Sentence examples for a pretension that from inspiring English sources
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.
Saving the world with laughter is so powerful a pretension that Mr. Williams, Jerry Lewis and Roberto Benigni have all accepted the ultimate double-dare -- finding comic expression in Nazi oppression.
We're a city that likes to refer itself as "the City," a pretension that I found somewhat amusing and offensive when I first came here.
A party there is like the laid-back cousin of Glenn O'Brien's TV Party, with inclusivity and a lack of pretension that makes it even more fun.
Probably what you feel in my music, and it's without any pretension that I say this, you can feel that it's a thing that exists by itself and thank God, also exists with the images.
Mr. Tweedy has a Midwestern lack of pretension that is easy to be around, but he is a less than voluble interview, not because he doesn't try to answer questions, but precisely because he does.
She is, however, a bit short on the pretension that generally accompanies big-shot status in the world capital of publishing.
And a total lack of crooked pinkie pretension that, round these parts, is as bracing as a dive into the British briny.
It is that lack of pretension that makes Ms. Wright a popular hostess.
About that time, Mr. Johnson got a fan letter from B. R. Meyers, whose attack on literary pretension that appeared in the Atlantic Monthly last July had caused a sensation.
And now it's the turn of the Williamsburg-Greenpoint-Bushwick triangle, that crucible of low rent and high pretension that brought back "hipster" in all of its for-lack-of-a-better-word glory.
