Sentence examples for is a pretender from inspiring English sources
Since celebrities prompt mimicry, there is a rival Don Quixote now claiming that he is the real thing, and that our Knight — that is, Cervantes's — is a pretender.
The problem is often most acute where there is a pretender to the throne, a government in exile, a neighbouring state sympathetic to a rebel cause, or some other focus for the loyalty of dissidents.
Goodman himself is clear about this, for he notes there that "Similarity, ever ready to solve philosophical problems and overcome obstacles, is a pretender, an impostor, a quack….
A year ago, Ms. Palin was whacked for being a pretender in plushy clothes, and for not having the presence of mind to tell the McCain campaign handlers to buzz off.
Yet hidden behind his "fidelity in small things" is a terrible secret: he's a pretender, a priest without faith.
For every interview, there were two no-shows; for every person who really knew something, there was a pretender who did not.
The couple in the water are a pretender to the Russian throne, who calls himself Dmitri, and Marina, the aristocratic Polish beauty he seeks to marry.
Meetings like that don't happen unless the Kremlin takes its interlocutor seriously; in Trump's improvised campaign, figuring out who was serious and who was a pretender was no easy business.
"In the eyes of Europe you are a pretender to the throne of England, because the marriage of your father, Henry VIII, to your mother, Anne Boleyn, is deemed invalid!" one says.
Goizueta died unexpectedly in 1997 and was succeeded by his second in command, M. Douglas Ivester, who some insiders felt was a pretender to the Coca-Cola throne, tarnishing the company image while business performance deteriorated.
