Sentence examples for her pretension from inspiring English sources

It is no longer enough for a store to sell this season's snappy little numbers; it also has to be a library, a museum, a philanthropic powerhouse, seducing a customer with explicit appeals to her intellect (or her pretension), her worldliness (or wanderlust) and her moral sense (or guilt).

Drabble describes her with a kind of rapt horror, mesmerized by her egotism, her hypochondria, her adult pretensions and her grandiose girlhood fantasies.

He interviews the artist, unpicking her pretensions.

First, I enjoyed taking note of her pretensions.

Election pundits scorned her pretensions; the opinion polls confirmed them.

I asked myself, now, how I truly felt about all her pretensions.

Schumann needed to forge her own path, seemingly from scratch, and in the face of a society that found her pretensions to create music preposterous.

Best could become a great stage personality if she dropped her pretensions and learned how to coax us into loving her deficiencies.

Sharon Stone was the last star to carry herself grandly in public like Crawford, but she couldn't find roles equal to her pretensions.

Third, and finally, what got me, I suppose, were the indications of humanity in Christie's life that had nothing to do with her pretensions.

But if she depends on the kindness of men with money, she is also a defiantly independent figure and, for all her pretensions, an expert in deflating the hypocrisies of others.