Although these old lofts have a secondhand look now, the prominent label gives an idea of the importance — or at least the pretensions — of the building's investors, Abraham and Samuel Wood.
Even among fourth-century authors that had at least some pretensions to historical accuracy and who had access to the best information available, there are widely divergent presentations, simply because such contradictions were endemic to the evidence available in the fourth century.
Still, Hamilton reasoned that at least Jefferson "has pretensions to character...
"Her sharp critical sense was intimately bound with her love of good food, her eye for the telling detail and her keen ability to scent the least whiff of pretension".
At least it was without pretension, unlike feeble French incest drama Marguerite and Julien, from a script once written for François Truffaut and revived (and comprehensively done to death) by Valérie Donzelli.
But they have plenty to recommend, not least a frontman who has pretensions towards the foppish literacy of a Jarvis and musicians striving to frame those lyrics in a suitably epic context.
And while "FlashForward" seems to avoid (at least so far) the geeky pretensions of "Lost," which invite so much circuitous decoding, the date hardly seems arbitrary as it carries the symbolic weight of historic incident.
Suffice it to say that the council's members are at least as dangerous for their literary pretensions as for their designs on the American government.
Frost, whose flinty, pragmatic good humor Wolff clearly admires (and who is, of the three, the writer whose reputation has diminished least), comes off best, skewering the pretensions of an insecure English teacher.
He was hugely popular with musicians, not least because of his complete lack of pretension.
