Sentence examples for for pretension from inspiring English sources

As in Capra's original 1936 classic, Longfellow Deeds still lives in Mandrake Falls, is an aspiring greeting-card poet and has no patience for pretension.

I went to Marseille, however, because it prides itself on its reputation in France as an unforgivingly working-class city with no time for pretension, the opposite of Parisian snobbery and elitism.

Tadashi ages more than 50 years during his search; how many years you feel you may have aged during the long quest is up to your own level of tolerance for pretension.

Muske-Duke's fondness for classical allusions and verse forms -- potential pitfalls for pretension when writing about a Hollywood life -- render her elegies bolder and less florid in the elegance of the poems' direct speech.

It's curious that this candour seems to have struck such a chord in Cannes – the film is frontrunner for the Palme d'Or – given the festival's lingering reputation for pretension.

A couple of years later appeared his even more outrageous series of pen portraits of friends and acquaintances from the artistic and literary worlds entitled "Sacred Monsters, Sacred Masters".With these entertainments behind him, Mr Richardson has reverted to the more serious business of biography, though always with a keen eye for pretension and a delight in human eccentricity and folly.

This paper presents a nonlinear finite element model for pretensioned prestressed concrete beams.

As for pretensioned cable bolting techniques, the special cable strands with high elongation rate and supreme strength were developed to be used in roadways under complex conditions (Kang et al. 2009b, 2011b).

Last week in The New York Times, Michiko Kakutani wrote that "the novel's gushing fans, however, seem to have mistaken perversity for daring, pretension for ambition, an odious stunt for contrarian cleverness," adding that the book was "willfully sensationalistic and deliberately repellent".

Mars-Jones has an accurate ear for class pretension and anxiety, for brand names as social indicators, competitive housewifery and phrases such as "a rather Coronation Street thing to be doing".

Nevertheless, resonance phenomena that are typical of highly nonlinear systems are detected here, for common geometries and levels of pretension, even for low levels of load amplitude.