Sentence examples for large pretensions from inspiring English sources

Shot in limpid black and white, studded with symbols and contemplative vistas of sea and sky, "Clouds" is a small movie with large pretensions.

In five tiny rooms on the fourth floor of a glassed-in building in the middle of downtown Rio de Janeiro is a little stock exchange with large pretensions.

A larger pretension of the diaphragm resulted in larger muscle contraction force.

They have no great pretensions.

A finite element model is proposed in this chapter to simulate the large deformation and pretension.

For one thing, the pirate kingpins are a gentlemanly lot, what with their European pretensions and large sums of discretionary income.

Veronica's pretensions loom larger than when Ms. Harden played her, and she's more obviously domineering.

The mathematical model is based on a pre-tensed-beam model, accounting for bending and torsional stiffening effects due to pretension and large deformations.

In The Federalist No. 62, little Jemmy did not bother to conceal his lack of enthusiasm for the task: The equality of representation in the Senate is another point, which, being evidently the result of compromise between the opposite pretensions of the large and the small States, does not call for much discussion.

Among the various motives that led him to launch the first Welsh Himalayan Expedition, trundling out of Llandudno in 1955 in two Standard Vanguard estate cars painted brightly in the national colours, was the urge to thumb his nose at China and its pretensions to govern large areas of those mountains.

The archipelago of 237m people is home to the world's largest Muslim population.Yet here pretensions meet hard reality.