Sentence examples for considerable pretension from inspiring English sources

Contemporary praise was not entirely universal; an anonymous review of Superstitions of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland included in The Scottish Antiquary, Or, Northern Notes & Queries (now The Scottish Historical Review) in 1901 described the work as "a book of considerable pretension" and stated it was in need of proofreading, citing several printing errors.

Some, however, were excavated with considerable architectural pretensions.

But it is this simplicity and lack of pretension that helps it pack its considerable punch.

Brooke Astor, who by night reigned over New York society with a decided disdain for pretension and by day devoted her time and considerable resources to New York's unfortunate, died yesterday afternoon at her weekend estate, Holly Hill, in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y.

In tones of considerable venom, Carman excoriates arts administrators in general and Melbourne's City of Literature pretensions in particular.

But while your correspondent has considerable respect for David Foster Wallace as a writer, and while he himself has experimented with various forms of literary pretension, he now looks with disdain on pallid young men who tote copies of "Infinite Jest" in public.

"No pretension".

"Little talent, much pretension.

She does it without pretension.

This was not simple pretension.

Pretension in cooking and restaurants?