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.
Shot in limpid black and white, studded with symbols and contemplative vistas of sea and sky, "Clouds" is a small movie with large pretensions.
They have no great pretensions.
A finite element model is proposed in this chapter to simulate the large deformation and pretension.
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.
J Street is entitled to its views, but not to its pretension that it represents a large slice of liberal Jewish opinion on Israel.
A design challenge in large membrane space structures is to apply pretension as uniformly as possible throughout the membrane, without increasing structural mass and volume.
For one thing, the pirate kingpins are a gentlemanly lot, what with their European pretensions and large sums of discretionary income.
Party planners at Burning Man are careful to hide their luxury dwellings behind large walls dressed as art projects, but Further Future had no such pretension.
