Sentence examples for its pretension from inspiring English sources

J Street is entitled to its views, but not to its pretension that it represents a large slice of liberal Jewish opinion on Israel.

Few other dwellings express so fully the hunger for Parisian sophistication as this, its heavily sculptured limestone rising to a roofscape of copper and slate that would be comical in its pretension were it not so skillfully handled.

Virtually every page yields some startling sample of the food world's self-congratulation, its pompousness, its pretension, its sheer wrongheadedness.

Through his marriage to Anne de Laval, granddaughter of Frederick of Aragon, deposed king of Naples, the family derived its pretension to the kingdom of Naples and the claim to recognition at the French court as foreign princes.

With all the sound and fury focused on SDS and its pretension to replace the needs assessment process, virtually no attention has been paid to the pressing need to reform how the needs assessment process actually works.

Toulouse had been a centre of delegated Frankish power from the 8th century, but its pretension to princely status dated from 924, when Raymond III Pons (924 after 944) added control of coastal Gothia to that of Toulouse and its hinterland.

If it wants to close the gap between its power and its pretensions, it must adjust its pretensions.

Vindice, she reckons, would see right through it and satirise its pretensions to satire.

France, despite its pretensions, knows it is no match for Germany in terms of power.

It's easy to mock Sundance and its pretensions to purity, but it's also hard not to be moved when these filmmakers find communion with their audiences.

Could it be that in spite of its pretensions to social correctness, Ill Manors actually glamorises the ills that it deplores?