Sentence examples for false pretensions from inspiring English sources

But all the papers copied the mistake out faithfully as fact, and used it to imply she was either a failed actress because the internet showed no credits for her, that she had false pretensions, or that the term was a gloss for something worse 17.

Helena is a noble example of womanhood, and, in the comic part of the play, Hazlitt is especially amused by the character of Parolles, the "parasite and hanger on of [Count] Bertram's whose "folly, boasting, and cowardice [... and] false pretensions to bravery and honour" are unmasked in "a very amusing episode".

In its best forms, it is what allows women to struggle for freedom without being co-opted by false pretension or by the brute exertion of power for its own sake.

Another of Allen's gifts is for seeing through various kinds of pretension, false piety and sheer nonsense.

With his grasp of history, his sympathy for the radical cause, his understanding of city life and his own professional success, he is one of the few writers who can puncture the pretensions and false hopes of the New Economy with some authority.

"I see a lot of work and most of it is just blah blah blah – pretension or a kind of false therapy.

The way Mackerras dealt with a potentially tricky situation was characteristic: no grandstanding, no false emotion, no veneer of extra-musical pretension.

Except perhaps for Mark Twain, no other American writer has registered with such precision the humor — and the pathos — of false sophistication and the vital banality of big-city pretension.

And this is really the sticking point of such chucklehead pleasures as "Mamma Mia!" and, for all its pretensions, "Thou Shalt Not," which are exercises in denial and therefore in false hope.

This sounds a tad disingenuous from a man who's just confessed to feeding false information to gossip columnists, but it does chime with a lack of pretension about his career.

Few have intellectual pretensions.