Sentence examples for academic pretension from inspiring English sources

Humphrys said he only took particular exception to the use of the tense because of its innate academic pretension, which left "ordinary Joes" such as himself feeling like "oiks" and denied he had ever knowingly used it in his long career as a journalist.

Academic pretensions flash through like brush fire, without a drop of cold water splashed their way.

Although Manzù rejected the academic pretensions of his modernist-inclined peers (he once said: "For me there is just work"), he nonetheless radically modified the traditions of realism to his own ends.

The White House, Gracie Mansion, the Supreme Court, oil companies and bombing practice on Vieques are good for some laughs, but downtown clubs, health maintenance organizations and academic pretensions (the protagonist is a dog with a new B.A. in psychology from City College) get better ones.

They make for a comedic odd-couple: Crook tall and skinny with academic pretensions, and Toby Jones: short and dumpy and as down-to-earth as the ploughed fields they scan.

But Stevens' book reads like a meandering rant it feels at times like a transcript of a speech he may have given, rather than a book with academic pretensions.

Fairey's street work popularized a going fashion for academic deconstruction, with pretensions to exposing the malign operations of mass culture.

Standing in for Allen himself and dressed similarly in plaid shirt and khaki trousers, Owen Wilson plays Gil, a youngish Hollywood screenwriter and would-be novelist best known for his skills at rewrites, a diffident, humorous man with a great respect for high culture and a love of popular art but deeply suspicious of pretension and academic condescension.