Sentence examples for human pretension from inspiring English sources

Flaubert's last published book, "Three Tales," a collection of three simple stories, suggests a similar kind of refinement and distillation, but on the other hand, at the time of his death (he lived to a relatively ancient 58) Flaubert was still trying to finish "Bouvard and Pécuchet," a grand and immensely complicated satire on all human knowledge and human pretension.

The human pretension to know what is true and important is lampooned by comparing it to the pretension of the cicada and turtle dove to know by their own experiences of flight the possibilities of how high creatures can fly.

The Zhuangzi's lampooning of human pretension and arrogance, together with call to identify with the whole and with the nonhuman parts of nature, has appealed to those seeking philosophical perspectives within which to frame an environmental ethic (see Girardot, Miller, and Liu, 2001).

Years later, Hawthorne's son Julian wrote, "The majority of readers will, I think, not be inconsolable that poor Margaret Fuller has at last taken her place with the numberless other dismal frauds who fill the limbo of human pretension and failure".

Inspired by the myth of the wife-losing Orpheus, "Au Revoir Parapluie" conjures a tragicomic universe that thwarts, mocks and dissolves human pretensions, ambitions and illusions of permanence.

Combining all these capaci ties, he was the architect of a complex philosophy based ‐ on the fallibility of man and the absurdity of human pretensions, as well as on the Biblical pre cepts that man should love God and his neighbor.

No one has a sharper eye than Bainbridge for human foibles and pretensions; no one better understands importunate human needs and the urgent desire to assuage them, whether it's a stolen cigarette in a car park or soulless sex in a hotel bedroom.

Ultimately, the richness of the poem is in the range and registers of a voice increasingly unbridled by pious pretension and human decency alike.

It's the human frame without the pretensions.

In the 19th century scientists were, as a rule, hardly impressed by Kant's attack on the realistic pretensions of human knowledge.

Original sin thus struck him as an incisive metaphor for human frailty, undermining the pretensions of absolutists and requiring "the democratization of authority".