Sentence examples for great pretensions from inspiring English sources

But Gabbiadini is a straightforward soul, one who seems to genuinely lack any great pretensions about his career.

But anyone seeing the shots of his standard London terraced house (one BBC grandee who has been inside described it to me as "tiny"), will see this is a man without great pretensions.

They have no great pretensions.

In a movie with less artless and forthright vehemence, and one with greater pretensions to middlebrow good taste, this could hardly have worked, but Singer brings it off here, just about.

Most attempts to compete with Poetry were small in circulation and great in pretension.

Could a country capable of such a rapid swing be anything but a bit confused?Fickle affectionsIn truth, Spain was never quite as self-assured as it seemed, nor quite as in love with Mr Aznar as foreigners imagined even if some of those who now affect to despise the former tax inspector with great-power pretensions were quite ready to vote for him a few months ago.

It would be mean-spirited to focus on structural or stylistic defects to the exclusion of the enjoyments of a story of no great depth or pretensions but good on atmospherics, and which, after a slowish start, will deliver the requisite satisfactions to all generations of readers.

What of Russia, with its noisome pretensions to great power status?

But, despite its pretensions to great power status, India has been relaxed about having fewer weapons than Pakistan.

Since Budé was the glory of contemporary French humanism and Bade was essentially a publisher, with no great intellectual or stylistic pretensions, this passage was taken to be a deliberate insult to Budé and even to French scholarship in general.

He loathes the European Union's pretensions to greater clout in foreign affairs and defence policy.