibility for a new type of cable dome: a negative Gaussian curvature cable dome.