Sentence examples for exaggerated pretensions from inspiring English sources

Rarely have the exaggerated pretensions of a British prime minister been so harshly and humiliatingly brought crashing to earth as with David Cameron's policy on China.

Heinrich's best work, the comedy Von Vincentio Ladislao (1594), showed his skill at characterization and used elements of the much-imitated style of the English actors, the exaggerated language and the pretensions of the braggart, as objects of satire.

No pretensions.

Few have intellectual pretensions.

She exaggerated.

He did not inherit pretensions.

But these are exaggerated.

She has no pretensions.

He has no pretensions.

He exaggerated only slightly.

An exaggerated comparison?