Sentence examples for in pretension from inspiring English sources

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

Without them we are reduced to a bowl of human fruit: colourful but lacking in pretension.

This sort of restaurant represents what I love about my home city: friendly and lacking in pretension, but excellent quality.

The trouble with interviewing famous actors or directors is that they are already celebrated and, if allowed to, can wallow in pretension like hippos in pools of mud.

Having prepared myself to be greeted with an artist steeped in pretension, South Korean-born Jeong A instead turns out to be the polar opposite.

On the whole, you get the feeling that Chicagoans are too self-possessed and uninterested in pretension -- too authentically cool, you might say -- to worry about being hip.

In pretensioning, lengths of steel wire or cables are laid in the empty mold and stretched.

This paper presents an experimental research work to evaluate prestress losses in pretensioned prestressed concrete.

In pretensioning, lengths of steel wire, cables, or ropes are laid in the empty mold and then stretched and anchored.

An analytical model to predict strand slips within both transmission and anchorage lengths in pretensioned prestressed concrete members is presented.

Lak, who is tall and lean, with brown hair and a garrulous personality, does not wrap his collection in pretensions or studied eccentricities.